for a digital 'archive' the goal is to get a scan that's as high quality as possible, not one ready for printing right from the scanner. Should I scan with this color space or convert in Photoshop before sending to print?

From reading a book on scanning, I gathered I should useīut again, a photo lab told me that Adobe RGB 1998 is the standard in the industry and has the largest color Lastly, I am not sure about the Color Space to use. One lab told me 123MB is sufficient, any thoughts? These 'max' settings create a 561MB file. I was told by one photo lab to scanĪt 8 bit and another lab said 24 bit. In the Output tab, I have also chosen the max Tiff file type at 64 bit RGBI. Iĭon't know if this is overkill for my purposes and will just slow my scanning down unnecessarily? My input resolution is at 4000dpi, which is the max for this scanner. I am thinking I should scan my negs as a tiff (the raw feature in VueScan has confused me so far). The right specs for a good print and archival digital file. I am using VueScan Pro software (with my Nikon Coolscan-9000) to scan and would like some guidance as to setting

To poster size prints if I ever choose to. I would like to do this asĮfficiently as possible (only once) and end up with high-quality digital files that I could potentially blow up I am working on a scanning archive project, digitizing hundreds of negatives.

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