Ok, so my wife wants to get a new scanner - hers died.
She does scrapbooking, and at the moment wants to do a project involving a lot of her brother's baby and childhood pictures from 35 years ago.
So of course the big thing in scanners now is the pricey ones with digital image restoration "built in". The name "Digital ICE" seems to crop up a lot.
I've seen descriptions of the package, and what it does... but nobody seems to be willing to spill on whether it's all in software, or a software/hardware combination, or...
So my questions:
1. Scanners WITH Digital ICE and digital image restoration seem to all be in the $250-ish range. Identical SCANNERS without that stuff run around $100-$125. Is there a hardware difference or is it all software?
2. How does this stuff compare to just doing it in Photoshop with good image restoration plugins? This seems to smack of "digital zoom" on digital cameras, which is essentially just interpolation... and does a rather poorer job than your average bicubic resize in Photoshop.
So does anyone know about this stuff? Let me know - I continue to google, but I'm not having a lot of luck!
She does scrapbooking, and at the moment wants to do a project involving a lot of her brother's baby and childhood pictures from 35 years ago.
So of course the big thing in scanners now is the pricey ones with digital image restoration "built in". The name "Digital ICE" seems to crop up a lot.
I've seen descriptions of the package, and what it does... but nobody seems to be willing to spill on whether it's all in software, or a software/hardware combination, or...
So my questions:
1. Scanners WITH Digital ICE and digital image restoration seem to all be in the $250-ish range. Identical SCANNERS without that stuff run around $100-$125. Is there a hardware difference or is it all software?
2. How does this stuff compare to just doing it in Photoshop with good image restoration plugins? This seems to smack of "digital zoom" on digital cameras, which is essentially just interpolation... and does a rather poorer job than your average bicubic resize in Photoshop.
So does anyone know about this stuff? Let me know - I continue to google, but I'm not having a lot of luck!
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