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Hi Jon,
I left a message on your phone earlier, but at this point don't worry about it - I was with my student and we were trying to figure something out and I think we figured it out. She knows what she is doing with photoshop, it was just a bit slow at first, and I of course was just fiding my way.
I think though we may have fucked up the first night - I had sent her a list of what you said the procedure should be, as in 1, 2, 3 - and she went over it a few days ago and said no problem. So we sat down to work and I wasn't watching as she went into the program, I was getting all my stuff out - and, I'm not at all sure that she set the Color Setting at sRGB, which I suppose determines a number of things about what happens next. I assumed she had done this, but assumptions are not fact. We made our way through several dozen files, the 4x5 scans, and after minimal corrections - unsharp mask was not necessary because whoever worked on them in the lab in Silver Springs had tuned them up - and then resized and saved. The images looked pretty good. But it may be that we have to do them over again. Not the end of the world. Now that I see how easy the whole thing is, I understand why getting raw scans would have been fine, saving the tuning up for this end, instead of having intervention at an earlier stage, why not just do everything at once. Anyway, I will not be meeting with her until Monday, I'm leaving town on Thursday for a few days, and if I have any questions I'll be in touch. It's an ongoing education.
Thanks.Stuart