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KISS · Dec 13, 2009, 09:09 PM

I took a picture of water on a rug in a basement under fluorescent lighting, flash and a UV filter.

Screen pics are fine, but when the 2.3 MB images were printed as 5 x 7 on photo paper, there were verticle lines about every inch.

I guess I need a fluorescent lighting filter?

Do you know of any programs that will remove this anomaly?

jcdill · Dec 13, 2009, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by KeepItSimpleStupid

I took a picture of water on a rug in a basement under florescent lighting, flash and a UV filter.

Screen pics are fine, but when the 2.3 MB images were printed as 5 x 7 on photo paper, there were verticle lines about every inch.

I guess I need a florescent lighting filter?

Do you know of any programs that will remove this anomoly?

Are the vertical lines white, black, or colored? Are they perfectly straight? If you zoom in on the image on your screen can you see the lines in the image?

KISS · Dec 13, 2009, 09:57 PM

I can see two whitish lines when I zoom not perfectly straight. They might be reflections.

Can't see the many verticle lines that were printed. The ones that were printed were somewhat colored and perfectly straight.

The water was on top of a blue rug. All te other pics taken under incadesent light/flash printed fine.

Actually, the lines are about 1/2" apart on the 5 x 7 printed photo, not 1" and they are top to bottom on the photo.

hheath541 · Dec 13, 2009, 10:31 PM

It could be the printer.

KISS · Dec 13, 2009, 10:35 PM

Nope. All the other photos were fine taken the same day.

Only the pics under fluorescent illumination were a problem.

The other photos printed fine. All printed at the ~same time.

jcdill · Dec 13, 2009, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by KeepItSimpleStupid

I took a picture of water on a rug in a basement under florescent lighting, flash and a UV filter.

Screen pics are fine, but when the 2.3 MB images were printed as 5 x 7 on photo paper, there were verticle lines about every inch.

I guess I need a florescent lighting filter?

Do you know of any programs that will remove this anomoly?

If they are specular reflections, then you needed to turn off the lights that caused these reflection or else gobo the lights (a gobo is something that goes between (GoBo) the lights and the areas that were generating the specular reflections). It is also sometimes possible to use polarizer filters, but that isn't practical with fluorescent tube lights.

The only way to remove them after the fact is by cloning. Windows Paint and Adobe Photoshop both have cloning tools.