Thank you very much for your full-explanations!!!
Your lab works wow!!! I also work with PhotoCD,
all my stuff into my web is PhotoCD but this
Royal Gold 100, superb!!! Excellent photos John.
Best regards,
Dave
"John A. Lind" wrote:
>
> At 20:22 1/15/01, David asked:
> >Hi John,
> > Excellent work, but one question.
> >
> >What scanner are you using? Colours are excellent,
> >and unsharp mask is very accurate for that resolution!!!
> >Specially Kodak Royal Gold 100, truly superb scanning.
> >If your lab has proccesed these prints, please tell me
> >the address. I think you must have scanned it with
> >slide scanner, haven´t you?
> >Great work,
> >
> >Dave
>
> Dave,
> All of the slide scans were done by Firehouse Imaging Center onto Kodak
> PhotoCD's. Many, but not all, of the C41 scans were done by Kodak by
> asking for a Picture CD when it was processed. Some of the C41's are also
> from PhotoCD's. My best luck has been with PhotoCD's. The Picture CD's
> were OK early on in spite of lower resolution, but lately the Qualex lab
> creating them for my region has gotten sloppy with some of them. I have
> enough unfilled PhotoCD's on hand now, that future ones will simply be
> added to exisiting CD's at a cost of $1 each until they are filled.
>
> The raw scans are not directly usable. They are too big and require
> adjustment of contrast/balance, sharpening, and resizing before using
> them. I use Digital Light and Color's "Picture Window" for handling
> contrast, balance, resizing and unsharp mask of the raw images.
>
> You might explore using Kodak PhotoCD's with PhotoShop or PictureWindow to
> process the raw image scan. My experience with PhotoCD's is they capture
> enough information to pull a superb image out of the scan, but that they
> _will_ require at least contrast, color balance, and sharpening before
> resizing them. I keep the unsharp mask parameters to the very minimum
> needed and preview areas of the image at 2X to 4X of full size to see if
> the sharpening is too much before committing to the sharpening. There is a
> learning curve to creating good digital images from film scans. Not
> certain I'm totally there yet, but over time have gotten better at it with
> experimentation to optimize it.
>
> Hope that helps . . . and thanks,
> -- John
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