[filmscanners] RE: 3 Newbie questions

["Maaki" <maaki@pacbell.net>]

The author specifically wanted slides, not digital images nor
transparencies. There was a problem though. In some cases I didn't
have slides, only 6 x 7 cm transparencies.  Also, some of my slides
of earlier work were badly off color. In the past when I tried to
have color corrected duplicate slides made,  the results were worse
than the originals.

It was my thought therefore, to scan and color correct as necessary,
and send  the digital results on a CD. I also thought that if this
process worked, I could in the future, send digital images to other
authors who ask for images, since I often do not get my slides or
transparencies back. So I bought a scanner, upgraded the processor in
a Mac, and hired a graphic designer to scan at high resolution,
hundreds of slides and transparencies,  and prepare them for
printing. Later if I needed anything smaller, I could always convert
down.

But now I'm learning, thanks to Laurie, and Paul, that what I thought
would be a nifty solution to two problems, (color and non return),
is not nearly as straight forward as I had at first imagined.

Many thanks to you both.  You've been an immense help.

Maaki

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  ---At 10:51 PM -0500 8/9/03, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:---

>Having said that, I would suggest that Maaki contact the author and have the
>author get in touch with the publisher or the press and find out what they
>will or will not accept, what they can work with in a pinch, if they have
>the capability to scan and color correct the slides at their end, and if
>they can furnish information as to what CYMK press standard they use for
>their presses given the inks and papers that will be used.

At 9:47 PM -0700 8/9/03, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>I suggest that you
>just bring the images into Photoshop, assign _some_ profile, whatever seems
>to work best, and then readjust the colors yourself until you like the way
>they look. If the print house can accept RGB files, I'd convert to some RGB
>color space like sRGB or Adobe RGB as soon as you load the image, and do the
>tweaking in that domain.

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