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Hey all
So after being less than blown away by my scans I've spent ages looking into different developers, pushing techniques, filters etc. Turns out now, having spent the evening constructively playing with vuescan and researching some techniques, I've found a much MUCH better set up for my own scans.
Previously I scanned 16bit grayscale, b/w negative,tmax 100 .55, auto levels etc etc as I'd read as a recommendation before.
I started to read further tonight and several folks suggested scanning as a colour slide and inverting in PS. So began my evening of testing....
Turns out scanning as a 48bit RGB colour slide,multiple exposure,no level adjustments, blah blah and so on, gives me way better results. Less digital noise, more contrast, smoother transitions in tones etc. Just load the 350mb odd file in ps, invert a curve layer, add a channel mixer layer and tick monochrome, add a levels adj layer and move sliders to taste/and or curves and you're done.
There's so much more detail in the scan it's unreal!
I can get on my mac tomorrow and quote the exact settings if it helps
Just thought I'd input something potentially constructive to the forum
Regards
Danny
So after being less than blown away by my scans I've spent ages looking into different developers, pushing techniques, filters etc. Turns out now, having spent the evening constructively playing with vuescan and researching some techniques, I've found a much MUCH better set up for my own scans.
Previously I scanned 16bit grayscale, b/w negative,tmax 100 .55, auto levels etc etc as I'd read as a recommendation before.
I started to read further tonight and several folks suggested scanning as a colour slide and inverting in PS. So began my evening of testing....
Turns out scanning as a 48bit RGB colour slide,multiple exposure,no level adjustments, blah blah and so on, gives me way better results. Less digital noise, more contrast, smoother transitions in tones etc. Just load the 350mb odd file in ps, invert a curve layer, add a channel mixer layer and tick monochrome, add a levels adj layer and move sliders to taste/and or curves and you're done.
There's so much more detail in the scan it's unreal!
I can get on my mac tomorrow and quote the exact settings if it helps
Just thought I'd input something potentially constructive to the forum
Regards
Danny