I was trying to do something a little different for my 365 post today and decided to scan some objects on my flatbed scanner. After a few disasters I came up with this

Pretty uninspiring I thought, so I fired up photoshop and got to work. 24 layers and a lot of coffee later I ended up with a 55meg Tiff file that almost brought my computer to a standstill (oh for a Mac). Anyhoo, this is what I got

Much better I'm sure you'll agree. The scanner is a magnificent machine for this type of work. At maximum resolution it's like gigapixel camera but with little or no depth of field. I had to step the resolution down to 2400 dpi to make the file workable. But with some trial and error I got there. I really must try this again with some other items. See the full size image on my flickr stream here.

Well I've got an early start tomorrow so I'm off to nod.

MarkyD - 17th January - 23:30