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For the past 16 years I have been making by hand an illuminated manuscript of the Bible. There is nothing in this that is digital, it is completely hand made written in pen and ink and decorated in full color. I am scanning it at 300DPI in order to publish it. I am using Photoshop 5.5 and I know I should upgrade to 7.0 but finances say no for the moment. It is full color and Gold, silver, Copper and Bronze on several hundred pages, the total page length is around 800 pages but thankfully most of them are just text. The problem I have is scanning the metallic colors and I need advice on how to make the separate layers of each of the metallic colors. I plan to print this in two formats, one just CMKY and the other CMKY + the different metallic colors each on a separate layer. So how do I do that. I talked to a Photoshop enthusiast who thought this was a big project when I told him I used Gold on several hundred pages; I didn’t tell him about the copper and the silver and the bronze! Anyone know any printers who can handle 8 layers?
Also, I have been given some advice on the scanning from the Getty Museum, they suggested using a filter to scan my pages and then combine that scan with a scan of the original without the filter to screen out excess glare from the gold. Either my scans are too dark or the metallic colors reflect light back and white out the surrounding decoration which is also in full color. Imagine scanning a page from the book of Kells and you can understand the situation. Where would I get this type of filter and what should I be looking for. They assumed i knew about this type of material and I don’t.
Here is my web site that has the images scanned at 150 DPI. < http://www.hometown.aol.com/biblescribe1/biblescribe1/index. htm>
Sincerely,
James G. Pepper
Biblical Scribe
Also, I have been given some advice on the scanning from the Getty Museum, they suggested using a filter to scan my pages and then combine that scan with a scan of the original without the filter to screen out excess glare from the gold. Either my scans are too dark or the metallic colors reflect light back and white out the surrounding decoration which is also in full color. Imagine scanning a page from the book of Kells and you can understand the situation. Where would I get this type of filter and what should I be looking for. They assumed i knew about this type of material and I don’t.
Here is my web site that has the images scanned at 150 DPI. < http://www.hometown.aol.com/biblescribe1/biblescribe1/index. htm>
Sincerely,
James G. Pepper
Biblical Scribe
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