fulvio
Reged: 29/10/2001
Posts: 170
Loc: london
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My wife has an Edwardian photography of people in her home town and she wants a really big copy of it: 4ft x 2.5 something like that. It's actually not a photographic print. It's a good quality printed copy, like an old postcard or selection of 'views', which is what I suspect this is. The result is that there is a screen on the print. I suspect blowing the picture up will make this obvious and unattractive, but perhaps it can be taken off with fancy digital work. I could photograph it and make an enlargement, but not to the size she wants. Is there a place where this sort of work can be done?
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Roger_Provins
Made-it Man
Reged: 22/10/2005
Posts: 3069
Loc: Gloucester, UK
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My flatbed scanner (Epson 4990) has a de-screening option and makes a fair job of removing theses lines. There was a software package I used years ago call Micrgrafx which had a similar facility called "remove pattern".
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Cyberdux
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Reged: 09/06/2007
Posts: 662
Loc: Winchester, Hampshire
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I've scanned photos in that had a screen on my Epson 2580, and never had a problem with it.. although i guess i've been lucky with it..
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Gordon_McGeachie
Joke Historian
Reged: 19/01/2007
Posts: 4141
Loc: East Yorkshire,
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you could try.
www.bigfunkypictures.com
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AJUK
Reged: 22/03/2005
Posts: 2679
Loc: UK
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From what you have said that image will nto even begin to bear such an enlargement.
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Larky
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Reged: 17/12/2007
Posts: 5
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I agree, you'll be hard pushed to enlarge it. It's probably a large, cheap run offset in which case it'll be dirty as hell.
Scanning will make it worse as the type you buy for home use basically interpolate to enlarge, increasing the grime as it were. You could photograph it and try that, but it'll still be dirty. With a lot of time in Photoshop it could be possible, but it's still not going to look too hot.
Also it's hard to find a digital print company that company that knows how to do this properly, in fact I am yet to find somebody in a high street store that has any clue to the difference in DPI and PPI.
The thing to do is scan in a square inch, enlarge it to the size you need and see what it looks like before doing the entire thing.
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