Testing - Haifa Golden Dome

Also, how do you add the picture in with the text rather than as an attachment? Something to do with the "image" button?

Amdrew

Andrew Randle
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I type the text and at the place I want I press the "immage" bottom, fill the name of picture's site.

I tried to "sharp" the picture with the Photoshop.
Still the colors on the paper picture are better than in the scan one - I have to find why (or maybe there is no possibility to scan a picture
and get an exact copy as the original).

In the picture, the sky are a little more "bluer"
and the dome is a little more "golden".

Arie

Would anyone like to view some recent photos I took of Swindon.

Our town hall is very interesting and as I look out of my spare bedroom window (where the computer is situated) I have a very good view of my greenhouse which contains two very intersting bay trees which are overwintered inside it.

Also talking of aquatics, I do have a rather interesting pond which contains some rather interesting fish. I do have a Leica (what a little show off I am) so the results should be quite good.

Regards

Photo loving Mick

Maybe I'm wrong, but I find it quite odd (feel free to correct me) that members are asked to tell something about themselves in the membership card in this forum - and they are using this record to tell about the stereo system they have.

And last, as I was told many times when I complained about the too many threads about Mana in this forum - that anyone can skip any thread he doesn't want to read.

Arie

>> I tried to "sharp" the picture with the Photoshop <<

If you haven't already tried "Unsharp Mask" in Photoshop is much better than "Sharpen" and "Sharpen More". Try settings of 100, 2, 1 as a good starting point for small JPEGs.

>> Still the colors on the paper picture are better than in the scan one - I have to find why (or maybe there is no possibility to scan a picture and get an exact copy as the original) <<

Flatbed scanning from photos is ok but if you take a lot of photographs a film scanner -- which scans the negative or slide rather than the print -- will give *much* better results. Not cheap though, good ones start at around 400 GBP (in the UK).

>> In the picture, the sky are a little more "bluer" and the dome is a little more "golden". <<

Have you tried playing around with Hue/Saturation in Photshop? You may well be able to get the colours more to your liking.

You'll find a very useful guide to scanning at Scantips. Other good sites worht investigating are Luminous Landscpe and Photo.Net

Meanwhile here's a picture of Sintra in Portugal:

Hope this helps,
Matthew

Can you recommend of a film scanner with a software ?

About the photoshop, I installed it yesterday for the first time, don't know it yet , but I'll try to learn your directions.

Thanks,
Arie

>>Can you recommend of a film scanner with a software <<

Film scanners change all the time so when you come to buy one you need to surf around to find the latest reviews. I have a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II which is amongst the best of current 35mm film scanners in its price range and very good value at just over £400 GBP. It scans at a max resolution of 2820ppi which gives 10x8 prints that are arguably equal in quality to photgraphic prints and 20x16 prints that are more than acceptable. If you pay more then you get the automatic dust removal features of the more expensive models which is worth having but not essential if you are careful with your film and dont mind a bit of retouching in Photshop. For significantly better scan quality you need to spend a *lot* more mony and such scanners are really aimed of professional photgraphers using medium format films than amateurs with 35mm.

The supplied Minolta software is very good and allows high quality tonal and colour correction in the scanner rather than in Photoshop. Otherwise lots of people use Vuescan (from www.hamrick.com) a 40 USD shareware program that offers better batch processing, which is great when scanning in bulk, and it does excellent automatic colour correction based on a database of film types.

You'll find plenty of reviews of scanners on the sites I mentioned or by a bit of web searching.

BTW I'd only bother with a film scanner if you are a reasonably keen photographer and plan to do lots of scanning. For occasional family snaps or holiday photos they are a bit excessive.

>> About the photoshop, I installed it yesterday for the first time, don't know it yet <<

You'll find plenty of in depth advice on the Web easily enough. If that's not enough two excellent books are "Photoshop Artistry 5 & 5.5" by Barry Hayes & Wendy Crumpler and "Real World Photoshop 5.5" (by Bruce somebody)

Good luck,
Matthew

[This message was edited by Matthew Robinson on THURSDAY 01 February 2001 at 14:09.]

Thanks for the reply.

Arie

I wanted to add to the main title of this thread
that it is not connected to a HiFi. But I can't because the software doesn't lety me and gives me the above stupid message.

Arie