On 12/16/01 8:03 AM, David Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote: >Julian Vrieslander [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote on Sat, 15 Dec >2001 00:33:41 -0500 > >>Maybe with more experience I will get better at inspecting VueScan's >>displays and choosing the right values for WP, BP, and gamma. But since >>these displays are not color managed, I also have to mentally compensate >>for how the image appearance is going to change when it goes into >>Photoshop. > >What I see in the VueScan window is what I get in Photoshop - am I doing >something right!
Maybe you are running on a PC and using sRGB as your color space. If so, a color managed display is less important. I run on a Mac with a gamma 1.8 monitor, and I prefer to use Adobe RGB as my color space. With VueScan set to Adobe RGB, images appear very different than how they appear in Photoshop: the VueScan version is very flat and desaturated. I've figured out a workflow that gives me a somewhat more useful display in VueScan. I set color space to Apple RGB and gamma 1.8 for my first look at the scan. I set crop, exposure, white point, black point, brightness, and filter options, using Prev Mem and Scan Mem to check results in Apple RGB. Then I change to Adobe RGB and gamma 2.2 (keeping other settings the same), and I do a Scan Mem to write the final output file. This two-space two-step takes extra time, and it still does not give a really good match with what I see in Photoshop. But it's the best I can do with the current version of VueScan. -- Julian Vrieslander <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>