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by wvperegrine
Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:05 am
Forum: Photoshop-compatible Plugins
Topic: Cokin graduated filters
Replies: 4
Views: 22178

Cokin graduated filters

I used to love those Cokin filters. What about the gradient tool in Photoshop 7, Don? You can achieve much the same result without a plug-in ... and tweak it all you like. Haven't done this but once or twice, but the basic method I've used is to create a new transparent layer above the image, apply ...
by wvperegrine
Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:06 pm
Forum: Photoshop
Topic: removing background from a scanned text?
Replies: 3
Views: 22563

removing background from a scanned text?

I think I have a way that preserves more of the subtleties of most typefaces, if that's important to you. Harald's is the easier way, for sure.':D' Sounds like what you're dealing with is what old scribes like me call "illuminated text," with embellished capital letters. I've used the following tech...
by wvperegrine
Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:33 pm
Forum: Other Graphics Tools
Topic: Stitching Images
Replies: 4
Views: 37144

Try Hugin/Panotools/Enblend

I've been using this with the GiMP in Ubuntu Linux. Works well, though there's a bit of a learning curve and, as usual, practice makes perfect. Hugin is itself a GUI frontend for Panotools. The whole package is free, cross-platform for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/