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shmokes:
Got 'em.  They look a thousand times better.   ;D  Thanks.  And thanks to both of you for all the info.

patrickl:
Yeah, if you are planning on using these photo's you probably still need to fix them up. These look like untreated film scans and film always had problems with color balance. A digital camera can correct itself based on whether it's in electric lights or if it's in sunlight, but a chemical film obviously couldn't.

If anything just a simple "autocolor" setting will usually clean them up a lot. If you're just having them printed, the printer will do that for you though. They always tend to run the pictures through some sort of enhancing software before it's printed.

shmokes:
My wife said she has to use TIFFs because she can't save PNGs in CMYK which she needs when working with printers.

RayB:
OLD printers.  ;)

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 21, 2010, 01:53:56 pm ---My wife said she has to use TIFFs because she can't save PNGs in CMYK which she needs when working with printers.

--- End quote ---
That doesn't make much sense since the TIFFs are RGB encoded, but if she wants to use TIFFs then that's not a problem is it? Just costs a bit (lot) more diskspace. You could still use JPEG though. I know RayB says it's lossy, but most digital camera's make JPEG files from the pictures you take. Why would a fuzzy scan of a negative need better treatment than a pristine picture taken by a digital camera? In fact if you send the files to an online printing service they will probably convert them to Jpeg anyway.

I don't have the files anymore, but are they using a CMYK colorspace? You'd lose a lot of colordepth by using CMYK. If you think about converting them to CMYK I'd suggest you not do that (not knowing the reason why you want CMYK or if it's actually on the files already now though).

A proper printer should be able to make the best conversion of an RGB image to the colors that it (or they) can print. I can't imagine any printer asking for CMYK these days. Especially not for foto's.

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