{"id":17704,"date":"2012-08-11T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2012-08-11T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T15:08:23","slug":"retouching-lives-in-the-wake-of-japans-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/retouching-lives-in-the-wake-of-japans-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;(Re)touching lives&quot; in the wake of Japan&#039;s tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-proclaimed &#8220;pale, gray creature&#8221; (i.e. photo retoucher) Becci Mason spent three weeks helping in Japan in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. Soon after she turned to restoring photos lost &amp; found in the wreckage.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petapixel.com\/2012\/08\/04\/retouching-lives-through-photos-and-using-photoshop-for-good\/\">PetaPixel<\/a>\u00a0writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Within 2 weeks after putting out a call for help, she found herself with 150 volunteers willing to offer their time and services. Half a year later, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photorescuejapan\">Photo Rescue<\/a> volunteer count had ballooned to 1,100.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Mason\u2019s efforts led to over 135,000 photographs being cleaned, and hundreds were retouched and returned to their owners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9JKy6ZfmBn0\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-proclaimed &#8220;pale, gray creature&#8221; (i.e. photo retoucher) Becci Mason spent three weeks helping in Japan in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. Soon after she turned to restoring photos lost &amp; found in the wreckage.\u00a0PetaPixel\u00a0writes, Within 2 weeks after putting out a call for help, she found herself with 150 volunteers willing to offer their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}