mhnw43365
11th April 2012, 01:06 AM
I am trying to convert my Mum and Dad’s Wedding photo album from 1971 into a more modern photobook the album has black and white prints roughly 10x8 and about half of them are also printed separately in colour roughly 5x3 the colour prints are printed as the same sort of texture and finish as you would get from a old Polaroid very glossy and smooth and they seem to have scanned fine, at 600 ppi
However the black and white bigger prints are printed in a different way if you look really closely there are many, many dots making up the print (sort of like a newspaper but really really good quality and sharpe) However when I am scanning them at 600 ppi the dots become very clear and also it looks like the images have lots of light and dark stripes some images vertical and others diagonal, even when viewed at 15-20% they still show up,
I have sort of solved this using photoshop by adding as much surface blur as possible without losing to much detail, however this takes time, as each imagine is slight different so the blur needs to be set different for each one also there is the problem of the lose of sharpness mainly the big group photos were the subjects are much smaller this is noticeable,
I am wondering is there a better way for me to scan these images, I currently just open MS Paint and file and import from scanner or camera then set it to 600 ppi as this is the max it will allow me, my scanner is a Lexmark 2600, once the images has scanned to paint I just save as a JPEG I then use photoshop to do any editing.
Does the software in my case MS Paint effect the scan or is this down solely to the scanner itself, would I be better using another program or would the scan turn out the same regardless? Is there a certain way to scan photos printed with dots making up the imagine?
Thanks
Lee
However the black and white bigger prints are printed in a different way if you look really closely there are many, many dots making up the print (sort of like a newspaper but really really good quality and sharpe) However when I am scanning them at 600 ppi the dots become very clear and also it looks like the images have lots of light and dark stripes some images vertical and others diagonal, even when viewed at 15-20% they still show up,
I have sort of solved this using photoshop by adding as much surface blur as possible without losing to much detail, however this takes time, as each imagine is slight different so the blur needs to be set different for each one also there is the problem of the lose of sharpness mainly the big group photos were the subjects are much smaller this is noticeable,
I am wondering is there a better way for me to scan these images, I currently just open MS Paint and file and import from scanner or camera then set it to 600 ppi as this is the max it will allow me, my scanner is a Lexmark 2600, once the images has scanned to paint I just save as a JPEG I then use photoshop to do any editing.
Does the software in my case MS Paint effect the scan or is this down solely to the scanner itself, would I be better using another program or would the scan turn out the same regardless? Is there a certain way to scan photos printed with dots making up the imagine?
Thanks
Lee