Ralf, thanks for the advice - when I switched off Nikons colour management system I got a fantastic colour preview - (with some sort of grid over it) it looked like just what I had been striving for in colour
but... when I had got the scan a few minutes later, it opened way off in colour (far far too dark, nothing at all like the preview no matter what I do in Photoshop - assign profile, dont assign profile, assign and convert ... it stays that way - completely out of wack. what am I doing wrong? also I don't understand, if cms is off, then what is in sRGB - your photo editor? (there is no 'preview mode' in ns 3.1 for windows, so it can't be set to "lo-cont neutral") paul > > and what do you have your balck/ white points set to in > Preferences? at the > > default 0.5? > > No, I set both of them to 0.0. And, maybe more important, CMS off - I > found Nikon CMS to act very unpredictably with negatives, so my choice > is plain sRGB. Before I forget, even more important is to set "preview > mode" in the "scanner extras" menu from "auto" to "lo-cont neutral" > which will prevent some weird Nikon automatics from producing blown out > highlights. Without changing that menu item, you'll probably get blown > whites inrespective of any other settings you choose! >
