johnclinch

I'm sure its possible in elements, do a google search for scrapbooking with elements or buy a book on scrapbooking with elements.

 

Or buy scrapbooking software to speed it up

 

I use Picture window pro for photo editing. It will do it (lay out tool)and its free to use for a month

 

http://www.dl-c.com

Joseph, does vuescan act as a driver for windows?

OK John we get the message you got out of the right company

The worry for me is driver support. I assume Sony won't carry on the scanners. There's a new version of windows round the corner and presumably view scan and other third party stuff still rely on the driver.

Try reading this

 

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/scanners/drum_scans.shtml

 

11,000 dpi would yield around 900 Mb

Well I think we agree that 1350 isn't enough as the difference is way more than subtle. Its not a matter of right and wrong but right for you.

 

The other day I was at a friends house. We had both bought new digicams (another hint resolution isn't the be all and end all to me) from rival brands. Any hint that one of us had bought the wrong camera went as soon sa we got our albums out. 90% of his photos were indoors 90% of mine were outdoors.

 

Actually if was scanning grainy film, where the film was part of the image, I would be more likley to use the higher resolution to record the grain.

Surely 2700 dpi is at least 2nd gear, but point taken

 

To me its like a Porche and a speed limit. You don't go flat out but it does what you ask so effortlessly. The 2700 dpi is really sharp because the optical system designed for more

 

My issue is lack of RAM, everything starts getting very slow at about 100Mb files.

 

Plus I don't think I have much detail I'm not getting out

Do you mean 5400 or 5400 11

 

The earlier one is the BW legend

What scanner is it? My hunch is it will be hard to get an A4 print from this scanner.

 

My epson 1200 couldn't even manage a decent 6X4.

 

What do you want this software to do?

I find ventre weighted metering works better than evaluative

I scan at 2700 dpi which gives 12 x 8 at 300 dpi. 1350dpi will give 6 x 4 at high resolution and slightly softer enlargements.

 

In my experience 2700 dpi gets most of the imfo out of my slides, 1350 wouldn't. To it would be hard to justify a lower resolution.

 

I started a smaller job than this in March. Befor you start take time to learn about what you're doing and develop a robust work flow.

 

Start by reading this

 

http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html

 

Don't start in earnest until you have the basics of colour management sorted.

 

I have found scanning rewarding but its alot to learn to do well.

 

Have fun

 

John

Dual scan IV is good if you are not in a rush (no dust removal)

 

In theory flat beds have got better but i had my fingers burnt by an epson 1200, it could not achieve that lowly resolution.

 

I bought a dimage 5400

 

these a currently well priced in the uk, but slow on negative film. I use mainly slides

 

I mainly scan at 2700 dpi (about 12 x 8 at 300 dpi or about 10 megapixels). i wasn't confinced that *my* slides had much or anymore

detail at 5400 dpi. The impact of 200Mb files on my machine was dramatic.

 

So did I need a 5400 dpi scanner, well yes and no. It does 2700 dpi really well, I think it down samples in software. So on a sharp slide it looks good at 100% even before sharpening. I could not work without ICE, so I'm pleased.

 

I would have bought a coolscan V but apparently the minolta has advantages with Kodachrome

me too

I couldn't resit having a go, on a basically uncalibrated monitor

 

So it was pull down the centre of the blue curve working in rgb

 

then pull up the centre of the saturation curve and a sort of s shape curve in lightness (hsl curves)

 

I assume this can all be done in photo shop

 

Please let me know if I could have done this better

 

It is screaming out to have a mask at tree line level but that takes real time

I think I should stress my profile was free. Try posting and seeing if anyone has a velvia profile for your scanner they will share...

 

I know that it should be made for a particular scanner but clearly I got away with it

 

Before I had the profile I would set black and white points and then then do a curve adjustment on blue

 

In reference to your slide i would say that there is noything more challenging than those slides with huge dynamic range. They look so good projected but paper and even monitors dont have that dynamic range.

 

As John says you should be able to do it with selective adjustments but I think this takes major skills, read the norman koran stuff

Thanks John

 

I thought you were sugesting that you physically need to scan twice. I think in fact we are in agreement

 

I have found these articles very useful

 

http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html

 

they are based on picture window pro, which I use as a cheap photoshop alternatve, but the articles relate equally well to photoshop

 

These pictures show the way that a profile can effect colours. They are the same scan with different prifiles and similar levels correction. Both have the same white point but the profile has removed the magenta from the bushes. I find this hard to do by hand.

 

I prepared to accept that neither image is correct and even that the insane green isn't an improvement, but it makes the point

John

 

Why is scanning twice better than scanning once at 16 bit and then making selective adjustments, assuming the histogram doesn't clip in the single scan

I think that my velvia scans only started to look ok when i downloaded a velvia profile for my scanner

 

It was made by ethervision for the dimage 5400

I have an 8 x 10 from a dual scan iii on the wall

 

I think its sharp and that the file had more imfo than the print

 

i borrowed the scanner so can't comment on reliability

That sounds like a lot of dough for a student

 

minolta make some great lenses

 

try a couple of used minolta zooms, 100-300 APO etc. See how it goes

 

If in 3 months you still think you need to spend big money what you will have lost on the minolta gear you will save on the drop in price of a new body

Read this thread

 

the answer may be at the bottom

 

I'll try when I get home

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00End6&tag=

In the uk the 5400 is currently very cheap and it has proven ability with ice on kodachrome

I have a demo of CS2 and have exactly the same problem

 

The files are fine in picture window pro and other applications

 

same error message

 

yesterday it opened a file when I double clicked it and that launched cs2. The rest of the batch wouldn't open

 

Do you think its a fault in an automatic update

Ok xnview

 

then this free profile converter

 

http://www.drycreekphoto.com/tools/profile_converter/index.html

 

which I will be testing later

IMHO printing at 240 dpi is fine, 200 dpi ok particularly on the wall

 

100 dpi is looking rough, but ok on a poster....