Photoshop image questions.

[Kurt]

Hi everyone. How the hell are you? So....I got a book deal.. It's on the history of Beer in Seattle. A large chunk of the book will be historical photos. I have a few that I want to use that are from a printed magazine from the 50's. These photos scanned would be borderline acceptable for the book due to them being sourced from a previously printed photo and relatively small in size. Does anyone have any tricks they do on photoshop to improve a image like this?

The publishers require that a normal image scanned for publication need to be scanned at least 300dpi. should I scan these over a 1,000 dpi? Is there a filter on photoshop to smooth out the printed dots of the image a little?

Thanks for your help guys. take care!

[windflame]

I've found scanners have really good "descreening" options.

Otherwise just follow one of these:
descreen in photoshop - Google Search

[Andymac]

My darling daughter designed this book, it has quite a lot of scanned images from magazines and older sources that were probably from printed images

http://www.amazon.ca/Brew-North-Cana.../dp/1553654676

if you want, contact me and I'll put you in touch with her, you can ask her for some tricks etc.


OH, and it's a great book - full of fascinating stuff, and beautifully designed (proud papa!) of course.

[Thornysarus]

Scan at a res at least twice as high as you'll need, apply a noise filter. This breaks up the dots. Resize it (smaller) and run an unsharp mask filter at 100% preview to taste.

That's what I've always done.

Same process, but more detailed instructions here: Remove Moire Patterns From Scanned Photos in Photoshop and Elements