I need helo with a 50+ year old faded label PLEASE!!
HI EVERYONE,
Full Disclosure; I posted this [by private message to davescm] in ADOBE and Dave in that community asked me to post to the 'EXPERTS' OVER HERE WITH A PIC! PLEASE HELP!
I read your post on the faded marriage certificate and hope you can help.
I have an 19th C. Asian scroll that is a family Heirloom and I have had it in a box for over 40 yrs and my mother-in-law had it in the same box for over 50 yrs. before she legally immigrated from Taiwan when it was still ROC and they were being oppressed by the China Dynasty at the time. So, she brought her son, that many years later became my husband, and came to America.
The scroll has been in the box almost this entire time and before. I never really asked too many personal questions, since she was hard to understand...but she gave it to me on my 1st birthday after marrying Jim. It's had the label I guess as soon as they were invented, and the box too....I don't know. I had on the wall for a short time, but I started having 2 small girls and I it was so ancient and beautiful I took it down...I could just see one of them ripping it down falling or something. So, it's been back in the box for 40 years in the closet thru a few moves and a divorce.
She changed her name to Judy Brown when she immigrated as they were encouraged to do, so they couldn't come after them and she died about 20 years ago in May. I gave the scroll to my youngest daughter Jenny (since that was her grandma, and Jim was her dad) for Christmas in 2023, and we both got had a good cry over it because she remembered it. That's when I discovered that the label on the end of the box and the one on the side of the box were no longer legible.
Unfortunately, my daughter was recently killed by her roommate, and my story and hers has changed forever. The scroll says something on it...but I am quite sure the labels would reveal more. Because to be honest, I'm not sure I can keep it. I need to find out the history and why everyone that's handled it that was part Taiwanese has died a tragic death and what the poem says and where it came from.
Judy's sister came laster and lives somewhere in America said something about Royalty having painted it....if they did, they can have it back!
Will you help or do you just know how to help me read the labels or different things I can try? I can't risk ruining them, someone suggested heat or laminating....but your thing says EXPERT!
I don't know if that's just Adobe software or all of adobe including labels and printing?
thanks,
Monica Brown
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[Response in PM from davescm Mar 20, 2025]
Please raise your issue in the Photoshop forum and include the best scan or photograph you can take of of a small section of the scroll or label that is difficult to read. That gives us something to work with. Don't do anything that would risk damaging the scroll itself.
The 'Expert' designation in the forums is awarded by Adobe, in recognition of expertise in their software. Experts are mostly working, or retired, industry professionals who volunteer their time in the forums. My own expertise is in Photoshop and 3D software. By posting in the community forums, you reach a range of experts with different industry backgrounds who can advise you.
Dave
[Further PM to davescm by monica_0669)
So, I might get you again, but I can't ask you in here?
If you only knew what it took for me to find you again! Well, all you have to do is look at the dates. This is how long it took. lol
I found you by accident the first time, but finding it again the second time....I didn't remember how I got here.
I'll do as you asked.
thanks,
Monica
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