Kumar 12" Sirupati scan

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James Mattis

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Cool piece of steel! Though the various curves on the bright steel on a flat-bed scanner make a couple or three places on the knife look like they carry the fire of the forge with them.

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Click on the medium picture for a 1024x768 "wallpaper."


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- JKM
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Expiriment with the angle at which you put the blade on the scanner, and brightness and contrast adjustments in your image editor. If the best angle is upside down or sideways, rotate it in the image editor. Nowadays I scan a fairly huge high-resolution image and then reduce to the screen image size I want (still at a high nominal "dpi" resolution). When you reduce the on-screen size of the image, you need to go to the editor's touch-up effects menu and crank up the sharpness a bit. Lately I've been cranking up brightness a little, and reducing contrast. I find that my "magic blue" cloth or construction paper background helps too.

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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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Office lights on, afternoon sun coming through half-open blinds, same construction paper sitting on the scanner (only flat surface in sight), next to the blank beige computer tower for a featureless reflection off the blade.
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BTW, as of 2110, Pacific time, the only folks in the #khukuri chat are ChanServ and I, and ChanServ doesn't have much to say.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 06-22-2000).]
 
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