Digital BW, The Print

I can not. Will update my Safari. It' s a shame.
      Renato

--- Em sex, 31/7/09, Mark Savoia <mark@...> escreveu:

De: Mark Savoia <mark@...>
Assunto: Re: [Digital BW] Help! Scanning B&W negs
Para: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Data: Sexta-feira, 31 de Julho de 2009, 20:05












 
 




    
                  Can somebody explain to me what all the  are in this post?



Mark

http://www.stillriv ereditions. com



On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:30 PM, renato cury wrote:



> Hello Walter,

> Â Â  Â  Â When you bought your scanner it came with a SilverFast  

> Disc ( probably Ai version) , two IT-8 targets ( one 4x5  

> transparency and one 5x7 reflective) and  a Monaco Easy program.   

> Â  Â  Â Install and use Silver Fast instead of Epson Scanner Driver  

> if you are not already doing so. Â  What follows is my way of using  

> it for BW negatives, chromogenic or not:

> Â Â  Â  Â -Use HDR (16 bits per channel ) . There is a box of  

> configurations where you will find an option for defining HDR gamma.  

> Try gamma 2.2 for HDR.        HDR will permit you to scan only  

> as a RGB positive and does not leave you  apply any correction nor  

> unsharp mask, etc. You will get a very flat negative image.       

> Â -Define scan resolution numbers at 100% . Avoid " broken  

> numbers" . Find  the one that gives you the nearest file size of  

> our interest among 1200, 2400, 3200 or 4800 ( the maximum for your  

> scanner ). Â Â Â  Â  Â  -Open it in Photoshop. Ignore or accept the  

> embeded profile from Silver Fast, but dont convert it to any RGB  

> that has a gamma diferent from the one you are thinking to use when  

> editing your grayscales . ( Prophoto, for instance has a gamma 1.8,  

> Adobe 98 has a gamma 2.2 ). I supose that your color settings in PS  

> are configured to preserve profiles when opening and to ask when  

> finding an embeded profile different

> from the one you have choosen for RGB color space.        -Look  

> at the image at 100% or more (200%, 400%) and choose the best  

> channel in terms of sharpness( in my 4990 is the green channel and  

> in my V750 is the blue ). Select the best channel and convert it to  

> gray gamma 2.2 ( 16 bits). Take a look at the histograms of each  

> channel too and check if the channel you`ve choosen is not  

> clipped .      -Invert the image. Go to adjustment layers/curves  

> and adjust for what you want.Â

> Â Â  If your negatives are very similar one to each other you may  

> use a set of all these actions but still can adjust the adjustment  

> layer for each case.Â

> Â Â  Â  Apply un-sharp mask (s) Â after defining the print size. Â Â  

> Â Â  Â  Â  Renato Â

>

> --- Em sex, 31/7/09, Walter Oliver <wso@comcast. net> escreveu:




 

      

    
    
	
	 
	
	




	




	
	


	
	
	




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