scan b & w photos in colour or grey scale?

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grant walker

hello,
I have some old black and white photos to scan, some are faded some dark,
most are creased or folded and some with yellow sticky tape marks. should I
scan these in colour or grey scale?

Some I will be printing at the original size, some of the smaller ones I
want to enlarge, most will be cropped so I will be scanning at 600 dpi. I am
using an Epson perfection 4990 scanner.

Thanks for the advice,
Grant.
 
hello,
I have some old black and white photos to scan, some are faded some dark,
most are creased or folded and some with yellow sticky tape marks. should I
scan these in colour or grey scale?

Some I will be printing at the original size, some of the smaller ones I
want to enlarge, most will be cropped so I will be scanning at 600 dpi. I am
using an Epson perfection 4990 scanner.

Thanks for the advice,
Grant.
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I'd suggest scanning those with colored marks in color.... that makes
it easier to "correct out" the colored marks. If you can in black &
white, those colored marks are converted to grayscale, which simply
blends in to the rest of the image, making it impossiple to easily
remove. Many find it preferable to scan *all* old black & white photos
in color, because of the ability to operate in the different color
channels to edit the images.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
 
grant walker said:
hello,
I have some old black and white photos to scan, some are faded some
dark, most are creased or folded and some with yellow sticky tape
marks. should I scan these in colour or grey scale?
Click to expand...

If you scan them in color, then you'll be able to reduce some of the
yellowing/staining with postprocessing by changing the channel mix.

Bart
 
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