Did you give Vuescan a try? http://www.hamrick.com I use it with my scanners, it has a lot of options and built in colour corrections for a lot of negative film types, and works very well.
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 04:12, Juey Chong Ong wrote: > On Sunday, Jan 4, 2004, at 01:27 Asia/Singapore, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > scanning color Kodak 100 gold negs - arrrggh! > > I have a 1640SU Photo also, and I find that you need to do massive > color correction when scanning color negatives. I think that's the norm > with "primitive" equipment. When I use my friend's Polaroid Sprintscan > 4000 which is a 4000ppi film scanner, I have to do the same thing. > > The quickest way to correct the color in the Epson is to use the Auto > setting. But you have to make sure that you select only the area of the > negative you're scanning, and include some of the black border as well. > That allows it to establish a black point. Make sure your selection > area does not include any of the scanning area outside the negative. > That way you don't end up with the wrong white point. > > I prefer to do a 16-bit raw scan (although I seriously wonder if the > data from the 1640 is even worth of 16 bits) and bring it into > Photoshop for the grunt work. > > --jc -- Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
