Steve: Right, so you know a little while back, when I came over
not so long ago
and
you had
a photo on your computer
of you
Grandad: oh yes, that's right, the sailor one?
Steve: That's right!
and well
I got it printed off, that's the one you showed me. 
Grandad: That's right, yeah
Steve: and you asked me whether you could get it
touched up a bit.
Grandad: Yes.
Steve: So, I put it on a website that I go on, called Reddit and they
basically had a go at tidying it up.
Grandad: Wow!
That's the original one, this guy here has had a go at tidying up some of the lines on it.
Grandad: Oh yeah?
Steve: and he's done a pretty good job, he only did it quickly before he went to school.
Grandad: He's really taken a lot of the creases out!
Steve: He's done it a little bit.  Then someone else had a go
and
had another stab at it
Grandad: Spoilt for choice!
Steve: and you can see he's taken the lines out
there and everything
Grandad: Yeah!
Steve: He's really done a nice job of that
because it was a photo of a photo, you've still got the table in the background
there's still quite a lot of the cracks and things down the side there
Grandad: Yeah.
Steve: Then someone else had a go
Grandad: Oh wow, look at that!
Steve: and bare in mind, that's the original
Grandad: That is fantastic isn't it!
Grandad: You would never know it had looked like that
Steve: There's still a few marks and stuff,
Grandad: Yeah yeah yeah.
Steve: but he's taken a lot of the stains out
and got rid of all the lines.
Grandad: Probably beer stains! *laughs*
Steve: so that was good, and then someone took that one and did a little bit more work to it
So you can see there he's got rid of the patch and put some hair back in
probably not quite the right hair, but he's had a go at it
Grandad: I could always do with a bit more!
Steve: *laughs*
Grandad: Wow!
Steve: Then someone took that one, and did a little bit more tidying up to it
and again
he just did a few touches up, sorted out the contrast on it
Grandad: Yeah. Yeah I can see the differences
Grandad: It's fantastic isn't it!
Steve: Yeah I mean, when you compare that to that, it;s really different.
Then one guy, kindly spent 3 hours of his evening on it
Grandad: Did he?
Steve: and has come up with that.
Grandad: Wow
Grandad: I didn't realise I was so good looking! *laughs*
Grandad: Well that
Grandad: that's lovely isn't it!
Steve: He's even given you some hair look Grandad
Grandad: ha ha
Grandad: he's not got any spare has he?
Steve: So he's really gone to work with that, he's done an amazing job
Grandad: Yeah, when you consider that
Steve: Yeah that's the original
that look like you?
definitely you?
Grandad: Yeah
Grandad: That's taken in Hong Kong that.
Steve: Was it?
How old were you then?
Grandad: Nineteen, twenty, something like that.
Steve: I thought you'd be about 20
Steve: So that was a little present for you, I thought you'd appreciate that.
Grandad: Oh thank you
Grandad: that's wonderful!
Steve: The reason we're recording it is because
the people who did the work on it, I'd like to show them
you
receiving it.
Grandad: Oh that is really lovely
whoever's looking at that
thank you very much! There we go
that's the difference.
that's what
sixty.. sixtyseven years or so
Steve: You're still as good looking as you were back then
Grandad: That's really wonderful
thanks a lot man, that's really wonderful!
I really appreciate that.
Steve: There's an extra one to show you.
A guy took one, I think he took that one there, and he colourised it
He didn't know what colour hair you were, he didn't know that you were a raving ginger back then
Grandad: Yeah well I was a sort of gingery colour.
Steve: He's done a pretty good job, he's put you on a boat
and everything
he's put..
I thought it was quite fun what he's done.
Grandad: He's done a wonderful job with that.
Steve: He's got the skin tones about right
Grandad: I love the colours.
Steve: He tried to pick the right sort of era
Grandad: Yeah, almost like an old master of painting *laughs*
That's wonderful!
Ahh
well I didn't think anybody would go to all this trouble for me! Do I owe anybody anything?
Steve: Of course not Grandad, it's all out of the goodness of their hearts.
Grandad: Ah that's lovely
well tell them all, they've made a poor old sailor very
happy!
Steve: Will do
Grandad: Oh yeah
I like that one with colour,
all of them.  Thank you very much for framing it up
