i always save the "straight scans", 16bit. these are "negatives", they are burned on dvds, and stored away. i very much want to avoid re-scanning in future.
best, mishka On 6/4/05, Leon Mlakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >But why destroy all that information in a file only to have to > >start over again later should you want another copy of the > >file? I just don't understand your reasoning. Of course, > >with PS 7.0 you have to do a lot of your work flow in 8-bit > >anyway, so maybe the difference isn't that great an issue. > > > > Well, I could have saved the straight scan. But that's a five minutes or so > job, hardly worth couple 100 of Mb. > > From the straight scan on everything I do is the interpretation of the scan > that ends with an 8-bit file prepared for a print. As you pointed out > correctly, most things, except for color and tonality adjustments, must be > done with 8-bit image in 7.0 so I have to switch to 8-bits rather early. > > Should I wish to find another interpretation of the photograph (be it > different tonality or conversion to B/W or something else) I pretty much > need to start from the straight scan. > > Of course there are situations where another interpretation could have been > made from some point in the middle of the flow. These are the cases where > 16-bit support along the way comes into play but it's just not there in 7.0. > > Last year and a half I haven't been able to follow what's been going on with > PS (or to do much related to photography other than taking photographs), so > right now I really don't know what the newest versions are capable of. > > As it seems that I'll get some more time in the future, I might have to > rethink the way I'm doing things, including a possibility of ditching 7.0 > for something better. > > Cheers, > > Leon > >
