I have recently purchased an FS2710 film scanner and find that the raw scans seem very underexposed. I am using the Canon software as a TWAIN source driver to scan directly into PS 5.0. Do I need to make my adjsutments in the Photoshop software or the Canon software? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Robb

-- Robb Russell (rnkrussell@hotmail.com), May 09, 2000

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Deja Vu! There was a thread a few posts down very similar to this.

Go HERE

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), May 09, 2000.

Not having used the Canon I would make the following suggestion...
When you adjust in photoshop, or adjust your monitor - is there any detail lost in the shadows? If detail is lost (i.e. you can see it in the negative, or you can see the detail on professionaly printed photos) then you need to adjust the Canon software for certain - as it will need to tell the scanner to expose the negative (or slide) more. You need to make certain you don't blow away the highlights though! Your scanner - as all scanners - will not have the tonal range to get everything in a particularly contrasty picture - so you'll have to live with some level of compromise.
Just remember the old axiom (which I believe was coined by Ansel Adams) - Print for detail in the highlights...

Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), May 09, 2000.

Canon's software is not too bad, however your best results will be to scan the image in 16 bit tiff if you can and use the levels or curves command in photoshop to adjust your image. I have scanned a lot of images and dark scans seem to be the rule rather than the exception where slides are concerned.

Jonathan

-- Jonathan Ratzlaff (jonathanr@clrtech.bc.ca), May 09, 2000.