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Offline Matthew

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Good Friday Passion chant sheet music
« on: April 12, 2025, 05:47:27 PM »
Apparently this sheet music for the Good Friday Passion (according to St. John) chant notation is extremely rare.
These worn out, 3rd or 4th generation photocopies from 20 years ago are still much needed and in-demand.

Am I missing a cleaner version of this somewhere on the Internet? Does someone out there know how to use AI or some other software/filter to clean these up, so I can "renew" them? I'd like to make them cleaner, more like their original state.

CCWatershed doesn't have this, at least the last time I looked. They have just about everything else!

Any young people out there, any AI prompt geniuses want to try to clean these up?
I'm getting into AI myself, but mostly the text side for now (that's what my job involves). I'm still pretty new to the various image generators and what not.

I took 20 pictures with my phone, and they turned out about as good as the photocopies I have. But I'd really like to clean them up, if possible.

Even if they never get cleaned up, I'd like to provide these to the world, since they seem to be quite useful.

https://www.cathinfo.com/files/gf-passion.zip

Re: Good Friday Passion chant sheet music
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2025, 09:02:58 PM »
I cleaned the background up a bit.  It printed 8-1/2 X 11 quite well.  Hope it helps.



Offline Matthew

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Re: Good Friday Passion chant sheet music
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2025, 10:35:36 PM »
That is perfect!

The ONLY criticism is that there are 19 more pages.
:laugh1:

https://www.cathinfo.com/files/gf-passion.zip

But yes, Page 302 is absolutely done. If anyone wants to do more page(s) in Gimp, Photoshop, AI, or any other tool, please start on Page 303 and following.

It would be great to have at least some of them done by Weds. night. On Thursday morning I'll be travelling to a resistance chapel for Holy Week. So I'll print them all out, fixed or unfixed, the night before.

The Dominican priest (from Avrille) offering the Holy Week liturgy this year will no doubt appreciate it.

Offline Matthew

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Re: Good Friday Passion chant sheet music
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2025, 10:45:18 PM »
To those who might be tempted to use AI to perform this task --

I wonder if feeding in the "subject" and the "target" would work with images? Sometimes it helps to spoon feed the AI what you want it to do.

Thanks to Miseremini's contribution, we basically have an "After" example image! That might be helpful, depending on the AI and the sophistication thereof.

I know it works with text prompts. But like I said, my very minimal (but growing) AI expertise is strictly in the text realm.

Re: Good Friday Passion chant sheet music
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2025, 10:59:20 PM »
I used photoshop.  After set up it took 5 minutes.  I didn't know there were more till after I posted it.
I should have left the page number on, or do you want to renumber them?