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Old 03-24-2014, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Runscott View Post
Interesting responses. I use a CanoScan 9000F, but I don't scan in a dark room, and probably won't. For raw cards, I usually put something flat and black over the cards, then drop the lid.

In any case, my example might explain possibly unintentionally deceptive scans. I had scanned all of my recent graded cards with the lid up, but then saw the that Mack was missing his wrinkles, so re-scanned everything.
Yes the solution for getting a black back ground is putting something else over the back. Keeping the lid up is allowing too much light in, the calibration in the color management system now has to overcompensate and turn that to a solid color (black) which makes your black point (just the opposite of a white point) a lot deeper than it should be messing up all the saturation.
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