Michael Shaffer replied: >Enabling it is relatively important ... i.e., it compensates for the >color characteristics of your monitor. It is important enough, that it >was enabled by default for PS6, and cannot be turned off!
Hi Michael - thanks for your response 'Enable Monitor Compensation' is unchecked as was advised by Jeff Schewe in his downloadable PDF 'Working In Photoshop' (5.0) - although I am beginning to discover that he does have his particular workflow - what is the consensus on 'Enable Monitor Compensation' - anyone? >I have a feeling what's going on >here is your scanning software (with which I have no experience) is >putting your scanned RGB into Adobe RGB, but the nature of a twain >plugin cannot embed the transferred RGB data with the proper profile. >Leastwise, this is how it works with Nikon software ... i.e., you >instruct the scanning software to convert the scanner RGB to Adobe RGB, >but PS5 doesn't know that. It is up to you to "not convert" because >it's not needed. I think if you run your scan software as a stand- >alone program, it will properly embed the Adobe RGB profile, and when >you open the file it will (should) work as you envision. I should have mentioned that I am running Polacolor as standalone, saving TIFF to disk and not opening directly into Photoshop.... >The "cold-ness" you mention may be because you haven't enabled monitor >compensation ... try it. I will - would welcome comments from others about this >If you want to work with 16bit (highbits), see this tutorial by Bruce >Fraser: http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/16097.html Thanks - will check it out >The highbit rubber-stamp tool in PS6 is VERY useful for cleaning up >scans. rubber stamp tool does actually function with 16-bit images in PS5 >If you want to consider PS7 check the system requirements ... CPU, RAM >and required disk space practically tripled. already sorted! Pentium 4 1.7GHz, 1.5GB RAM (1.25GB to PS5), 60GB main disk with scratch on 5GB partition of secondary disk - I dare PS5 to crash now!! >You should look into Vuescan (... www.hamrick.com ...). For $40 it is >very good scanner software, but many have complained its interface >creates a steeper learning curve. It will also properly scan highbits >into your preferred color space. I had a feeling Vuescan would be mentioned ;-) - having heard much about Vuescan (mainly from ProDIG), I tried the evaluation version, carefully went through all settings and scanned my 'test' transparency (35mm sunny-day Kodachrome with mixed colours and tones, full range from bright highlights to near-blocked shadows) - I compared this to the scan from Polacolor and was disappointed to find that the Vuescan image was not only slightly less sharp (scanner focus is good), but had blown highlights and less shadow detail (using eyedropper) and I couldn't see how this could be rectified using the Vuescan controls - maybe try again. Incidentally, I have compared the P4000/Polacolor scan with a drum scan of same image and was pleasantly surprised to see how well it compared - the drum scan was only marginally sharper but actually had less detail in shadows (according to eyedropper) but did have better colour rendition thanks for your input, Michael, appreciated Geoff -- Geoff Dore Photography Nature - Landscape - Travel Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/Fax: 07041 514133 Website: http://www.geoffdore.com or: 01202 315326 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
