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[OM] Re: Faded colors and vivid memories

Subject: [OM] Re: Faded colors and vivid memories
From: Andrew Dacey <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:45:19 -0400
On 12/28/05, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now the possible good news. If the slide is scanned at 16 bits with 0%
> white and black points, it is almost certain to recover some of the lost
> brightness range. How much, who knows? However much is recovered will
> contribute to a better reconstruction. All of the rebalancing needs to
> be done in 16 bit. After the three histograms are realigned, it could go
> back to 8 bit, if you want, although I'd stick to 16 right to the end
> and only convert to create the JPEG for posting.

Agreed, I just took a shot at this myself and was getting some decent
results but just ran out of colour info and things started to get
posterised. 16-bit editing is essential for restoring this. I managed
to get a decent balance of the strawberries looking red, the
background looking green and the skin tones looking alright and only a
bit of colour cast in the hair but there was nothing to do about the
blown highlights at that point.
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