Streaks on scanned images
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:34 pm
Question(s) from a forum noobie/lurker...
I've managed to amass a decent cel collection over the last year or so after being tempted into the hobby. I'm a terrible person because I've done so little to actually organize and scan my items (one of the big reasons I wanted to get into the hobby... preserving digitally some of these awesome pieces of art before the explode forever). I finally made some time recently to try and scan some but have found that my scanner has a tendency to produce some pretty noticeable lines on the images I've scanned. It is somewhat random though because I've managed to re-scan some cels doing nothing special from one scan to the next and the lines will be worse or not there at all. Just curious if any of y'all out there have had a similar experience with your scanners? Perhaps I need a larger scanner bed so that the cels can be perfectly flat when scanning? Perhaps there's some settings I can tweak to fix this? Or, perhaps I just need to look into a new scanner ><. For the record, I've done what I consider to be a good job cleaning off the scanner glass and cover (and again, I've managed to get some flawless scans mixed in with the bad ones) so I really doubt that's the issue. Thanks in advance for the help + have a great weekend all!
Ex 1: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn19 ... gb9noj.jpg
Ex 2: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn19 ... phqbl5.jpg
I've managed to amass a decent cel collection over the last year or so after being tempted into the hobby. I'm a terrible person because I've done so little to actually organize and scan my items (one of the big reasons I wanted to get into the hobby... preserving digitally some of these awesome pieces of art before the explode forever). I finally made some time recently to try and scan some but have found that my scanner has a tendency to produce some pretty noticeable lines on the images I've scanned. It is somewhat random though because I've managed to re-scan some cels doing nothing special from one scan to the next and the lines will be worse or not there at all. Just curious if any of y'all out there have had a similar experience with your scanners? Perhaps I need a larger scanner bed so that the cels can be perfectly flat when scanning? Perhaps there's some settings I can tweak to fix this? Or, perhaps I just need to look into a new scanner ><. For the record, I've done what I consider to be a good job cleaning off the scanner glass and cover (and again, I've managed to get some flawless scans mixed in with the bad ones) so I really doubt that's the issue. Thanks in advance for the help + have a great weekend all!
Ex 1: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn19 ... gb9noj.jpg
Ex 2: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn19 ... phqbl5.jpg