Digital BW, The Print

Well everyone has their workflow that works for them and they think is  
the simplest and easiest. Yours is just one of the many, many ways  
with that approach. Only thing I see as an issue is why you need to do  
that much adjusting of your scanned negs? Perhaps you need to work on  
your scanner software so it gets things much closer.

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Apr 14, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:

> I'm a bw film photographer & need to learn how to print my scanned
> negs digitally. In CS4, I've discovered that if I open my scanned
> tiff's in Adobe Camera Raw, I can find pretty much all the adjustments
> I need (mostly exposure & contrast) to keep my street look. I then
> save the adjustments, open the file in Photoshop, probably apply a
> gradient & then straight to print. It seems like I'm missing a world
> of Photoshop possibilities, but if I tool around too much in PS, the
> shots look too studied. Is anyone else using the simplified approach?
> Comments appreciated.