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Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

2014-09-19 by Mark Savoia

Which selection tools are you using? I just did a quick magic wand with tolerance set to 5 and it selected your sky pretty easy, and thats on a screen capture of your image only, which is very low res.

Mark
www.stillrivereditions.com

On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:01 PM, paulmwhiting@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Thanks, Jimbo, I've been studying your suggestions. I'm having a problem because the area I'm selecting is so close to the object. I think I mentioned I'm working with a scan of a b/w negative, and the grey of the sky is so close to the grey of the structure that the selection tool (and I've tried several tools) "spills over" very easily into the building. 
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> I thought it might help to see the image... I have an area of my website called "Utility" where I place images I can't upload to some sites, such as this one.
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> I appreciate your help!
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> Paul 
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