New Scan Saturation Settings For Cs4

[meppi]

I'm always looking for ways to improve the scans and make them look as close as possible to the original magazines.

A job which isn't always so easy due to the fact that looking at a paper magazine and looking at the same thing on screen are very different.

But with the new additions of Photoshop CS4 we have something that will help up get a step closer once again.

You might have seen before that a simple thing like upping the saturation for a scan by about 20 in CS3 can make a page much more vibrant.

The only downside it has is that it seems to focus on the red side of the color spectrum. But considering it was that or nothing, the improvement was quite big.

Well now we have a new tool at our disposal: Under Image->Adjustments we now have Vibrance as well.

Which does exactly what we were trying to accomplish with the saturation.

I have been playing around with various settings and after a couple hours of experimenting I have found that a Vibrance setting of 50 and Saturation setting of 8 under the same vibrance option seems to give the best results compared to the original magazine.

As a demonstration you can download this CBZ file

The first one is with a saturation of 20 and the second version is with a vibrance of 50 and saturation of 8.

Here you can see that while the second page is not over saturated like the first one is, it is extremely vibrant, even the blues and greens which would normally stay very pale in comparison.