Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> If you invest the time and effort to learn what PhotoShop > can do, you will have no doubts that digital can surpass film - Tina, as you well know, scanned film IS digital, and you can easily get the same results (if not better, as you have more to work with) from film as you can from digital. > even in the > dynamic range category. Hum. No, not if you're talking about digital capture. If you're talking about scanning film, then yes, you can get "more" dynamic range (not more density range BTW) from a digital print than you can from a darkroom print. > It does take time and effort to learn how to use > it. I think I could study PhotoShop for the rest of my life and never > learn everything that it can do. It is an extremely complex and powerful > program. I am amazed every day at what I can do with PhotoShop, > but you do > have to dedicate a lot of hours to learning how to use it. On the other > hand, it is fun!! Well, I see a lot of people using PhotoShop as a crutch for bad photography (certainly no hint of that WRT you...), and most of the high end digital people I know don't actually do much with PS, they simply get the image right on film (or in the camera for digital capture), and use PS for dust spotting, tonal curves and occasionally something more complicated...but for the most part, the image is not very manipulated. PS certainly can "rescue" a badly shot/developed image better than you can in the darkroom, but that should be the exception, not the rule. Regards, Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html