[rollei_list] Re: Retro: Back to the Past!
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:06:07 -0400
Thanks, guys, for all the kind suggestions and assistance. I certainly
will consider taking a course or picking up some literature.
Several points:
I am having the identical problems with digital images taken with a digital
p&s and with scanned slides, so I doubt if the scanner is at fault. And I
am having identical woes with Photoshop 5, Adobe Photodeluxe Business
Edition 1, and Arcsoft Photoprinter 2. I get better results from Irfanview
3.91 but for some reason the resulting images will not print.
Second, I have no intention on upgrading anything as I am not a
professional able to justify the expense. And it would be a terrible
blunder on my part to invest any more money in either hardware or software
until I can obtain decent results from what I have. Part of my grave
wariness with digital is that need to invest $15,000 or so every six months
to keep up with the Joneses. Once I understand what I do have, I'll worry
about upgrading but not at the moment.
Third, I am not seeking large prints or top-quality prints, just decent
prints. My experience over the past eight months has been trather hit or
miss but I am now enountering absolute failure and it is quite frustrating.
Finally, I mis-spoke in my original message of yester-even. I meant to
write "dodge" tool and not crop tool. This is one example of my
frustration: I have a countre-jour shot of my son and grandson. I would
like to lighten up their faces. In the darkroom, this would be a simple
matter of some minimal dodging. In Photoshop 5, I can use the dodge tool
to indicate the area I wish to lighten but I cannot discover HOW to lighten
this area: if I try to use the standard image adjustment menu, it just
adjusts the entire image. And, again, Photoshop help is inherently worthless.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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