And remember I want to do as few adjustments for each scan as possible, which means I'm going to have as much set to auto as possible. So I just needed to scan my negatives as negatives, for this to work.īut just for fun I also tried to scan them, where I used the two programs to convert the negative, using their internal film profiles. OK a bit about my procedure, I use Negative Lab Pro (NLP) – a Lightroom (LR) plug-in – for my conversions from negative to positive, because it's gives me the best result color wise. And secondly I simply was curious to know which one was fastest. I did this because I need to scan a lot of old negatives, and I for one, think that the scanning process is the only less joyful thing to do in the whole analog photography process, and with these old negatives – mainly holiday photos – I just wanted a quick way to get through them and not lose too much in quality. That shouldn't prolong the scanning time, unless you add more features, like noise reduction or multi scan, which I don't use. And this part is of course a matter of individual taste, you may prefer other settings then what I used. I started out spending some time finding the right settings in both pieces of software, I haven't included that here. But feel free to add a comment below, with your own experience or advice on what I could do better. You can of course tweak and adjust for perfection for each scan, and that will obviously give you the best result for each scan – in either Vuescan or Silverfast – but like I said that wasn't my goal here.įirst off I want to make clear that I'm certainly no expert, there are a lot of technical stuff I know jack about, This is made purely from a personal perspective. But if, in the process of learning how to do it, you end up wanting to replace an earlier profile with a newer one, and you find vuescan not doing anything when you tell it to make the profile-it shouldn't take long and it gives you a message when done- you would be well advised to remove the vuescan.ini file from the relevant directory and start from scratch.My idea for this little test, was to see which software would give me the best result, at the shortest time. Also, Ed is aware of it and may have already fixed it. The circumstances were somewhat special, so you may not run into it. In my opinion, vuescan does exactly the right thing, but it can be confusing.įinally, there was a bug which was present in vuescan which prevented it from producing a profile in certain circumstances when you already had a profile and wanted to create a new one. If you read up on color management, you will find that there are other ways of handling all this, so this can be very confusing. Photoshop or in my case Gimp, will never see the film profile used by the scanner. That profile will be the profile for the output color space, not the film profile. (My advice is to use SRGB unless you have a strong reason to do other wise and you thoroughly understand enough about color management to know what you are doing!) By default no profile is embedded in the output file, but under the Output tab, you can specify that a profile be embedded in the output file. It also uses the output color space profile to determine which RGB values it puts in the output file. Under the Color tab, you set the information about the profile, but you also set the output space. Third, you should understand what vuescan does with the profile. The general wisdom is that you can't profile color negative film, but Vuescan managed to do it. I even managed to use it to profile my Epson 3200 scanning Portra 160, which is a color negative film. If you do that, it works just as the documentation says it does. Second, you have to read the instructions VERY carefully. That should be pretty clear because vuescan provides you with a grid to use in aligning the image properly. When setting the cropping area in preview, you use the area inside the lines. Make sure the camera and the target are perfectly level and parallel to each other so the image is square on. But i do have some general advice.įirst, you have to use a camera target which you should be very careful to set up when photographing. Since Ken offered to talk you through it, I will let him do it.
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