Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I can see that the contrast is hard to deal with, but I would leave the colors as they are. Just my two cents. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@comporium.net> To: <digitalusersgroup@yahoogroups.com>; <lug@leica-users.org>; <paw@micapeak.com>; <seephoto@micapeak.com> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:20 PM Subject: [Leica] IMGS: Kodachrome scans > PESO: > > I'm working on a quick project and have been scanning 20 year old > Kodachromes for the last couple of days. I'm still having problems, even > with Silverfast software. Kodachromes are just hard to scan. The > contrast seems to be beyond what scanners can handle but it does work > better scanning as RAW and processing in Lightroom. I do have a question > about color balance. The color is very different in these slides because > of the light at the time. Sometimes I was in warm sunshine, sometimes in > cool open shade, sometimes in dark houses. So people's skin has > everything from a green tinge to an orange tinge. That's only really > noticeable when they are displayed next to each other on a web site. > Should I adjust the color of the skin to all be the same or should I allow > for the differences in lighting? > > <http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/gallery/3837836_USV9B#396236971_c6eMg-A-LB> > http://tinyurl.com/5g7f46 > > This is the last one.- #91 Hit the before button until you get to #51 and > that will be all of these scans. I did two of the girl in the blue huipil > to show the warm and cool differences. > > TIA > > Tina > > Tina Manley > ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI > http://www.tinamanley.com > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >