Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, (I'm off all week, so I don't have access to my Nikon scanner at work so I can't try this) I looked up the directions (Really!) to Vuescan, and they suggest setting the Mode to "Transparency", and the Media to "Image" on the input tab When you do that, Vuescan makes no effort to auto-correct the image to the way it thinks the scene probably was, leaving you with a raw file to work with. When you scan in "color slide" It tries to guess how the scene should look. Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA 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 > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > < > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html > <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>* > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >