I'm going to admit I'm a novice at this, but generally you set your monitor color temp for 5000k if you are doing photography. Now the rest of the world will be set at 6500k, so your images will look a bit blue on such a monitor.
Stan Schwartz wrote: > 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
