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You create a big canvas and paste both pages as different layers.
Then select both and use "Edit /Auto Align Layers" and maybe also "Edit/Auto merge Layers". But in order to be able to merge the layers you need to make each page overlap the other one. Means: Scan a double page and leave like 15% of the other page in the picture. Get what I mean? If you don't do that PS will not be able to recognize how to merge the pages! cheers, hartwig |
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Also, depending on how straight each page is scanned, sometimes you have to rotate one of the pages to match the other. Another problem sometimes happens that the 2 pages being scanned were printed on what are called different "signatures" in the printing world and have slight color differences between the two. That's another problem that can be corrected in Photoshop but you still have to know what you're doing.
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What I have learned only weeks ago is that color masters give the best results. I described that here. Cheers, hartwig |
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June 4th, 2011, 03:07 AM | #84 |
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Hartwig... Unless I read you wrong, you seem to imply that I'm saying everything can be corrected automatically in PS by merely clicking on the Auto color button to fix the color differences between one scanned page to the other. That's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is differences between the two can be resolved manually with a number of tools used in combination that are offered in PS.
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I get my scanner wired up
then hit...XN View .. ( a free download on web ) I then hit file ( top left ) then... select twain source I hit ......... scan manager. In future now you can just hit the scanner icon on the main window and scan manager will come up Hit the preview box and a nice big preview of your scan will come up Hit ... Advanced Settings... a little window comes up.... ( leave it there for the time your scanning) I set light......... -12 contrast................+40 the colour balance I leave on auto. Go back to the main window and set............ colour document... better quality resolution.... 300 dpi a left click on the mouse will let you select any part of the preview picture to scan If the pic is very dark, you can increase the light a touch. but Ive found, these general settings usually give a good result. The pics come in quite big say 800k or 1 meg but the windows resizer will get them down to 100 or 150 without losing very much quality. The scans appear on the main XN View page, you then go to file then save as and put your scan into documents then delete the scan from the xn page. Last edited by stardust2003; June 4th, 2011 at 04:25 PM.. |
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Platen burn? Uh, oh...
Perhaps a little off topic as it's a technical poser, but here's something interesting. This is a problem I've just found with one of my scanners, my trusty ol' Canon CanoScan LiDE 50 which is almost exclusively used to scan smut.
Look in the upper middle area above the title between the letters "T" to the last "P" in "Photography" of the top image. Notice the funny greyish area? Same source scanned turned upside down on the platen, lower image, the mark doesn't appear. Some people's monitors might hot have the fidelitiy to see the mark. This large greyish "smudge" always appears at the lead edge where the scanning assemble starts with every scan if the source material is dark enough for it to show up and always in the same place. I tried cleaning the platen glass with Isopropanol or other cleaning agents but they didn't remove it, it appears to be on the inside of the glass. Now this is a LED lit scanner, and I have hammered it to death over the years, but to me it looks as if this is some sort of (heat?) burn mark and its shape roughly matches the resting postion of the scanning assembly's main body. LED scanners shut down after a scan, but has so much use really burnt an indelible mark on the inside of the glass platen? What do other seasoned scanners think? It's probably worth popping a sheet of black card the size of the platen into your scanners to spot any platen defects/marks once every while. Especially if your scanner cannot be taken apart like my LiDE 50. |
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Darth... Considering the Japanese Bachelor magazines have the finest printing in the smut industry, I think your scanner is incapable of capturing the quality the naked eye can see on the printed page.
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The paper stock quality is very good indeed, but they're by no means perfect. Sometimes the colour correction is totally wrong, like the Bachelor DX mag I have....way too much red caste. As for perfection when scanning? Yeah I could use my Epsom A3 scanner to scan all my smut instead of my professional work and hammer the hell out of the xenon bulb's life span, but that's why I have (had) a reasonable good run-of-the-mill LED lit (smut) scanner.
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Hello Darth
RE technical poser. It's not a problem with your scanner. It looks like a very slight kink in the top of the page which is deflecting the beam of the scanner slightly. Try placing some card on the page and when you scan it place your hand over the area where the problem occurs. You only need to apply arm weight to the scanner lid. I hope this helps. |
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