Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know a number of the luggers use B&W Studio for B&W conversion etc. Are there any values for users starting with B&W images (e.g. scanned Tri X)? In particular, the "zones" filter seems somewhat interesting. Related to that, if I understand the zone system correctly, it's about placing tonal values on whatever zones the photographer wants. With photoshop, we can do it with curves of course, but I am wondering if anyone would be interested in a (tool/plug-in) that allows you to specify where the place the zones, e.g. may be by default, it will displace "zone masks" over the picture, and you can specify where you really want the tonal zones to fall and the SW will move / compress / extend the tonal ranges to match what you want. Does that make sense? Or is this what the "zones" in B&W Studio or some other tools do already? // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)