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Originally Posted by Runscott
Lance, I was just offering an explanation as to why some auction scans look doctored, when it might be unintentional on the part of the seller.
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Scott, I think you're exactly right on "apparently doctored" scans being unintentional 99% of the time. I cannot fathom anybody spending time to purposely tweak the hue and saturation in every scan that they post on the off chance that it will get some unwitting buyer to bid a couple more bucks on their item (never mind the headaches that would ensue when the item delivered to the buyer didn't appear as shown in the scans). On the other hand, I can easily see someone reading that they are "supposed to" always scan with the lid up, and then doing so regardless of how it made their scans appear in comparison to the real thing.
I probably should have separated my suggestion for permanently affixing a black background to the scanner lid from my more general rant above into separate responses, as the latter was definitely not aimed at you.