Begging the flist for advice.
Jan. 21st, 2009 08:23 pmFlist, I know that some of you are arty people with experience scanning and photoshopping things, so I have come to you to beg for help.
I bought a CanoScan LiDE 600 while in Tokyo, and so far, it has been ass. And in the weeks since then, it has only gotten more ass, as so far my ever attempt to scan Soul Eater magazine illustrations have been frought with discoloration so bad that there's no way I can post those scans in good conscience. And I'm talking really, really bad discoloration. Like, "pale violet on the magazine page turns to bright turquoise in the scanner output" bad. FFS, the goddamn scanner is trying to give Kid orange eyes. This is totally unacceptable, and I don't understand why it's happening. I've checked and re-checked my every option using the scanner software itself. I've turned off the color auto-correction, I've made sure that all of the color/channel options are set at "0" corrective value. Nothing that I do seems to be able to make the scanner capable of actually outputting anything remotely resembling the pictures that I'm actually scanning.
There is an option to correct the gamma dohickey in the CanoScan toolbox, but for some reason I'm locked out of clicking that option, and I don't understand why.
I have spent many, many hours diddling around in PSP, attempting to correct color channels, hue saturation, contrast, and etc. In fact, I've tried just about every trick in the PSP toolbox, but it's no good. There's not much that I can do to fix a raw scan where half of the colors are right, but the rest of the colors are coming out on the wrong side of the rainbow.
So, um, flist. Any... advice? Is there something glaringly obvious that I'm doing wrong on the scanning side? Do any of you have any tips for fixing this sort of crap in Photoshop? Or should I just give up on this scanner altogether? (In which case, do any of y'all have recs for a reliable scanner?)
Note that, at least for the time being, I am extremely unkeen on the idea of giving up on this scanner. Returning it would mean taking a trip to Tokyo in which the highway and gas fees would cost me more than the scanner itself, and trying to pawn it off at a recycle shop would mean selling it at a loss.
And yes, I totally am holding this month's SE drama CDs hostage until I can make decent scans of their lovely jackets. Yes, "their." Yes, there are two of them this month.
I bought a CanoScan LiDE 600 while in Tokyo, and so far, it has been ass. And in the weeks since then, it has only gotten more ass, as so far my ever attempt to scan Soul Eater magazine illustrations have been frought with discoloration so bad that there's no way I can post those scans in good conscience. And I'm talking really, really bad discoloration. Like, "pale violet on the magazine page turns to bright turquoise in the scanner output" bad. FFS, the goddamn scanner is trying to give Kid orange eyes. This is totally unacceptable, and I don't understand why it's happening. I've checked and re-checked my every option using the scanner software itself. I've turned off the color auto-correction, I've made sure that all of the color/channel options are set at "0" corrective value. Nothing that I do seems to be able to make the scanner capable of actually outputting anything remotely resembling the pictures that I'm actually scanning.
There is an option to correct the gamma dohickey in the CanoScan toolbox, but for some reason I'm locked out of clicking that option, and I don't understand why.
I have spent many, many hours diddling around in PSP, attempting to correct color channels, hue saturation, contrast, and etc. In fact, I've tried just about every trick in the PSP toolbox, but it's no good. There's not much that I can do to fix a raw scan where half of the colors are right, but the rest of the colors are coming out on the wrong side of the rainbow.
So, um, flist. Any... advice? Is there something glaringly obvious that I'm doing wrong on the scanning side? Do any of you have any tips for fixing this sort of crap in Photoshop? Or should I just give up on this scanner altogether? (In which case, do any of y'all have recs for a reliable scanner?)
Note that, at least for the time being, I am extremely unkeen on the idea of giving up on this scanner. Returning it would mean taking a trip to Tokyo in which the highway and gas fees would cost me more than the scanner itself, and trying to pawn it off at a recycle shop would mean selling it at a loss.
