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: Helen (heleninwales) wrote,
2020-12-09 17:39:00

Helen
heleninwales
2020-12-09 17:39:00

A walk with daddy

I have finally got around to trying the cheap slide scanner I bought a few years ago. I had a slide scanner which was slow and didn't produce good results, but then my brother bought a much cheaper scanner that worked entirely differently. I decided that at that price I'd buy one too. However, for whatever reason, it's been sitting unopened for quite a few years.

The Veho Smartfix cost a fraction of the first scanner, but this is a test slide I scanned today. It needed hardly any tweaking in PhotoShop Elements. The quality is perfectly good enough for what I need. The photo was taken decades ago and the baby on his daddy's back will be forty in just over a week's time!

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A walk with daddy

The unexpected return of summer

Walking to Mordor -- Isengard to Minas Tirith

Too much time on the computer, not enough time to play

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