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Subject: [Leica] Faded Ektachrome
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:57:58 -0500
References: <6bb55c78-5151-5083-cf75-f53145094a21@gmail.com>

Peter,

I don?t know how this will compare with VueScan?s correction, but here 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/desktop/?g2_fromNavId=x85540aee> 
is what Photoshop?s Image > Auto Color did to a severely color-shifted 
30-year-old Agfachrome that I scanned with VueScan (but didn?t use its 
built-in correction). I could hardly believe what one click did. Then I 
touched it up some more. Photoshop is digital magic.

?howard

> On Jan16, 2021, at 0053, Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm in the process of digitizing more selected slides from my late 
> mother's collection.  Mostly I'm using a digital camera and a macro lens 
> and slide copy attachment, because it's fast.  That's working well for 
> Kodachrome.  Unfortunately, several years in the collection are taken on 
> Ektachrome, and the slides are quite faded--overall orange with decent 
> remnants of the actual colors.  How well does Vuescan work in restoring 
> the slide's colors to some reasonable facsimile of normal?  Should I spend 
> some time figuring this out, or is there a better/faster solution?
> 
> There are lots of slides, and the digital output is for family viewing on 
> computer screens, not prints for Great Art.
> 
> I'll be posting some of the Kodachrome scans from early-mid 1950s shortly. 
>  Stay tuned.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
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