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5. Working with PhotoLine / 5.6 Scanning

### 5.6.5 Descreen Scanned Originals

When scanning color images it is best to use photos. If you use books or magazines, you will have the problem, that the result will be "pixelized". This comes from the way, how those are printed. Books and magazines are printed with four basic colors: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. To create various tones, fine patterns of these basic colors are printed one over the other. If you look carefully, you can see this. The scanner can see this, too, and therefore you get this unpleasant effect.

In order to fix this problem, there are several tricks like scanning through a milky glass pane.

Another way is to use PhotoLine to reduce the effect. Scan the original with the double resolution, then apply Filter/Quality/Descreen and at last scale the image with Layer/Scale Layer... to the desired size.