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Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

2014-09-18 by mrjimbo2

Hi again Paul,
I agree with the suggestion of a second monitor.. It works great....... but back to your mission at hand.. Adjusting tonality selectively within the image.. Making an adjustment mask is a great way to do this yet another is to copy a portion of the image to another layer adjusting that to where you want it then using a soft edge eraser blend that into the original layer.. By the way I also use a channel mask for selective sharpening also ..It's the cats meow.. If that interests you do a search for a sharpening mask.. It's old technology but still works well today.. Good Luck

jimbo
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  From: paulmwhiting@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] 
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  Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:46 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w


    
  Thanks for the encouragement and for the second monitor suggestion. As luck would have it, when I got my new Desktop a few weeks ago I ended up with a second monitor. My tech said "You'll wonder how you got along without it". So true, what you said... I used the second monitor for just the purpose you suggested. I used to have to print out the instructions, etc and place that hard copy on my desk for reference. Rather awkward to say the list.

  Thanks also for the off-group offer, Elliot. May take you up on that!

  Regards,

  Paul

  
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Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

2014-09-19 by paulmwhiting@...

Thanks, Jimbo, I've been studying your suggestions. I'm having a problem because the area I'm selecting is so close to the object. I think I mentioned I'm working with a scan of a b/w negative, and the grey of the sky is so close to the grey of the structure that the selection tool (and I've tried several tools) "spills over" very easily into the building.

I thought it might help to see the image... I have an area of my website called "Utility" where I place images I can't upload to some sites, such as this one.

I appreciate your help!

Paul

Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

2014-09-19 by Mark Savoia

Which selection tools are you using? I just did a quick magic wand with tolerance set to 5 and it selected your sky pretty easy, and thats on a screen capture of your image only, which is very low res.

Mark
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On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:01 PM, paulmwhiting@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Thanks, Jimbo, I've been studying your suggestions. I'm having a problem because the area I'm selecting is so close to the object. I think I mentioned I'm working with a scan of a b/w negative, and the grey of the sky is so close to the grey of the structure that the selection tool (and I've tried several tools) "spills over" very easily into the building. 
> 
> I thought it might help to see the image... I have an area of my website called "Utility" where I place images I can't upload to some sites, such as this one.
> 
> I appreciate your help!
> 
> Paul 
> 
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Re: [Digital BW] Re: scanning b/w negs vs converting color digital file to b/w / Paul

2014-09-19 by paulmwhiting@...

Mark et al,

I tried Magic Wand, and although I had tried it earlier, I paid a little more attention this time. Yes, it was better this time around, thank you for your suggestion.

I've decided I've simply got to learn all these tools better, and not just the tool as is, but the Option bars for those tools as well. I can read about them but there's no substitute for simply playing around with them.

Right now, the tough part for me is the edge where the sky means the corrugated surface of that roof. I'm still getting a pretty ragged interface.

Thanks all, time for me to do some studying and get back to the drawing board. And to get back to trying out the various Tools and their Options.

Regards,

Paul

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