daniel_tomasini

If you're using vuescan, in the output tab you can select file size reduction for the file format you're using (I use raw dng). If you set this to 2 while scanning at 7200 it will output a file at 3600.

If you'd like to I could also run the file through my full version of Colorperfect to see if this would improve things.

Hi Adam, maybe you can use Colorperfect (or of course first try the free demo, althought I think the results from the full version are better than from the demo.) At the moment I'm digitizing the old slides and negatives from my parents and grandparents with a camera and although I don't have your specific issue, getting acceptable colors from the negatives was a struggle. Tried doing it all manually in either LR or PS, spending a lot of time for each photo, with bad results. There are some plugins you can find that apply levels and curves and the conversion automatically, which for me gave much better results with just a few mouse clicks. But still the colors seemed not right, a bit radioactive if you will, especialy greens. Because of this I finally decided to purchase Colorperfect, which I didn't do earlier because the price seemed a bit high for me. In my opinion the results are much better, far more natural. The colorperfect conversions are generally with lower contrast, but this can be added easily. Sometimes auto tone or auto color in PS improve things a bit more, but not always. Here is an example of the difference in results I get. The first is a conversion using one of the levels/curves plugins, the second Colorperfect. Of course there are some downsides. The biggest for me is that you need to create linear tiff files with their MakeTiff software. Although this very simple, just dra and drop files or folders, I don't like to create these large extra files. But the results are worth it for me. (After experimenting I found that setting the colorspace in Maketiff to Adobe gave tthe best results). And the Colorperfect plugin in PS is bit clunky to use and understand. Because of this I don't mess with the settings too much, just select the film type really. If the used film is not in Color[erfect, you can just go through the others to find something you like, or using the left mouse button in a neutral area set a whitebalance .