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[filmscanners] Re: Scanning Overexposed Slides
On 11/19/04 3:03 PM, "Al Bond" <al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> When my wife went on a trip to Spain, a problem with her camera meant that
> most of her slides were 1-2 stops overexposed. I have been trying to scan in
> and recover some of the shots but with limited success.
>
> Although the slides are very "thin", there is still some detail in the
> highlights,
> albeit very compressed. I have used Vuescan to make sure none of the detail
> is lost and then tried using curves in Photoshop to uncompress the highlights
> and spread them back into the midtones. However, I still can't get a natural
> looking result.
>
> Has anyone got any tips or suggestions on anything else I can try?
If you have Photoshop CS, try experimenting with the Shadow/Highlight tool.
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Julian Vrieslander <julianv@mindspring.com>
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