With the Epson software I just try to get close, primarily with the levels and color balance adjustment. I scan at 4800 for the most part with unsharp mask turned off, then fine tune and sharpen as necessary in Photoshop. I scanned a bunch of 40 year old bw negs and transparencies for "Elapsed Times" mag, and they looked great in print.
Paul via phone > On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Paul via phone >> >>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Christine Aguila wrote: >>> >>>>> The really big downside to Vuescan is the utterly unintuitive interface. >>>>> It was >>>>> (I haven't used it for a very long time) the most unfriendly GUI software >>>>> I've >>>>> ever used. That may have changed. >>>> >>>> that’s a really big downside for me. I don’t have much patience for fussy >>>> user interfaces. C >>> >>> It's trivial to download and try, I didn't find the UI that bad. >> I thought the UI was okay, sort of like mid '80s software. But the >> performance and control sensitivity is absolute horseshit. > > You nailed it, Paul. > > I tried to make minor adjustments to it and the results were all over > the map with tiny changes in the controls. And the UI was clearly > designed by somebody with no understanding of either UI design or Mac > s/w development. > > The Epson s/w is by far the better choice, if imperfect. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
