Mishka, I should preface this with "I use Vuescan" which already has basic color corrections for each film type.
Bruce Sunday, June 09, 2002, 8:55:35 AM, you wrote: M> Paul, Bruce, M> I have been struggling with color ballance for quite some time now, and M> AFAIK there's no simple solution. M> The "1-click-on-white" would work only for minor corrections. I suspect M> that this is because the film sensitivity is not linear when the M> spectrum is severely shifted. E.g. you set your "whites" to white, and M> then you see your shadows turning green... So one has to balance M> shadows, modtones and highlights separately. This is an iterative M> process, very tedious and time consuming. Moreover, I suspect that this M> also specific on which particular film you were shooting. M> The good news is, once you have created an adjustment layer in M> Photoshop, you can save it and then apply it to all your scans made M> from the same film and the same settings, so that makes it almost "1 M> click". M> Mishka >> From: Bruce Dayton >> Subject: Re: color correcting digitally? >> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 06:04:39 -0700 >> >> <...> >> Most of the time, just menu choice of >> transformation/colorBalance, then click on something that should be >> white in the photo. That's it. Once in a while I have to set a M> black >> point too. M> Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup M> http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com M> - M> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, M> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to M> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
