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… I decided to do some testing. The colors were NOT coming out correct and I’m not good enough with manipulating the images to make them look right. I decided to apply the KISS principle on my first test. I went from two light sources to one (OTT-LITES). And I set the one as overhead [...]

I was going to download varies coin set grading images to my Blackberry so I have something to look at when coin shopping. This could take a while, but I will do it for the various sets I am collecting. I will use the images from the following PCGS site. http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/#/Cents I was wondering if [...]

when im looking at photos of well worn large cents the design almost looks incuse at first. does anyone else get this feeling? View full post on CoinTalk - Coin Chat

On Tuesday, October 5, CoinNews.net published an article that included an edge view of the 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins. The United States Mint started producing them on September 21, 2010, and they will launch later this year. 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins - Larger Images Below The single image provided [...]

Photobucket seems to be the most popular site. I believe there’s some other freebies out there too. But how many of you have checked with your ISP? Many allocate personal space to their subscribes for just this (and other) purposes. When I had Comcast they had something like 1GB of space that I could use. [...]

I put together an axial lighting system. I know it works at best poorly with slabbed coins. So, for the time being, I’m going to use it only for my raw coins. Here are four images of a 1938 Jefferson Nickel. The two with the black background are the raw originals. The two with the [...]