If you turn color management off then you're on your own for
adjusting the colors. Now I've been scanning only Kodachromes
recently and here's what I did:
I turned color management off, went to preferences and set the gamma
to match the gamma at which I'm running my screen, then scanned a
Kodachrome IT8 target and made a custom profile based on that scan.
That was the setup. Now for scanning I simply scan a Kodachrome
slide, NikonScan tags it as AdobeRGB (which is dumb), I assign it my
custom profile, and the colors look very good.
While setting up the scan I adjust the master analog gain (if
necessary) to fill the histogram in the Curves control panel, then I
check the separate R, G and B histograms and increase the analog gain
of any channel that doesn't fill the histogram (this assumes of
course that there actually is some pure white somewhere in the slide).
OK, that's for slides. If you're scanning negs the story would be
different. I haven't spent as much time with negs, but I think what
I'd do is turn color management ON, set it to use the "wide gamut
(compensated)" color space, then later in photoshop assign the "wide
gamut" profile to the scan.
Good luck,
--Bill
At 9:45 AM -0600 11/28/01, david/lisa soderman wrote:
>
>What about if I have color management *OFF*?
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