Can you post a scan somewhere. I'd like a crack at this. I have some ideas that might help. just need to try them on an image.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:53:13 -0500, Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> wrote: > I am about to make a family chronicle with a lot of old photos. The > older ones are of course baryte paper prints which have a nice rough > surface. > > Scanning the first photos, I find that there is too much light on the > shadows, and the surface structure results in tiny white stripes and > spots, reflections which show the paper structure but may be disturbing > when the photos are viewed in the book. > > With the Gimp I can easily compress the shadows a bit so that black > becomes black, but the tiny spots remain. > > The scanning tablet from the TWAIN interface for this scanner (an office > Brother 3-in-1) only allows for tweaking brightness and contrast. I > didn't find any other option to scan, and I don't know if it's usual to > set up brightness and contrast accordingly, and how. (And I don't know > whether you would scan in 24bit colours or in grayshades for > black-and-white photos...) > > So there are actually 2 problems: There is no automatic for finding the > right black value point, and there is the problem that the lamp lights > the paper structure too much. I tried to turn the photos by 90?, but to > no avail. > > What would you guys do here? I don't want to scan 100+ photos only to > see that it was a fail, so I ask before I actually start working :) > > Is there a chance to install another, more intelligent scan tablet or > TWAIN interface? And would you accept the lights on the paper structure > as given, maybe "nice to look at"? > > Thanks for your opinions! > > Rolf > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
