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Does this make me an image doctor?

shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
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I'll come clean before the sleepless nights start: I posted a doctored image on the forum. This ( large before/after) 1918 had a piece of lint on the holder, under LIBERTY, and I did a little skin graft to "fix" it.

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Actually, I don't feel bad about doing it and look at it as "image restoration". At least that's my story. It's not for sale, it was a one time shot at imaging a great coin, the problem was outside the slab, it actually looks like the "after" image....I have lots of ways to rationalize this. It was the first time I tried it and was a little disturbed at how well it turned out, something to keep in mind about Ebay images.

On the other hand, an image with a planchet flaw that picked up shadow would be rejected for conservation. But I tried it anyway just to see how it would come out (I bodybagged the image).

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Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very skillful.....acceptable in my book as your conserving the images for posterity, not profit.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bad doctor you! Send me an MS Indian and I'll keep quiet (I don't have one, but need one...) image
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Paul I do it all the time to get rid of lint and scratches that are on the holder or lens and not the coin.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, it's probably obvious to you experts, but for the rest of us, what program allows you to do that??
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Photoshop or some similar Adobe program is probably best
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • toothpullertoothpuller Posts: 600 ✭
    Oh my God Shylock! image Didn't I just suggest that you send an image of an IHC that you have for sale to a friend of mine? image
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    I cut a tiny circle of coin right next to the lint using the eliptical crop tool -- the same tool you'd use for cropping the coin out of the holder -- then dragged into the original image until it covered the spot.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Busted!! I can see the circle.


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    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Good work crime Dog. There's actually 3 circles side by side in there, it was a big spot.
    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    good work shylock and dog!

    I usually go for complete makeovers...notice the strong doubling
    and DMCL (deep mirror chrome like) surfaces.

    image

    Ken
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    That's why when the dealers that doctor their pictures come on here screaming about how we can't judge a coin by an internet picture I just laugh & laugh.
    True sometimes they do get the last laugh if they are good doctors.
    Instead of doing a C&P which leaves a distinct line, what if they simply paint over the spot?
    Here's your original black spot picture. image


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    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Cut & paste doesn't always leave distinct lines. My software has a
    slider control to change the edge from hard to soft - it makes the
    edge fuzzy to help it blend.

  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Scary aint it?
    I'm an amateur. I only have the free software that came pre-installed on my puter.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    indeed...i'm sure the unscrupulous "fix" things here and there.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Paul are you using Photoshop? If so try the rubber stamp tool, much better than the way you are doing it.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    How dare you use Photoshop like so many other people. Fixing images, making things look better, using your brain... Shame... image
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