[filmscanners] Re: Scanning with too much resolution? (was:PSsharpening...)

2002-08-18 Thread Robert E. Wright
I think the two images were published in reverse order relevant to the caption. ...Bob - Original Message - From: Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:48 PM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Scanning with too much resolution?

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
I apologize if I'm getting into some else's discussion, but I suggest the following: 1. make the top layer active and choose blend mode screen 2. move the opacity to 30-40 % 3. you can make further adjustments on adjustment layers added to each of the two scans. I'm assuming you have the two

[filmscanners] Re: Tips needed on difficult scan

2002-01-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
It doesn't make any difference which layer is on top, but they must me separate scans, one optimized for shadows and one for highlights. Contrast masking is a more advanced and more powerful option but requires selecting a channel for an illumination mask and then using an adjustment layer with

[filmscanners] Re: Editing application

2001-12-30 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Alex Zabrovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:42 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Editing application What would you recommend as the most comprehensive image editing application (software) considering resource/performance

filmscanners: Vuescan Strategy

2001-12-13 Thread Robert E. Wright
Many of the recent suggestions make me question the strategy behind Vuescan. This is certainly up to Ed Hamrick, but my long time understandinghas beenthat the aim was to create a scanned image file that gave the maximum image data for adjustment in an image editor. In no case would I

Re: filmscanners: Correction for daylight slides with artificial light

2001-12-03 Thread Robert E. Wright
1- Pick the color of a white structure (I choose a ceiling near a fluorescent light); 2 - Aplly an overlay layer with the inverse of this color. Try changing the blend mode of the overlay layer to color and adjusting the opacity to taste (maybe 50%). Bob This makes a filter that I can apply

Re: filmscanners: Gizmo to make flatbed scan large format film?

2001-10-26 Thread Robert E. Wright
If you want to experiement, here's a hint: http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Herb Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: filmscanners: Gizmo to make flatbed scan large format film?

Re: filmscanners: Polacolor Histogram

2001-10-02 Thread Robert E. Wright
Can't really say about Polacolor, but in Photoshop you Control_mouse_click the dropper. rew - Original Message - From: Gerry Kaslowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:40 PM Subject: filmscanners: Polacolor Histogram What am I doing wrong that I

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan

2001-08-22 Thread Robert E. Wright
Do not have both scanner drivers running simultaneously. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Peter Marquis-Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:47 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan Steve Woolfenden wrote I just downloaded a trial

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-16 Thread Robert E. Wright
http://www.ledet.com/margulis/articles.html He expects you to use CMYK but you can see through it. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Norman Unsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:37 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not

Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-16 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Robert Meier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography I have been talking with a few wedding and commercial photographers who expressed

Re: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography

2001-08-16 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: film vs. digital cameras - wedding/commercial photography ...The digital camera gives you only 6M*8bit/channel=6Mbytes... 6Mpixels

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-15 Thread Robert E. Wright
I don't think PS LE allows access to individual channels in the curves dialog. In the full version you can select the color channel in the curves dialog and control click(PC) on a point in the image, then change the output level to the desired amount. Do this to each of the color channels before

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-14 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:24 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ? Isn't there also a way to select a color in Photoshop, either from the screen or from the palette, and

Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ?

2001-08-13 Thread Robert E. Wright
Appears you would find Chapters 10 and 11 of Professional Photoshop 6 by Dan Margulis interesting. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Steve Greenbank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Why not sRGB ? Obviously

Re: filmscanners: Bypassing the scanner software filters and getting the raw data?

2001-08-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
I think the driver software allows adjustment to exposure, color channel by color channel, and thus provides better correction, especially for negatives. I don't think the actual hardware output is fixed, the final scan is performed after you make adjustments in the driver. Other than color

Re: filmscanners: (anti)compression?

2001-08-07 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: (anti)compression? This is probably a stupid question, but how do you do an LZW compression on a TIFF file? Photoshop

Re: filmscanners: problem with monitor

2001-08-03 Thread Robert E. Wright
I'd suggest you check household power quality. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Tomasz Zakrzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: filmscanners: problem with monitor Electronic devices are hopeless. Every month some

Re: filmscanners: Re: autolevels was re: filmscanners: Vuescan blue anomaly

2001-07-26 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:43 PM Subject: filmscanners: Re: autolevels was re: filmscanners: Vuescan blue anomaly Maris wrote: Sometimes you can't use anything - rather than using the eyedropper

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED

2001-07-06 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Jawed Ashraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED David, when using Photoshop, if you convert the image to LAB mode (Image|Mode|Lab Color) then you will find that you can USM

Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000ED

2001-07-06 Thread Robert E. Wright
... Still that's nice, PS making a virtual layer for you for the last operation. Hmm... Jawed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert E. Wright Sent: 06 July 2001 18:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: Nikon

Re: filmscanners: Color Cast removal/and blue blues

2001-06-28 Thread Robert E. Wright
I've no experience with underwater images, but you may be interested in pages 135-138 of Dan Margulis' book Professional Photoshop 6. He is essentiallu suggesting blending channels and using lighten blend mode. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: mahimahi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Scanning 101...A basic question...

2001-06-12 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Arthur Entlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning 101...A basic question... Marvin Demuth wrote: I have read the recent debates over working with raw files and those produced

Re: filmscanners: Colour fix problem

2001-06-09 Thread Robert E. Wright
1. use the eyedropper to sample a midtone that contains the color cast (I used a point on the MIG's fuselage between the wing and the number) 2. fill a new layer with the sampled color and invert the layer (imageadjustinvert) 3. change the layers blend mode to 'color' and reduce opacity to

Re: filmscanners: 24bit - 48bit dilemma Work flow suggestions

2001-06-08 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Ramesh Kumar_C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:19 AM Subject: filmscanners: 24bit - 48bit dilemma Work flow suggestions Hi Sorry, for asking pre-discussed topic. Once I get following doubts cleared, I thinksmile I

Re: filmscanners: Device Profile in VueScan

2001-06-05 Thread Robert E. Wright
I think you well find the following: There are two Minolta profiles on your system (c:\windows\color if using a PC).One for negative and one for positive images. The Vuescan help file states that Device RGB is only useful if you select image as the media type. From the Vuescan help file...The

Re: filmscanners: which space?

2001-05-27 Thread Robert E. Wright
CMYK is not a reduced color space compared to RGB. Printer CMYK is. But that is because the color space of the inks is more reduced. OK. Are you suggesting that some sort of CMYK settings in Photoshop could make the CMYK mode's gamut more similar to RGB, and thus reduce the losses in RGB to

Re: filmscanners: which space?

2001-05-27 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Karl Schulmeisters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:08 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: which space? CMYK is not a reduced color space compared to RGB. Printer CMYK is. But that is because the color space of the inks is

Re: filmscanners: Minolta in W2K

2001-05-23 Thread Robert E. Wright
I have the Scan Elite and have used both the Twain and stand alone DS Elite program. I believe you had a choice at step 10 (my copy of the manual) of installation instructions. It was choose either typical or Twain File. If you chose Twain File that was all you loaded, if you chose typical you

filmscanners: remove

2001-05-13 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Ken Hornbrook To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:@harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: filmscanners: My Photography in the Park Dear Friends, I will be exibiting many of my Fine

Re: filmscanners: Book on Image Editing/Colour Correction

2001-05-10 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Robert E. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:29 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Book on Image Editing/Colour Correction Add this one to your candidates: Real World Photoshop 6 by Blatner and Fraser

Re: filmscanners: Book on Image Editing/Colour Correction

2001-05-09 Thread Robert E. Wright
Add this one to your candidates: Real World Photoshop 6 by Blatner and Fraser. - Original Message - From: Ramesh Kumar_C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:20 PM Subject: filmscanners: Book on Image Editing/Colour Correction Hi I am novice in

Re: filmscanners: Dual Scan II - striping

2001-04-22 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 4:37 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Dual Scan II - striping Vlad wrote: I send you the sample to look at. If it's the attached jpeg you were talking about - what stripes? I

Re: filmscanners: Noise (was: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-04-08 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Lynn Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:58 AM Subject: filmscanners: Noise (was: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan I'm less interested in the "why's" of the problem than in a means of dealing with it. After all,

Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan

2001-04-03 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:27 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Printing A3 from a 2700dpi scan ... I believe that for some reason there is more CCD noise in the blue channel than other channels. It

Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones

2001-04-02 Thread Robert E. Wright
demonstarate a differince between the CMYK and the new RGB. 2.Were the numbers the same or different between these two RGBs? Sinced the difference blend mode was completly black (x-x=00) I must assume so. Bob Maris - Original Message - From: "Robert E. Wright" [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: "device RGB" Vuescan has an option to tag files with the selected color space profile (except for Device RGB, which according to

Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: device RGB

2001-03-30 Thread Robert E. Wright
My point was that I don't find a ProPhoto RGB profile in the Photoshop dialog. I guess I'll just have to try it. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Bob Shomler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan: "device RGB"

Re: filmscanners: Printdpi

2001-03-29 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Richard Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 5:27 AM Subject: filmscanners: Printdpi The dpi thread leads me to ask what the best dpi for printing on an Epson printer (Stylus 600 for example) would be. My habit is

Re: filmscanners: Color saturation with Vuescan

2001-03-26 Thread Robert E. Wright
You might be interested in downloading the following PDF file, http://www.ledet.com/margulis/PP6_Chapter2.pdf Hope it helps, Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Jim Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:12 AM Subject: filmscanners: Color

Re: filmscanners: Picture Window Tutorial

2001-03-23 Thread Robert E. Wright
I'm not Roman, but am sure he meant Picture Window at: http://dl-c.com/ Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Eli Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan Hi Roman, Do you have the URL of the Windows

Re: filmscanners: 110 film

2001-03-20 Thread Robert E. Wright
You have a good point. I've seen many reports regarding digitizing Minox 8x11mm that combining optical enlargement and scanning resulting prints may be a better compromise. However, I think you must realize that the 110 format probably didn't produce the best negative or transparency because it

Re: filmscanners: 110 film

2001-03-17 Thread Robert E. Wright
It works best if you fabricate a mask from opaque paper. The attached URL is a design for scanning 8x11mm minox transparincies. http://www.bayarea.net/~ramarren/photostuff/scanmask/scan-mask.html Bob Wright - Original Message - From: John Matturri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: filmscanners: Photoshop Curves vs Levels

2001-02-11 Thread Robert E. Wright
If the curve(s) are straight lines, linear, then I guess you should be able to do the same adjustment in Levels. This image appears to cry for non-linear adjustment in separate channels. I don't think the real highlights are in skin tones. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Alan

Re: filmscanners: SS4000VuescanGrafics Program

2001-02-10 Thread Robert E. Wright
Why do you worry? The raw file has no been color adjusted. The difference beween sRGB and Adobe RGB (or any other work space) is not an image mode change, it is a profile, a definition. Data is not lost. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: John D. Horton To:

Re: filmscanners: Tweaking images in PS6

2001-02-09 Thread Robert E. Wright
I experimented with correcting old Ek slides using layers in PS and found that when printed on an EPSON 870, it appeared that there was a greenish layer over the original image. When I worked on the image directly and printed it on the same printer it looked normal, i.e. no green haze. Was

Re: filmscanners: real value?

2001-02-02 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:01 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: real value? Michael, I've got to be careful here as this is a scanners BBS not a printer BBS but I wonder why there are so few people

Re: filmscanners: [OFF] problem with image brightness

2001-01-29 Thread Robert E. Wright
Both the attached image and the web site image look OK on my moniter. Using PC and Win98se. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: fotografia - tomasz zakrzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:58 AM Subject: filmscanners: [OFF] problem with image

Re: filmscanners: orange mask

2001-01-14 Thread Robert E. Wright
I clicked on the URL in your message and it opened OK. Having tried it, I really don't recommend the procedure in the site though. - Original Message - From: Roman Kielich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:52 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: orange mask

Re: filmscanners: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 or 6

2001-01-12 Thread Robert E. Wright
that very many users use the great majority of what it offers. "Robert E. Wright" wrote: Suggest you investigate the color range tool under the select menu. Normally it works quite well on sky selections. I don't know about Photoshop LE, but the magic wand has not changed in

Re: filmscanners: orange mask

2001-01-12 Thread Robert E. Wright
Why not "invert" and do the color correction? - Original Message - From: Julian Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 4:57 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: orange mask I don't know why all scanners don't handle orange mask by looking at a bit

Re: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web

2001-01-11 Thread Robert E. Wright
Finally!? - Original Message - From: Austin Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 5:59 PM Subject: RE: So it's the bits? (Was: filmscanners: Sprintscan 120 nowon B+H web In other words number of bits does NOT define Dmax, it only defines

Re: filmscanners: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 or 6

2001-01-11 Thread Robert E. Wright
Suggest you investigate the color range tool under the select menu. Normally it works quite well on sky selections. I don't know about Photoshop LE, but the magic wand has not changed in several versions of Photoshop. The add, subtract, and exclude options on the new options pallete were

Re: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners

2001-01-10 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: shAf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners Rob writes ... "photoscientia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that changing the so-called

Re: filmscanners: Scanning Polachrome slides

2000-11-21 Thread Robert E. Wright
. Bob - Original Message - From: Hemingway, David J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:43 AM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanning Polachrome slides Bob, I don't know first hand but will ask. David -Original Message- From: Robert E. Wright

Re: filmscanners: RE:

2000-11-06 Thread Robert E. Wright
Al, how have you concluded that the Scan Elite software does all its calculations on 8 bit data? Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Bond, Alistair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: filmscanners: RE: Henk wrote: Just bought

filmscanners: Re:

2000-11-04 Thread Robert E. Wright
A shot in the darkMake sure you haven't selected 16bit linear color depth in the preferences dialog. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Henk Zegwaard To: Filmscanners Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:41 AM Hi i am Henk. Just bought a Minolta

Re: Question: Do any program settings affect the way Vuescan scans?

2000-10-26 Thread Robert E. Wright
I think you'll find the choice between negative or positive (slide) will affect exposure of separate channels in the scan. Bob Wright - Original Message - From: Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:17 PM Subject: RE: Question: Do any

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Robert E. Wright
Why would you want to use a flatbed scanner for contact sheets when you have a better film scanner? Any film scanner? You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact sheet" in software. Many catalog programs and other programs provide "browsers" for this purpose. Photoshop

Re: Need a Photoshop suggestion!

2000-10-12 Thread Robert E. Wright
- Original Message - From: Bond, Alistair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:50 AM Subject: Need a Photoshop suggestion! Hi folks! I wonder if anyone can give me some pointers on how to achieve something in Photoshop. My Elite has a couple