George, are they sepia in all your viewers or just in Elements ? Reason being, Elements is a color managed program and so you have to calibrate your monitor with the ‘Adobe gamma’ that is in your control panel….have you done that ? I’m not sure if this is the problem….let us know.
Jodi,
Just in Elements. When I pull up the images in any of my other Image programs, they look correct. (Photo Impressions, Dell Image Expert, Windows Picture Viewer,etc.) I will look at the Gamma normalization and see if it makes a difference but this brown or sepia is not a minor color offset, it is major.
Thanks,
George
George, Elements is the only ‘color-managed’ program among the ones you cited, so it’s not surprising that only Elements would show the effect you’re describing…
Jodi,
I went through the Adobe Gamma recalibration and it made no difference.
Thanks,
George
George,
Are you scanning in RGB or grayscale?
Chris and Chuck,
I’m scanning in both. The effect is the same whether I scan in B&W or RGB and convert to Grayscale. I guess I would ask, does this affect appear on your Grayscale images?
Thanks,
George
George,
I scanned some B&W negs in RGB and had them come out sepia toned, then I used Elements to convert to Grayscale and turned them into B&W. I have no idea why it worked but it did. If I convert a color RGB image to Grayscale it will be B&W. I use an HPscanjet 5500c.
CR
Chris and All,
I give up. I can’t figure this out and can’t seem to find an answer from any of my sources.
So I did what I should have done all along, I converted them to RGB and adjusted them using the Hue/Saturation settings. I actually get better contrast and detail that with the grayscale.
Thanks all,
George
