Weekend is over and you do not see any new photos, what's wrong? Well
nothing, I spent whole Sunday behind computer and learn and learn. I did
lot of experiments on one picture from roll 2003-15. I scanned in raw
format in vuescan and tried to make best of it in Picture Window Pro and
than print it, still using standard Epson inks on Epson 890.
It takes a while until I get grip to modify picture right, first I did all
things wrong and I was more and more disappointed. Than I started again and
made few observation:
- scan with multiple pass on my ScanWit do not work always right. I have
to check if picture is not blurred. It happens!
- Scan raw to get all info, set correct exposure, use long exposure
button and try multi pass. Scan in max (48bits).
- In PWP extract green channel as it is more sharp of all. Check other
or mixed than together if you wish. Convert from negative to positive, use
Bright Curve to get nice histogram.
- After all bright curve modification resize to final print size, for
proofing A6 and sharp it a bit.
- When printing position picture on A4 the way you can print 4 on one
sheet of paper. You do not need to cut and you can easily compare different
version.
- Printing using all cartridges give very nice smooth tones, but they
have color cast. The best it can be see on printing 21level shade
card.
- I wish I have MIS inks here, but until than I have a lot of other
things to improve!
I was also playing with IMatch again and find out it has a lot of features
which I do not need and some which I like to have are missing. This is
probably very normal situation. So I was still playing with idea to make my
own. I just like software design :-) I am only afraid it will have in java
quite low performance.
I think I am going to give a try, I will with small utility which will
give me back my xml-rpc publishing on web.
