Comments on: BEM: Ladies Man http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/09/bem/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Wed, 23 May 2012 18:19:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/09/bem/#comment-30210 Kelson Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:23:40 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/03/bem/#comment-30210 Thanks. In this case, since it was a black and white image, I converted it to grayscale after scanning, then adjusted the levels inward. That left the background almost entirely white, and the printed areas almost entirely black, with a narrow range of gray smoothing the edges. Then I shrank it to this size. (I scanned it at 300 dpi, so this is probably about 1/3 of the original size.) With color images, particularly if I'm editing out a background already, I often end up recoloring them. It's tedious, but it gets rid of all the patterns you get from scanning printed images. Thanks. In this case, since it was a black and white image, I converted it to grayscale after scanning, then adjusted the levels inward. That left the background almost entirely white, and the printed areas almost entirely black, with a narrow range of gray smoothing the edges. Then I shrank it to this size. (I scanned it at 300 dpi, so this is probably about 1/3 of the original size.)

With color images, particularly if I’m editing out a background already, I often end up recoloring them. It’s tedious, but it gets rid of all the patterns you get from scanning printed images.

]]> By: West http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/09/bem/#comment-30196 West Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:23:09 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/03/bem/#comment-30196 Bizarre. Incredibly clean scan, by the way. I don't know how you do it, but I need to find out one day. Bizarre.

Incredibly clean scan, by the way. I don’t know how you do it, but I need to find out one day.

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