Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam Bridge wrote: > So why use the scanner software at all and just do it in a tool > designed for pixel manipulation: Photoshop? > > Yes, you can adjust the input curves in your scanning software, but > that's no different than adjusting the curves in Photoshop. > > So lots of time spent scanning seems wasted - get the pixels in and > then deal with them in Photoshop. > > I'm totally willing to be convinced this is wrong-thinking but you're > going to have to demonstrate why this is the case. Adam, You raise exactly the point I was trying to make when I stated here http://homepage.mac.com/chammann/foto/Personal35.html that I scan my B&W negatives as positives. I think It does matter how you scan because, like any digital recording medium (not different from a digital camera's sensor), a scanner puts the emphasis on the lower half of the light values (the bottom half of the histogram). Values in the higher zones get less differentiated. So yo get two different tonalities that can only be modified later on in Photoshop. Case in point: same negative of a rock abstract, scanned as a positive: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/515678/display/5652501 And scanned as a negative: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/cat/1758/display/5672679 Excuse thew slightly different cropping. I prefer the tonality of the first one. Greetings, Christoph