Digital BW, The Print

Peter, if you are scanning colour slides you should set the media type to
';slide film', not image as the image tab gives you an uncorrected scan.
Just make sure that the endpoints are slightly outside the data in the histo
and away you go. Colour correct in PS.


Julian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter_in_seattle" <lists@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:20 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Vuescan Profiles


> Stan,
>
> Can you please explain how you set Vuescan to capture all the tonal range
of the
> image? Also, if it's not too complicated, how do you adjust the curves in
Photoshop?
>
> I use Vuescan with a Polaroid SS4000, and I've been about ready to give up
on
> Vuescan lately, because I do get very inconsistent scans, especially with
color slides
> (media type set to Image). I get one nearly perfect one, then
> one too yellow, too green, or much too contrasty, or more than one of
those. I can't
> figure out how to tweak what I see in the histograms, other than changing
the
> selected Image Curve on the Color tab. The various Brightness and Black &
White
> Point adjustments are a mystery to me.
>
> I thought maybe the problem was a scanner calibration issue... I was
thinking of
> going back to Silverfast, which came with an IT-8 calibration slide. The
problems
> have really made me frustrated with the whole process of scanning. And the
> inconsistency seems to mean that I can't really do batch scans, even from
the same
> roll of film.
>
> Peter
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Stan McQueen
<stan@s...>
> wrote:
> > I use Vuescan almost 100% of the time because I have found I get
> > better scans with it than with almost anything else on virtually all of
my
> > images. Maybe you're expecting the scan to look great as it comes in
from
> > the scanner. Rather than that, I set Vuescan to capture all of the tonal
> > range of the image, which makes the image somewhat low contrast
initially,
> > then I make curve adjustments in Photoshop. This way, I know I'm getting
> > all the image has to offer. Other software I have used made the initial
> > scan look better than Vuescan, but I found that usually one or the other
or
> > both ends of the tonal range were getting clipped, so I wasn't getting
all
> > the information. I also do no sharpening or filtering in the scanning
> > software. I do all this in Photoshop.
> >
> > Stan
>
>
>
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