Scanned Slides

[w7vp]

Hi all:
I have posted four of my scanned slides in my gallery for comments. These go back a ways and so some were pretty dirty. I mostly used the stamp tool to remove the dust but I understand there are other options for removing dust.:)

Any comments?

Bill

[Mary]

Hi Bill
I am not sure which ones were the scans but I enjoyed all of your gallery - the photo of the sunset/sunrise? was gorgeous!:)

[w7vp]

Thanks, Mary
That is the sunset from the Lime Kiln Lighthouse on San Juan Island overlooking Haro Straight and Vancouver Island. The first four thumbnails in my gallery are the new postings.

Bill

[Diana]

Hey Bill, they all look great--good job! We bought an Epson Perfection 3200 Photo Scanner quite a while ago which has the capability to scan negatives. I had good intentions, but after scanning a few negatives, I got caught up in other things. In fact, my first version of Elements (2.0) came with the scanner. I guess that was my first mistake, installing Elements. It's much more fun to create new stuff than work with old negatives--for me, at least. Keep up the great work!

Diana

[Wendy]

Hi Bill ...

I can see some dust in the skys of the first two ... I wonder if a loose selection of the area with a feather on it then a slight gaussian blur would help.

The other thought is maybe try Neat Image on it ... its only the skys I can see it on and it really isn't that obvious :)

Wendy

[w7vp]

Wendy
I have posted another photo in my gallery where you can easily see how I erased the windows in the foreground to allow the photo in the background to show through. How do I blend them so that there is no bright white line where I used the Magic Extractor to remove the bakgorund?:confused:

I will try your suggestions on the dusty slides.

Bill

[Wendy]

Hi Bill ...

Did you use the new tool in PSE4 ?? ... is so then I don't know how it works as I am using PSE3.

What I can do is give you some idea of how I would do it in PSE3 .. I am assuming that the front image is on its own layer.

I would try control click on that layer the layers palette then
Select>Inverse
Select>Modify>Expand
and try to remove the pixels that way.

Other way would be to use eraser of a selection tool to revoce the whiter layer.

Just noticed that you tried again (2nd try) and that one looks just fine :)

Wendy

[Mary]

I have a question about slide scanning - dust on slides. Is there a way to clean the slides before you scan? I have the canned air but it doesn't get much off the surface and I am wondering if there is a way to safely clean them.

Our 3 girls were here for 4 days and we had a slide marathon on 2 nights. They wrote down which ones they wanted prints of - so I have a lot of scanning to do. If I could clean the slides up before scanning then it could mean less work in PSE.:)

[w7vp]

Hi Mary
I have a small blower brush. The brush has a small air sack on it. I brush each slide with the brush and blow it too. I often use a magnifying head shade thing that lets me see the dust better. The brush has to be cleaned occasionally but by brushing it the dust come off better.

Wendy:

I did use the eraser tool in the second effort after using the magic extractor. It takes a lot of patience to get it right. I still have not figured out how to do a fill to reveal the material below as shown in one of the tutorials.

Bill

[Mary]

Thanks Bill - I am going to get one of those and give it a try. It stands to reason that the combo brush and air would work better than just air. Thanks again:)

[Wendy]

Hi Bill ...

Try this tutorial ... its a workaround for a layer mask and explains it really well :)

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/edges/e3edges.htm


Wendy

[w7vp]

Mary:
I love your scenic photos. When I first brought my then future wife to the west coast (I am originally from the Seattle area) I took her to Vancouver and we rode that ferry to Nanaimo and drove to Victoria. We visited Capilano and Grouse Mountain too. Then we came back on the Washington ferry to Anacortes and drove to Seattle where I introduced her to th Pike Market. She was hooked on our Dungeness crabs. I am putting up a couple of those pictures for you.

My son is now studying for his masters in geology in Vancouver with his new wife from Brazil.

I bet you had some nostalgic moments with your girls doing those slides. I moved form slides to negatives when the good negative film finally came out. I have not yet begun to scan the negatives and there are literally thousands of them. I moved from a Pentax Spotmatic II to a Canon A1 to a Canon EOS 650. My first digital was a Fiji Finepix followed by a Canon Digital Rebel which I just sold for a Canon 20D. I bought the Canon because I could use some of the lens' I had with the EOS 650 and I just bought the new Canon 24-105 IS lens which I have not had a chance to do much with yet.

I hope you wil post some more of your pictures in you gallery.

Bill

[Mary]

Thanks for your kind comments Bill - I was born in Saskatoon, Sask but I was raised in Vancouver (Lynn Valley on the North Shore). I still have a lot of family in BC - a brother and sister on the Island and others in the Vancouver area. We used to go to Seattle for a taste of the "States" and I have relatives in Portland so traveled the corridor frequently.

Was your climb on Mount St Helens before or after the event? I have flown over it before and after and it was awesome but your picture is coming up strange in my mind. How did you get the gold effect?
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=3639

[w7vp]

Mary:
Well I love Vancouver. Your Lion's Gate Bridge picture brings back many memories. I also remember when Gastown was the Haight Ashbury of Canada.

That picture of St. Helens was taken at about 5:00 a.m. when the sun was coming in horizontally on the glacier. I have done nothing to adjust the color. To the left is the edge of "Dog's Head" outcrop which was the standard route to climb the mountain. It was a lot of srcee and pumice. Above it was a couloir to the false summit on ice.

Dogs Head is about the maximum height of the mountain now. At the top was a caldera about 1/2 mile across to the true summit at about 9600 feet.

In the background is the Forsythe glacier which I later climbed directly to the false summit with a friend of mine. All of that is gone now after the events of May 18, 1980. Altogether I climbed the mountain 3 times before it blew up. I have put up one more picture climbing the ridge one early April morning. It has a better view of Dogs Head to give you a better idea how high the mountian is today. I am also putting up a picture of the moutnain as it looked befroe it blew up. Dogs Head is on the left and everything above it is gone. The picture was taken form the Mt. Margaret area and everything in the foreground was blown away by the eruption. Anybody standing where I took the picture would have been killed when the mountain blew up.

Bill

[w7vp]

Wendy:
I will try it when I get a minute today Wendy. Thanks for the suggestion.:)

Bill

[Wendy]

Hi Bill ...

Do let us know how you go on :)

Wendy