Digital BW, The Print

The scanning software is probably going to be too "helpful" when 
you're making you're adjustments. I just set the white and black 
points scanned as positive, then do the rest in Photoshop.

Tim

> I keep seeing suggestions that black and white negatives be scanned 
> as color transparencies. However, when this is done the negative 
> appears as a negative on the monitor and it's hard to know what 
> adjustments to make when you can only see the image as a negative. My 
> question: if I do the overview and prescan as a negative (so that the 
> image appears as a positive on the monitor while I'm making 
> adjustments), and then switch to color transparency mode before the 
> final scan, will I obtain the advantages of scanning as a color 
> transparency or to obtain those advantages do I need to be in 
> transparency mode throughout the scanning process (overview, prescan, 
> and scan)?

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Tim Spragens

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