Well, if there ARE details in the highlights captured with VueScan,
then you can use masks in Photoshop that let you apply one set of
curves to the highlights and other curves to the rest of the image.
If you search the web or your Photoshop for photographer-type books
I'm sure you'll find several ways to approach this.
--Bill
At 11:19 PM +0000 11/24/04, Al Bond wrote:
>Bill Fernandez wrote:
>
>> My Nikon LS4000 has analog gain controls accessible through the Nikon
>> scanner driver. I can sometimes turn down the anaalog gain to get
>> more detail in light areas. Does your software and scanner have such
>> a feature?
>>
>> Don't remember exactly the options on VueScan (have it and use it...)
>> but isn't there a way to turn the exposure way down (Manually) or set
>> the brightness to be very low?
>>
>
>The Minolta software (I have the original Scan Elite) has a fixed minimum
>exposure and blows out the highlights so I have to use Vuescan on these
>slides to keep the detail. It doesn't lose any highlights but they
>are very flat
>and compressed on the actual slide, and hence on the scan as well.
>
>Unfortunately, as I am still using PS6, I don't have the luxury of the
>Shadow/Highlight tool in PS CS. Because the images need a lot of
>adjustment, it really has to be done in 16 bit so I am limited to
>the 16 bit tools
>in PS6.
>
>So far, the most promising approach seems to be to change to LAB colour and
>use a gentle Curves adjustment on the Luminosity channel to shift the
>highlights back towards the mid-tones and repeat the same adjustment several
>times. If I try to do it all in one big Curve adjustment, it starts
>to look nasty
>very quickly (due to my lack of proficiency with curves rather than any
>deficiency in PS!).
>
>I don't think the recovered images will ever look brilliant but at
>least my wife
>might get some mementos of her Spanish trip.
>
>
>Al Bond
>
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