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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 799208" data-attributes="member: 50197">Welcome. Hope you enjoy the forum. There are lots of talented folks here that are willing to share their knowledge and enthusiasm.Hope you don't mind a little anecdote from your mention of genealogy. My wife has been into genealogy for many years. Years ago was into photography and did B&amp;W darkroom work. My wife got me to copy old family photos. I spent hours trying filters, and different development techniques, dodging, burning, different contrast papers etc. Most of the time the copies were not very good. Enter the computer world, and she bought her first flat bed scanner. With little to no training in photography, she scanned her first photo, spent a couple minutes in the post processing software that came with the scanner, and she had a product 10 times better than I was ever able to produce. It was good news, bad news. The good news was I no longer needed to spent frustrating hours with an aspect of photography I wasn't really interested in. The bad news was all the time and effect I had done was for nothing. She scanned all the pictures I had worked on and processed them herself. FWIW, she got very good at cleaning up damaged pictures.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 799208, member: 50197"] Welcome. Hope you enjoy the forum. There are lots of talented folks here that are willing to share their knowledge and enthusiasm. Hope you don't mind a little anecdote from your mention of genealogy. My wife has been into genealogy for many years. Years ago was into photography and did B&W darkroom work. My wife got me to copy old family photos. I spent hours trying filters, and different development techniques, dodging, burning, different contrast papers etc. Most of the time the copies were not very good. Enter the computer world, and she bought her first flat bed scanner. With little to no training in photography, she scanned her first photo, spent a couple minutes in the post processing software that came with the scanner, and she had a product 10 times better than I was ever able to produce. It was good news, bad news. The good news was I no longer needed to spent frustrating hours with an aspect of photography I wasn't really interested in. The bad news was all the time and effect I had done was for nothing. She scanned all the pictures I had worked on and processed them herself. FWIW, she got very good at cleaning up damaged pictures. [/QUOTE]

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