Re: [Gimp-user] Scanned negatives, moire patterns and GIMP?

["Keith Purtell" <keithpurtell keithpurtell com>]

Thanks to you and Steve for this. I'll make a screen capture available when 
I'm next at my regular computer.
  
 On a related note; yes the long-range solution will be to get some kind of 
access to a proper scanner.
  
   
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> > I recently had some 20-year-old color negatives scanned. About half 
the
> > scans had moire patterns. My understanding is that moire (in this 
case)
> > would be caused by contact between the glossy back of the negative and
> > another flat object such as a glass plate.
>
> Any good transparency scanner comes with a mount for holding the slides 
away from the glass.
> > If they can't resolve this, what are my chances of solving the problem
> > with GIMP? I tried a few of the existing filters without visible 
results.
> > My first Google searches haven't turned up a good detailed tutorial on
> > moire removal.
>
> There's a G'MIC filter for it. But it depends on the exact nature of the 
pattern as to what's best. I get them when scanning colour books, because 
of the way the books are printed (it's actually unavoidable unless you use 
a "descreen filter" in the scanner driver, but better to do it in GIMP). 
For that, separating into layers and using gaussian blur is often best, but 
another possibility is to use wavelet decomposition and delete that high 
frequency layers. G'MIC has a filter to do that, too.
> If you can share a sample I can have a better look.