Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: > I think that for the purposes I am using the SW for, that reversing the > image to a positive is always required at the time of scanning. Ditto the > reversal and flip you need to do to make the images appear right side up > and > unreversed from negatives. . I really have no interest in looking at > plain > negatives, only the positive output. > Vuescan normally works that way. This is the first time I tried to save as DNG. I guess raw, is raw and a raw scan is exactly what you scan, a negative in this case. So a negative will look like a negative in RAW. I think I'll still to TIFF's. > No PS V-anything here..... even the Academic version is too expensive for > my taste..... I going to try to do edits in LR2 for now..... If needed, I > can go get PS4 ( or whatever name they attached to it.... > TIFFs work ok in Lightroom. I guess some advantages of Lightroom are lost (non-destructive editing). But you can always back-up your TIFFs before you work with them. I've always done it like that. Lightroom is definitely geared to digital capture. I wouldn't expect it to work so well with scans (mind you, it works just fine), since that's an insignificant share of the market. You can spend a bunch of bucks, but you can get really far with Photoshop Elements too, or Lightroom. I agree about the price of Photoshop. I am considering going over to a Mac and the biggest hurdle is Photoshop. I can use my Lightroom license on my new machine (I'll not be using it concurrently on a PC), but I'd have to buy Photoshop from scratch. That is "ouch". Daniel