I'll try it later today and post back. I did try image scan and it seemed i couldn't adjust some of the settings, but i was able to get a better preview.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp>wrote: > Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> writes: > > > Colin Williams <colin at seattlesoft.com> writes: > > > >> I saw a similarly titled message on this list for another EPSON > >> scanner model, placed on this list 7 years ago. I tried setting the > >> brightness and contrast to what I thought were stated for the other > >> model, but was unsure of the gamma level to use for those settings. I > >> tried 1.00 . I'm having trouble with my slides appearing bright enough > >> when I scan them. I'm scanning them at 3200 DPI. I've tried using both > >> the epson2 and the epkowa driver. I think maybe it's just a problem > >> with my settings. Can somebody provide me with gamma, brightness, and > >> contrast settings? Any other hints on what I should do to get a nice > >> looking scan of a slide? > > > > Have you tried the auto-exposure functionality of Image Scan! for Linux? > > As in, preview and zoom in on the slide you want to scan, select the > slide area of interest and click the auto-expose button. Only the > selected area will be used to compute scan settings, so depending on the > selection values will change. The preview is updated with these values > so you get an idea of how the scan result will look before scanning. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION > FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom > http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20120215/ff22aa7a/attachment.html>
