Adobe Camera Raw apparently has 'negative' as an option for tone adjustments, which leaves all the sliders working as normal, but that works with Bridge or PS, not LR on its own (which is what I have). This is only a minor problem for B&W negatives but if you're scanning colour, it can take some time fiddling before you get a reasonable image with no orange colour cast. However, if scanning negs then the DNG image is of the negative, not the converted positive and it appears that the only way to get the positive image is to reverse the tone curve, which in turn means that exposure and other adjustments work backwards to what you're used to. Capturing the DNG has certainly worked and the images load into Lightroom in no time (no conversion or non-native interpretation required, at a guess). Right, I've tried this and I can't say it's a raging success. Do it in PP as you will get a much better result.ĮDIT: Decided that the Q&A format doesn't really work, so hoping the thread will remain useful for general Vuescan discussion, but I'm not going to try to summarise any more Qs and As. Whenever I've tried using it the result looks way too overshapened with halo's etc and the grain much more prominent. If not, I guess some sharpening in post is needed (Aperture, in my case).Ī4 from s162216 : There is an option for 'unsharp mask' in Vuescan under the 'filter' tab, but its way way too aggressive and unfortunately has no options to fine tune the level of sharpening that it applies. Is there a sharpening option in Vuescan? If so, I've missed it. Q4 from ChrisR: most that I've read on scanning suggests some sharpening is required, and Silverfast includes a couple of sharpening options, although I've not much experience in using them. According to the user guide, the option is only displayed when the scanner is capable of batch scanning I've just tried setting it up with my scanner switched off (no options displayed) and then on (batch options available). Q2 from RaglanSurf: does anybody know if it's possible to batch scan medium format using Vuescan with an Epson 700?Ī2 from Strappy : It works ok for me but that's on a Canoscan 9000F so probably doesn't help much. Q1: how much effect does the JPEG quality setting (in the Output tab) have, and what is an appropriate value? I'm currently using it at 95 or 96, and don't know whether I'm missing quality in the JPEGs as a result.Ī1: see post #5 from john-oh, who owns the Vuescan Bible: "The default is 90, lower will reduce file size but increase the likelihood of artifacts." And if it's not a good idea, no doubt it will rapidly languish onto page 16. Well, since so many of us use Vuescan for scanning, I thought perhaps we should have a thread to ask questions and receive advice from the wise members of F&C. There are also a ton of videos on using Vuescan on y*utube, some of which contain useful information, though you'll often have to spend minutes going through the basic stuff you already know!ĮDIT: I plan to edit this first post freely, so what you see is NOT what was originally posted! I was quite surprised, however, to see it at around £60! Rather than Amaz*n, here it is on Abebooks (though that's probably also owned by Amaz*n these days!): Someone on here has recommended the Vuescan Bible. If like me you got your copy of Vuescan some time ago, it might be worth refreshing your mind with the Vuescan User's Guide, which has been updated fairly recently: You'll need the Professional version to scan negatives and slides, but it's worth it when you consider it works with just about any scanner, and you get unlimited updates! It's quite fully functioned scanning software, at a reasonable price, with unlimited updates available if you buy the Professional edition (which you'll need anyway unless you're only scanning prints). Many of us on here use Vuescan to scan our negatives and slides (and prints, etc, too). Oh, there's also the "scan by digital camera" trick, but that can be quite a faff. About the only ways of avoiding it are to always get your film processed and scanned by a lab, or build a darkroom and stay away from the digital world altogether. Scanning is an important part of a hybrid analogue/digital workflow.
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