"Robert G. Earnest" <robert@earnestphoto.com> writes: > I have had the luxury of having my photoshop done by professionals. The > few times I have done my own work, It has been on drum scans. We have > specified our scanning in this way. "Give me a 100 meg scan at 300 dpi." The 100 meg is what controls what they do. The 300dpi is a meaningless number encoded in the resulting file. A 100 meg file at 72dpi would contain exactly the same pixels. Or at 8000dpi. Whatever. And I found, to my horror, that when my lab did drum scans of a B&W 4x5 neg for me, they gave me my 100 meg file -- in RGB. Thus wasting 2/3 of it. Imbeciles. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
