Posting photos that look good

[Daniel_Buck]

Hey Daniel- I'm scanning color trannies and B&W negs. For B&W, I've been playing around with a couple different methods- scanning as greyscale 16 BIT, and scanning as RGB 48 BIT then using the Green channel (apparently the sharpest/best to use from reading around here and elsewhere) or using the Red channel (may seem to look better sometimes, but I may be fooling myself????). To be honest, I don't know if I can see much of a difference and scanning in RGB just seems to make bigger files. I've been pretty happy with the Greyscale files I've produced so far. Mind you, I haven't printed many of them yet. I run files through an action to reduce file size, convert to RGB, and save as jpg. I do not use "Save for Web".

Tim

Yes, scanning RGB will be larger than B&W. 3 times larger, because you'll have 3 channels (R, G, and B, each channel with 16 bits, which equals 48 bits) instead of just one channel (grey, 16 bits in one channel)

[timbo10ca]

Yes, scanning RGB will be larger than B&W. 3 times larger, because you'll have 3 channels (R, G, and B, each channel with 16 bits, which equals 48 bits) instead of just one channel (grey, 16 bits in one channel)

Yeah- I realize that. I was doing it only to see if the bloat was worthwhile. I would open in PS, convert to greyscale using the G channel then go to mode and select greyscale to unload the bulk. This is the only way i could figure out how to "drop" the B and R channels, as I'd read to do....

Tim

[Gary L. Quay]

Thanks for all the responses. I just picked up a copy of Photoshop CS4. I had been using Elements 4.0. I looked into some of the plug-ins, such as Genuine Fractals, but I can't afford them just yet. I use the Save For Web function on Elements, and sharpening never seems to be helpful after that.

I put the photos right onto the post, and they show up as thumbnails. I've noticed that some images show up right in the post instead of in thumbnails. Are those the ones that come from other sites like Flickr or Facebook? The quality is usually very good on them. I'm still digesting the other info in the replies.

--Gary

[jb7]

I knew I was the only one who deciphered the question correctly...


j

[Gary L. Quay]

After reading your reply again, I'd say you were pretty close.

--Gary

I knew I was the only one who deciphered the question correctly...


j

[Gary L. Quay]

Okay, I tried to get the address from the Flickr site, and put [img] and [/img] at either end. This is what I got. I got the URL, not the photo. What did I do wrong? Is there a place on this site with instructions? I didn't find one... yet.

[jb7]

In that address, you'll notice that there's two 'jpg's

If you remove everything after the first 'jpg'
then use the tags with no spaces,
this appears-

a very cheeky picture...

[Gary L. Quay]

Thanks!

--Gary

[Gene McCluney]

Okay, I tried to get the address from the Flickr site, and put [img] and [/img] at either end. This is what I got. I got the URL, not the photo. What did I do wrong? Is there a place on this site with instructions? I didn't find one... yet.

Do you use the brackets around the img? Like [img] ?

[Gary L. Quay]

Yes. [img] at the beginning and [/img] at the end.

--Gary