Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Welder

Welder[edit]

**Original** - A welder making boilers for a ship.

Reason: This is a very high quality, well composed, and encyclopedia-worthy image. TheOtherSiguy (talk) 03:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Articles this image appears in: welding, United States home front during World War II, and Welding helmet
Creator: Alfred T. Palmer

Support as nominator TheOtherSiguy (talk) 03:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Considering I uploaded and restored it... ;) Thanks for the compliment. Durova^Charge! 04:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
PPR discussion here. --jjron (talk) 04:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great shot, can't believe it was taken so long ago. Aesthetically, I'd say it's at least as good as Image:SMAW.welding.af.ncs.jpg, which is featured. A good point is made at the PPR discussion that this picture would ideally exist in an article along the lines of History of welding, but still, support. faithless (^speak) 09:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wow, that's some masterful restoration indeed! For its historical and encyclopedic value, I Support. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 10:43, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Almost perfect but for the mark in the smoke, about 300 px from left, which looks like a cloning error. thegreen J Are you green? 21:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Have you checked it against Image:AlfredPalmerwelder.jpg? I was using the healing brush rather than the clone stamp in that area. Not sure which mark you mean - if it isn't in the original please be more specific? Durova^Charge! 23:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - It's not in the original. Look at the area towards the top of where the long scratch in the original was. There's a dark patch, which looks perfectly natural except that the top does not blend into the smoke around it; there's a sharp, straight border about 4 pixels from the top. I'm not sure how the healing brush works (it's not in the older version of Photoshop that I have.), but if it's similar to clone tool, my guess is that that the area that was selected to be copied in place of the scratch was slightly above what you cloned it onto, so once you reached the top, it stopped working, leaving a visible border. thegreen J Are you green? 19:11, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Right you are; I've fixed it now. That happens when the source section on a healing brush alteration goes beyond the frame of the image. Usually I catch that myself; sorry to have missed this one. The healing brush operates on a mathematical formula that blends the source area with the target area. Often it works wonders, but using it is an art form and a few circumstances make it cough and sputter. I think it was first introduced in Photoshop 7. Durova^Charge! 12:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - Perfect. Support. thegreen J Are you green? 21:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shows the protective clothing very well, but doesn't show much of the welding.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 00:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Another great shot of proletariat at work. - Darwinek (talk) 12:09, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per my earlier comments on PPR. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support; a nice image, but I can't really figure out where this belongs. I think the best place is actually welding helmet, since it offers a clear view of the protective gear that a welder wears (and it's similar in appearance to what is still worn today). It doesn't illustrate welding well, and there are better options already available. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 18:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:AlfredPalmerwelder1.jpg MER-C 03:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]