>Hello:
>
>I am practicing only, (just a beginner), sorry in advance for any
>weird questions of stuff that has not sunk in yet.  There are alot
>of questions at once, just thought I would throw them all out
>anyway!
>
>1) I am trying to save my original raw scans in a folder by that
>name. Where do you guys save your original work?   I was wondering
>if they are high resolution, 1200 and tif will I run in to problems
>with  file size soon even though they are line drawings?

If saved as Black and White bitmaps, even 1200dpi images can be
really small. If saving as greyscale, Size will be more of an issue,
but it depends on how well they copmress with LZW TIFF compression.
Lots of solid white and black areas will mean smaller file size.

>
>2) I  assume you backup every time you work.  Also when do you
>archive and what are most people using for this?

A wise idea, but rarely followed. I work in an environment where the
office does a backup once a week. At home I am way to lax. Back up
when ever you get to a point where you can't afford to redo the work.
If you have the cash you could buy a second Hard Drive and set up a a
level 5 RAID. This mirrors the drives, so your data is always
duplicated.  Or just by an external drive (they are getting so cheap)
and back up as needed. That is what I do when I am feeling nervous,
like right now after reading this...

>
>3) Does anyone commonly  use adjustment layers, and is it better
>than history palette snapshot?  Does it replace levels and
>curves?  I  have been practicing with some very basic editing with
>levels and unsharp mask and wondered if it was a useful tool in
>certain cases.  I am afraid of data loss since I don't fully
>understand multiple corrections yet.   I think I am in 8 bit mode (
>I scanned in 256-8bit to Photoshop).

adjustment layers are great! I would use them whenever possible. That
way your original image is intact. They may take up less space than a
History snapshot, but I have never used that technique, so i don't
know...

>
>4)   What is tone clipping?

Not familiar with the term, but it sounds like removing the ends fo
the tonal scale, leaving out highlights and shadows.

>
>5)  In the levels adjustment do most people use the eyedropper to
>select the white areas of a B&W image?  I had read it on one of the
>list responses.

yes!

>
>6) Is the clipping setting in Auto color option box (levels and
>curves) only for color images?

no

>
>7)  If I had edited a line drawing (as one of the possible
> suggestions given on list) by scanning in greyscale, levels,
>bitmap, edit,  size and used the proper resolution for typesetter
>quality, is this the final step before putting in a layout program?
>I assume text is best applied in Illustrator but just getting some
>steps down before I study some more!

Yes

britt
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