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Professional Photographers Using Linux?
thesun asks: "I'm a freelance writer and photographer and I'm wondering what Pro Photographers have done in regards to color matching and scanning under Linux, especially when going from slides to digital. I just can't get anything close to a good image when I scan a slide. They're blurry and the colors are so off that doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming. Are other Pros (or talented amateurs) having similar problems? Are there solutions out there I haven't found? (Sorry, I can't dump thousands into a piece of hardware---I'm looking for a way to make the most of my Epson Perfection 2400 with transparency adapter)."
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:18:39 -0800
From: barrister_bello@gawab.com
To: spencer_bello20@yahoo.com
Subject: GOODDAY
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From the desk of Barrister Bello Spencer Jr.(SAN).
Attention:Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister Bello Spencer Jr.(SAN) of Spencer & Spencer Partners a
Solicitor & Advocate at law. I am the personal attorney to Engr.Ahamd
Khurram a national of your country,whom used to work with Shell
Development Company in Nigeria.Herein after shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 2002, my client, his wife and their three children
were involved in a car accident along Sagamu express road.All occupants
of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made
several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts to locate member of his
family. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Guaranty Trust Bank Plc their website
www.gt-b.cjb.net where these huge deposits were lodged you can reach them to verify
on info@gtb.cjb.net whether the fund was deposited with them.The
deceased had an account valued at about $10.6m US Dollars which the bank has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over some
months now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you have the same last name and from the same country so
that the proceeds of this account valued at $10.6m US Dollars can be
paid to you,so then you and I can share the money. 50% to me and 40% to
you while we set aside 10% for settlement of local and foreign expenses.
However,i have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back
up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation to
enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by my email address
spencer_bello10@yahoo.co.uk to commence claim by sending down
immediately the followings:
1.The name of the beneficiary and resident address.
2.Your banking information.
3The account number you wish the fund transfered into.
4.Your personal Tel. & Fax numbers for easy communication.
With the above informations i will apply for claims in your name from
the bank where the fund is deposited.
Best regards,
Barrister Bello Spencer Jr.(SAN).
23 Wuse Crescent,Suleja.
Abuja-Nigeria.
Tel: 234-083757-4368
Email: spencer_bello10@yahoo.co.uk
Barrister Bello Spencer Jr.(SAN).
23 Wuse Crecent,Suleja.
Abuja-Nigeria.
Tel: 234-0823-209813
Email: spencer_bello10@yahoo.co.uk
Why not just project them onto a flat surface in a dark room and take a picture with a digital camera?
Unknown host pong.
Would this be a good time to bring up the really crappy GUI in GIMP? that always seems to insight "interesting" discussion.
yes, porno in linux.. i film all my bitches in X
... doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming.
... if you just need to apply the same correction to each file, why not whip up a little shell script to do it all for you? Doing it once or a thousand times isn't any different unless it requires some kind of mouse gestures (and then again, even those can be automated, just not as cleanly).
I sense Windows-centric thinking (correct me if I'm wrong). Scripting is utterly essential to Unix (and therefore Linux)
Of course when I say Linux, I actually mean GNU/Linux + OSS designed for Linux. The world just says "Linux" and so will I -- kiss my ass.
Linux is an adaptable and growing lump of putty and every time someone asks a question such as the one I'm responding to, someone else comes up with an answer that either already exists or another project is born... or both. I think beyond all else, that's one of the coolest things about Linux -- it's the community, not the OS.
It was pointed out that people stayed away from BSD variants for reasons that were not technical. Otherwise, BSD and variants would have been light-years ahead of Linux and essentially, there would be no Linux today if it weren't for people wanting a free Unix to build on while staying away from BSD. So now the focus is on Linux... it's the focus that matters, not whether it's Linux or not.
In any case, there's sufficient momentum and I'm hopful you get the answer you seek.
Why is this modded flamebait? Photoshop works excellently under Mac OS X, as do almost all the scanner drivers I've tried.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Mod parent up as insightful - he is right
nice username.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
Why would you want a 5 digit login? :)
You think emacs is evil?! You've never used VM's XEDIT have you?!! That's evil, baby!
I'll sell my four-digit. Make an offer.
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