Great DIY disasters - a late entry

that's easy for you Photoshop wallahs to say - my low res attempt was awful

:-)

Jeremy

I bet he's feeling very embarrassed ...

Mary

No, but the poor lady who lives in the *other half* of the pair of cottages did (she was on the local news). Seemed quite chipper in the circumstances!

She'll probably come out quite well when the insurance coughs up!

Mary

The Gimp is free and does pretty much what photoshop does, give or take some.

what I should have said was that though I can get photoshop for free as a uni techie, I'm way too lazy to learn how to use it ;-)

I've just downloaded Gimp though to have a look - thanks...

Google's Picassa looks quite interesting too - though I haven't played with it much yet

I heard that it might not have been the expected have-a-go bodger. There was a quote from the conservation officer that implied that they were aware of the work being implemented prior to the event.

The work so far had been to remove some hardboard partitions, before the structural work began. I suspect that the house was being held up by the hardboard...

Christian.

In the Times report it said "two-bedroom Grade II listed property in Oxfordshire for a price believed to be £180,000" which seems absurdly cheap to me. (Sell shoebox in Great Wen and buy cottage in Oxon and have change, I wish). So perhaps it was known to be in a fragile condition.

Try photoshop elephants 3 then.... much of the oomph, but quicker to learn...

You don't need something that complicated for image optimisation - have a go with IrfanView.