Have you tried Epson scan in pro mode? I find it way better than Viewscan. The controls are finer and more linear, and it can do anything Viewcan can do. You couldn’t pay me to use Viewsan.
Paul > On May 1, 2016, at 6:46 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks again. I have some work to do with viewscan (which I use with B&W 35mm > scans) but I think I have thing together for digital and medium format > scanning (done with Nikon scan.) When I tone B&W film shots I convert them to > RGB and I convert all of them to RGB for web display. > > Mark > > On 5/1/2016 2:00 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> Happy to help. >> >> If you're going to work in pure B&W, the defaults—Dot Gain 20%, etc—all work >> well, presuming that you've captured the entire dynamic range that the >> exposure has to offer. >> >> I do all my processing with LR these days, which promotes everything to >> 16bit per component and ProPhoto RGB. This is useful since I often add a >> light bit of warm 'toning' to my images. >> >> As Paul said, the Epson print drivers do a good job printing directly from >> ProPhoto RGB to B&W. You can also add the warming tones with the Epson print >> driver using its "Advanced B&W Mode" printing workflow, but I like to >> display my photos with the warming tone on flickr et cetera. >> >> G >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
