OT: Scanning Advice
OT: Scanning Advice
- Subject: OT: Scanning Advice
- From: tac2 <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:55:59 -0700
This is very OT so anyone who is kind enough to help me out may contact me
directly off
list.
I recently took on a project from a local non-profit that works with art
therapy and scrap
book projects for children facing long term treatment and hospitalization.
I'm scanning 80
pieces of scrapbooks on a 600 ppi Linocolor flatbed that will be featured in a
book and
going to press.
This project has become far more complex than originally estimated and between
my low
bid to help this organization out and the unexpected problems my hourly rate
is quickly
approaching minumum wage or lower!
The problems include:
Color correction and balancing has become a nightmare with several bad
photos, each
with different issues, casts, fingerprints, scratches, tears and folds glued
to different
pieces of "pastel" colored construction paper with various stickers, impasto
fabric paint,
glitter etc all on one page! Any stickers, impasto paint or anything with a
raised surface
are giving me specular highlights that I can't control and I'm forced to
rubber stamp some
of the speculars out to make it look acceptable.
The use of "pearl" finish photographs in some of the collage work is another
issue. I'm
guessing since the surface of the photos are not flat, the texture reflects
light back to the
ccd at angles that cause green "noise" or circles of confusion in a sense.
I've heard of
many other folks experience this problem. Is there any work around? Would
this still
occur on a drum scanner. This would be massive overkill for this project, but
it would
only be a handful of the collages that have photos with the pearl finish. The
negs are not
available since these are from families scattered all over the USA and even if
we could
find them they would not make it here in time for the deadline. The other
option might be
to shoot the collages that contain "pear" finish photos with film and scan on
a film scanner
(??). This, however, was not in the bid and would be both time consuming and
expensive.
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks