Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

I agree with the others that it is best to do just the basic scan, setting
white and black points and color masking for negatives, in Insight and then
using Photoshop for all corrections and adjustments.  The features and
methods you can use in Photoshop far exceed those in Insight, and the
information you can read from the image is much more complete in Photoshop.

On the other hand, I routinely do sharpen in the scan phase as well as after
I have finished Photoshop adjustments - the reason being that the initial
sharpening makes up for the natural blurring of the image in the scanning
process, to try to put it back at ground one, before further adjustments and
final unsharp mask.

Maris

----- Original Message -----
From: Sisk98@aol.com
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:10 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?


I, m new to this site  so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My
scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I
would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200
printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my
adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in
Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or
do
it in Photoshop. Thank-you.    S. Sisk