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Re: Flesh tone to shadow transition jagged/ugly. Why?

2005-06-22 by neilsphoto

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> Hello Neil;
> 
> Gives us some more info:
> 
> What does your histogram look like? Is it combed?
> 
Uh I don't know.  I'd have to look.  What does it mean if it is combed?

> Do you shoot in raw and convert to 16 bit tiff, 8-bit tiff, JPEG;
> 

I'm shooting RAW and everything (levels, contrast, upsize etc) is 16
bit.  I never take it out of that to 8 bit.  I generally save as TIFF.


Neil

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