The following page has some information about how to manually remove the orange mask of negatives: http://www.khk.net/sane/gimp_negative_scanning.html
Karl Heinz On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:00 PM, Dennis Veatch wrote: > > Just bought the Epson 2400 Photo scanner and it works great with > xsane. Even > the transparency/negative part works. However I am having a problem > with > negatives. I have tried all the available modes such as , standard, > kodak and > the rest but the results do not turn out right. > > I have fiddled with the gamma's, brightness, contrast etc but they > either > (depending on the negative type) come out with a yellow tint, red tint > and > some others that are not quite right and no amount of adjusting gets > them > near to being correct. > > Is it me, the scanner or sane? > > This is on Mandrake 9.1 (latest updates), sane-backends-1.0.11-5mdk and > sane-frontends-1.0.10-1mdk. > > -- > Registered Linux user 193414 > http://counter.li.org > > "Trying"? My contribution was much closer to a "feeble wave in the > general > direction of something that might lead you one step closer to a > solution > if you squint really hard and do all of the work." > > > _______________________________________________ > sane-devel mailing list > sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel