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Billman
Can anyone recommend some kind of tutorial on color correction of
scanned film negatives? I've been using Vuescan (8.0.8) to produce
Raw files from my Epson Perfection 2400 and using the following
workflow in Photoshop Elements 2.0:
(1) Rotate (if needed) and invert
(2) auto color-correct (seems to be the same as doing each channel
individually)
(3) boost the saturation (the raw scan is too flat)
(4) slightly sharpen
(5) save a TIF and JPG.
I think the resulting images look pretty good, but when I compare them
to the original hard print image I see the colors are way off. The
blue channel is too vivid, for example, and I can't quite get skin
tones correct. It also seems like the contrast of certain color
channels is compressed; the green leaves of plants, for example, are a
nice dark green in the photo but turn out much brighter in the
scanned. It's almost as if increasing the saturation is the wrong
thing to do overall, but I don't know how else to improve the
vividness of the "flat" scans.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance -- Bill
scanned film negatives? I've been using Vuescan (8.0.8) to produce
Raw files from my Epson Perfection 2400 and using the following
workflow in Photoshop Elements 2.0:
(1) Rotate (if needed) and invert
(2) auto color-correct (seems to be the same as doing each channel
individually)
(3) boost the saturation (the raw scan is too flat)
(4) slightly sharpen
(5) save a TIF and JPG.
I think the resulting images look pretty good, but when I compare them
to the original hard print image I see the colors are way off. The
blue channel is too vivid, for example, and I can't quite get skin
tones correct. It also seems like the contrast of certain color
channels is compressed; the green leaves of plants, for example, are a
nice dark green in the photo but turn out much brighter in the
scanned. It's almost as if increasing the saturation is the wrong
thing to do overall, but I don't know how else to improve the
vividness of the "flat" scans.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance -- Bill