Adjusting levels after scanning?

[Midnight]

I was wondering how many of you adjust the contrast of your pics after scanning, to make them look closer to the original, since scanning always makes things appear paler (my CanoScan LiDE 35 does, at any rate). It's annoying when punchy black ink comes out at only ~80% grey...

Is it worth starting to do this? Is it common practice?

Thanks,
Mid.

[TheGnoll]

absolutely, i do it most of the times.Actually i just use the auto-adjust, but some people do it manually.Anyway doing it is the any way to make black ink look uniform, i thing (although it obviously needs some cleaning up anyway)

ciao

[MoP]

Hell yeah, I usually do Auto Levels (which often goes too far) then Fade that (Shift+Ctrl+F), then manually tweak Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation/Brightness.

I often stick a simple texture overlay on top too, to make scanned sketches seem more interesting.

[masque]

no scanner, even those used for very high-end scans for highest quality print reproduction, can perfectly capture absolutely every nuance of value, hue and contrast of every possible subject. you can choose to adjust the scanning specs, tweak the resulting scan, or, as is often done, both. but only very rarely will the original scan be exactly right.

[Mirana]

I adjust everytime, manually in Photoshop, using Image > Adjust > Levels and moving the arrows around.

http://hikarikat.com/mirana/temp/lineart_figure2.jpg

[DavePalumbo]

I generally adjust everything, even my digital photos

[Midnight]

Thanks guys - I'll be adjusting my scans in Photoshop from now on!

Mid.

[Interceptor]

Oh, the lide35/ I have the same scanner, it's the biggest piece of garbage. My old HP scanner was brilliant, it picked up the drawings perfectly. This one makes all the graphite glisten like water and distorts he image. I'm totally over hauling my graphics hardware. just got a new tablet, after the workshop, it's a new scanner and monitors

[Midnight]

I don't have those problems - once I've adjusted the settings in PhotoStudio to turn off Unsharp Mask and Auto Tone, the only problem is a general lightening of everything.

Mid.

[Rascar Capac]

When Im scanning something that has alot of marks - lets say an old document:
A quick method I use is clicking on the eye dropper all the way to the right (the lightest) and then clicking on the dark dirt splotches on the page- it automatically adjusts it and make it cripser