[HUG ] Scanning

I use Photoshop as a Lightroom 2 plug-in. Only when I need some special feature of PS do I let LR send the image to PS. When you save the image in PS (after you've mucked with it), it goes right back into your LR Catalog. I import/sort/catalog/put in collections/make adjustments/etc, all in LR2. The name is 'PHOTOSHOP' Lightroom 2.
I scan to RAW on my scanner(s). Vue Scan scans to RAW (DNG) which is just what comes out of the scanner without any adjustments by Vue Scan. There is a difference between a Vue Scan TIFF and a Vue Scan DNG.
I now have an Imacon X1 scanner and it is not supported by Vue Scan. But the Imacon software/firmware will scan to a RAW file which they call a 3F file. It is simply the RAW Imacon scanner data written out to a file, without any diddling by the Imacon firmware/software. It's a pretty ugly file. Photoshop completely understands the .FFF format and will import it directly as well as write out the .FFF format. Even OS-X Leopard reads .FFF files with no problems. The .FFF format uses the TIFF file protocol so that if you change the .FFF to .TIFF, Lightroom 2 will import the file. In either case, it is the RAW scanner data and pretty ugly. But that's what you want - and now you can use LR2 or PS to process the image. With a RAW file, you have COMPLETE control over color temp, exposure, contrast, saturation, clairity, recovery, vibrance, fill, specific color hue/saturation/ luminance, etc... ad nauseam... Since nothing was pre-processed, you now have all of the control. No data has been lost by letting your camera or scanner muck with the image. All of the mucking is now up to you. And, of course, you can un-muck whatever you mucked and get back to wherever you want to be.
LR2 is cool as it is 100% non destructive. You can turn your images inside-out, and your original file is just like you got it from your camera or your scanner. So when you use PS as a Lightroom plug-in, you are sending a copy of your image (manipulated by LR or not, your choice), so that all of the changes you make in PS, still do not touch your original image file.
None of the images on my web site were touched by Photoshop, they are all only imported and processed by Lightroom 2. All of the square pictures were scanned as RAW. If you go out to the individual workshop, I have a lot of pictures associated with the W/S that aren't up front. 

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:-)

Jim

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