Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

But if your scanner only scans at 10, 12, or 14 bit, you would surely be
much better to do the scans at 16bit in PS, even if it means going from 8bit
output to 16 bit in PS, before doing them. And your method depends on the
scanner software being as good as PS in doing the tonal corrections - many
aren't from what I read. You also can't save the various stages of tonal
correction if you do them in the scanner.

In PS I can save each stage in high-bit tonal correction, in case I want to
go back and change something. Vuescan allows some tonal changes to be made
to the saved raw scan, but I still believe that most are best done in PS,
and Bruce Fraser recommends sending images to the printer in 16bit, thus
allowing PS to convert to the printer color space in 16bit, rather than
8bit.

Bob Frost

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>

If you do your tone curves in the scanner driver, it will be done on high
bit data, no matter whether you are getting 8 bit or high bit data out.  My
workflow is to do ALL my tonal corrections in the original scan, and save as
8 bit data, and do NO tonal corrections in PS.