Thanks, lists. I think my monitor calibration is ok. My issue is not all
my scans looking blue, but just the ones from Vuescan.

Stan

lists wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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
>>>
>>>
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