Could you provide some advice, suggestions, opinions with this project I've taken on?

Fun project!

I would crop #2 to the left. Keeping the counter and lights. I’m guessing you want to have the booth to the right to compare with the original booth. But it looks like they moved it. So IMO, it would be fine to not include it since it’s not in the original image.

I can see myself getting super neurotic about this kind of project. Do you have a program like Photoshop where you could overlay both images and toggle between transparency to make sure they line up perfectly?

Oh! I just had another idea!

What if you took a larger image to include the new booths. Rectangular and in color. Then put the old image on top. Square and in black and white.

Keep us updated!

I’m trying to understand your final suggestion…they replaced the booths with tables and chairs…

I’m just using Word, but World can do it. I’ll post an example here in a sec.

This is what I threw together. I love the suggestion….but the angles and perspectives aren’t the same.

Thanks. This stuff gets me excited too! And when I explained my plan the old lady got really excited too! She said we get free food forever there, LOL!

She said something about printing them off and framing them and hanging them up in the restaurant…but I’m going to dump these to an electronic picture frame that cycles through them. They can do stuff that framing can’t do.

Something like this?

Printing out an physical copy of the old photo would probably help you adjust the angle as you take the new photo.

^^^ Right. I understand what @raum was suggesting and it is cool. The thing is, the people who did those photos took a great deal of time to line up angles and structure etc. The pictures I took were just a passing glance, trying to get the same angle as I remembered, without having the original in my hand. This is how mine tend to turn out. I’ll keep trying with different pictures I took because it’s a very cool idea.

(Remember my question asking if Word hangs up your computer? Remember I said I tend to ask a LOT of my programs and Word, especially, sometimes can’t handle it….this is a good example!)

Check This out. I took a section of the old picture that IS still the same (the booths at the far end with two men sitting at them) and played with that.

What do you think?

^^ isn that what you were suggesting Raum?

I’m going to blur or fade the edges….

Well, I’m too restricted in Word. I broke down and uploaded GIMP. Now I just have to figure out how it works.

Whoa! What the?

Did you accidentally log into a second account, Dutch?

I pasted the names into notepad and can see that one is three Roman numeral ones (III) and the other is three Arabic numeral ones (111).

Sleuthy. I like it.

I would have guessed uppercase I’s and lowercase L’s.

No. Nothing is stealthy. For some reason it wouldn’t let me login to my regular account from my phone. So when you see that avatar it just means I’m on my phone.
They are both lower case “L” @Call_Me_Jay and Raum. But that was actually my problem. It wouldn’t accept the lower case L on my phone as valid. I even asked a Q about it, whether the text on my phone is read differently by Fluther’s server.

I gave up on GIMP. I’m afraid I was going to get frustrated and lose momentum with the whole project so I just did what I could in Word. Looks pretty good!

After I get this done and delivered to her, then I’ll take the time to figure the program out. The pictures I processed in Word look pretty good, but not as good as the three that Seek processed for me in GIMP.

Lord. Every thing I look at I want to recolor or brighten or desaturate….I did that ALL DAY today.