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Photography/ clothing dating queston

eniksleestack

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Hello all,

Not sure if this is the place to pose this question, but here goes: I recently found an old khaki uniform shirt, probably WW2 or just post-war era. On the inside shirt waist is an extremely faint military spec stamp -- seems to either says 1945 or 1955. I can barely make it out in the daylight light, but I was wondering if there was a good way of taking a digital photo and then enhancing it in Photoshop (or another like program-PS is what I use) to read the text.

If anyone knows a good method I'm all ears! Thanks in advance.
 

draws

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eniksleestack said:
Hello all,

Not sure if this is the place to pose this question, but here goes: I recently found an old khaki uniform shirt, probably WW2 or just post-war era. On the inside shirt waist is an extremely faint military spec stamp -- seems to either says 1945 or 1955. I can barely make it out in the daylight light, but I was wondering if there was a good way of taking a digital photo and then enhancing it in Photoshop (or another like program-PS is what I use) to read the text.

If anyone knows a good method I'm all ears! Thanks in advance.
I have had similar problems with khaki web belt insignias and I have had some success using Photoshop. Try:

image/adjustments/brightness/contrast slides to force the dark text out. You will need to experiment a bit.

You might also consider using: filter/sharpen/sharpen edges as well.
Please let us know how this works.
 

Peacoat

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Post what you have and let us take a look at it. I'm not up on the shirts, but I would be surprised if it actually has the date in plain English like that. That would make it too easy for us to date!
 

eniksleestack

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Okay, here's the shirt in question. It's a very light khaki.

54army1.jpg


And here's the best adjust image of the inside shirt tail. I believe it says "September 1954" in the lower middle right part of the image

khakishirt.jpg


This is what it looks like w/o any adjustment

khaki2.jpg
 

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