New pics of a Nice Toned Buffalo....

[Bruceswar]

Lately I have been expierementing with lighting ... so I thought I would show some of the new pics off..... Here is the front ...

[Bruceswar]

and the back....

[Hoot]

Some tough glare on those photos Bruce, but also some evidently pretty color on that coin. I tried some adjustments on the obverse shot (attached) to see if I could get the glare to go away, but only had minimal luck.

 

Hoot

[TomB]

I like the concentric toning, it's quite vivid!

[Bruceswar]

WOW Hoot .... you made that pic look 100% better... what program did you use? I mean the color really comes out like in real life

[michael]

wow a really super toned coin!

 

michael

[airplanenut]

Don't mind if I add a recent purchase

 

Eventually going for plastification...

 

 

...and one that went to my type set:

 

 

Jeremy

[Bruceswar]

thats a nice nickel... i bet it looks better in person ... color and the back is really nice

[Hoot]

Great coin Jeremy! Thanks for the post!

 

Bruce - I use a simple program called CompuPic. (It's available at www.photodex.com. I use the basic version. I recommend it, as it's cheap and easy to use.) It allows a person to change color saturation and the like, simply to get the coin to look like what it does in person. Unfortunately, that does not always work Scans are especially bad, but depend largely on the scanner itself. Toned coins with a scanner are especially tough.

 

Hoot

[Bruceswar]

it did wonders for my coin!! WOWOWOWOW!!! mabye I will look into it and try the backside

[Bruceswar]

Here is the back using that program .. to get alot of the glare out...

[Hoot]

Yes, Bruce, it improved that reverse as well by taking some glare out. You can also trim the edges of the picture so that there's not as much "space" around the coin using the Crop function. One note: if you save your pictures as jpg's at the highest (100%) quality, then your pictures will grow in kilobytes in a big hurry. To remedy this, do all of your work in CompuPic and save the photo at its best resolution. Then open the picture with Paint (a native Windows utility) and save it. It will retain the detail but decrease the size of the jpg by compressing it. Lots to fiddle with, but the goal is to make the photos best match the coin.

 

Hoot

[Bruceswar]

yeah .. i got that part down... not sure why I did not trim it before I posted it

[jom]

Eventually going for plastification...

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

 

jom

[airplanenut]

Eventually going for plastification...

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

 

jom

Well, if I'm going to sell it...

[jom]

Well, if I'm going to sell it...

 

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

 

..

 

jom

[Bruceswar]

i was thikning the same thing

[airplanenut]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

 

..

As in I should just keep it? I might...

[Bruceswar]

yes keep it....