[Leica] IMGS: Color Balancing (Blue Trees)

[Sonny Carter]

Do you use that color restore app built into vuescan while you scan?  I’ve
never used it with Kodachrome, but it does pretty good on prints.

I’m away from the film scanner for the week or else I’d run some to check
it out for you.

SonC

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 4:38 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> PESO:
>
> I'm scanning 7000 slides from Switzerland, most of them Kodachromes, most
> from 1989.  One category is 56773 - Switzerland Countryside.  If you have
> been to Switzerland, you know that the Swiss countryside is beautiful.  I
> want to get it right.  Here is the original scan, scanned on the Nikon
> LS5000 with Vuescan set for Kodachrome:
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112330
>
> It's too dark and the trees are blue.
>
> I lightened it and balanced the color based on the white house in the
> foreground:
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112332
>
> Everything looks fine except the trees in the distance are blue.  I
> remember them being blue but maybe I'm wrong.  I subtracted the blue.
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170112333
>
> Now everything looks too green.  I have many, many of these slides to
> adjust and want to get it right but believable.
>
> What do you think?
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> Tina
>
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