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Re: Scanning...B/W in Color

2001-11-13 by Martin Wesley

Cleavis,

I have never encountered what you describe. How wide are the magenta 
and blue strips? What do they look like on the individual R, G and B 
channels?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Cleavis" <lyonscox@m...> 
wrote:
> All this recent talk about it so I try it.
> 
> Haven't given it any thought because I just did it but the scan 
when 
> imported to photoshop has two bright magenta and blue 'strips' on 
one 
> edge.  If it were a newspaper ad, I would say it was out of 
> registration.  It is not parallel and not all the way across the 
> negative.  I can see the tones underneath these brilliant colors, 
so 
> the 'structure' of the image is there.
> 
> First thought is the negative is 'curled' a bit, since it's a 5x7 
> taped to a transparency glass plate in my Duoscan.  Second is a 
> missalignment of the scanners readers...comments?
> 
> Cleavis 
> 
> in AZ where now that the WOrld Series has been won, a few more 
> million people know what's between CA & NY :=)

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