Digitizing Your Photos, Slides, and Negatives - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 25

3. If you're working inside, make sure the image is evenly illuminated.

4. Adjust the camera's white balance, if your camera has manual settings;

otherwise, use the auto white balance.

5. Make sure the image is in focus, and capture it with your camera. Experiment

with the ISO and exposure settings and capture several variations of the image,
so that you can then choose the best one.

6. Capture the image with the highest quality setting possible. The more image data

you capture the better.

7. The image might have some slight keystone distortion. After you import the

file to your computer, use GIMP's Perspective transform tool to correct the
distortion (Figure 2-4 ). A plug-in worth trying to help correct lens distortions is
GimpLensfun, available from http://seebk.github.io/GIMP-Lensfun/ .

Figure 2-4. Using the Perspective tool to correct distortion