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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…

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).…

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…

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…

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…

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…