[filmscanners] Re: [filmscanners_Digest]filmscannersDigestforFri17 Jan, 2003

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Its very much in your control.  If you want to get major spots out and
every last one, you will find it softens the image, but if you can do a
bit of clean up after the Dust & Scratch filter is finished, and you
haven't pushed it too hard, the images stay pretty sharp.

The software has too versions, a Photoshop plug in, and a stand alone.
The stand alone has more control, but is a bit more awkward to work with
and understand (make sure to read the read-me file, for some basics).
The stand alone can also allow for manual identification of scratches
and allows for you to touch them up separately.

It isn't perfect, (some images with a lot of intentional white or black
tiny spots may be altered too much) but its a good tool.  It allows for
looking for black or white spots (negative or positive source) and there
is an adaptive type of filtering which takes more time, but does a nicer
job.

As a free product, it is amazingly good at what it does.  Heck, it the
best I've seen at any price for a software based cleaning system.

Art


Frank Paris wrote:

> Hmmm, thanks for the tip. I suppose I'll find out for myself soon
> enough, but does this filter soften the image much? For people pictures
> a little softening might be okay, but I'm a stickler that my landscapes
> stay sharp, and that's what I do most.
>
> Frank Paris
> frankparis@comcast.net
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>>[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
>>Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:20 AM
>>To: frankparis@comcast.net
>>Subject: [filmscanners] Re: [filmscanners_Digest]
>>filmscanners DigestforFri17 Jan, 2003
>>
>>
>>This is where <snip> using something like the
>>Polaroid Dust and Scratch filter can help.  The Polaroid D&S
>>filter isn't perfect, but it does seem to catch a good number
>>of the offending spots.
>>
>>It works with any scanner since it is a non-hardware related
>>software product, and it is free to download from their
>>website.  It is now available for both PC and Macs, and it
>>works for both positives and negatives.
>>
>
>
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