Scanning Backgrounds

wuchild1 · Post by **wuchild1** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:35 am

So I have a Nadesico background that I would like a nice digital copy of, but unfortunately its too large for my scanner. Now I've scanned my cels/backgrounds etc... in parts and composed them in photoshop before but you can always tell they've been edited. So my question is, is there a place where you can go that has a large scanner and won't have any copyright issues? I know there is Kinkos, but they might object, has anyone had experience with this before? I'm going through all this because I finally got the original background and have two cels from the same sequence, one of which I would like to sell with the copy background, and possibly post on rubberslug for others to use.

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:08 am

Kinkos should be fine with it. I've not heard anything about anyone having trouble with them in the past.

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:07 pm

Kinko's is cool with it. In fact, kymaera and I actually walked into one and had the lady at the desk make a copy of my background that matched his cel:

http://misfit.rubberslug.com/gallery/in ... mID=164083

http://kymaera.net/cel_gallery/ikkyu4.html

Most places don't care if you do it yourself, either. I think the lady though one of us had actually painted it.

We had a similar issue when my mother wanted to make a copy of my baby portrait. The employees said that they personally couldn't do it due to copyright laws, but they couldn't control what she copied on the copiers out on the floor (*nudge*nudge*wink*wink*). In hindsight, she should have said that she was the photographer.

Anyway, I imagine that scanning won't be much of a problem, either.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:11 pm

Kinkos for the Win!!

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:24 pm

A lot of cameras come with software for "Panoramas" that allows you to splice pictures together. It is done by computer matching and no seam shows. If your camera did not come with it you can look around and find one.

I challenge you to find the splice.

http://glorff.rubberslug.com/gallery/in ... emID=51882

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:02 pm

glorff wrote:A lot of cameras come with software for "Panoramas" that allows you to splice pictures together. It is done by computer matching and no seam shows.

I've got a program like that. However, seams will show if you forget to crop the scan shadows off.

I've had other issues, but that's more to do with the shape of my scanner than the program.

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:27 pm

The Cannon program called Photostich cleans all of it up by itself and leaves nothing extra.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:47 pm

glorff wrote:The Cannon program called Photostich cleans all of it up by itself and leaves nothing extra.

I want that program!!!!

was it spliced here?

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:05 pm

The image was actually done from two equal sized scans that overlap about four inches, so there is no "line"

wuchild1 · Post by **wuchild1** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:22 pm

Well kinkos it is. I do know about the stitch program, kodak has one two, although sometimes it does this weird thing where it compresses the middle, go fig. Anyway, I appreciate all the replys.

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:32 pm

glorff wrote:The Cannon program called Photostich cleans all of it up by itself and leaves nothing extra.

That's the one I have.

kymaera gave it to me. It really does leave a line if you don't crop the scanner shadows out, though.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong . . .

Also, your scans have to have a certain amount of parts in common--too little or too much and it screws up. Like so:

http://misfit.rubberslug.com/gallery/im ... 2028&Pass=

That comes from the fact that I have a all-in-one scanner/printer, so the shape of the scanner prevents me from scanning really long cels properly. If I had a different scanner, the overlap wouldn't be a problem, and I wouldn't have gotten those blurs.