Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: Ideas? Maybe use two backgrounds - each just dark enough to include the shadow in a reasonable selection (or hide it), one tinted/colored a warm color and the other a cool color (red and blue?). Then put warm stamps on the

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 06/13/2009 02:46 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: [big snip] So I am hoping for suggestions as to a) how to avoid the color shadow of using a colored background and b) if it cannot be avoided, how to fix it in gimp without a

[Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-13 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. (Working great, NO crashes as some people complain of.) The answer to this question is not as straight-forward as it sounds. Problem: - Scanning (xsane from within gimp) images of canceled postage stamps. (Also tried with Photoshop/Windows using

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: [big snip] So I am hoping for suggestions as to a) how to avoid the color shadow of using a colored background and b) if it cannot be avoided, how to fix it in gimp without a lot of messing around and/or other color