Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can't figure out how to send an original file. I used to use You Send It all the time, but now they have started charging a fee. I downloaded DropBox but every time I try to send a file, it says I have exceeded the 25 MB limit. What is the use of that! If anybody knows how to send a large file, please let me know. Thanks, Tina On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com