Sheila's composite bulb scan
Boyce Tankersley (Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:50:00 PST)

Very nice image. I had no idea you could scan flowers and not have them look squashed. Could Sheila share with us how she did this?

I asked Sheila Burrow to put her image of bulbs from her garden that she
laid on her scanner in an amazingly artistic fashion on the wiki. I have
always loved this image.

http://ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/…

Boyce Tankersley
btankers@chicagobotanic.org
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