Ken, i find Digital ICE saves a huge amount of time retouching. i also scan in 14-bit/channel mode and enable 4X oversampling. i use autoexposure and autofocus. everything else is set to default, no adjustment, position so that i can work with the image in Photoshop.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:18 PM Subject: Re: OT Scanning images (was Different films, different results) > Funny this should come up now, but I just got my Super Coolscan 4000 up and > running (after sitting in the box for over a year). The hardest part was > installing the correct software for the operating system. I've scanned 40 > Velvia slides and am totally happy with the results. These were all well > exposed images, so all I am doing in the scan is auto focus, minimal crop > and I get just great 54mb files.

