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Subject: Re: [OM] scanning questions
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 06:30:57 +0100
The good thing about Vuescan is that you can save the file and export to your picture editor. When I start work on the file in Photoshop Elements, usually while Vuescan is controlling the scanner on the next scan, I save it as a .psd. This means that I still have the original scan on HDD if I make a major error. However, I do delete the original file when I have finished with my changes and the image sits on a CDR eventually as a .psd with full-size .jpgs on my HDD. I cannot afford to leave too many uncompressed files on my HDD!

Chris

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 05:39 Europe/London, Tris Schuler wrote:

If you make changes in the scanner software they're there forever; if you just scan a RAW image to file and save that to work with in some other software you've always got the whole enchilada to work with if and when you decide your first editing decisions weren't so hot.

My advice is to keep your master scan (usually a very large TIFF in my case) sacrosanct and always work off a _copy_ of that. (Of course, you either need lots of HD space, or figure a back-up routine to store your images someplace else.)

Tris

According to different sources I've read that one should, a) just scan
the negative with no correction and do post processing in an image
editor or, b) correct major faults like over/under exposure, color,
crop, level horizon with the scanner software and fine tune with the
image editor. Is this a personal preference thing or is there a
technical reason why one way is better than another? Also, should i just scan to a tif or directly into an image editor? Or does it matter, e.g.
hardware or software dependent? As you can see below I'm not out there
riding the crest of the wave so to speak. More like the guy with the
wheelbarrow at the end of the parade :>) The parade being ebay and
garage sales.

Mike
PhotoSmart scanner to PS6 mostly. W98 350mhz 384mb

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