Crypta in Saint Dimitris church

in Saint Dimitri church, Thessaloniki (the patron saint of the city).

 

Hand held, no flash.

I'm sure you were trying to capture the cathedral ceiling... and I hope your original looks better than this scan. You would benefit greatly from a program like Photoshop to help clean up your scans.

Hi Erin,

 

thanks for the comment.

 

Well, at least I let the photo shop do the scans, it is much better than with the old slide scanners I had access to.

 

To be honest, I do not know how to remove noise. I mostly do either blur, or reduce the size of the image, surely none of them the best method.

 

thanks

Maria

Depending on what version of photoshop you're using... you can auto adjust color/contrast and levels which will help clear this up a little.

 

In Photoshop... these tools can be found under:

Image / Adjust / (Levels; Contrast; Curves; Color Balance; etc)

 

It's kind of one of those things where you have to play around in Photoshop. On really 'dirty' scans I use the Clone Tool and go along the picture and clean up spots and dust marks... using the clone tool takes a lot of patience but is well worth it.

 

The clone tool can be found on your Tools, it looks like a stamp. If you don't see your tools window go to (in photoshop): Window/ Show Tools.

Ok... here is a version with adjustments made in Photoshop:

 

I adjusted Contrast / Levels (manually) / Cleaned up Dust & Scratches (Radius=1px) / using the Clone Stamp I removed the yellow spot (light) on the right hand corner.

 

It isn't perfect, but you get the ghist.

Hi Erin,

 

thanks for the fast reply.

 

I could not find clean up dust and scratches in the DTP programme I am using - maybe I should indeed use another one ... I would really need that ...

 

thanks again and kindest regards

Maria