Good point. I noticed this when when trying to dodge out some of the shadows.
For some reason I can't locate the slide. It's not in its sleeve. If I do I'll probably rescan it with more care. I think this one came from a PhotoCD scan I had done a few years ago. I may also go back to that PhotoCD and make sure I haven't done something (like levels) that may have destoyed some data. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Farr Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WOW - ready to go yet? ----- 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
