Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Folks, > > I've been working on scanning some Kodachrome slides using mostly Vuescan > as > that is the one I am most familiar with. I've calibrated my scanner with an > IT8 target I bought from Silverfast in both Vuescan and Silverfast. I've > calibrated my MacBook Pro's screen with a Datacolor doohickey. > > One group of slide has been very hard to scan. I can't seem to get rid of > an > magenta'ish cast. The pictures was shot on an overcast day [Edith Cavell > glacier, Jasper National Park (Canada)]. The original slide has a beautiful > milky green tone to the water and the snow banks was almost white - > definitely > not magenta. > > If I correct for the snow, the water turns grey. If I correct for the > water, > the magenta cast gets worse. > > I've tried this in both Silverfast and Vuescan. Both gives similar results. > It's driving me crazy. > > Here is an example of a very bad scan from Silverfast. > > <http://www.aotera.org/tmp/ice.jpg> > > Any suggestions? > > Regards, > Spencer > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information You could scan it in raw and just bring it out in Photoshop. But! Why not just select command B and desaturate the magenta a bit? You could even select that one area of the snow which is the only problem but I don't think you'd need to. Oh! No Photoshop perhaps! Mark William Rabiner