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Re: [colorvision_group] Levels Adjustments
2006-10-31 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 10/31/06 1:55:49 AM, jpgentry@... writes:
About 10% of my work is scaning pencil and oil art and printing. In
order to match the original I always must play with levels in Photoshop
to add punch back to the image. Is there a rule of thumb to doing this
or should this always just be eyeballed?
It depends on how much of the pencil quality you wish to retain, versus how "inky" you want it, on the dark end, and how much paper tone, and possibly scumble, you want on the light end. Its all a matter of artistic intent, so the rules are what you choose to make them.
The scanner is an epson and is profiled. The printer is a Epson
9600/4000 profiled with PFP on Hahnemuhle (spelling?) paper.
Profiling a scanner is not relevant for such work. After all, as soon as you make an adjustment for intent, the profiles out the window, and you are working visually in the scanner preview, or in Photoshop. I tend to scan such stuff high bit, raw, into Photoshop, and adjust there. But if you have a really good scanner application like Silverfast, you may choose to adjust there. Either way, if you are making adjustments, you are not really using the scanner profile... using a scanner profile requires locking down all adjustments.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@colorvision.com
www.colorvision.com