Thanks, Gonz. Turns out, VueScan has a Kodachrome option. I suppose my query was a bit premature.
I, too, have read in quite a few places that Kodachrome is particularly difficult to scan. I'll give it another shot a bit later and see if it improves any. Thanks! On 3/24/06, Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If its Kodachrome, you're gonna have a real hard time getting it to look > like a projected slide. I've tried just about everything, but the only > people that ever came close was an outfit in Florida that did some type > of tri-color laser scan with all sorts of color matching profiles. They > are no longer in business. > > Scott Loveless wrote: > > The drivers provided with my scanner tend to not reproduce my slides > > very accurately. My initial thought was to set up a projector right > > next to the computer and just do a visual comparison, but this leads > > to lots of Photoshop time, which I would like to keep to a minimum, > > and monitor calibration, which I can't do at the moment. Giving > > VueScan a whirl, a straight scan with no adjustments yielded a > > significant improvement, but it's still not quite what I want. So I > > got a copy of VueScan Pro since it includes ICC profiling and IT8 > > calibration. I'm wondering if obtaining color calibration targets for > > the film I'm using would help? Am I on the right track, or am I doing > > this the hard way? Will VueScan support multiple film profiles? > > Their documentation only mentions a single film.it8 file, not multiple > > files for different film types. I feel like I'm missing something. > > Any help would be much appreciated, and is probably worth a beer or > > two at GFM. (I'm already running out of beer, and we're not even > > there yet. <g>) > > > > -- > > Scott Loveless > > http://www.twosixteen.com > > > > -- > > "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman > > > > -- > Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I > was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's > a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man? > - Mitch Hedberg > > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- "You have to hold the button down" -Arnold Newman
