Rick Measham nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-07-16 18:39:
>>Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not a real photographer, but I have food dye, a scanner and there's
>>>sure to be a dollar coin around here someplace.
> 
> 
> Found a coin, got the food-dye ready. Didn't work. First problem is that
> flatbed scanners still have an offset light and so the image is lit from
> one direction still.
> 
> Second problem is the coin traps air in the food-dye in the etching.
> 
> I tried watering down the dye, and it worked a little better, but not much.
> 
> The only thing I could think was to use deep enough mixture that the
> coin could be flipped around until there was no air pockets. However
> that would require some sort of glass container with a perfectly flat
> base. I don't have one of those outside of povray!
And the coin will be out of focus.
> 
> If you've any more ideas, I'm happy to play!
> 
> Cheers!
> Rick Measham
Can you flip it all over? Like put the scaner on top of the coin?
Another way, Stick some short tube on the scaner glass plate, make the join water
tight (tape, water
based glue,...), put the die in the tube then the coin in the die, scan. Clean
everything.

Alain

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