Immediately after scanning the slides, I compare the onscreen appearance with the slide on a color corrected lightbox. Yes, the scanned image is colder, bluer, and just less pleasant than the scan from the Polaroid software, and is clearly less true to the slide's color.
I can eventually get the color right but it takes much more time with the output from Vuescan, and I usually combine curves with selective color adjustments. I am always working in 16-bit in PS. I've tried many tweaks but mathematically, there are probably more permutations of all the settings than there are potential moves in a chess game <smile>. That's why I wanted to see someone's vuescan.ini file--from someone who is getting satisfactory results. Learning by imitation works fine for me. Stan Schwartz Tony Sleep wrote: > On 07/01/2006 Stan Schwartz wrote: > > Sadly I don't think I have ever scanned any Velvia, I hardly ever shot any > as it was just too intense, picky about lighting conditions and horrid on > skintones for my purposes. Are you sure the 'blue' isn't present in the > slide (on a colour corrected lightbox, not projected)? That was one of the > things I found 'difficult' about Velvia. the exaggerated blue-red > sensitivity to colour temp. > > Yes, I use VS's 'built in' device profile. It's fine. You can manually > control colour balance in VS too, check the color tab. Try different white > balance settings, and /or colour brightness. > > Otherwise I'd suggest you scan to 16bit and try tweaking the colour curves > in PS, or try the Colorwasher plugin. > > Tony Sleep > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
