Vuescan

[steveg]

Hi
Just been looking at the Veuscan trial version and it looks like its something I'd be able to use (with a bit of help), but am I correct that I need the professional edition to scan negatives? It seems very expensive if that really is the case.

Cheers

 

[Joanna Carter]

What scanner?

 

[ian barber]

Hi
Just been looking at the Veuscan trial version and it looks like its something I'd be able to use (with a bit of help), but am I correct that I need the professional edition to scan negatives? It seems very expensive if that really is the case.

Cheers

Depends on what you want to scan really.

In the Standard mode, you will have several additional options, such as Crop, Filter, Color, and Output.

The Professional mode includes such VueScan advanced features as specifying colour depth, adjusting colour space, histogram, watermarks, and more

 

[Toby Webster]

I can't recall how much it costs, but you get free updates, and I recall thinking it was pretty good value for the flexibility it gives.

 

[ian barber]

I can't recall how much it costs, but you get free updates, and I recall thinking it was pretty good value for the flexibility it gives.

It has gone subscription based now

 

[Martin Henson]

I think from what I am reading the subscription is an option but you can still buy it outright, not sure if the buy option still gives free updates !! https://www.hamrick.com/purchase-vuescan.html

 

[Chris J. Zähller]

I bought it outright years ago & still receive updates. Worth every penny.

 

[ian barber]

I think from what I am reading the subscription is an option but you can still buy it outright, not sure if the buy option still gives free updates !! https://www.hamrick.com/purchase-vuescan.html

With the one-time payment you receive one year of free updates only

 

[steveg]

What scanner?

It's a canoscan 9000f. I've paid for a one month professional version to try it out, but I could do with someone telling me some basic fail safe settings for scanning b&w negs - there are so many options.

 

[Flack]

Look for Martin Hensons video on the forum, he goes through a setup to scan b/w negs.

 

[steveg]

Oh, brilliant. Thanks a lot, I'll have a look now.

Cheers

 

[steveg]

Just had a look at the resources page and Ian has posted exactly what I was looking for, I'll try it out later. Can't seem to find Martins video, but I've probably not looked hard enough.

 

[Pete B]

Just had a look at the resources page and Ian has posted exactly what I was looking for, I'll try it out later. Can't seem to find Martins video, but I've probably not looked hard enough.

It's on you tube. There are two excellent processing videos by Martin.



To follow the steps in the above videos, you will need to buy ColorPerfect, but if instead of selecting RAW as output, you just select jpeg or tiff, you can let vuescan do the conversion from neg to pos and edit as normal in your post processing program (photosop or whatever)

Pete

 

[ian barber]

Photoshop Plugins And More ...

Photoshop Plugins To Help With Your Workflow

www.digitalblackandwhite.co.uk

This is a set of videos I did for the Vuescan software

 

[steveg]

Cheers Ian. I think this is what I need. I'll hopefully have some time later to have a proper look.