Gautam, I have a different scanner (an Epson RX500), but have been struggling with the same problem for a year. I'm making progress, though.
Vuescan is a great program in that it produces gorgeous scans, but its interface is awful and the learning curve is steep. For prints, I use it; for the web, the software that came with the scanner is fine. What I'm doing now that seems to be working: Clean the glass! I do a "preview" scan of the slides, then use the controls in the scanning software to make some basic adjustments for each one. I find that a considerable boost in contrast is always necessary, plus unsharp mask, a slight warming of the hue and a bit more saturation. I scan to an uncompressed tif file. It's (relatively) easy to use Photoshop on a tif file, but PS adjustments to a jpg just don't seem to work. Then, I take the slide off the scanner, open the tif file in PS Elements, compare them side-by-side, and tweak some more. When I'm satisfied, I "Save for Web" in PS Elements. Last year I was very disappointed with most of my scans. Now, I'm pretty satisfied. Good luck! Rick --- Gautam Sarup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enablement: One scanner (Canoscan 8400F) > Disablement: Can't figure out how to make the > scanned > results look like the original slides. > > Here's a scanned picture anyway: > > http://static.flickr.com/32/61457071_b4d2a95df6.jpg > > All comments appreciated. > > Gautam > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
