[filmscanners] Re: Appropriate colour space to scan into and work with?

["Maris V. Lidaka Sr." <rigaco@ameritech.net>]

Your understanding is correct - I would scan into ProPhoto RGB at this point
(I had been scanning into Adobe RGB, which is larger than sRGB)  There was
just a thread on this on Dan Margulis's Color Theory list

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colortheory/

You don't need to spring for Photoshop if you don't want - there is other
software that is color-aware, such as Corel's PhotoPaint (part of the
CorelDRAW suite), the latest PSP, and also Qimage - printing software,
modified into editing and printing over the last year or so.  But leav the
file as is for now - convert when you're ready for output.

Maris

Dieder Bylsma wrote:
> I'm going through another batch of scans right now and was wondering
> what is
> the collected wisdom about scanning into colour spaces.
>
> I have an LS-4000 scanner and no longer use NikonScan to do my
> scanning.
> Instead I'm using VueScan. In VueScan we can set the output colour
> space and
> *my understanding* of colour space is that it is better to scan into a
> 'bigger' colour space than what you can generate so that at least you
> don't
> have any clipping of colours when you do your editing and colour
> adjustments.
>
> So I'm scanning using ProPhoto RGB as the output for VueScan. I'm
> using
> Photoshop to do my colour adjustments.
>
> **The thing is that the colours just look like they need a bit more
> 'punch'
> afterwards, a bit more saturation. But this is to be expected since
> it's a
> huge colour space and the monitor has a limited gamut, even with
> ColorSync
> etc. Or is it?**
>
> Should I get Photoshop to convert to another profile on opening the
> file? Or
> leave it as is and only convert when I need to output to a printing
> device
> (be it Frontier, InkJet or whatnot)
>
> Suggestions?
>
> D.
>
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