Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:12 AM 9/2/2008, you wrote: >neg. I'm not sure what your negs look like, but I found scanning >them three times for the shadows, midtones and highlights and >combining them in Photomatix Pro. You can adjust the midtone, >highlight and shadow contrast separately that way and combine an >image from a much wider dynamic range than your scanner has - it's >like digital dodging and burning but looks better than using >adjustment layers in PS. It's probably only worth considering for a >few very special images, unless you have plenty of time - it's a >very labour intensive process. >Marty Thanks, Marty. I appreciate your suggestions. I do have Photomatix Pro and am going to try the three scan method as soon as I get back home to my scanner. Are you scanning as tiffs and then converting to DNG RAW before using Photomatix? I'm willing to spend the time, but I have several hundred thousand negatives to do ;-) I may not have enough time left! Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com