Steinar H. Gunderson
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:14:11 -0800
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:42:29PM -0600, Jon Winters wrote: >123, 123, 123 is a shade of gray >115, 115, 115 is a shade of gray >139, 139, 139 is a shade of gray > >Trust the numbers, they don't lie. Of course they do, if one of these apply: 1. Your film is colour-balanced. 2. Your scanner is colour-balanced. 3. The light isn't even. 4. The Levels thingy in point 1 has destroyed all the grays, just because (e.g.) there was less blue in the shadows than there was red. I'd say that normally _all four_ apply. The numbers lie. The Curves correction is an attempt to make them truthful :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/