Nice shots, Shel. The scans look quite good in this low res form. If I were to ask for anything at all, I guess I'd like a bit more contrast, but of course that's monitor dependent and a matter of personal taste as well. Sometimes when I scan BW I do it as an RGB or convert it to RGB once it's in PhotoShop. To convert to RGB in Photoshop, you just go to the "Image" menu, pull down to "mode" and choose RGB. That will give you more tools to work with. If I want the appearance of more contrast but my whites are near the limit in terms of losing detail, I'll sometimes go to "adjust selective color" under the "image" heading. In adjust selective color, you can select black and pump the blacks up by a few percentage points without affecting the whites. If you go to "adjust levels" you can work the blacks, midtones, and whites individually with the sliders. A little bit of time spent playing with these will give you a feeling for what they do. And if you screw up, you can always go to the "history" box and backtrack quite a few steps. (If the "history" box isn't evident on your desktop, go to the "Windows" menu and select "Show History." When I've finished, I go to the "Image" menu, pull down to "mode" and reselect "grayscale." The more you play, the more you'll discover. By the way, did you ask the lipstick woman if you could shoot her? If not, did she object? I'm always at a loss as to whether I should ask or just shoot. Paul
Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > 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 .
