Ian Matthew Smith <IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu> (07/08/90)
A word of warning, if you have little willpower, don't take
your credit cards to an AmiExpo. :-)
I can't say enough good things about the quality I got out
of the Sharp scanner. Very impressive. It did have a problem
with brightness until I realised I had turned down the contrast
on my monitor a week ago and never put it back. The software
is very nice also. Along with ASDG's The Art Department, it makes
a nice scanning package.
Only Problem: Scanning larger images then the scanner can handle.
I can get around this quite easily in black & white by scanning
several parts and pasting thjem together, but color is a problem.
With color images, the pallates do not match. The Art Department (TAD)
will allow you to lock the palate and use the same one for sevral
pictures, but how to get the right colors to use in the first place?
I tried using a program called Merge (Copyright 4/15/88 by Tim Kemp)
to merge the 24-bit TAD files and have TAD use that file to generate
the pallate, but I either get an error from Merge, or TAD can't read
the resulting bitmap. Does anybody know of a program that will
join 24-bit files or one that will take several IFF (HAM if possible)
pictures and prodice a pallate that will work with all of them?
Any fellow JX-100 users out there with any tips?
What does work nice is digitizing B/W pictures and coloring them
with a paint package. $4000 of computer equipment and I use it as
a glorified coloring-book. :-)
Ian Smith <ims103@psuvm.bitnet>