[Coco] [OT] Graphics Advice for Cleaning Scans

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 May 2009, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 06:15 PM 5/10/2009, you wrote:
>>Graphic Convertor, hands down. ^____^
>>
>>http://www.lemkesoft.com/
>>
>>On 4/13/09 11:50 AM, "Dean Leiber" <adit at nationsdial.com> wrote:
>> > I'm working on cleaning up some scans for the CoCo/OS9 Archive and
>> > these are particularly speckled (way too bad to fix by hand). Does
>> > anyone know a Mac graphics program (other than Photoshop, whose price
>> > is out of this world) that has a 'depseckle' filter? Thanks!
>
>LView Pro is the best editor I've seen in over 8 years.  I finally
>bought my copy a few years back which brought in the extra features
>I'd missed out on.  It has a lot of colors and palette operations and
>definately a despeckler in the Color->Filters menu.  The unregistered
>version does it, too.
>I'ved used LView Pro for a tremendous amount of graphics work since
>2000 or so.  Almost any kind of picture you see on my web site,
>software
>, or games was done in LView.

Gimp also has one, but I just tried it on a copy of a scan of a film original 
pix I took & developed 30 years ago, and I wasn't impressed, too much blurring 
went along with the despeckle IMO.

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