If you make a scan with too much contrast you will lose your shadows and highlights. Things to remember: If you make a low contrast scan you won't have much to work with in lightroom. Silverfast is better for negs and slides. The scanner will not give you deep blacks.Ī suggestion: After you get comfortable with the basic twain interface consider upgrading to Silverfast for your scanner. You will need to experiment because the scanner's ability to scan black is limited. Remember, you want to preserve your blacks and whites not just adjust for midtones. Your basic settings in Epson Twain are easy to use. Doing this gives you more detail and better tonality.Ħ) Adjustments - This is where you make it or break it. You will convert it to plain grayscale in your editor.
Clean your neg with an Ilford antistatic cloth instead.ĥ) If the neg is contrasty use the 16 bit black and white setting, but if the neg has a wide range of tones scan it in color mode. Don't oversharpen.Ĥ) Digital Ice - Uncheck. Trust me on this.ģ) Sharpening - Use unsharp mask. Your setting is 5x7 output so I would use 900-1200 dpi. Most scanners don't scan at high res and enlarge well at the same time. You must balance file size with your scanner's actual ability to scan high res. If you are making a 20x30 then 300 dpi works well. If you want to set the output size larger than the original (say 8x10) I find that a resoultion of 600 dpi works best. I find that a high resolution setting (say 1200 dpi) works best if you keep the output size the same as the original. With black and white, 16 bit is sufficient.Ģ) You must decide what size scan you want to produce before you set your resolution and output size.
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Hope this helps.ġ) With any high res scan, choose to save as Tiff in the maximum bit depth that your editing software will handle.
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