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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1105450, member: 19065&quot;]A color background may be appealing or tempting to employ but for the least distraction and best balance for the eye when looking at the color of a note, a neutral gray should be used when scanning. It is less likely to affect the color of the note. A white background will likely cause the scanner to have an overexposed or blown-out effect destroying detail.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Black appears as the best option for showing the margins fully defined without much distracting color from around the note and isn&#039;t as plain as neutral gray. Consider that when scanning the note, the color you use behind the note affects the quality of the light in the scan and the result on the image area of the note in turn. The scanner lamp can be quite intense, it reflects off the note itself and reflection of light off of a color background can &#039;influence&#039; the rest of the colors in the scan as that color is diffusely present in the atmosphere of the scan.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have graphics editing software, then the best approach yet, may be to scan the note against a solid neutral gray (like that of a &#039;gray card&#039; used by photographers) or a solid non-reflective black material that will absorb light, then crop the image are of the note and drop a solid layer of: neutral gray, black, or color of your choice behind the note when creating the image file. You must be able to work in layers in your image files to do this. Separating the elements will net you much better and more accurate image results. Doing this would also allow you the ability to blend the perfect numerical color for your image file usage, in this case, jpegs for viewing online. You could optimize your colors for this purpose, but again need more sophisticated image editing software, such as Photoshop, Gimp or others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally prefer a solid or non-reflective black background, but I haven&#039;t exactly found the &#039;perfect&#039; black material I&#039;m happy with. I currently use two different types of black paper behind my notes when I scan 1) a sheet of black handmade paper that is very dull, with a thick fibrous texture and reflects very little lamp light and 2) a smooth sheet of solid black paper, also non-reflective. Both are quite dull looking to the eye. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Two examples, raw and slabbed scanned against black paper, no cropping or layers:</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/STL%20Federal%20Reserve%20District%20Notes/F-2008H_1934C_USD10_H78320165A_O.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy46/kcttck/STL%20Federal%20Reserve%20District%20Notes/F-2008_10_1934C_HW_Wide_PMG64EPQ_H02813007B_O_1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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