*waves* Apologise for being absent for the past... monthish my lappytop has been in the shop due to it deciding it wasn't going to turn on one day. But the good news is that almost everything is fixed. (screen is still a bit messed up a the bottom but I can live with that)
So my computer decided to become 'faulty' recently. (I have a macbook pro) Graphics buggered up and had to re-start, gradually getting less and less time logged on until I couldn't even boot it up.
Did a quick crack open and clean of the insides, replacing some messy thermal paste. Nothing. General consensus: graphics card fried. Damnit. Considering the graphics card is built into the logic board that'll be about $700 to replace. F-that.
Quick search around the net and a couple of different recovery ideas later no dice. I was getting drastic so time to get to some extreme measures. I found an idea that some people had done, with success, for recovery of broken graphics cards. The idea is simple, put your graphics card (or in my case logic board) in the OVEN. 10 mins at 200 degrees centigrade. Even when you are in last resort territory you are still cautious. I did it for 8 mins at 180 degrees centigrade. Patched it back up, booted up and the only thing gone wrong so far is that the date/time was set at 2008.
I'm speechless.
Has anyone ever heard of this or tried some crazy recovery techniques?
WOW, great demo dude! Thanks so much!!! So much better and easier than the way I was trying. Heh. Gonna have to try this method for myself.
*thumbs up* Hopefully there are a few tips and tricks to Photoshop in there that you weren't aware of before. xP There is so much to Photoshop its ridiculous. lol
Note: In the most recent version of Photoshop, to make the color layer, you need to go to "Blending options..." by right clicking the layer, and then change the option from "Normal" to "Color"! -Tbone
Um you looking for step-by-step instructions or just a general idea? Its just a white background with increase of the exposure of the image some glow around the outside to simulate the white background bleeding in, a bit of smoothing on the image and a splash of colour here and there.