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Re: Workflow assistance?

2014-07-25 by michael3442@...

Jimbo, thanks for looking at the images. Regarding the scanning, I made a "raw scan" of the negative which has no scanner software adjustments involved - just the bare scan and out to a tif file. (Raw scans appear dull, dark, and muddy but contain all the information on the negative.) I've experimented with adding basic adjustments in the scanning software, but I can't find any advantage to doing so if a full workup of a file will follow anyway.

Again the area of difficulty is getting the tree tips to show against the overcast sky, when the tips range from slightly darker to lighter than the sky. It's like masking blond hair against a white background. And I want to end up with the entire sky at a specific luminosity level, in this case, 243.

You mention not seeing a levels adjustment layer in my workflow; I skipped that and included those adjustments in my overall curve layer. And you mentioned making a custom sharpening mask in a channel. I'm afraid your words fall on uneducated ears, I'm not familiar with that process, but, as the saying goes, I'm "all ears" to learn about it.

BTW, last summer we visited some friends at their ranch somewhere is the Martinsdale reservoir area; and, I lived in Bozeman for a couple of years in the '70s. Thanks again.

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