Who does and who doesn't (post process that is! )

[JeremyLangford]

Originally Posted by Keith

One thing I've learned to do with my post processing is to do it to a separate duplicate set of files. Quite often I'll get to the end of processing scanned files from a roll of film and realise I've made them worse in many instances ... then frustrated I'll delete the entire mess and start again. I think if I had a wet darkroom I'd cost myself a lot of money in paper and chemicals!

The other thing I've had to learn is to know when to give up on an image and just accept the fact that I shot it badly in the first place and no amount of staring at it on the monitor and trying every trick I know is going to salvage it and turn it into something that will make me happy.

Both these things happen to me all the time in Photoshop.

[WoolenMammoth]

I have made comments on the idea of "i dont photoshop" mentality before on this board but this concept is right up there on the ignorance scale with the guy who shoots rolls and rolls of film but doesnt ever develop them because he is a master photographer.

Chosing not to adjust your import for a monitor, be it from a scan or a RAW file is simply NOT an option. These things dont just appear "finished" when you press the import button. You wouldnt do that anymore than you would put any negative in a carrier, expose paper for 3 seconds, develop for 30 seconds and then call it a master print.

If you dont have the skills, patience, or education to work on your monitorization process, thats fine, but dont have some attitude that suggests "I dont photoshop because Im better", its because you are lazy. the end.

[Thardy]

Originally Posted by peterm1

Every shot that is worth keeping at least gets the following basic treatment:
- Denoising
- Saturation adjustment
- Contrast adjustment
- Sharpening

If I didn't process scanned images they would look pretty sick.

How do you go about denoising?