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An Honourable Photoshop Master- BaoJun Yuan
Baojun Yuan is a member of China Senior Photographers Association. He is highly respected by Chinese people. Why? In the past nine years, Mr. Yuan has repaired more than 2000 old photos for residents for free. Course it is not surprising enough if you have no idea about this great man. Mr. Yuan is 76 years old now. He didn’t know Photoshop until his was 60 years old. Mr. Yuan learned repairing skills from a teacher and was soon skilled in it. Considering that repairing old photos is too expensive for most of the residents to afford, Mr. Yuan himself bought a computer and a scanner and began service people without any charge. In his words “my teacher just taught me how to repair the photos, but he forgot to tell me how to charge”.
Let’s have a look at Mr. Yuan’s works with respect.
Post published on 19th April 2011
sampat
April 20th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Good Work and lot of positive thinking
HuangWei
April 20th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Great old man
dorothy Moore
April 20th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I am learning to restore old photos. This Man is really an inspiration. Thank you for posting this article on Yahoo.
Mariel Ganowsky
April 20th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
I am absolutely AMAZED at his workmanship and the best part… he did it as a SERVICE for FREE!!! I’m IMPRESSED!!! Great work Mr.
carola
April 21st, 2011 at 7:22 am
Awesome !! Great ! This is a clear demonstration that the age is not a constraint for the talent.
Miriam/The Winter Guest
April 22nd, 2011 at 9:28 am
Lovely story.
insignia96
April 23rd, 2011 at 10:26 am
This guy is awesome. This is stuff most paid people would have trouble with.
Carol yan
April 23rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
What a creative and kind person. Yes, he deserves our thanks for restoring family histories.
Manda
April 24th, 2011 at 1:05 am
Mr. Yuan is a real professional with a big heart. Wished I was as good as he is.
tony fortunato
April 24th, 2011 at 6:44 am
Very cool. Good for him. We should all take a lesson from his generousity and ability fo have an open mind.
Henry
April 24th, 2011 at 7:43 am
FAKE. Just like everything else out of China.
Doodee2011
April 24th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Question is, did he pay for his copy of photoshop? Maybe it’s Adobe who provided the work for free!
Matt
April 24th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Wow your repairs are amazing
Brendon
April 24th, 2011 at 10:37 am
If only the world was filled with people like this… Simply helping others…
Ángela
April 24th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Tons of admiration..
Adam Daly
April 24th, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Wow. Fantastic work. He forgot to tell me how to charge
. Very inspiring that he learned at his age. If he can do it so can anyone who has the heart for it! Thanks for sharing.
rafal
April 25th, 2011 at 3:41 am
one of the guys from the photos looks like Barack Obama
borax99 (Alain C.)
April 25th, 2011 at 9:05 am
This gentleman is an artist. Hats off and congratulations.
m
April 25th, 2011 at 11:30 am
i am do imprest, poland,warsaw
Zed
April 26th, 2011 at 2:02 am
This is what i dont undrestand when people do things out of their heart but still get negative feedback or being critisize… Could be they havent done anything good in their life and they envy such people…
Art
April 26th, 2011 at 6:01 am
Good job BaoJun!
Aisa de la Cruz
April 27th, 2011 at 9:01 am
What I love most about this.. is that he was very willing to learn and used his knowledge for good.
Patrick
April 27th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Wow. What a wonderful person. Just wondering, how long it takes to complete one photo? 非常敬佩你的工作和愛心。
Sbro
April 28th, 2011 at 2:05 am
That’s amazing! Great work Mr. Yuan, what an artist!
Ron
April 28th, 2011 at 4:26 am
Truly amazing!
Norman
April 28th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Learning how to use software such as PS at the age of 60 shows already a certain openness towards changes in life. But applying his new knowledge in this way is simply great. I hope that he continues with his work for a long, long time.
Jeinox
April 29th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
God Bless you that . really is a good man , cause do that work for free , is not all the people that do that
VeritasEnterprise
April 30th, 2011 at 10:41 am
This is really great what he is doing, and he is really good with photoshop, he really did marvels on some pictures!
Valerie M.
April 30th, 2011 at 10:41 am
That is what helping others unselfishly is all about….
Benjisan
June 6th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Holy shit… That’s incredible.
Diana
June 14th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Mr Yuan you should charge , and charge a lot! lol
Bubble
June 25th, 2011 at 8:44 am
KUDOS!!
Heck, let’s buy this old man the UN-PIRATED Photoshop Copy to shut some “ADOBE’s Pocket Fanatics” mouth… how’s that sound to you?
Judy
July 6th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Wow! Truly impressive! I’ve only been using PSE, and restoring old family photos and some tintypes and cabinet cards. A fix like the 4th one down would take a lot of work, even with PS pro. Does this gentleman do any teaching or online tutorials of his own?
anil
August 10th, 2011 at 8:00 am
great efforts, good work
Curt
August 11th, 2011 at 7:13 am
Now anybody that does Photoshop has to have respect for that!
Ben
August 14th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
That’s absolutely amazing! If one out of every one thousand people would aspire to be like Mr. Yuan this world would be six million times better. Great story
michael
August 16th, 2011 at 9:25 am
fabulous. service before self. likely a buddhist
Teddi
October 19th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
AMAZING work, and what an incredible man to do that for so many people for free!
You rock Baojun!!!
Makr
October 26th, 2011 at 10:11 am
A lot of the people who own Wall Street could learn from this man’s characters
David Tseng
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:12 pm
He is such a goog man desert us to pay our respect and fallow.
YumYumOfTheYum
November 8th, 2011 at 12:39 am
Great job, grandpa..
恭喜, 我尊重你！
Jr Deputy Accountant
December 19th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
These pics are shopped, I can see the pixels. FAKE.
vowaka.com
October 18th, 2012 at 2:03 am
A little more carefully it is necessary, objects and pieces of clothing covered in different ways
Kayla Harden
January 15th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Simply incredible!
somershane
March 5th, 2013 at 7:47 am
Im learning photoshoppe and correl aswell,,im eager to lern how to repair damage photo,,i know some but not good enough,,im learning for two weeks in photoshoppe and one month in correl.i want to learn the shortcut basic,,