Re: NB Kodak IT8 skintones
Re: NB Kodak IT8 skintones
- Subject: Re: NB Kodak IT8 skintones
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:47:52 +0200
on 30/05/01 11:02, Darrian Young at email@hidden wrote:
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> Does the woman's skin-tone always look dark and a little unhealthy
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> in a profiled scan of a Kodak IT8 transmissive?
B's asking about miss Kodak on the IT8 not actual scans of film.
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Now that you have brought up the subject, in my experience, I have never
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made a scanner profile, especially transparent, that I was happy with
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without editing. Normally, although of course it varies and depends on the
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scanner, the colors are pretty good but the profile is too dark. I am
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basically resigned to the idea that when creating a scanner profile I have
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to start up the Profile Editor for a session after - has anyone a magic
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bullet for this or are experiences more or less the same?
Scanner profiles in ScanOpen are too saturated for my preferences so I just
cut back in Lab saturation in Linocolor and save out the modX profile. The
profiles from ProfileCity are the most neutral I've ever seen and shouldn't
need any tweaks at all. ProfileMaker are great on subtle graduations but the
white point is rather blue for my liking so again you have to edit this if
you want wysiwyg compared to the actual film. I used to scan with the
profile that best matched image character but I've become lazy and just use
the ScanOpen profiles in Linocolor as they function so well with floating
dynamic point.
One thing that is less obvious to all but the people using the latest gear
is how much the profiling apps have added finesse to the scan profiles all a
long limited by the Ansi IT8.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape