----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Thornsberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ..... I just don't think the color, contrast and saturation > are where they should be. Maybe the raw material here is not as good as I want > it to be. > Kevin, You're absolutely correct there, and the corrected versions you've received are amazingly good, especially considering the starting point. Had a go at it myself, but I then saw Wendy's version and realised that mine was almost the same with very minor differences due to personal tastes - I neutralised the colours more but ultimately I prefer the little bit of warmth that Wendy let through. When a picture resists colour balancing, as this one did at first, it's often educational to split the colour channels and look at them individually. They should all be full scale b&w images but in this case the blue channel seemed deeply underexposed. But lightening it reveals a more insidious problem, there is solarization in the image. Look at this: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2190074 Any number of factors could have caused this, over-age or heat effected film, x-ray fogging perhaps, contaminated processing chemicals, or it could be an artifact of the original scan. It's caused crossed curves, which are hard to see through the red/yellow caste of the original, but show up as correct colour balance is being approached. Auto-level adjustments seem to cope very well with this problem, I'm impressed by what others have done. regards, Anthony Farr
