"Austin Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>>>>>>>> > The last I checked, Vuescan doesn't have a curves tool, although it's high > on the author's list of things to add. What it does have support for is > color calibration.
Some of the scanner software has film profiling, and I've done quite a bit of work with it, unfortunately, that only sort of works. There are variables in film development, and exposure that will render profiles only somewhat useful. They get you in ballpark, but you still typically have some work to do. <<<<<<<<<<< Of course. One rarely sees a photographer carrying a color temperature meter and set of color correction filters. And one rarely wants to do that outside the studio; one wants one's sunrise and sunset landscapes to be warm, and one's harsh high noon shots to be harsh. But do you scan negative films as positive and invert and remove the mask by hand? If you are getting a positive RGB file as a starting point, you are using just as much "automation" as Vuescan provides. >>>>>>>>>> How does the color calibration in VS work? <<<<<<<<<< I don't know. I've only used it as a scanner driver. At the point I was using it, the reason people used it was that most scanner software did you too many favors, but Vuescan gave you full manual control over everything the scanner did. >>>>>>>>> and well worth the price of admission for people who want more automated scanning. <<<<<<<<< You're still doing cheapshots: it's not pretty. David J. Littleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
