[andrebaros]

So I was trying to e very careful about some textures I was making the other day. With each material I scanned, I included a Kodak color separation chart. And just for kicks I tried scanning them all on two different scanners. The shock was just how different each scan turned out. There we differences between the two scanners and there were differences between different materials. These mainly occurred at the extremes of the value spectrum, very close to white or very close to black where the machine seamed to clean up the whites and desaturate the darks.

Other than picking a middle range gray scan as my base point and working adjusting the others to match by eye and checking it with the eye-dropper (in Photoshop) is there a more reliable way to get the color of part of two images to match. Matching a whole image seams to be easy, but just getting the charts to match so that the textures are correct is really tedious. Are there any plug ins or programs out there for color matching textures?

I thought that this was only an issue with photographed textures where the light could be different but if I even have to tweak scanned textures than I need a faster method.

Thanks!