Tom, I think I had the address wrong, here is the correct way.
Helen Allen
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From: John Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: RE: [SP] Introduction
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> Software - As several of you have said (I have read the archives) software
> for picture manipulation is the most important factor. Of several that I
> have installed, I have settled on Picture Publisher 8.0 by Micrografx. Of
> course I would love to have Adobe's $600 program. I just don't feel I can
> justify the expense for my level of use. I have tried other
> Adobe products
> like PhotoDeluxe, but feel they are too restrictive and will not
> 'allow' me
> to do what I want to do but force me to do it their way or not at all.
> Over all, Picture Publisher is the most powerful program I have found, for
> the money, but like Adobe's Photoshop it takes some time to learn how to
> use it. I've also tried Corel's products, but they didn't suit me as well
> as PP8.0.
I'll add my recommendation to the Micrografx software, Ron. (Or Roxie?) I'm
using a simpler version - one of the freebies - that came with my scanner. I
played with Photoshop for a while, but find that PP is much more intuitive.
Especially the visual adjustment methods for tone balance, contrast,
brightness, colors, etc.
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> One final thing. Someone asked (in the archives) about pictures they
> scanned that got spots (pixilated?). I had that happen just a couple of
> days ago while scanning some Christmas pictures we received. I too was
> puzzled. I scanned them at even higher resolution, but the problem got
> worse. Then, I looked at the pictures through a magnifier. The
> spots were
> in the picture. The scanner was just doing such a good job that it picked
> them up. Problem was that the picture was grainy. To fix them, I scanned
> at higher than normal resolution and used "effects" like despeckle,
> sharpen, etc. to get them as good as possible. When I saved them to a
> lower resolution, most of the problem disappeared and I got a satisfactory
> picture to use.
Sounds like newspaper photos. They are actually (or used to be - modern
systems are probably different) dot image graphics. I do scan in color, but
try to leave them in the original pixilated format/appearance. I remember in
the early days of computing when I had to try to convert to that format in
order to get a good printout for photos... :>)
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Ron and Roxie Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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John Lancaster
Freelance Business/Tech Writer
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webpage: http://home.swbell.net/jclanc/
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