Re: filmscanners: Skin tones

["John Bradbury" <bradbury@on.aibn.com>]

The result of the changes that Ed made to produce Vuescan 7.1.2 can be seen
here.
http://www.littlebarn.com/test/index.htm
Minor mods in PS creates a beautiful end result
Thanks
John Bradbury
----- Original Message -----
From: <EdHamrick@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Skin tones


> In a message dated 6/18/2001 1:42:44 PM EST, bradbury@on.aibn.com writes:
>
> > The result compared to Nikonscan 3.1 can be seen at
> >  http://www.littlebarn.com/test/index.htm
> >  After autolevel and curve correction in Photoshop I get an image from
> >  Vuescan that is better than Nikon Scan.
> >  Question to Ed: would it be possible to achieve the end result without
> going
> >  through PS?
>
> The reason the image is too dark is that you have bright sky
> in the background, and VueScan is preserving detail in the
> sky (it's blue in the first VueScan result and white in the other
> results).  Increase "Color|White point (%)" to get more brightness
> in the foreground, possibly to 2 to 5%.
>
> Experiment with reducing "Color|Gamma" to improve the color and
> skin tones.
>
> These two things should let you reproduce your Photoshop results.
>
> If you e-mail me the raw scan file for this image,
> I'll look into whether there's something I can do in VueScan
> to make this improved contrast be the default (I may have
> something incorrect in the default contrast that's used
> when generic film type or restore colors is used).
>
> (You can produce a raw scan file by turning on the
> "Files|Output raw file" option.)
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick
>