Read any of Dan Margulis's "Professional Photoshop x" books. You can read
Chapter 2 - By the Numbers, which describes the procedure in detail and in a
nutshell (though it's a hard nutshell), online at
You'll get the hang of it - I've been working at it about a month and I'm
only starting to get some things right. It takes time and lots of practice.
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Thomas" <markthom@camtech.net.au>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Colors in Neutral Gray
| At 06:17 PM 26/02/01 -0800, you wrote:
| > > I did do the individual RGB adjustments to the best of my
| > > abilities. It was fun seeing what could be done, but my result was
still
| > > imperfect. Does the darkroom still rule? Or will I eventually learn
to
| > > beat this problem?
| > >
| > > -Berry
| >
| >Experience will beat this problem and the darkroom most certainly does
not
| >rule.
| >
| >Doug Herr
|
|
| Is this really true? I have encountered images where playing with RGB
| curves has just made me feel like I am drowning (perhaps just in my
| personal pool of insufficient knowledge!)
|
| If it really was that easy, why would we need colour filters (eg for
| tungsten lighting on daylight film)? If the more experienced folk on this
| list are able to fix up *that* sort of problem after the event with RGB
| curves.. well, a few tips, or a pointer to a good reference, would be
| greatly appreciated!
|
| Note that I am not arguing with the point - I love my digital darkroom,
and
| have no problems with most images, but I know I have a long way to go to
| really understand colour balancing, because it bites me every now and
then..
|
| Mark T.
|
