Another photo question

Looks good. Why does it go blank?

Ruben

 

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It has to deal with the back ground. I'll play with it some more later.

But I think I'm in love with Gimp. Just don't tell my fiance. Wait no never mind... I forgot he's building R2 cause it's a chick magnet! LOL!

 

what is R2 (R2D2?)

 

Yep! Although He has legs now & can stand on his own. Had a better pic of the frame but there is a scary Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume in the shot & well that is not 1950's family oriented. But then so were so many other costumes there. LOL

Although I have found that just being a women working in a coin shop you meet a lot of dirty old men with great war stories!

I'm threatening to bring a tape recorder. I love the war stories.

Ok so sorry off topic.

Any who any tips on being able to get the great toning of a coin to show up in a picture?

 

That's a tough one, best to do a search on it see if you can find some posts on the subject.

 

Well, I'll just wait on this book & see what they say. I use a digital microscope but I've notice others use some nice cameras but those cameras are out of our budget.

 

Hows that digital microscope work, any good? Price?

 

I love it! All the coin pictures I show on here are with it. That includes my Avatar. Pennies are the hardest to do but here are some Pictures I took. Not greatest shape coins.

The camera is not so expensive I think we paid $350 for it. The Microscope is a Dino-lite. Just don't magnify your skin. It's gross.

 

Cool..

 

For my site, it is a pain. I have to take pics, then email them to my laptop to photoshop them into the 3 joined ( obv/rev/tag) pics you are so familiar with. I thought I had it handeled but I don't. Time for a better system.
Gimp looks worth trying.

Great thread Andrew

 

There is a better system. Look at ssh for transport to your laptop. I have an advantage with my systems that I can run any application on any of my computers on any other computer so I'd run the GIMP on one machine to another. I also have the webserver which makes move files around a snap.

Ruben

 

look at HOBO's pic.

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47523/

 

Here's 3 suggestions!

Store them on the removable Sandisk Smart drive
Network your computers

My laptop is Vista which doesn't play well with XP so networking is a $%@#!. Since we have Go to my PC for the shop computer I installed it on my laptop so I can go that route. (This is the slowest answer though)

 

Wow cant you just load them dirctly to the laptop?

Give Gimp a Try http://www.gimp.org/, I find it easy. And free!

 

I'm so in love with that program.

 

Its a good one.