On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, johnprendergast.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Regarding scanning Kodak Portra 160NC...
> Have you calibrated ViewScan to your scanner? Are you embedding the
> same colour profile into your scan, in Viewscan, as the space that you
> are working in, in PS?
The problem isn't calibration or a mismatch between VS and PS. All of the
hundreds of other images that I have scanned with VueScan could be tweaked
to be reasonable looking images with the VS controls. The Portra 160NC
scans with VS 6.4.5 could not.
The scan preview, final scan displayed in VS, and 16-bit TIFF loaded into
PS all look the about same, so it is not a problem of mismatching
profiles.
> Have you played around with the image contrast and brightness controls, in
> ViewScan?
Yes. The image looks very dark and without contrast. I tried alot of
adjustment to both the brightness and contrast, but could not get to
anything reasonable without burning out alot of highlight and shadow
detail. Realistic skin tones (which is the point of this film) are
totally gone by the time these controls are tweaked so much.
> I am only saying this because the results that I am getting from ViewScan,
> quite literally blow away those that I was getting from the original
> software that came with the Minolta Scan Multi.
I'm not complaining about VS and agree that it is better than the Canon
bundled software. VS has been excellent for the hundreds of other images;
I'm just looking for a way to make it work with Portra 160NC.
I'll see if the new VS versions help any and maybe post some samples this
weekend.
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