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Hi Everyone,
I took a black/white negative and scanned it on my Epson V-700 scanner. No matter whether I scanned in 8-bit or 16-bit mode, when my scanned image comes up in Photoshop, the sky brightness, which varies greatly over this highly vignetted photographic image, shows definite brightness "steps" from darker to brighter. This sky brightness range is very compressed compared to the image’s whole brightness range. In other words, there is black in part of the image, and white in another part. The sky varies from one shade of gray to a slightly brighter shade. And these "quantization steps" make the resulting image look TERRIBLE (at least in the sky portion of the image). What can I do about this? I’d rather not add noise, since the image right now looks wonderfully smooth. Please help! I’m a relative Photoshop neophyte…
Thanks,
Scott
I took a black/white negative and scanned it on my Epson V-700 scanner. No matter whether I scanned in 8-bit or 16-bit mode, when my scanned image comes up in Photoshop, the sky brightness, which varies greatly over this highly vignetted photographic image, shows definite brightness "steps" from darker to brighter. This sky brightness range is very compressed compared to the image’s whole brightness range. In other words, there is black in part of the image, and white in another part. The sky varies from one shade of gray to a slightly brighter shade. And these "quantization steps" make the resulting image look TERRIBLE (at least in the sky portion of the image). What can I do about this? I’d rather not add noise, since the image right now looks wonderfully smooth. Please help! I’m a relative Photoshop neophyte…
Thanks,
Scott
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