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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2297386, member: 1892"]Well, Gimp is free Open Source software. It'll never cost you a penny, which is its' attraction. A graphics software every bit as powerful as Photoshop, costing you nothing. It ought to be the first thing you download the moment you want to go beyond basic graphics processing. PhotoScape ought to be sufficient for that basic stuff (I don't use it so I don't know how good its' Sharpening routines are), and enough for a typical coin photographer, so you don't <b>have</b> to use something like Gimp. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The key there is how you acquire an electronic version of them, not the software you then process them with. You're going to be presenting PhotoScape with a .jpg or a bitmap either way. You'll want a pretty high-quality scanner, and the technical aspect of digitizing slides is different than that for digitizing photographs. Some scanners are better at the one than the other, and some do not do well with slides at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2297386, member: 1892"]Well, Gimp is free Open Source software. It'll never cost you a penny, which is its' attraction. A graphics software every bit as powerful as Photoshop, costing you nothing. It ought to be the first thing you download the moment you want to go beyond basic graphics processing. PhotoScape ought to be sufficient for that basic stuff (I don't use it so I don't know how good its' Sharpening routines are), and enough for a typical coin photographer, so you don't [B]have[/B] to use something like Gimp. The key there is how you acquire an electronic version of them, not the software you then process them with. You're going to be presenting PhotoScape with a .jpg or a bitmap either way. You'll want a pretty high-quality scanner, and the technical aspect of digitizing slides is different than that for digitizing photographs. Some scanners are better at the one than the other, and some do not do well with slides at all.[/QUOTE]
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