[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-24 Thread Bill Fernandez
Ed-- I'm pretty sure you can create a simple Photoshop action for this kind of batch processing. --Bill At 2:12 PM -0700 4/21/04, Ed Lusby wrote: Bob, I have thousands of slides to scan, archive, and create slideshows. Whatever I do has to be as automatic as possible. ... If the the profiles

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-24 Thread Ed Lusby
In case you didn't know... You can speed up VS appreciably by avoiding the need for the scanner to make a second pass after the preview scan. Set preview to the target resolution (eg 4000ppi), then set 'scan from preview'. When you hit 'scan', VS then processes from memory rather than scanning

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-22 Thread Al Bond
Bill Fernandez wrote: I made using a Kodachrome IT8 target and the ICC Scan software from profilecity.com I haven't heard of this software. It's not clear from the site (now http://www.chromix.com/profilecity) whether the free software download can work with 3rd party targets. It would be

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Fernandez
Hi Ed-- I scan Kodachrome with a Nikon 4000, and am running NIkonScan 3.x on MacOS X, so my experiences may or not help you, but here goes: (1) I found that I get greater dynamic range and more accurate color by scanning with Nikon color management turned off, generating a raw scan, opening it

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Major A
Ed, The profile generated by Vuescan was a icc extension. As a raw rookie, I'm ICC stands for Internation Color Consortium, ICM doesn't stand for anything, the M is just for module I guess, without any correlation to the IC. Files with these extensions are both ICC profiles. I'd prefer .icc as

[filmscanners] RE: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Laurie Solomon
I believe that ICM does refer to the the color management module that the operating system uses for its system level color management, which in the case of Windows systems, I believe, is the Kodak module that uses the Kodak color management engine as opposed to Mac systems which use Colorsync.

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Ed Lusby
Thanks for the comments, Bill. Your experiences seem to be identical to mine. I'm a little dismayed that Nikon and others are inventing their own proprietary color management systems. Kind of defeats the original purpose of the ICC, as I understand it. Ed

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Bob Frost
Ed, Surely you can turn the color management off in NikonScan, scan your slide or neg into PS, and then assign whatever custom profile you like to the scan and convert that to your working space? With NkScan 3, I regularly did this to get my scan in working spaces other than those selectable in

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Ed Lusby
Bob, I have thousands of slides to scan, archive, and create slideshows. Whatever I do has to be as automatic as possible. Vuescan is working extremely well. After a little tweaking this morning, even skin tones are dead on. If the the profiles could be converted in Photoshop in a batch mode, that

[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Color Management

2004-04-21 Thread Tony Sleep
Ed Lusby wrote: Whatever I do has to be as automatic as possible. Vuescan is working extremely well. In case you didn't know... You can speed up VS appreciably by avoiding the need for the scanner to make a second pass after the preview scan. Set preview to the target resolution (eg 4000ppi),