Help w/using a scanner for density readings....

[rogein]

I've finally gotten some time to work through Mark's method but have gotten bogged down in the section using a scanner as a densitometer. I've scanned my printed Tonal Palette but when I use the 'dropper' tool the readings I see are all in 'percent' - obviously I'm not doing something right. Can someone give me a bit of guidance through this section? Thanks!

[donbga]

I've finally gotten some time to work through Mark's method but have gotten bogged down in the section using a scanner as a densitometer. I've scanned my printed Tonal Palette but when I use the 'dropper' tool the readings I see are all in 'percent' - obviously I'm not doing something right. Can someone give me a bit of guidance through this section? Thanks!

Select the eyedropper tool and make sure the Info Palette is open. Click on the fly out menu button and select Palette Options. You should be presented witj a dialog box titled Info Options. For the the First Color Readout select RGB Color as the Mode selection. Click OK to finish.

Don Bryant

[rogein]

I had the eyedropper set to read 'actual color' - no wonder my 'graph' looked so screwy. Thanks Don!

[colrehogan]

I've finally gotten some time to work through Mark's method but have gotten bogged down in the section using a scanner as a densitometer. I've scanned my printed Tonal Palette but when I use the 'dropper' tool the readings I see are all in 'percent' - obviously I'm not doing something right. Can someone give me a bit of guidance through this section? Thanks!

Where can we find Mark's method?

[donbga]

Where can we find Mark's method?

http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/

Don Bryant

[colrehogan]

Thanks!

[JeffD]

I'm using a scanning software called vuescan, which has a densitometer function built in. I am assuming I can use this to obtain readings similar
to a stand alone densitometer, and plug in the values in the calibration process.

I haven't actually gotten to this point in the process yet. Anyone else do it
this way? The photoshop method seemed a little convoluted to me, on first read.

[rogein]

Jeff,

I didn't find Mark's PS method of using a scanner as a densitometer to be that difficult once I got past my problem with using the dropper tool - and I'm somewhat of a klutz when it comes to Photoshop (isn't that obvious? <g>).