Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Trying to improve my scans
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:28:53 -0500
 
> The first thing people need to find out is that
> Brightness/Contrast are destructive controls, and should never be
> used.  The second is that Adjustment Layers are Adobe's greatest
> gift to photographers.

You should do most, if not all, of your adjustments in your scanner
software, unless you scan in either raw mode or high-bit mode.  If you
don't, you will get posterizing.

As far as brightness and contrast, that is not true for B&W.