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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2634578, member: 1892&quot;]I think one could ameliorate that somewhat with the most direct possible lighting and the most matte finish possible on the background to minimize reflectivity. One should be able to refine the area affected by the operation using Saturation as a criteria, and since anything reflected onto the coin would be not nearly as saturated as the background itself. Alternatively, one might select a background color of a pure RGB hue, and desaturate that color only in postprocessing enough to eliminate it from the coin while leaving enough of it on the background to select.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shadows from the coin will interfere either way, though. That could be helped by raising the coin&nbsp; physically from the background with something like a well nut, as I do:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]580260[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That helps to create a physical demarcation between coin and background, and although I&#039;ve never used it to this end it might be relevant.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting intellectual problem only for me, since I&#039;ve no Ancients around to experiment with, and enough trouble keeping track of what I already like without adding yet another category. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, I use the Gimp myself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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