Use the Curves dialog box, lay down two points marking off the midtone range you're adjusting, and steepen the curve slightly, which steepens the contrast. The curve should be S-shaped when you're done. Keep an eye on the rest of the image and make further , more subtle tweaks as necessary to the highlight and shadow portions of the curve.
--- Philip Elkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However on some shots I find that the black and > white points in VS are > easily set and look fine but the mid tones seem > rather muddy ie skin tone. > The histo in VS looks like a mountain with a very > high mid level much like > an A shape. Photoshop seems to cope with a 16 bit > curves correction - my > question at last is there anything I can do to > improve "local mid tone > contast" in Vuescan without having to clip the bw > points? > > Regards > > Philip Elkin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as > appropriate) in the message title or body __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
