It’s not often I wish I had OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, but, the world of scanning photography requires a level of post scan work that taps out my patience very quickly.
Dust, scratches, dirt (when you scan vegetables that have come from the garden) and all manner of atomic particles that are not visible to the human eye when the scan is first done.
I believe neutrinos are visible on my scans of 1200 dpi.
To make matters worse, if I too quickly decide to make the original scan of a purple cabbage, (as this image began life as) into a black and white image, my post scan work on the b/w image is only good for that image.
Why oh why don’t I ever learn to do the post-scan work on the original AND then make aesthetic decisions as to which way I want to go with it?
Because I always think the post scan work is just a bit of clean-up work and never the eye-gouging, painstaking work it turns out to be.
I’m afraid to enlarge this image to see what else needs to be done.
I’m going to eat some of this cabbage and be done with it.
