Question about colors and batch scan
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:31 pm
Hi.
I've recently bought SilverFast SE Plus for my old Minolta Scan Dual III. It works fine, but there are two issues I'd love to get resolved.
1. Colors of (pre)scanned image are bad. While I have no problems fixing them with levels, curves and other SF tools I'm wondering why they look perfectly fine on frames overview (index with all frames)? Is there any way to have colors/exposure of prescan/scan identical to thumbnails in index? That would save me lot of time as index most often have near perfect colors/exposure
Using SF auto correction and NegaFix usually don't get even close to colors seen on thumbnail without manual adjustments.
2. I'm also having problems with exposure and colors in batch scan. It seems that settings from first frame are used for all other frames. For example if first frame is very dark it will be scanned fine (exposure bumped), but all other will be overexposed. If first frame have dominate color (ie. blue sky, lots of green leafs etc.) all other frames will have cast of that specific color. I can get around it by prescanning one frame. Doing batch scan right after that seems to force prescan auto correction to all batch scanned frames. I can live with that when scanning similar frames, but its quite annoying when batch scanning negatives with different kind of frames (dark/light, interiors/landscapes etc.). I usually give up doing batch scan in such situations as scanning each frame separately gives me way better results.
I've recently bought SilverFast SE Plus for my old Minolta Scan Dual III. It works fine, but there are two issues I'd love to get resolved.
1. Colors of (pre)scanned image are bad. While I have no problems fixing them with levels, curves and other SF tools I'm wondering why they look perfectly fine on frames overview (index with all frames)? Is there any way to have colors/exposure of prescan/scan identical to thumbnails in index? That would save me lot of time as index most often have near perfect colors/exposure
Using SF auto correction and NegaFix usually don't get even close to colors seen on thumbnail without manual adjustments.2. I'm also having problems with exposure and colors in batch scan. It seems that settings from first frame are used for all other frames. For example if first frame is very dark it will be scanned fine (exposure bumped), but all other will be overexposed. If first frame have dominate color (ie. blue sky, lots of green leafs etc.) all other frames will have cast of that specific color. I can get around it by prescanning one frame. Doing batch scan right after that seems to force prescan auto correction to all batch scanned frames. I can live with that when scanning similar frames, but its quite annoying when batch scanning negatives with different kind of frames (dark/light, interiors/landscapes etc.). I usually give up doing batch scan in such situations as scanning each frame separately gives me way better results.