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Re: [APML] Gradient and Vignette removal software



Chris;
    I have been meaning to try this with my telephotos and Schmidts, but haven't got around to it yet. Grab a clean white T-shirt and wrap a few layers of it around the front of the Schmidt. (or telephoto)  Install your filters, focus telephotos to infinity and shoot a cloudy sky, a blank wall, something to give an even amount of light. Bracket exposures. This should give a nice smooth image of nothing, but will show the vignetting pattern. Scan the full negative, invert and apply as a luminance control layer in Photoshop. At some intensity setting, I am guessing that this will cancel out vignetting. Perhaps the gradient in MaxIm will work better when it only has one defect to worry about.
    I am guessing that this would work if you scan the full negative, and apply the correction to a full negative scan of an image. Cropping would change the results. I guess that this would be the film equivalent of a flat field in CCD work. Thoughts???
 
John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada
(G8 country!)
----- Original Message -----
To: APML
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: [APML] Gradient and Vignette removal software

Im looking for a simple to use piece of software that removes gradients and vignetting from my schmidt camera images with film.  Ive tried Maxim DL, and I get horrible results, and wondered if there is something I can say put a grid on and it does what it has to do to flatten the brightness of the grid.  Maybe Im overlooking some thing obvious, but doing this in photoshop is a gamble at best.
 
 
Chris Schur