On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Per Östlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've digitized my father's collection of old slides with the camera + macro
> lens + light table method. Most of the images look fine, but some images
> with certain blue hues are giving me a headache. I'm guessing the issue is
> that the light table I built used LEDs with a poor color spectrum for the
> task, causing the blue channel to blow out.

> As soon as I touch e.g. the levels module I get the usual issue that very
> saturated blues turn black.
> Using the gamut clipping option in the input
> color profile module fixes that particular issue, but doesn't do anything
> for the colors otherwise.
Setting gamut clipping in input color profile is the proper fix here.

> The best solution I've managed to come up with so far has been to set the
> input color profile to "linear Rec709 RGB" which heavily desaturates the
> image, and then increasing the saturation a lot with the color correction
> module. Hardly an optimal solution, but with some tweaking I can usually get
> the colors to look approximately the same except that the blues don't clip
> anymore.
*Why* don't you like the gamut clipping solution?
As you said yourself, it "doesn't do anything for the colors otherwise.".

> This method can require quite a lot of tweaking to look good though, so my
> question is if someone knows of a better way to handle this issue (besides
> reshooting with a better light source). Here's an example RAW-file (don't
> mind the blur, that's from the original slide):
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/6mshjycwm4n10xa/img_014.ARW?dl=0
>
> Regards,
> Per Östlund
Roman.

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