I'm getting ready to do the final prints on my first serious color project. The negatives are 2-1/4, and with wishful thinking I scanned them on my home flatbed, which does an incredible job on large format black and white.
But with medium format color, the quality is only good enough for work prints, promo stuff, and the web. So I spent a bunch of my grant money on drum scans, which means doing all the photoshop heavy lifting all over again. Big drag.
Before I get going, I want to throw out a question about these scans. The color looks extremely saturated. This in spite of the film being color negative portrait film (mostly fuji 160) shot with an ancient single coated hasselblad lens. My own scans (done with vuescan) have the more muted look that I'd expect. Is it possible that the scanner operator boosted the saturation? Is this a normal thing to do?
I'm going to want to desaturate the scans a bit, and since I've never dealt with that before, I'm not sure what the best tool is for the job. The hue/saturation panel is the obvious tool ... is it the recommended one?
Thanks!
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