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Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

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 I hope you can help me with getting some old slides transfered onto a CD. I have seen lots of adverts on the web offering various serivces, but am now more confused than ever as to who to go to!

I want them to be put onto CD in a format and size that will be big enough to print off good quality A5 size pictures, as a minimum.

Do any of you members know anyone that can do this and will do a good job as they are all old family pictures, which haven't seen daylight for a good 30 years!

Can you also give an indication of what it will cost as I've seen prices ranging from 20p to £1 per slide.

Thanks,

Gordon Thompson


P.B.SHOOTER PHOTOGRAPHIC,ART AND FRAMING
We have over 30years experience in slide copying and printing and have the latest top quality equipment to scan both slides and negatives ffom 35mm up to 10 x 8 inches our best price for scanning a number of 35mm slides on to cd is 1.25 each
Reynold & Pam Shooter
are Nottingham & Notts club members

 
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Whilst away on a trip recently, I got some dirt onto the camera sensor that couldn't easily be removed (long story - now fixed hopefully).
However, I ended up taking several hundred photos that now have the same mark on them. Is it possible to create a 'mask' in photoshop that effectively mirrors the mark so that I can overlay the photos and create 'clean' images?

David Knott

Hi David
I have also had the problem of a common dust mark on a selection of images and I elected for accuracy, to clone out the mark on each image, due to the differing backgrounds and cloning points.
However I believe what you are looking for can be done in adobe lightroom (click here)