Scanning Slides

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It has been years since I have spent time trying to scan in the large amount of old slides that my mother has given me. Since then, I have have acquired a new computer, (just last week), a new scanner, (a few years back), and Photoshop has greatly improved. 

So here is the thing. Now I need to go back and redo quite a few slides, because of course, now I can do them better. Take for example the bottom picture in this series: this is what the slide looks like right after it is scanned. The one above that is how I fixed it several years ago. The one above that is how I fixed it today...after learning my new scanner. Which only took half the day. Sigh. But now I think, well, the top picture looks more accurate right? Though, maybe not quite as accurate as it might if I spend a few more hours learning a bit more about color correction. So, before I fool around a bit more, it is off to Lynda.com to check out some of her videos on color restoration...and scanning. I miss my old scanner. I really think it did a better job. 

But this is one of my resolutions...to finish scanning the many, many boxes of slides and to redo the ones that might need it. 

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