RE: Tips or techniques????

["Thomas B. Maugham" <tmaugham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Might it be possible to photograph the print with a polarizing filter on the
lens? That might reduce the glare that causes the snow storm effect that
Carl experienced.

Good luck!

Tom Maugham

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From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
Carl Grohs
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:21 PM
To: scan@leben.com
Subject: Tips or techniques????


From: John Lauenstein <lauphoto@mninter.net>
Subject: Tips or techniques????

Hi all,

Although this subject pales in comparison to the discussions that are
currently going on, I hope that someone on this list can help me with my
problem. So here it is: I have been asked to reproduce a cherished
family photograph. The 35 mm negative is lost and only a 3x5 faded and
abused print exists. No problem I thought, just scan and work some magic
in photoshop and output to my Epson. Well, the print (1976 vintage) has
a textured surface and any scan I produce has a rhythmic pattern over
the entire scan. I have experimented with "de-screening" and this
minimized the problem, but not enough to produce a nice print.

Does anyone have a tip or technique that will eliminate this problem.

Thanks in advance.
John

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Well, while the discussions into the rarified air of the theoretical and the
technical are fine, there's nothing wrong with a basic "how to". That's why
many of us are here.

You might try turning the photo at various angles to the scanner bed and
then straightening them up in Photoshop. Sometimes this helps with textured
papers. Good luck. As stated in another post, you very well may have to do a
digital copy to get the results you want.

I had to do some work on a photo image printed on a semi-gloss paper that
had a very fine pebble texture. Each of the "pebbles" reflected the light
and it looked like a snow storm after the scan. Turning the image about 45
degrees, using de-screening and then using the dust & scratch filter, adding
a little noise and/or blur in PS helped-but I still wasn't totally satisfied
with the results. All of that softens the image, I was able to bring it back
up some using the unsharp mask but in effect that is only undoing all that I
had already done, to some degree.

There was a suggestion at one time to photograph the original in
water-seriously. I didn't have the nerve to try that!

Warmest Regards,
Carl Grohs, Jr.    Design Directions    Eden, NC

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www.scantips.com
List archives:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scan

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