Re: WOW - Suggestions for Cleaning Up a Scanned Negative

[Patrick Genovese]

Shel,
I agree with Jostien, I don't think that you're going to get better 
results using any automated tools.

Patrick
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Think there's only hard work that can save that one, Shel.
Jostein
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: WOW - Suggestions for Cleaning Up a Scanned Negative

 

Hi Gang,
I've been working to eliminate spots, scratches, and imperfections
   

on an
 

old B&W negative that has not been treated well.  Here's a sample
   

section:
 

http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/sample.jpg  (50K file size)
Thus far I've been fiddling with this using the clone tool, healing
   

brush,
 

and patch tool, and working sometimes on large areas and some very
   

small
 

spots of only two or three pixels in size.
I'm wondering if there's a faster way to clean up this neg
   

(considering
 

there's lots of fine detail in many areas that needs to be
   

preserved) than
 

going in and using these spotting techniques.
Thanks!
Shel