LaserSoft Imaging

I have some targets from Hutch Color which I want to use, instead
of the IT8 targets, to generate the scanner profiles. But I want
to know which settings should I put in the Silverfast. I was advised
to disable colour management by the guys at Hutch Color, which I
am able to easily do so in Nikon Scan. However, I am a bit confused
with the settings to use in Silverfast. Bascially, I need to get
RAW data scans of the targets and I would import them into the EyeOne
to generate the profiles. The settings should be the same as to
how I would be subsequently scanning the rest of my photos; I would
be scanning them without any colour management. ie RAW data scans.

Here is what I thought the settings should be, please kindly advise if I had got them correct.

Color Management:
Scanner -> Internal: NONE
Internal -> Monitor: AUTOMATIC
Internal -> Output: RGB

Profiles for ICM:
Scanner(Transparency): NONE
Internal: NONE
Gray: GENERIC GRAY PROFILE
Rendering Intent: PERCEPTUAL

Am I getting all the settings correct, esp for the "Internal" part??
I would want a scan that has absolutely no embedded profiles.

thks!!!

SilverFast and Hutch Color

When your settings are:

Color Management:
Scanner -> Internal: NONE
Internal -> Monitor: None
Internal -> Output: RGB

Profiles for ICM:
Scanner(Transparency): NONE
Internal: NONE

the colour management is switched off (you get pure raw data) and no profiles are embedded!

I would add that once you have created the profile in i1 Match you should use it with SilverrFast. You can see the settings in Example 5 at this link:


http://www.computer-darkroom.com/sf5-ne ... f5_cms.htm

thanks to both of you for answerig my questions!!

Err...I have another question to add to this. Is it okay to say, instead of setting the "internal" to "NONE", can I set it to a particular profile, say "AdobeRGB", and leaving all the other settings as it is. Would it be advisable to do that??? Does that mean that then I will be constrain to the characteristics of the profile??

Adobe RGB for "Internal"

You can select "Adobe RGB" for internal; that profile might be embedded in the raw data. Your data itself will not be effected!

I'm sorry I do not really get what you mean by "might be"??? So what will be the difference between setting a color space and none?? Can you kindly explain??

tks!!!

"might be"???

I think you will find that it "will be".

President_LSI wrote:<b>SilverFast and Hutch Color</b>

When your settings are:

<b>Color Management: </b>
Scanner -> Internal: NONE
Internal -> Monitor: None
Internal -> Output: RGB

<b>Profiles for ICM: </b>
Scanner(Transparency): NONE
Internal: NONE

the colour management is switched off (you get pure raw data) and no profiles are embedded!

I had tried what you had described, however, the scan that I have got is really too dark for any good, and especially not for a scanner profile. I understand the RAW scans to be darker than the usual scans, but I am getting them really really dark. 1/4 of the swatches are in black, is that suppose to be that way?? Do you have any other suggestions to get a better scan??

thks!!1

i believe that if you are getting raw data, then no gamma correction has been applied and what you describe is true - the scan looks black. All the data is there, however.

Frank

and if that is the case, try setting the Gamma-Gradation value in Options:General, and turning the 'use in HDR' option On so that the RAW data will be gamma corrected.