John H. wrote:
>Earlier, I had posted a "help" message regarding a line that I was
>getting on my scans from the 4000. If I scan a horizontal slide, there
>is a light colored line about one third of the way down from the top, it
>goes all the way from left to right. I called Polaroid and since the
>scanner is out of warranty, it would cost $125 for an estimate and the
>lady on the phone said it might end up costing a total of $500-600 to
>fix. I only use the machine perhaps 3 times a week, so it is not
>something that is critical to my work. Thanks to Paul Chefurka and his
>suggestion to see if the line was one pixel wide, I found my own
>solution. I just don't feel at this point that I want to spend almost
>half the price of the scanner to have it repaired. In Photoshop, I
>enlarged the image on the monitor to about 1000 per cent. At this
>magnification, you are able to see the individual "lines" of pixels. I
>selected the line above the light scan line I got and then copied it,
>and then with the move tool, moved it over the line caused by the
>scanner, and it works perfect, you can not tell it is there. It took all
>of maybe 2 minutes to do. I guess this could also be a good fix for a
>scratch that went from side to side.
<LOL>
This is one of the most *sensible* workarounds that I've seen in ages!
Thanks, John, for bringing us back to Reality! :-)
Best regards--LRA
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