Re: [Leica] Theatrical shot

["Julian Koplen" <jkoplen@mindspring.com>]

RP,

Although I am not an artist with PW Pro, I was successful in running it with
a set-up similar to yours.  Prior to upgrading, I ran it on a Gateway PII,
120 MHz, with 48 Mb ram and then with 128 Mb.  I did get a spate of lock-ups
in activating my HP S20 scanner through PW Pro.  This was remedied by
unplugging the scanner both from electric current and from the computer
itself. My scanned files were around 17-18 Mb.

My guess is either that you have insufficient RAM or that you have a
conflict with some other unrelated program running on your machine.

Good luck.........Julian
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "rp johnson" <rpjohnson2@mindspring.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Theatrical shot



> Dave:  Thanks!  The trial version of Picture Window Pro allows 16-bit
> B&W.  I scanned the neg on my Nikon LS-2000 with Vuescan, and then did
> curves adjustments in PWP until I got it looking right.  It needed two
> intermediate points besides the black and white point, one for shadow
> detail, and one for highlight detail.  It took some very subtle tweaks to
> the curve.  Then I converted to 8-bit, downsampled it it 5:1 for the
> screen, spotted and applied unsharp mask.

Peter,

I see that you are using Picture Window Pro (the trial version).  I tried
the trial version and it continually GP faulted on me, so I never had a
chance to see how it worked.  Obviously, you seem to have gotten it to work.
I am running a PII @233 mhz and Windows 98.  Are you running PWP on a Mac?
(I don't think that there is such a beast, but what do I know?).

Anyway, I am interested in this as an alternative to Photoshop (less $$$ and
takes less resources), but was stymied by the fact that the trial version
would not run on my system.  I'd be interested in hearing if you had any
problems and how you solved them.

RP Johnson

PS.  I am glad that your family was not involved in the attacks today.  My
sister used to work in the Pentagon, but she retired a couple of years ago
and now lives in Sequim.