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    1. [GM] Copying Sepia Photos
    2. Diana Wood
    3. I have done extensive "do it yourself" copying of photos on a Kodak Picturemaker. You can copy them by the sheet, for about $6.99 at Kinkos and $4 something at Wal-mart, but the old cabinet cards and the cartes de visite work very well on the "single 4 X 6" option. (It doesn't work for all unusal sizes well). I have the best luck scanning the original photograph in color, then adjusting the contrast using the "add color" option. The final step is the change the photo back to sepia tone, which is an option. The single 4 X 6 at Walmart is only .59 a copy in MA, perhaps cheaper elsewhere. One thing that I have found is pictures that are made from a glass plate have remarkable detail and can be enlarged quite sucessfully without a distracting amount of detail loss. I have even had great success with tintypes, the tiny kind, being enlarged to 4 X 6. They have an option to adjust color (red/blue/green) so that you can remove some of the greenish hue that the tintypes have. Some of my oldest tintypes are crackling, and I was able to make great copies at a very inexpensive price, which when you have a large collection and a small budget is invaluable. When enlarging, of course, you also enlarge flaws, but the details of the face remain. HTH Diana Diana Wood <diana@kjsl.com>

    06/04/2003 07:19:06