Hi! I am sorry to interrupt this talk. I am not that experienced in scanners and stuff. But here is a little PS procedure that takes care some of the scanner noise. I use it on every image I retouch...
1. Switch to Lab Coor Mode. 2. Apply some Gaussian Blur to both non-ilghtness channels (A and B) the amount of blur depends on amount of noise, but it does not have to be really strong blur, usually Blur Radius between 0.5 and 1.0 does the trick. 3. With healing brush remove all the dust from the lightness channel. 4. Return to RGB mode or whatever mode you started with (not Lab Color :) ). This solves at least some of the problems that you list, Doug. And usually it takes no more than 5 minutes to apply, unless the scan was really dirty (p. 3) I am almost certain that many of the people here are aware of this trick, but I thought I'd still put it out, so to say. --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
