{"id":93,"date":"2010-05-28T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=93"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:49","slug":"colour-balance-epson-scanners-a-short-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Colour Balance Epson Scanners &#8211; A Short Note:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often when scanning it&#8217;s not only the white balance that needs attention. In this case the white balance is fine but the mid greys and darker have a blue cold colour ting. The leaves are also meant to have more browns. <\/p>\n<p>Epson software is pretty bad when it comes to colour balance. It does more of a white balance then an actual colour balance. Using an image in this thread as an example I added a mid black correction of the image. This type of colour balance is important for films like the new Kodak Ektar.<\/p>\n<p>Here I have used the pavement to re-balance the colour balance.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/4646850163_87a5681706_o.jpg\" title=\"Colour Balance by Metrix X, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colour Balance\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/4646850163_87a5681706_o.jpg\" width=\"917\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit for original image scanned on&nbsp; Epson 4490, using the epson software taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/ishootfilm\/discuss\/72157624026577733\/\">this thread <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when scanning it&#8217;s not only the white balance that needs attention. In this case the white balance is fine but the mid greys and darker have a blue cold colour ting. The leaves are also meant to have more browns. Epson software is pretty bad when it comes to colour balance. It does more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}