[alt-photo] Re: TANGENTIALLY ON TOPIC: HELP W/ CS-5 & SCANNER?

[Ryuji Suzuki]

I might be trying to sell you a wrong rum (solution) but if you just don't like 
Epson Scan, or hate having to go through TIFF files (both are true in my case), 
you might like my practice.

I scan material in VueScan and save in Adobe DNG raw file. If the image is 
negative, there is one switch that flips the image to a positive, but other than 
that, I can totally ignore color, curve, white point, etc., as these parameters 
are irrelevant to DNG file being produced (you need to set resolution, etc. 
properly, of course). These are just like camera raw files except that the data 
come from linear image sensor in the scanner. So, you can use Lightroom or 
Camera RAW to render the file later and enjoy nondestructive editing workflow 
until you hit Photoshop.

This way, I can scan a batch of negs fast and never have to rescan the same 
thing because the black point was wrong, etc.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)




BOB KISS wrote:
>              No, I don't want to use Epson scan alone to generate a Tiff and
> then open it in Frotoshop and convert to PSD.I REALLY want to open CS-5, hit
> "file" then "import" and find the Epson scanner there exactly as I do on my
> old computer with CS-2.  I am praying that some recent feud between Epson
> and Adobe has not rendered this impossible.  Any hope?