This silver Indonesian 2000 Rupee proof has mirrors as deep as any I've seen, and the background of the (unadjusted) photos is white. Where does that dirty brown tinge come from?
In other words, my 4-5 year old camera is too old and decrepit for good coin photography. There are only two fixed white balance settings - one for sunlight and one for artificial light - and neither one does a decent job.
Perhaps you would want to get LED white lights or floerence tubes to blast more light into the camera? Seems like either the camera has some color contrast issues or still not enough lighting.
One click on your original image in Photoshop leaves this: Photoshop Elements can be had for under $50, with this capability.
Very good point; I'd forgotten about Gimp - I received Photoshop as a gift. I'm gonna give it a shot myself.
there not exactly the same. Photoshop has some patented coloring schemes needed for printing that the GIMP can't pocess since it is Free Software (stuff like Pantone and CMYK). OTOH, the GIMP has many powerful features that one can only dream about in PhotoShop. OTOH I haven't tested a Windows version in a few years. Ruben
Then I would say yes Roy - it is. You can try playing with light, fluorescent tends to add a blue cast to the pics. Ordinary soft white bulbs add the brownish yellow cast. Reveal bulbs tend to be closer to natural light but slightly different; in my opinion they are the best though. Or, as has been suggested - you can adjust the pics with software. All I did in the pic I posted was adjust with Microsoft Office Picture Manager - it came pre-loaded on my computer. One click on the area that is supposed to be white and presto.
At the web site I work for, we published a multipart guide to tweaking your digital images (we'll be publishing part 3 next week). There's some good stuff in there that's pertinent to this discussion, especially on pages 4 and 5.
Thanks for the link Palindrome. I tried downloading GIMP, but I keep getting a "File not found" error, no matter which mirror site I try to use.
Which version? This link is downloading. http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.10-i586-setup.zip http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.10-i586-setup.zip try right clicking if its not working and save the link.
http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.10-i586-setup.zip It could be that those sourceforge networks are block pages that don't refer from sourceforge. You might need to use this http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gimp-2.2.10-i586-setup.zip?use_mirror=internap Ruben
