Shel, a while back I posted a photoshop action I named Poor Man's Ice. Bill Owens, William Rob, and a few others did some testing. If you like, I'll email you a copy. The action itself is small, but the user manual makes the zip file pretty big. It doesn't handle things automatically and can still force manual retouching, but I've found it to save time even in situations like yours.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Joe ...
It's not the scan that's bad, the neg has suffered from poor processing and drying in a dusty environment (one of my first rolls), crummy, scratchy negative sleeves, poor storage, and the ravages of time.
ICE doesn't work on conventional B&W. My scanner has ICE, BTW ...
Shel
[Original Message] From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wow indeed. Shel, I've had bad scans come out looking like this (in part -- not the whole image). I don't know of shortcuts for this kind of situation. It can take hours of retouching.
I would say try a scanner with Digital ICE, but I'm not sure that works with B&W film. I could be wrong. Perhaps ask your pro lab.
