Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Here is the original scan. Very contrasty with dark shadows like many of > my scans of film shot in bright sunlight. That's why I tried the new H/S > sliders in LR4. Any suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated. > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/140958922 This "original" has much more neutral color balance the the first you posted. It's awfully difficult to determine, from an online .jpg, what the file really has in it. In Lightroom the first things I'd do: lower the contrast apply fill just to try and determine what kind of mid tone, skin tone, and shadow detail can be pulled from the file. Depending on what those moves tells me I may work with the curve and probably selective color desaturation. If you care to send a copy of the file I'd love to take a crack at it. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist