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Message:: [QUOTE="scooterv, post: 1788984, member: 56677"]Ok, so I started with a scanner.  That didn't work well, and even made smudges on the glass appear to be on the coin. Then I tried pictures.  That didn't go well and everything looked gold, even with setting a custom white balance, but using a white sheet.  I'm ordering an 18% grey card, but in my wife's stuff I found what I thought was only a cutting board but is marked as "Photo Ready", lol.  I don't think it's 18% grey, unless age just made the color shift, but it seems to have worked better. Question...  How are people cropping coins to just the coin?  I've got a copy of Photoshop around here somewhere, 7.0 I think, and will look for it and hoping it's something in there that's used.  I like taking pictures of mountains, woods, lakes, etc. and coins are driving me nuts!!!! Anyway, I won't post the before pics that are already in the site, but here's round 3 on a couple.  For the Nickel, not all but most of looks like scratches is on the mylar.  Didn't want to remove it just for testing though.  I also let the camera auto-focus and think I need to stop doing that yet.  They don't look gold though!!![ATTACH=full]288261[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288262[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288264[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288265[/ATTACH][ATTACH]288261[/ATTACH][ATTACH]288262[/ATTACH][ATTACH]288264[/ATTACH][ATTACH]288265[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]