> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:53:13 +0100 > From: eilert-sprachen at t-online.de > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Subject: [scribus] Scanning photos for a book project > > 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. ... > 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.
You could try post-processing with other more-specialized applications like LightZone http://www.lightzoneproject.org/ instead of gimp. Scanning at a lower resolution might make the paper structure less apparent, especially if you are currently scanning at over 300 dpi. William -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150127/eea8c5fe/attachment.html>
