Number 303 - August 2008

Comment on Photo Editing
by Bob Thomson. Tacoma Open Group for Microprocessors
While editing JPEGs produced from color slides and negatives by the Photo Impression 6 software that came with my VuPoint Scanner, presented at the June meeting and discussed in the July TOGGLE, I noticed that the same pattern of specks, hairs and blotches appeared on image after image. This means that some of the blemishes are NOT on their surface to be brushed off. Instead they must be imbedded in the image.	This can come only from dirt or other extraneous material either in the camera's optical system or in the scanner and, hence, recorded on the JPEG. I captured a blank image with no slide in the scanner and on enlargement it displayed many hairs, spots, etc. A thorough cleaning of the scanner screen is recommended before scanning in your slides or negatives. An occasional check of this type should also be done.
Number 303 - August 2008