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    greyscale/RGB convert V.S. Color Channels (monochrome)

    "The most correct greyscale you can get is by switching to lab mode, and then selecting the Lightness channel." After Lab mode is the file still in RGB? We already spend 5 hours/4 days a week-- scanning for the last 5 years..maybe we should create an action. A image takes an average 1/2 hour...
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    greyscale/RGB convert V.S. Color Channels (monochrome)

    Have been taking extra time to use the channel mixer (checking-monochrome)and select each band's percentage ...to acheive a neutral B&W. Recently I have been skipping the procedure and a the end of all performances simply converting to greyscale and then direclty back to RGb....any loss of...
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    Greyscale converting VS Channel Mix and Monochrome

    Have been taking extra time to use the channel mixer (checking-monochrome)and select each band's percentage ...to acheive a neutral B&W. Recently I have been skipping the procedure and a the end of all performances simply converting to greyscale and then direclty back to RGb....any loss of...
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    Scanner and Firewire/Twain operation

    WIsh you could help on the FIrewire matter...must be something simple....maybe I should remove every TWAIN drive listed in XP ?? Glad you liked the StarTrek Spoof--My neighbor was one of the great effects creators for the series --amongst other great sci-fi flicks...
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    Scanner and Firewire/Twain operation

    >>> having problems with our new Minolta Pro? Using CS and when accessing the TWAIN for the scanner--it is still giving us errors pertaining to the SCSI ID (error #4 cannot locate SCSI ID or # ) We switched out the SCSI card for a Firewire ?? How do we fool photoshop CS and XP Pro >> into...
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    COLOR SETTINGS>>Spot DOt Gain ??

    I use all Hasselblad 2 1/4 cameras..All shot on film and then scanned on a Minolta Dimage...Next year I will go directly to Canon D1s..But for now I spend hours a day scanning 25 years of images.
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    COLOR SETTINGS>>Spot DOt Gain ??

    Thanks again for all the guidance ..I will let the settings ly. And will look further--- for the book you suggested!! cjogo
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    COLOR SETTINGS>>Spot DOt Gain ??

    My neighbor is with Mac--not for me..only PC !!! I will note the system, I am relating to, in the future. Sorry for the confusion. Just noticed that most info states 1.8 gamma for PC and I wondered about the Dot gain settings,,,,I will continue to search here in the forums.... thanks...
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    COLOR SETTINGS>>Spot DOt Gain ??

    Any hints on where to set the Spot Gain--seems to be default @ 20% ---also my Pc Gamma Gray seems to be set @ 2.2 ??? thanks cjogo
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    cross hair instead of brush size

    That was our standard procedure..but did not work,,,althoibut the problem only occured on images that we had scanned commercially..and on a CD ..So we gave up,,,no problem...
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    B&W Negs---Scanning Links??

    Sure hope Silver Fast comes through with their update, (supposedly by April)>>> for the Minolta Dimage Multi. Really like the quality of scans for 35 & 2 1/4...using the Epson2450 for 4X5, via SilverFast.. cjogo
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    B&W Negs---Scanning Links??

    THanks Eric--very informative!!! Are using SilverFast or VueScan with your scanner??? The Minolta, although a great scanner, leaves little in the software for corrections...Will do searches on the threads you suggested... thanks cjogo Stick Village Latvia
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    B&W Negs---Scanning Links??

    thanks Wendy--I have been searching for many years...GURU is one of the best. A few smaller forums have been helpful...IF Ansel or Brett W were still alive here in Carmel,,,,,,the Printer/Ink/Paper manufacters would be bending-over backwards===to accomodate the B&W artist. Many of the FineArt...
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    B&W Negs---Scanning Links??

    ANy favortite links to B&W scanning? Different methods of obtaining really great scans from a film scanner--then processing in PS--and printing tips from there??? thanks kindly C JoGO
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    Glad you like them-- this was a 35mm ASA 1600 B&W --scanned as a transparency @ 2850 and corrections in PS 7~~~~~~~Cracow @ midnight
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    ERIC will try to scan a few from Bretnage of the "monumental rocks" cjogo
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    Was displayed in the Carmel gallery, along side Dad Caponigro. John has a workshop coming-up in the near future---out West-Carmel~~~~will see about attending. I have found that the flatbed {Epson 2450}scanning>>flat on the glass>>>scanned as a transparency , may lend itself to a better finale...
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    scanning Probably the most disheartening discovery about scanning negatives...especially B&W........the film was not manufactured to scan. The fine grain film and meticulous processing I maintained, does not lend itself to the detailed film scanner. Ultra -fine grain has become like poorly...
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    scanning I have spent many of months, the last 30 years, traveling...the last 10 has been concentrated on East Europe. I spent a summer in Latvia with a stop in Moscow in the 80's..http://www.moscow-taxi.com/museums/memorial-museum-cosmonautics.html a monument to the first sputnik in space...
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    Scanning negatives - that colour cast trick

    neg scanning We have been scanning 2 1/4 negs for about 4 years straight..like 30 hours a week. We use the Minolta Dimage which unfortunately does not work with Silver Fast...any other Sftwares compatible? Really like the controls with Silver Fast..just cannot use as a Twain to import into...
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