Actually there was too much red, not yellow, in the photo. I adjusted Levels, used Curves to decrease the red, and the result is at <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=574353&size=lg>
Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:31 PM Subject: RE: First shot at inkjet prints, and a request for photo critique ... | Hi folks, | | Thanks Jeff, Maris, Pat, and Doug for your helpful comments. I'll check the | printhead alignment and look into printer driver settings and their | adjustment as suggested. I used one of the programs that Epson supplies | with the 820 (can't remember the name) to print the image, but I generally | use Picture Window Pro for any image processing. (And yes, brightness | curves are available in this software -- comes in handy sometimes.) Thanks | for the tip on JetDirect and Kodak Ultima papers, Doug. Disappointing to | hear that the Epson papers don't do better, but reassuring to hear that | Kodak has improved. I also notice the flat contrast and reddish cast on the | inkjet print. My monitor is calibrated, but I haven't attempted to | calibrate my scanner (Canon D660U). I just take care of any color, | contrast, or brightness issues in the scanned image using Picture Window | Pro. This may be a good time to get some decent color and contrast | standards for calibrating the scanner. Anybody got a Macbeth card and/or a | 21-step grayscale tablet they want to get rid of, real cheap? | | As suggested, I put images of both the scanned negative and the scanned | inkjet print on Photocritique.net. The links are listed below, but just | look for me (under "Bill Peifer") on http://www.photocritique.net if the | links don't work. I'd appreciate any comments you might have on either of | these. | | Scanned negative: | http://www.photocritique.net/g/s?00lVNc | | Scanned print: | http://www.photocritique.net/g/s?00lVLc | | Turns out that I'm not in as bad of shape as I thought, at least for the | fidelity of the printer's output. I had taken the original shot many months | ago, and after looking more carefully, I found that the original scan from | the negative was pretty bad. I'd used a white card on my flash to bounce | some catchlight into the eyes of the subjects, but got too much light. | Plus, I forgot to switch my shutter to the X-sync speed (I'd been shooting a | lot of available-light stuff just before), so nearly half the frame was much | darker than I'd intended. I scanned the negative anyway, cropped out much | of the dark band, used a mask and brightness curves adjustment to recover | the lost detail as best I could, then did a gentler brightness curve | adjustment to get the final brightness and contrast about where I wanted it. | The artifacts I mentioned in my earlier note are actually in the original | image scanned from the negative -- no big surprise. Thus, artifacts I | spotted initially in the inkjet print are not a result of the printing | process. | | Thanks again for the help. Still need to practice some more at this -- it's | kind of fun. I can see the dent this will make in my budget already! ;-) | | Bill Peifer | Rochester, NY | - | 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 .
