[sane-devel] pale negative scans

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:33:03PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> I received this bug report via Bugzilla for Roswell, the current Red
> Hat Linux beta:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50880
> 
> (It has sane 1.0.5.)
> 
> "I have a scanner - Epson Perfection 1240U (usb) - which works very
>  well with sane/xsane for ordinary scanning, but when I'm scanning
>  negatives (photos) the result is useless because it is very pale. I
>  still have to scan my negatives in Win2000.
> 
>  Should be possible to get better colors for the negatives as well?"
> 
> Tim.
> */

Please see my page about scanning negatives with Gimp for a
method to get better scanes:

http://freecolormanagement.com/color/gimp_negative_scanning.html

Karl Heinz

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