I am trying to figure out a 'happy medium' for the integration of scanner software settings and manipulations in the workflow of scanning slides. I would like something that gives a bit better results and has a bit more control than the Polaroid scanning software that came with my SS4000+, as it seems to me that the histograms don't match all that perfectly with the image histograms that I get in Photoshop and I don't always like the color reneditioin of the scan. I very much liked the degree of control I could get with Vuescan except that it is very frequently crashing my system and when it does I can't turn the system off except by holding in the power button. This has happened on 2 different XP systems and with different Firewire cards, so I have given up on Vuescan. The scanner came with Silverfast Ai which I have upgraded to the current version.
My concern with Ai is that it is almost like a mini-Photoshop and one could spend a great deal of time with all the tools before scanning....and I have learned Photoshop and would rather do the vast majority of my image editing in Photoshop. I realize that getting the most data right during the scan process is best in terms of data manipulation but I do not want to basically learn "Two" versions of Photoshop and now with PS CS allowing 16 bit manipulation it seems to me like perhaps there is not too much of a detriment to doing essentially all the manipulation in PS except for gross adjustments. So, what would a happy medium be, and how can it be integrated into a Photoshop workflow? I am thinking that perhaps the best option might be to perform the scan in 48 bit color, use the histogram sliders to pretty much just set the entire data range from 0 to 256 scan to make sure I capture all the info there is and do the rest of the manipulation and adjustments in PS using layers. Does this make sense or am I doing myself a disservice by not doing more image manipulation in the Silverfast software? Also, if one uses IT8 calibration with Silverfast, is this helpful with the scan alone or is the benefit only seen with the application of the Auto Correct with Calibration tool? Howard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body