Scanned Photos have contrast problems

[mmartz]

I have a dental office. We use a HP 6100 C/T scanner and Photoshop 7.0.1 to have our patient photos and X-rays on our computer. Eveything scanned comes into photoshop significantly darker than the original. What causes this and how could we correct it?

Thanks.

[dave milbut]

run adobe gamma from the start menu> control panel to calibrate your display.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

It could be a lot of things causing it, difacult to say with the info you have given. But tis likey its your colour profile. Printing out may give a good result.

But try this, I use curves all the time now.

<http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/curves1.html>

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

or just do as dave says ;-)