Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tony!!

I agree. Don't let any programmer do the thinking for you. They can hardly shuffle a deck of cards.

gar



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On 1/4/08 at 2:54 AM Tony Sleep wrote:

>On 04/01/2008 Gary Weaver wrote:
>> I'm still partially wedded to the 90's notion that you scan for the 
>> final output. That's a math thing.
>
>Not the best way, because CCD scanners work best at their optical 
>resolution. Any resampling/resizing is better done in PS, which has more 
>sophisticated interpolation.
>
>> We usually forget that and just scan high (not weed).
>> 
>> 14-15mb to 25mb of RGB data is what I look for to feed my editor from 
>> 35mm film. I make more data if I need to do heavy manipulation.
>> 
>> If the epson does hi-bit, a hi-bit at lower res might be better?? 
>> everything depends on your intended output(vision).
>
>If you are wanting quality
>- scan to 16bit TIFF at optical res in Adobe 1998 RGB or better
>- edit curves, levels, colour correct, do any other post prod possible in 
>16 bit
>- save that file as a master post-produced TIFF or PSD, in 8 bit if you 
>must. Do not sharpen it.
>- use that file for producing smaller/larger copies as wanted via 
>interpolation, in whatever colour space you need for web or printing, 
>reduced to 8 bit etc, JPEG or whatever, sharpened as necessary for the 
>output size and medium (print needs more than screen).
>
>> One little game I play is to make a file for my print. If it goes 
>> straight though the driver without reformatting, I feel I did it 
>> right.
>
>What you want to try and avoid is interpolation up or down in either the 
>scanner driver or printer driver, because they are usually lousy at it. 
>The workflow above uses PS for interpolation, but printing interpolation 
>can equally be done in Qimage - which is very good at it, and applies 
>appropriate sharpening at the same time. I am also a fan of Vuescan from 
>www.hamrick.com (shareware) which generally beats the pants off OE scanner 
>software once you learn your way around it, and has better interpolation 
>if you really must resample at the scanning stage.
>
>-- 
>Regards
>
>Tony Sleep
>http://tonysleep.co.uk
>
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