Following Ed's advice I rescanned an image in Vuescan using "infrared clean"
& restore colors"
The result compared to Nikonscan 3.1 can be seen at
http://www.littlebarn.com/test/index.htm
After autolevel and curve correction in Photoshop I get an image from
Vuescan that is better than Nikon Scan.
Question to Ed: would it be possible to achieve the end result without going
through PS?
Thanks
John Bradbury
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Skin tones
> In a message dated 6/17/2001 1:17:38 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > There are something else with VueScan just now if I compare VueScan to
> > NikonScan and Silverfast. Little bit flat, doll and color less.
> >
> > I have send MR Hamrick 3 test pictures scanned by NikonScan, VueScan
and
> > Silverfast+ LS2000. Nothing more done than dragged to Photoshop and
auto
> > levels.
>
> I think the root of the problem is that VueScan doesn't have
> support for Fuji NPH 400 film. The default settings in VueScan
> are basically for Kodak Gold film, and it doesn't seem to match
> the Fuji NPH characteristics very well.
>
> You might experiment with the "Color|Restore colors" option.
> One of the things this option does is try to figure out the
> colors of each of the dye layers and separate out each of
> the dye layers. This often fixes problems both with films
> that aren't in the VueScan film table. However, this option
> only works well at high resolutions, where it can see color
> changes at the edges of dye clouds.
>
> When the "Color|Restore colors" option is enabled, the
> choice of film type in the Color tab is ignored.
>
> The other tricky part of using this option is that is doesn't
> affect the preview tab, only the scan tab, since the results
> improve as the scan resolution increases.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick
>
