RE: [Leica] dry & wet darkroom :-(

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

And be SURE to pick up a copy of The Digital Darkroom, from Silver Pixel
Press, which will tell you more than the other two books and in far fewer
pages. An absolute "must have" for anyone doing black and white "dry"
darkroom work..

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Lee,
> Jonathan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:38 AM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] dry & wet darkroom :-(
>
>
> 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
>