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> From: dealy663 [mailto:dealy663@...]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:57 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] B/W Film scanning dust removal software??
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> Hi everyone, I've been a lurker in this group for a while,
> but haven't posted much.
>
> I'm looking for some opinions on a dust and scratch removal
> program for scanned black and white film. I haven't been able
> to find anything that was really helpful in this regard, and
> got to thinking about creating something myself.
>
> In some ways what I'm planning on developing would be similar
> to the Polaroid Dust removal program, but would make use of
> more sophisticated image analyis techniques. By this I mean,
> it would take into consideration the amount of film grain
> present (via the speed of the film and allowing the user to
> specify a level of "graininess").
> The size of of the film grain with respect to the size of the
> actual image on the negative would also figure into the
> dust/scratch selection algorithms.
>
> This program would not be smart enough for you to set a
> couple of options and then presto you'd have something as
> clean as a Digital ICE repaired piece of color film (That
> seems unlikely for now). But would offer significantly less
> work than going through your file with the clone-stamp tool
> or the healing brush at 100% pixel resolution in Photoshop as
> I've usually done with my B/W scans. This whole process
> started after I spent about 2 hours cleaning up a scan of a
> 35mm Tri-X neg with the PS CS healing brush. By manually
> applying some of these techniques I was able to clean a
> similarly dirty neg in about 15 minutes. I expect that I can
> build a PS CS plugin to do this relatively simple stuff
> without too much trouble. But the really cool benifit will
> arise if my ideas regarding automated dust and scratch
> identification pan out.
>
> This probably wouldn't be of need to those who only have to
> clean up 5 or 6 defects per image. I'm talking about really
> messed up negs with over 100 defects per image!
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> 1. Would such a program would be of interest to you B/W
> scanning types?
>
> 2. If so would most of you be interested in a standalone
> application, or a Photoshop plugin that would work with
> 16-bit files? If I were to build a standalone program I would
> only code it to work with TIFF files.
>
> 3. What percentage of those interested are on Macs vs PCs?
>
> Thanks, Derek
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