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Minolta Dimage 5400 Elite Scanning Tips
OK, I’ve been putzing with this film scanner for a while now. I have to say the Minolta site is just awful in terms of finding things and this is one case where google queries don’t work well at all. So here is what I’ve found out: h4. Scanning software There are three basic choices.…
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Colorvision Spyder2
Colorvision Spyder and Optical Review. More reviews of this little gadget. As I’ve been doing some printing, they are right. The monitor color and the printer color doesn’t really match. The original Spyder got good reviews. “Spyder2”:http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_1813.html. They are just now launching the Spyder2 ($179 list) and the Spyder2Pro ($279). The sensor is upgraded. The…
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Maxthon is great
Maxthon Plugins @ TaraPages.com. Been trying a bunch of alternative web browsers. IE progress has just been so slow. Maxthon seems to be the best of both worlds, its IE compatible since it uses the IE engine, but it has all the features like tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures and plugins that I love…
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SR-520 BRIDGE OPPORTUNITY SLIPPING AWAY
_A quote from “Cascade Bikes”:http://cascade.org_ The good news is that no matter how many lanes wide, the new SR-520 bridge will make room for bicyclists and pedestrians. However, if a few noisy NIMBY’s get their way, getting to the bridge from the south won’t get any easier. For years, the State and other stakeholders have…
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Kryptonite locks are not…
I have one of these Kyptonite locks for my bike. How depressing when this happens. Here net is from “Kryptonite”:http://kryptonitelock.com Kryptonite U-locks with a typical cylinder lock can be opened in seconds with a common BIC plastic pen. Videos of how to do it have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from websites in…
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A great tutorial on monitor calibration
Monitor calibration and gamma. I printed my first photos via the Minolta Dimage 5400 through Photoshop and then Canon i9900. Thought I did job on color calibration, but the printout was way more washed out than the screen. Sigh. The above is a good site that explains how to do color calibration. I thought I…
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Trip Advisor
TripAdvisor. An interesting site. Was acquired by Expedia.com. What they did a great job getting content and then getting readers. It shows what you can do when you have a focused audience.
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Red River Paper and ICCs
Inkjet Paper by Red River Paper. I’ve noticed folks on Nikonians and other enthusiast sites like to use Red River for their paper. They are a specialist site and even include ICC files so that when you print to their paper, you can use the exactly correct color matching. They have a nice “tutorial”:http://redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/aug04.htm that…
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Gamma and Other information
Gamma. This whole monitor calibration thing is very confusing. You essentially have to get the calibration right on your scanner, your monitor and your printer so that colors don’t shift and so you don’t lose anything. Adobe Photoshop includes an Adobe Gamma calibrator for this purpose. You can also buy a device that is like…
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Blue Sky in Adobe Photoshop
Lonestardigital.com – Better Blue Sky (Photoshop Tutorial). I’m learning how to use Photoshop Elements now that I’ve got my 35mm scanner working. Wow, its a hard product to learn. Very powerful, but very difficult. Current thing I’m learning is how to make the sky more blue. I wish I had used a polarizing filter on…