Thread:NatiChan/@comment-4616791-20130619160501/@comment-6532078-20130620140610

I think that you did well, but the thing is, you over-leveled it a little (there's no gray where it should be; that's why Threshold is rather no-no, because you have no control over "good" grays). And it has way too many white dots where there should be only black. Sorry.

I've been playing with the raw too to see what can be done, and it ended up quite nice, though it's a little too blurry in some parts (what can be seen especially around the text, but it's a mistake that can be avoided the next time) and should be more blurry in others (and I forgot to resize it later, ehh...). To do this I used Photoshop+Topaz Denoise 3. First, I leveled it, then used diffuse filter (anisotropic) on copy and set it to about 50% opacity and multiply mode. After that, I merged the layers and went to filter > other > high pass (10-15px), and then gaussian blur (3px). And here I've duplicated the layer and used gaussian blur (2px) again, but it ruined the whole picture T_T Well, after that I used denoise filter with the most random parameters possible until it looked satisfying enough. Some white dots that were still visible were just pained with brush. It took a lot of time to do actually (around 1,5h), since it was my first try, but it probably shouldn't take that much overall. (all hail volume scans!)