 Noreen Callahan |
Scanning Newspaper Clippings I have several newspaper clippings I have been scanning to use in a booklet I am preparing. They alway show up with a waffle-like pattern which I can't get rid of. A professional photographer scanned a newspaper clipping for me with the same results and no solution. Is there some way to solve this problem with a photo editing program? I have Paint Shop Pro 7 and Photo Suite included in the Roxio Easy Media Creator 10. Hope someone knows how to do this.
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Mark Feldstein |
When you contact the newspaper for permission to reprint the article in your booklet ask them to send you a copy that would be suitable for duplication in a scanner. If there are photographs involved, chances are you'll need the written consent of the photographer as well, unless their work was done as "work for hire". Without that permission, you're violating their copyrights. Read the masthead of the newspaper. Once you obtain that permission (in writing) then kindly ask them for a copy that will allow you to reproduce it without scanning the line screen/ink dots used to print the newspaper, which is what it sounds like you're getting. Funny, most professional photographers I know, seem to know that. ;>) BTW, any publisher you go to to have them publish your booklet is going to ask if you've obtained usage rights for the materials. If you publish on your own, you can't re-copyright the work of the original publisher unless you have their written consent. Hope that helps. ;>)
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Noreen Callahan |
I'm not planning to have the booklet published, I will print any copies on my printer. It is the memoirs of a member of an organization to which I belong, and the newspaper clippings are from her scrapbook. I have a problem about contacting any newspaper where they appeared, as most of them no longer exist. The clippings are from the 1930' and 1940's. Have tried looking up the newspapers online, and as some of them were the local "throwaways" of the time, they don't appear anywhere online. If a newspaper no longer exists, and I won't be contacting a publishing company, but printing on my home printer, will I still be violating copyrights?
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Mark Feldstein |
Probably (and I emphasize that word "probably) not. I would say the answer to that depends on the rights of the heirs and assignees of those who owned the paper before it closed and presumably they subsequently died. The chances of getting caught, however, are slim. So you can roll your own dice and see what happens. The solution, insofar as your reproduction problem is concerned, IMO, is to actually shoot a photograph of the pages you're trying to duplicate using a copy set-up, enlarge those to whatever size you need and print those. That will eliminate the problem of the line screen you seem to be seeing on the scans. OR, turn the scan sensitivity way down and see what happens. I don't even know if you can do that.
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Noreen Callahan |
Thank you for your reply. I know I'm showing my ignorance, but what is scan sensitivity and how do I turn it down? I have already tried photographing the images, but I still need to work on that.
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Mark Feldstein |
Read and understand the manuals for the scanner AND the software. M.
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