Hi!
The info was mostly intended for Ed Hamrick, but here is a short info on GIMP.
GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's available mainly
for UNIX-es, including Linux, but has been ported to Windows, too. It's
similar to PhotoShop mostly, and very feature laden, but lacks color
management and is said not to be really useful for YCMK work.
It contains a filter for removing dust and scratches which I find very
useful, and also a pretty good sharpening filter.
The greate value of GIMP, besides beeing free, is that it's available in
source code.
Here is the http address: http://www.gimp.org
Regards
Erik Kaffehr
On Saturday 16 December 2000 22:48, you wrote:
> What's GIMP?
>
> I'm interested because of the alaising and/or noise that I'm getting on
> skin tones (especially fair skin). I'm scanning negs and am wondering if
> this is a normal problem when scanning negs or if it is because of the
> bottom dollar ScanWit scanner that I bought?
>
> I normally have to use the blur tool to smooth skin tones by hand.
>
> Mike
>
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> On 12/16/00 at 5:41 PM Erik Kaffehr wrote:
> >Hi Ed!
> >
> >I have worked with GIMP's despecle filter which works very well. In my
> >opinion much better than the one in Photoshop 4 LE. I seldom use, however,
> >other than on sky, because it softens the image and removes grain.
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Erik Kaffehr
> >
> >On Saturday 16 December 2000 09:23, you wrote:
> >> In a message dated 12/16/2000 2:56:12 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >> > What's peoples opinion of the Vuescan scratch removal on scanner
> >> > without the IR channel?
> >>
> >> It doesn't work especially well without the IR channel.
> >>
> >> > Anyone know what method it uses for this?
> >>
> >> It's a nonlinear filter, with the weight of each pixel proportional
> >> to it's brightness.
> >>
> >> > Better than PS or not?
> >>
> >> I suspect Photoshop's filter is better, and if someone can
> >> send me a technical description of Photoshop's filter, I'll
> >> consider adding it to VueScan.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ed Hamrick
> >
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