Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, If you are using photoshop I would recommend you reading two books: the Photoshop Bible and Photoshop Artisty. The first book does a good job of telling you how to use the Photoshop features and the second explains how to apply that specifically as a photographer, it even has a section on the Zone system and Photoshop. Ignore all the stuff about Photshop glitzy effects in both books, concentrate on the Toolbar, Rubber Stamp for retouching, Levels for brightness and contrast adjustment, Selections for choosing parts of the image, and Layers and Masks for more complex editing and you can probably be a Photoshop pro in a few evenings work. Don't try to learn Photoshop alone, it's very frustrating indeed. While admittedly I don't have the best scanner in the world (HP S20) my results are pretty good. I have found that Tri-X and TMAX 100 seems to scan kind-of-grainy but maybe I need to alter my developing time to suit the scanner. I've Kodachrome on the other hand scans subperbly on the S20. Jonathan Lee