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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Transfer curves -- what's desirable?

2002-05-05 by David Dyer-Bennet

"craig_spaulding" <craig_spaulding@...> writes:

> David,
> 
> Thanks for the answers.
> 
> re: setting the black/white points of the wtep-wedge:
> 
> Sorry I was unclear - No, I was just stating that as a reason why I 
> couldn't set the white/black points of the step-wedge in my scanning 
> software - it is brain dead. I CAN scan the step-wedges, but I was 
> wondering if it was possible to set the white/black points once it's 
> imported into Photoshop --or-- if they had to be set in the scanning 
> software for this method to work effectively? 

Ah, I see.  Perfectly acceptable to leave that until Photoshop (or
just not bother to adjust them; doesn't matter what the image *looks*
like, after all, and it won't change the amount of information
available). 
-- 
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