>Hello > >to get the new year going... > >I have lots of transparencies that have been scratched at the printers >in the past, what are the best programs/techniques for cleaning these >up, post scanning with a Nikon Coolscan LS-2000. >
All depends upon how many 'lots' are and how fussy you are willing to be and what the end goal is: digital archiving for catalogue purposes, or keeping high resolution (up to 2700 dpi for the LS-2000) scans on file for digital printing afterwards. If they're Kodachrome or B&W, then you can't really take advantage of the ICE-descratching functions of the Nikon software and will have to use a variety of different techniques to descratch them in Photoshop. If they are Fujichrome/Ektachrome then the Nikon software or VueScan may be able to make good headway with their de-scratching algorithms at various settings. Given a large volume, might be more cost-effective (depending upon how you value your time) to get a newer Nikon Coolscan and use their descratching software and the more sensitive scanning equipment to let the software do the bulk of the fixing. Dieder ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
