February 4th, 2012, 12:28 PM | #15 |
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Colour and Saturation using Photoscape (Seeing reds?)
After finding my scans had slight overkill in the reds, and were sometimes low on saturation, I came to use Photoscape (I've posted a link in the Useful Programs thread). It is an excellent, low-resource freeware for photo editing, which I use for post-scan colour-adjustment issues. The menus are easy to use and comprehensive enough to get what you need, and the auto-settings aren't bad at all (if you aren't yet sure about using colour-graphs).
For colour adjustment in Photoscape, my usual process tends to be:
I'm learning as I go (evident from my scans in other threads), but I've found the use of colour graphs is a much better tool than using RGB sliders for any colour-correction issues. The major drawback with Photoscape is that it doesn't use layers, so stitching together double-spreads needs to be done in something such as Paint.net. |
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