Vuescan colour spaces

[Csaba]

Hey Guys,

I'd like to get some advice as I'm confused about the right scanning workflow.

So. I'm scanning with Vuescan on Epson V700, using a calibrated monitor on OSX.

I'm setting the colours during scanning on the Vuescan software, but here comes my problem. I'm quite confused about the output colour space / monitor colour space combo at the Color tab in Vuescan. If i use Adobe RGB for the Output colour space then i get muddy colours and unable to get the right colours in Aperture after scanning. If i use SRGB or Apple RGB for the output colour space then my colours are superb. For the monitor colour space i use Apple RGB.

Any help would be awesome.

Thx

 

[Herzeleid]

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AdobeRGB98 color space has a wider gamut than sRGB color space. ProPhotoRGB is even wider than AdobeRGB98, if you can calibrate your monitor, may be you should try ProPhoto for output color.

Unless you have a special montior (wide gamut monitor), you monitor is only capable of displaying sRGB color space.

You mentioned you have calibrated your monitor, which means you have a custom ICC profile, select ICC profile in vuescan and select the ICC file created after calibration.
That is technically more accurate.

 

[Csaba]

Thanks for your reply. I know the fact that Adobe RGB is a much wider gammut than SRGB. But still cannot make the right colours with it. I've got an Eizo graphic monitor btw.
As far as the icc files are concerned, i've just set the monitor colour space to the icc profile. However strangely i've got different colours after having imported into Aperture. If the monitor colour space set to Apple RGB then it's the same.