Hey Mike--
Thanks for the Raw Scan Input. Thank you, too, Eli--it'll take me a bit to
absorb that much input, but should be worth it.
At your "suggestion(s)" I tried ouputing Raw scans from Kodacolor negs on my
Scanwit, this AM. I was surprised how easy it was, especially with Vuescan,
which outputs the Raw scan in its positive form, and masked for the orange
carrier--as opposed to the Acer's native Miraphoto driver, which gives you
the raw scan of the neg just as it lays.
Since I've been known to tweak my output scans *endlessly* anyway, outputing
Raw scans from Vuescan saves steps and considerable time on the way to a
saved picture. From Mira, a bit less so--the inverted neg is very blue, but
Photoshop's "Adjust Levels" (as I said earlier) does a remarkable job of
putting the positive closer to the mark. All I really had to do was fiddle
with "Variations" a bit to get a presentable picture. <Note to Photoshop
neophytes like me--Adjust the scale at the top to "Fine" before you
start--the program doesn't hold that setting from one session to the next.
In the 10 months I've been using the Acer, this is only the 2nd time I've
fooled with Raw Scans. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be doing it a lot more
in the future. Thanks, guys!
--LRA
------Original Message------
From: Michael Moore <miguelmas@qwest.net>
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Sent: March 13, 2001 5:32:34 AM GMT
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for archiving
Lynn: I used the term Raw Scan to mean that I set my Minolta scan software
to 16
bit linear for the color depth setting... this gives me a negative scan into
PShop... is I set my scanner to a regular 8 or 16bit scan, then it imports a
positive image into PShop... I find that working with the linear scan in
PShop
gives me the longest tonal range, etc. as opposed to letting the scanner
software do the inversion.... I have not taken the time to work with
Vuescan, so
I can't comment on that product... My current climb up the learning curve is
to
experiment with the controls in the scanner software to see if they give me
any
control over the resulting curve of the neg... after that I will start doing
scans of differently exposed negs of the same subject, with the end result
to
bring them into register to obtain an extremely long tonal range... but it
all
starts with that original scan of the neg...
Mike M.
Lynn Allen wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
> >...I TWAIN import this into PShop as a 16 bit raw scan... so it
> shows up in PShop as a neg (I am talking color neg ) where I then Invert
> (Image>Adjust>Invert), after which I adjust Levels...
>
> Hold it right there, Miguel. :-) I don't use either a Minolta or a Nikon,
> but you sure turned on a light bulb, here!
>
> I've really never really known what to do with a Raw Scan (they always
> looked too dark to work with, so after the first time, I didn't), but you
> seem to handle them in ways I didn't know was possible. It sounds like
> you're doing most of the work that a tweakable scan-driver does, in
> Photoshop, and getting great and publishable results! I've considered that
> (in desperate moments), but haven't worked up the courage (or time) to
try.
>
> I, for one, would really like to hear more about this technique and how
it's
> done.
> And anybody who complains it's "off-topic" ... is playing with fire,
> bigtime. ;-)
-----------------------------------------------
FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com
Reserve your name now at
