Digital BW, The Print

on 8/30/01 8:02 PM, Dave Tevis at dave@... wrote:

> This might be a tad of topic but someone here may have the
> answer. I am scanning 2 1/4 with my epson 1600 using
> Silverfast Scan software. Silverfast gives great control over
> scanning chromes, and b/w, as long as I don't scan HiBit. But I'll
> be darned if I can get a good scan in HiBit from Silverfast. The
> scans are dark and difficult to adjust in PS. Yet scans from the
> Epson driver in HiBit (even with the crude controls) turn out much
> better. So much better that I must be doing something wrong but
> can't figure it out. Any ideas?

the hi bit output from Silverfast is not gamma corrected. All the
information is there but to correct it in photoshop you need to do a levels
command to set b/w points (use auto with 0% clipping) and then  change the
gamma either using the centre slider in levels or by applying levels and
going into curves and fiddling with the midtones.

As someone else said it is possible to output gamma corrected 16-bit files
from Silverfast. You set this in options somewhere... with a check
box...would look it up for you but disk crash has taken out all my apps this
week. 
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John Brownlow

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