Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
This would depend upon your level of expertise with Photoshop. If you are a novice, stick with Insight; it's quick and easy and gives reasonably good results. If you are good at Photoshop, use Insight to output a raw 16bit file with profile embedded, and do the adjustments in Photoshop. Or you can try Vuescan. STEPHENJENNINGS P h o t o g r a p h e r Cambridge, MA [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:10:07 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop? I, m new to this site so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200 printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or do it in Photoshop. Thank-you.S. Sisk
Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
Thanks to all for the great advice!! S.Sisk
Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
Try and do as much processing as you can in Photoshop. You'll have much more control and be able to save at various stages. If you choose not to, never sharpen the image during the scan. That should be the last thing you do after manipulating in Photoshop. And then it should be "unsharp mask". But I'm sure you'll be able to read different views on this, and changing light bulbs, if you monitor the forum long enough. Everyone has their personal work procedure that works for them. And most are willing to share that information. That's why this is such a good forum. Larry I, m new to this site so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200 printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or do it in Photoshop. *** Larry Berman http://BermanGraphics.com http://IRDreams.com http://ImageCompress.com ***
Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
I agree with Larry... I use a Minolta scanner... I use PhotoShop 6 (used to use 5.5.) and use its import TWAIN to bring up my Minolta scan software, which I use to obtain a 16 bit linear scan, thus bringing a basically raw scan into PShop... There I do my work, saving the image at various key points and only do an Unsharp Mask when I go to make a print... If I am giving a CD to my client, I give them unsharpened files, with a note advising them of this Mike M. Larry Berman wrote: Try and do as much processing as you can in Photoshop. You'll have much more control and be able to save at various stages. If you choose not to, never sharpen the image during the scan. That should be the last thing you do after manipulating in Photoshop. And then it should be "unsharp mask". But I'm sure you'll be able to read different views on this, and changing light bulbs, if you monitor the forum long enough. Everyone has their personal work procedure that works for them. And most are willing to share that information. That's why this is such a good forum. Larry I, m new to this site so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200 printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or do it in Photoshop. *** Larry Berman http://BermanGraphics.com http://IRDreams.com http://ImageCompress.com ***
RE: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
IMHO (as I use the SprintScan and do 11X17 prints) Just do the basic scan with Insight. Use all the power of Photoshop to prepare the image for printing. I recommend not doing your sharpening until you are just ready to print. I never sharpen the permanent archived version of the file. Stan Schwartz www.tallgrassimages.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?I, m new to this site so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200 printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or do it in Photoshop. Thank-you. S. Sisk
Re: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop?
I agree with the others that it is best to do just the basic scan, setting white and black points and color masking for negatives, in Insight and then using Photoshop for all corrections and adjustments. The features and methods you can use in Photoshop far exceed those in Insight, and the information you can read from the image is much more complete in Photoshop. On the other hand, I routinely do sharpen in the scan phase as well as after I have finished Photoshop adjustments - the reason being that the initial sharpening makes up for the natural blurring of the image in the scanning process, to try to put it back at ground one, before further adjustments and final unsharp mask. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:10 AM Subject: filmscanners: Re Insight or Photoshop? I, m new to this site so if this has been covered already, I apologized. My scanner is the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Insight. I use Photoshop 5.0. I would like to produce high quality 11x17 inch prints on my Epson 1200 printer. My question is...should I use the Insight software for my adjustments or just do a basic scan and do most of the adjustments in Photoshop? Also should I sharpen the image at all before the final scan or do it in Photoshop. Thank-you.S. Sisk
