More scans

Some more simple scans. The first was a mail order catalogue page, chosen for the reds and various other colours and the fact that it was on shiny paper. I found I was unhappy again with the colour rendition so I reapplied the same changes in PS that I had done for the previous example. Seemed to work well in that the result on the screen looked close to the printed page. Also noted btw, that the shiny paper created some blown highlights caused by reflection of the scanning light (they are just to the right of the centrefold). Finally, the double page spread was a jot larger than A4, so some trimming of the image occurred in the scan. Presumably one can scan each page separately and join them up in PS.


Second was a B&W photo that I had printed. Seemed to end up with a cyan/green cast that I fixed with a straight conversion to B&W in PS. Might be interesting to print the scanned image to see how close it is to the original print.


Finally, a composite image with an arrangement of items on the scanner. I established a selection around the part of the image I liked. Not so easy to get a clear idea of the selected result I found, since the rest of the image stays as bright as the selected bit.



Noticed some dust on this final image so cleaned the glass.

I have decided to scan at maximum quality, the same as I process my photos in, so 16-bit colour and at 360ppi, this latter size being the natural resolution of my Epson printer. You get some big old files though; the catalogue pages at the top of the blog occupy some 140MB!