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From: Nowl <>
Subject: Re: Muddy scans
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:26:20 +0100
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Paul Hunt wrote on Mon, 22 Oct 2007:

>Time and exposure to light fades things, I've noticed this in the research
>notes I made 30 years ago. On most of the original scans I have looked at I
>have been able to improve the contrast by removing the colour content (if
>still there) and tinkering with the levels, brightness and contrast in
>Photoshop.

Thanks for the reply, Paul. Yes, I do tinker in Photoshop to improve the
scans as much as I can. The problem is not that they're faded, more the
opposite -- the typing is very dark and the letters filled in, making it
very hard to tell sometimes what the character should be. Seems that the
1918 births must have been done on a particularly mucky typewriter!

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Nowl

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