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I've been working on a project to transfer 50 years of slides to a DVD.
Recently I got a new LCD Monitor and now many of my slides seem to have a speckled appearance in the dark areas that was not apparent on my old monitor. All of this is before any encoding for DVD.

All the slides are 35mm, mostly Kodachrome, which I scanned at 900bpi. I have saved them as Tif and imported them to PS (V 5.0). Mostly I adjusted them using Levels and brought the end points toward the center till they got to the point of significant info, I often adjusted them further by moving the mid slider. After that I often applied some Unsharp filter. Many of the problem slides may have been taken with a flash & therefor have a dark background.

Is there something different that I should do, or not do? Or am just trying for too much improvment?

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[QUOTE="halek, post: 11001, member: 501"] :( I've been working on a project to transfer 50 years of slides to a DVD. Recently I got a new LCD Monitor and now many of my slides seem to have a speckled appearance in the dark areas that was not apparent on my old monitor. All of this is before any encoding for DVD. All the slides are 35mm, mostly Kodachrome, which I scanned at 900bpi. I have saved them as Tif and imported them to PS (V 5.0). Mostly I adjusted them using Levels and brought the end points toward the center till they got to the point of significant info, I often adjusted them further by moving the mid slider. After that I often applied some Unsharp filter. Many of the problem slides may have been taken with a flash & therefor have a dark background. Is there something different that I should do, or not do? Or am just trying for too much improvment? [/QUOTE]

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