it takes about 3-4 times a long to go through this process with a scan from slide as it does for a digital camera image. most of the time used to be spent scanning, but now because i run FocusFixer on a lot of my images, it takes most of the time. i usually rez up my digital camera images to be about the same resolution as my 4000dpi scanner, so that means i end up with digital image files of about 5000 pixels along the longest dimension no matter what my source. i have two expensive Photoshop color adjustment plugins that i like, trust, and can predict their effects. they make near perfect color adjustment usually an under 30 second task even with these large images. the rest of my system is color managed well enough that once i see what i like on the screen, i know what i am going to get on the printer and that it will be good enough not to need any work to print very well. putting the time in up front makes all this run smoothly. some of it is spending some money up front too. color adjustment with only the tools in Photoshop is much more time consuming. AutoColor and AutoLevels really aren't able to cope with anything complicated. doing it the hard way makes you appreciate how hard it is and also makes you learn what to do when even the really good automatic tools fail. i haven't had many failures with the tools i use though, and i have learned a few tricks since then to make those situations much easier to deal with.
>Herb.... Interesting. Thx. Also nice to know digital is, in a sense, faster than scanning. Marnie aka that Doe person
