Albano, The methods that I have seen all the others tell you to use, are very complicated, and I believe quite unnecessary. Are you wanting to color correct for a fine art type print? Or do you just want to see good color on your monitor and small prints for yourself? Anyway, here's what I do everyday at the paper for every picture that I work. After scanning the neg, I will open Levels and click "Auto" Nine times out of ten (you must have the "preview" box checked to see the effects), simply doing that will give me just what I want. If the colors are still off, I will click on the white eyedropper (on the levels menu), and click on a portion of the image that I know to be white (if you are having trouble clicking just the part that you want hit "tab" to go to the "precise" cursor). If the colors are still off after that I will do the same with the black eyedropper. If the colors are ~still~ off, I will adjust each individual channel. To adjust an individual channel simply select the channel that you want to adjust from the drop down menu over the histogram. Then use the grey slider under the histogram to adjust that particular color, if you move it to the right (I think) it will take away that particular color, if you move it the other way it will add that color. Feel free to ask any more questions you have... -- Nick Wright http://www.wrightfoto.com/
---------- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: color correction in photoshop >Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2002, 12:12 PM > > Mishka wrote: > Levels are fine for most purposes. > My usual workflow is > - -- add a threshold layer > - -- set the threshold to the max dark. that would show you the lightest > spots, your white point selection. > - -- with the eye-dropper, mark the spots > - -- do the same moving threshold to the max white. here's your white > point > - -- open the levels, set the white, black and grey points with the > levels' eyedropper > - -- fix the gamma. > this usually takes about than 5 min/scan and covers most situations. > > ///////// There's more than one eyedropper. Which one should I use? > > Albano > - > 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 .
