> From: Conrad Chavez > > My LS-2000 DOF drives me up the wall on curled > negatives. A few weeks ago there were some that I > absolutely had to print, but no matter where I set the > focus point in VueScan, some area was out of focus. > What I ended up doing was creating multiple scans with > focus points set to "near" and "far" parts of the neg > so that all areas of the negative were in focus, just > not in the same file. From there I Shift-dragged the > files on top of each other into a single Photoshop > file and used layer masks to blend all the sharp parts > together into a single sharp scan. One problem with > this method is that the scans can be slightly > different in dimensions where they warp, so you may > have to apply very slight distortion (a few pixels) > with the Transform tool to avoid softness caused by > misregistration. Temporary use of the Difference layer > mode will show you what's out of register.
Yep. That's what I'm willing to spend $1000-$1500 to avoid having to do on a couple hundred slides. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
