Bug 50880

Summary: Photos from negatives much to pale with Epson Perfection 1240U
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Inger Karin Haarbye <inger>
Component: sane-backendsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Inger Karin Haarbye 2001-08-04 10:53:49 UTC 
Description of Problem:

I have a scanner - Epson Perfection 1240U (usb) - which works very well with sane/xsane for ordinary scanning, but when I'm scanning negatives (photos) the result is useless because it is very pale. I still have to scan my negatives in Win2000. 

Should be possible to get better colors for the negatives as well?





How Reproducible:



Every time



Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start Gimp -> Xsane

2. scan negative

3. 



Actual Results:

Useless - because the result is far to pale. Should be possible to correct this by adjusting colors, but this is to much work for me to do every time.



Expected Results:

Photo-quality from negatives
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-08-04 11:30:02 UTC 
Has a previous version of SANE given you better results from scanning, or has
this bug always been present?
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2001-08-04 12:48:01 UTC 
I've just been told that no SANE front end yet does proper orange mask
correction for negatives, so the SANE developers know about this issue.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-08-04 12:54:20 UTC 
In the mean time, this page might help:

http://www.freecolormanagement.com/color/gimp_negative_scanning.html
Comment 4 Inger Karin Haarbye 2001-08-04 20:32:47 UTC 
No, previous version of sane has been no better than this. I was not aware of 
the problem with orange mask correction.
I have tried your advice on 
http://www.freecolormanagement.com/color/gimp_negative_scanning.html
but I still don't get a very good result. So - I think I still have to use 
Win2000 for this (I don't use win for anything else...).