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 envelope, covered front and back with writing. Another is a small slip of paper, with [...]
OK, So you scanned a colour image, and you’ve got lots of little dots: There are three things I’ll need to do to make this image useful: smooth out all those dots, scale down the image, and get rid of that yellow fringe. We must actually do them in the opposite order: first the fringe, [...]
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. Look at the image, using a magnifying glass if necessary, and see if it is [...]