Adobe Photoshop 5.5 – Layers

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Denise_A._Eells
Oct 29, 2003
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Can a photograph be scanned into Photoshop so that Photoshop creates layers from the scan? Right now when I scan a photo it only scans in as one layer. I thought that you could scan a photo into Photoshop and the photo would be broken down into layers through the scanning process, so that you have a background layer, appropriate middle layers, and a foreground layer. Or, are layers only created by adding them to the single layer photograph?

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LenHewitt
Oct 29, 2003
Denise,

You have to create layers yourself and move required content to them.

How would a scanner know what was background or forground? All a scanner sees is a flat sheet of paper….
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dave_milbut
Oct 30, 2003
Can a photograph be scanned into Photoshop so that Photoshop creates layers from the scan

no.

You have to create layers yourself and move required content to them.

How would a scanner know what was background or forground? All a scanner sees is a flat sheet of paper….

you’re right of course len, but it would be cool and something might be done with edge detection algorithms… it wouldn’t be anywhere near 100% accurate, but why not?

and when am i going to get my official adobe star trek holodeck kit? i placed my order 3 light years ago! (of course i was near a black hole when i pushed the "purchase" button so maybe my order got scambled in the singularity)
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LenHewitt
Oct 30, 2003
Dave,

but it would be cool <<

Indeed it would! <g>….maybe in 2020 hey? (By which time desktop 3D laser scanners will, of course, be common place and Epson will be selling them for $169.00…….)

i placed my order 3 light years ago! <<

It arrived 30 years before you were born, but you didn’t activate it within 30 days <g>
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viol8ion
Oct 30, 2003
(By which time desktop 3D laser
scanners will, of course, be common place

http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/3DPRINTER/

How about 3D printers? We have them today…. Epson better get on the ball….
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Photo_Help
Oct 30, 2003
viol8ion,

I have seen them at work. I want one of the advanced models the military uses that print to metal rather than a polymer like the consumer models. Apparently they use them on aircraft carriers to manufacture repair parts to get them by until they can get replacements flown in.
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Rob_Keijzer
Oct 30, 2003
Ladies, Gentlemen,

How often must I repeat this: a "light year" is a measure of distance, not a measure of time!

When I detect one more evidence of not paying attention to my lessons, I’ll be left with only one choice: I will snap my fingers and you will all wake up!
No more Photoshop!

Rob

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