I was reading (as one does) my copy of Thomas Harwood’s Grecian Antiquities from 1801, when I came across some small papers and a flower, pressed between the pages. One of the papers appears to be a fragment of an envelo
Read more →OK, So you scanned a colour image, and you’ve got lots of little dots: colour image as scanned (detail) There are three things I’ll need to do to make this image useful: smooth out all those dots, scale down the image, a
Read more →How to scan colour images from old books, with Gimp, in 18 easy steps. Some people report that a piece of opaque green paper placed behind the page will help reduce show-through; either that or black card seems to help.
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