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. > > > 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
