Harry said:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:09:53 -0000, "John"
Exactly this is what I can't verify. I want to buy vuescan because of
the colours it produces in rather a large numer of scanned slides
(without making any adjustments), but am I testing the colour
management of the normal version or the pro-version??
For all clarity: I don't care if one of the two versions has a
*better* colourmanagement, I simply like the colours that the
trial-versin produces more then what the colours produced by the
minolta software that came with my scanner (dimage scan dual IV)
The trial version is the same as the 'Standard' version - it has no colour
management. If you like the colours that you are getting from the trial,
then you can buy either, because both can be made to perform in the same
way. There *is* only one version of the program - as Don pointed out in his
reply, the serial number simply enables the missing functions. If you buy
the 'Pro' version, you will get the 'Pro' features. If you purchase the
'Standard' version, you will get - well - it seems what you already have.
There used to be a watermark on the trial version which the serial removed;
however, according to the release notes, the watermark no longer exists and
there are apparently no other restrictions. If there is no time limit, then
I don't know what the catch is.
The standard version simply outputs 'Device RGB'. The Pro version can do
this also if you wish, but it also has the capability of converting your
scanner data to a standard RGB profile such as Adobe RGB (1998) etc. either
using a built in profile or using a custom one which it can generate from a
standard calibration target.
It isn't that one of the versions has 'better' colour management - one of
them (i.e. the Standard one) has *no* colour management. However, both
versions have identical colour *adjustment* functions.
