I have to say that I love the way B&W negs look scanned. Its not the same at all as a desaturated color image. For scanning techniques here are 2 web sites I found helpful: http://www.shutterbug.net/features/0902sb_bw/ http://www.scantips.com/ I also learned things from Dan Burkholder's book: http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/page1_main.htm And Barry Thornton's book 'Elements of Transition' The workflow process in Photoshop is also important and then there is printing ... -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin F. Knotzke Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 7:44 AM To: PureSilver Mailing List Subject: [pure-silver] Why does B&W Film Scan so poorly Hi, I love B&W. Really, I do. But I am shooting with it less and less because it scans horribly. It never looks nearly as good as when I scan colour and then desaturate. Why is that? Any websites with tips on how to improve this? I did some searching and only came up with a few replies. At worst, maybe someone would be as so kind as to explain to me what B&W scans worse then colour. Thanks J -- Justin F. Knotzke jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.shampoo.ca ============================================================================ ================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.