Digital BW, The Print

martin, thanks a lot. I'll try that!

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 4George De Wolfe - GF usage


> Julian,
>
> I am sorry to report that George has left the group as well as the
> Piezo group overwhelmed by the volume of posts the two lists
> generates and the demands of his own schedule. He is still on the
> Piezo Pro list, which I gather is by invitation only. He will be
> missed. He is a great guy. If you go back to one of his posts on this
> list, open it, and click on his e-mail address you can send him a
> message directly. I would say your chances of an answer are high.
>
> In the meantime I will take a shot at your questions:
>
> I believe that he wants you get the exact optical resolution out of
> the scanner. Genuine Fractals will no a much better job of resampling
> your files that any resampling software either Vuescan, Silverfast or
> whatever. I think he is speaking of resampling not resizing.
>
> I am not quite following your next quesion and you may be mixing scan
> dpi, final print dpi and print size. The important thing is the scan
> dpi. If you don't resample, the file size stays the same no matter
> what the print size is.
>
> I have not worked with GF but from what I have read this is a step
> you would apply just prior to printing and would not necessarily save
> to your primary file but perhaps to a print file for a specific sized
> print.
>
> I would take a raw scan from Vuescan, resize it without resampling in
> PS, do all your manipulations, save this as a master file. Prior to
> printing resample using GF, sharpen if desired and then print.
>
> I know George is a big fan of Silverfast and I like it too. That
> doesn't mean you can't accomplish the same things with different
> tools and workflows. Since you will have both, you can try it each
> way.
>
> Hope some of that helps.
>
> Martin
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas"
> <julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> > Hi George,
> > After my qs to the list re what to do with an epson 1680, I've now
> got your
> > article from Camera Arts. I have 2 questions: why do you say that
> it is
> > important not to allow the scanner software to set a size, but to
> output at
> > 100% and resize in GF? Also why is Silverfast so vital as opposed to
> > something like Vuescan?
> > I normally use only BW 35 film (now changing), printing to Piezo. I
> scan at
> > 4000dpi 16bit 'raw' and allow Vuescan to give me a file sized at
> about 12in
> > max width (about a 20meg file). I then save in GF and up or down
> the size
> > slightly from there. I used to use an older version of Silverfast
> (which I
> > paid for!!) but wasn't happy with the raw scans.
> >
> > Julian
> > -----------------------------------
> > Julian Thomas
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> > 08037 Barcelona
> >
> > tfno 679676321
>
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