correcting scanning stripe problems in photoshop?

[Kurt]

Hi everyone! How you been? I'm working on a book on the history of beer in Seattle. I got a bunch of great photos from Heckler Associates. They did all the classic Rainier commercials and print ads in the 70's and 80's. Only problem was that my crappy portable scanner I brought with me scanned most things with these weird bars that go diagonal across the photo. Is there anyway in photoshop to mask these things? I scanned everything at 300-400 dpi. I shrank this photo to fit in the message. Thanks! Happy new year!


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[B-DROID]

Adjust your levels in photoshop. Bring your shadow level up to the edge of the spike and then you can adjust back the midtone to gain some detail back:


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[standard]

agreed. stripes or no stripes, leaving the contrast as-is does no one any favors. give the people some 100% K!

[squeegeethree]

I like the lower contrast. It's in keeping with the historical nature of the photos. If these are glossy photos then it would appear your scanner light source is not parallel (or maybe your scanner isn't parallel/flat). If the source paper is thin try putting a piece of black paper behind the photo this can help quite a bit. Also try adjust your black point and white point in the scanner software before scanning.