Slhel - don't use contrast and brightness! Use levels and curves.
Set your white point and your black point, either with the levels control or the curves control, and you can then use curves to adjust the contrast better within the image. Contrast and Brightness shift EVERTHING - curves shift only what YOU want to shift. If you don't want to read a lot, at least read Chapter 2 of Dan Margulis's "Professional Photoshop 6" available online at http://www.ledet.com/margulis/PP6_Chapter2.pdf - it's written for color but the principles apply to B&W images as well. Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: Re: Applying Lipstick | Hi Ken ... | | There's really very little that I can tell you that may be helpful, but | here goes: | | The scanner was a Nikon LC4000, and the picture was scanned at 4000dpi, | and was saved in Photoshop format. Later, using PS 6.0, I brought up | the picture, sized it, and adjusted the contrast and brightness. I | don't know how to use any other commands or tools yet. The computer on | which Photoshop is located has a terrible monitor, and gives me no real | clue as to how the results might be, so I saved a couple of copies to a | floppy disk and brought the pic to my other machine which has a small | freeware program called Irfan. The gamma was adjusted a scosh using | Irfan, and that was that. IOW, I didn't really do much to it. | | FWIW, the film is Tri-X @ 400 developed in ID-11 1:1. The camera was a | Leica M3 and the lens was just a basic 50mm f/2.0 - although it's | possible I used a very old 50mm/1.5. | | Ken Archer wrote: | > | > I like what I see from a quality standpoint | > and, since I am about to start scanning my | > own negs (color and b&w) I want to know how | > you did it. | | -- | Shel Belinkoff | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | - | This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, | go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to | visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . | - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
