[filmscanners] Re: cleaning up scratched transparencies

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic@telus.net>]

If the scratches are superficial on the non-emulsion side and do not
alter the actual image, using dICE which your scanner has incorporated,
is probably the best answer.  You might even find that minor damage to
the image will be corrected this way.  As you probably know, dICE cannot
work with silver black and white images, and with some older Kodachromes
it can sometimes be problematic, but I would certainly try that first.

After that, depending on the severity of the damage, Photoshop's healing
brush, or the "rubber stamp" cloning tool might be the best method to
fix scratches.  I find some of the more automated tools may not have the
"intelligence" your own eye does as to how best blend and repair damages
to film.  It sometimes takes several attempts to find the best technique
depending upon the subject matter which was damaged, and how that damage
appears once scanned.

Art


mail@paul-roberts.com wrote:

> 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.
>
> happy new year.
> --
> Paul Roberts
> mail@paul-roberts.com
>
>

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