Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guessing ... it shows how the different graphs (Red, Green, Blue) look. Put in a shot taken in mixed lighting and you'll see how they diverge. It's new for this version, so I'm not sure. Daniel On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Julian Koplen wrote: > Vuescan Folks, > > What is the bottom histogram graph for, since the top graph, with its two > sliders, seems to give all the "histogram" function that is needed? The > bottom one has no sliders that I can find. (I am looking at the "Preview > Hist." tab.) Thanks in advance. > > Julian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:04 AM > Subject: PS Re: [Leica] Vuescan > > > If you look in the boxes with numbers on the left you find "white" and > "black" (at least ... more for color). Moving the sliders just rewrites > those numbers. Before this latest version I would just enter the numbers > manually (they can get small ".005". But they can't get less than zero. It > was when the numbers for "white" got so small that I couldn't move the > slider anymore. But then I realized there wasn't much point to it either. > "0" means "take it all". Larger number than 0 start translating the > top-end of "grey-to-white" to white. > > 0 - don't do any (forget the term) "kipping" ? ? > .05 - start giving me white a little earlier than usual (these numbers are > percentages I think) > 1 - really early (for a very flat negative) (= turn the top 1% of the > pixels to white) > 2 - even flatter negative. > > The same thing for black ... but the other end of the scale. > > Then in color you can adjust red, green, and blue individually. I've never > done that, but it could come in handy for mixed lighting. > > No defense here ... the interface is rotten. But it gives you a lot of > control. > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Tina Manley wrote: > > > At 03:33 AM 1/28/2005, you wrote: > > >Oh yes ... there are occassions when the right hand side (highlights) > will > > >not budge anymore to the right. I think that's when its automatic > settings > > >have already bottomed out and there's nothing more that can be done. > > >That's only happened to me once, but it has happened. > > > > > >Best, > > >Daniel > > > > That's what I'm seeing. I was hoping I could move the pointer all the > > way > > to the right and adjust the highlights later in PS, but it won't > > budge. I'm getting that on most of my scans. Don't know why! > > > > Thanks - > > > > Tina > > > > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >