Testing my mettle

 I recently touched on how I changed the way I scan recently, just grabbing whatever box needed to be scanned and working through it instead of picking and choosing what I felt like doing at that time. 

I ran into the first big test of this style of scanning. 1995 Hi-Tech Brickyard 400 is a 90 card set and all 90 of them were in this box that I picked to work on next. Unfortunately these cards are very dark, and they are very "clingy" in that way that every bit of dust sticks to them and doesn't come off easily- and shows in the scan., especially on the back.

The urge to put these back in the box and work on whatever is in the next box is so strong, but I am pushing through. I've been setting these aside and putting them off since Christmas 2021 as it is so if I do it again, who knows how long it will be before I actually do them? And besides, the longer I let them sit, the more dust they can collect, so doing them now - while not particularly fun- saves them from being even more of a pain in the butt in the future. 

I'm griping but it will only take me about 3 days to do the entire 90 card set. 90 cards usually takes me about an hour and a half so it's a big difference in time, but on the other hand, I don't really have anything better I can do either. Except the next box of cards...or models. Or writing a blog post like this one to put off editing more scans...

This is what a scan looks like before I fix it.

And here's the same image, corrected.