First sentence:
- What kind of photos did you start with? B&W positives? B&W negatives? Colour positives? Colour negatives?
- If colour how did you scan them in B&W?
- What software were you using with what scanner and with what exposure settings in the scan software?
- What do you mean by "Autoimport"? How does that work and what settings did that use in all the software involved?
Second sentence:
- Totally unintelligible and apparently contradictory relative to the first sentence.
- If you are trying to say the results differed between Photoshop and Lr, we'd need to know the settings in each application to begin making sense of it.
Third sentence:
- What is "SW"?
- And when you say "this doesn't happen", what is the "this" in light of the ambiguity from above?
If you want help you need to state the problem in a clear, unambiguous manner and provide enough information about what you're doing so people can know where to begin.
Wow! Not a good writer, am I?
As for your questions:
First sentence
- B&W negatives
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- ScanGear from Canon CanoScan 9000 F MarkII - No manual settings used - Just scan - No enhancements - Everything "off"
- "AutoImport" is a feature of Lightroom. You put a file in a specified (watched) folder and Lightroom imports it automatically and moves it to a destination folder. It doesn't touch the contents of the file
Second sentence
- OMG :-)
- If I import an image from my camera to LR and from LR to PS, both views look the same (B&W)
BUT:
- If I import an image from the scanner to LR and from LR to PS, the view in LR is again darker than that which appears in PS.
- After doing some editing in PS (or none whatsoever) and then saving it back, the image shown in LR is (again) darker than that in PS
Third sentence:
- SW should have been B&W. Sorry
- Hope I've explained more clearly above now.
Thanks for your patience