What tools do you use for VMS analysis?

[merrimacga]

I can show you some examples and you can actually see through the items I am mentioning..

Sounds a lot like a restoration technique. I think it would be interesting to see some of your examples but perhaps in a separate thread. Could you start one?

The use of Photoshop has been discussed frequently on this site with varying purposes, methods and outcomes but so far I haven't found a previous one discussing this effect or use in particular. There have been several discussions about the VM underdrawings, though. And elsewhere, digital restoration of manuscripts, including uncovering underdrawings, using both Photoshop and other methods (including AI), has been a developing area of great interest, probably as long as such programs have existed. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a notable project group (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.; in-depth You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about DIAMM).

Here is a small selection of a few other choice examples (none of them specific to the VM, though):

BMC Blog Network 2019 article, Unveiling the invisible – mathematical methods for restoring and interpreting illuminated manuscripts (original You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on SpringerOpen; also covered in an You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.; 3D modeling is discussed):
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Adobe Photoshop and Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts: A New Approach to Digital Paleography by Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee, Digital Humanities, Volume 8 Number 4, 2014: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Digital Restoration by Denoising and Binarization of Historical Manuscripts Images by Dimitrios E. Ventzas, Nikolaos Ntogas and Maria-Malamo Ventza, March 2012, in book: Advanced Image Acquisition, Processing Techniques and Applications I (instead of discussing specific software, this paper focuses on the methods and techniques used):
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