Yes, set the white and black points in the scanner software to get the most
even range of tones.
The scanner file output should optimally not be a full 0 and 255 but rather
your suggested ~5 or 6 and ~245-250. If you in fact want full 0 and/or 255
points you are better off doing that once you op
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:12:13 -0800 JimD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> The more I scan images with my ss4000 the more I realize
> how much I need to learn.
You are not wrong.
> Should I be setting white and black points in the
> scanning software(Vuescan, insight, SilverFast...whatever)
> t
> With 8bit, you don't have much scope for adjustments after
> acquisition, so
> should get as close as possible to the final, desired result. The
> reason is
> that with 8 bits, you get rounding errors during successive mathematical
> operations on the data.
That's kind of only part of the reaso
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:41:14 -0400 Austin Franklin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > that with 8 bits, you get rounding errors during successive mathematical
> > operations on the data.
>
> That's kind of only part of the reason. It has to do with re-mapping 8 bit
> values to 8 bit values, you lo
