Doing all processing in Photoshop

[globi]

Dear all,

I am about to batch scan all my slides only using the IT8-calibration. All other adjustments Silverfast offers (color, curves and other automated options) I am planning on doing in Photoshop. I used many Silverfast internal adjustments in the past for my slide scans but found that quite a few photos are sometimes overdone and therefore lost.

So instead I prefer to do sort of a raw scan and then do all the rest in Photoshop - maybe more or less automated. And if anything goes wrong here on some photos I will still have the raw scan and can do it manually.

Do you know of any reason why working on the photos this way (using only Silverfast?s IT8 and nothing else) and do all post-processing in Photoshop would be a bad idea. In other words: Does my scanner (Reflecta 5000 or Pacific Image 3600 - same scanner) scan in a different way when using any Silverfast adjustments and which I cannot do in Photoshop afterwards as well?

Thanks alot for your help,
Globi

[jheinzl]

Hello,

well regarding your question -- I dare say it is not unusual to do it like you intend it to do and no, your scanner does not scan in a different way. What SF does, unless you create SF HDRs and use SF HDR, is to colour correct your scans (commonly Adobe:1998), that is all.

Being able to make adjustments in SF already is still useful, though as now and again one just needs a few quick results or for scanning documents or positives (prints) for instance.

Cheers,
Juergen