Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In article <3C26C370.D4F70ECF@webshuttle.ch>, Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> writes: > too much, then I get undesireable artifacts. I guess the bottom line is that > scanners simply do not like film that is too dense. Yep. That's a big problem. But there is an (not so easy) way out: scan those dense images twice. Once with preferences on the highlights and once with preferences on the shadows. Both won't be really good, but you can combine them if you put them into two layers and play with the layer combinations a bit. This often gives you nice ways out of too-dense images. Another (easier) way is to first fiddle a bit in the levels tool, instead of using brightness and contrast. It often gives much better results and less artifacts. If it can't fix it, use the above one. If you happened to take a series with varying exposure, you can combine those images, too. There is even a photoshop action at http://www.fredmiranda.com/DRI/index.html This is made originally for digital cameras but should work with scans, too. Increases the dynamic range of your images quite a bit. I didn't try it myself, but I played with the manual way a bit. bye, Georg - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html