teos Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 <p>Hello , again , everybody !<br> Finally , I've got a 35mm film scanner ! Dimage III from Minolta Of course, would be fine a ICE one , but that's it !<br> Do you know any effective (and free) software to help deleting the scratches , or I have to do all the job manually ?<br> Thanks !</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wade_keenon1 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 <p>Do a search for Polaroid Dust and Scratch Removal tool. It's a free program, and does quite a nice job. I've used it quite a bit for scans from a Dual Scan IV.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teos Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 <p>Can you provide a link to download? I've tried some , but it seems it's not available anymore .</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukul_dube Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 <p>I downloaded PDSR a year ago. You'll have to search some more. Or send me e-mail and I shall send a CD.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingemar_lampa1 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 <p>Polaroid stopped developing the software long time ago, but you can try here:</p> <p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/pdsr1_0.exe">http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/pdsr1_0.exe</a></p> <p>Another program which does the same thing and which is currently supported is Dustkleen, found here: <a href="http://www.imagetrendsinc.com/products/prodpage_dust.asp">http://www.imagetrendsinc.com/products/prodpage_dust.asp</a></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_nsb Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 <p>Any mac solutions?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mukul_dube Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 <p>The links that Ingemar Lampa has given are good. PDSR is Windows only, and free; while the Image Trends product has a price and is available for both Windows and Mac. I have so far found nothing for Linux users.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingemar_lampa1 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 <p>Please keep in mind that these programs do a "best guess" which is quick and dirty. Unless you manage them manually, the quality of your scans will suffer. This is probably why Polaroid pulled the plug on their software.</p> <p>Only proper way is to use an ICE equipped scanner for C-41 and E-6 transparencies and even then, some say, sharpness suffers. That, and cleanliness is the only way. For traditional b&w when you can't use ICE, there is no other way. Like anything, it takes practice and discipline.</p> <p>Or, you could change to C-41 process b&w films which do allow you to use ICE.</p> <p>I had a Minolta Dimage Scan Multi II, not the Pro, and sold it just for that reason - and because there were no spares or current software anymore.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendel_leisk Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 <p>Photoshop's dust and scratch filter, <em>with</em> raised threshold, is actually pretty good. Try a radius setting around 5, then raise threshold and see how it goes. A setting of 15 for threshold (3 times radius) works pretty good.</p> <p>Also, when doing manual cleaning within Photoshop, in addition to healing and clone brushes, try History brush, sourcing from a History Pallet snapshot with heavy dust/scratch filter treatment. If the defects are dark set brush mode to lighten, and vice versa.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendel_leisk Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 <p>Photoshop's dust and scratch filter, <em>with</em> raised threshold, is actually pretty good. Try a radius setting around 5, then raise threshold and see how it goes. A setting of 15 for threshold (3 times radius) works pretty good.</p> <p>Also, when doing manual cleaning within Photoshop, in addition to healing and clone brushes, try History brush, sourcing from a History Pallet snapshot with heavy dust/scratch filter treatment. If the defects are dark set brush mode to lighten, and vice versa.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teos Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 <p>Thank you all for the answers ! I downloaded the PolaDSR and it works ! I 'll do some tests to see how good , maybe I'll post here.<br> the link is : <br> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071022033517/http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/pdsr1_0.exe">http://web.archive.org/web/20071022033517/http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/pdsr1_0.exe</a></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teos Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 <p>I am using now PolaDSR . The problem (apart of the time consuming process and the results so-so on badly scratched negs - I have to combine for the final retouching with a clone tool in Helicon Filter ) is that it provides Jpeg files(from BMP files) too compressed , around 2.2MB for a 10 MP file . Is there a way to set the output on a lower compressed file?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_hart4 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 <p>Here is the Mac version. But I think it is PPC only so you will need Rosetta installed. I have run this on OS X 10.6 just fine.<br> http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/pdsrmac1_0.sit</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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