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Offline David Meare

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Obtaining reasonable photos from old halftone images
« on: November 29, 2022, 03:30:30 PM »
Halftone printing is something that came up in a private conversation recently. Out of curiosity I did a search to see if there was any mention of it on the site, and didn

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Re: Obtaining reasonable photos from old halftone images
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2022, 05:51:21 PM »
Hi David,

Thanks for this, my Gaussian blur function does help, but needs very careful adjusting (1 one 1 so to say). Sharpening after you are satisfied with the results is almost mandatory.

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Re: Obtaining reasonable photos from old halftone images
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2022, 07:05:17 AM »
Hi Pieter,

Agreed. I was focussing on describing how to first get rid of the dots. Once that is done, enthusiastically dabbling with every adjustment feature in the armoury is worth a shot to see what comes up best. That's a bonus of being retired, plenty of time to mess around happily, achieving nothing.

All the best,

David

 

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