HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM FULL
HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM PRO
HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM PSP

I used the grey eyedropper on that and got quite close to my final colours.

Because the house is in shadow, the white shows as grey. In this image there is a small white house in the distance. From there it's all up to your highly trained eye. As Bruce explains, one can often use the grey dropper in the Curves dialogue to at least get to square one. For further help see also Appendix 3: Of Casts and Curves at the bottom of this page. See Color-Correcting Photographs in Photoshop by Bruce Fraser. Fortunately, this has already been excellently done.

HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM FULL

Removing a blue cast in the darker huesĮxplaining colour cast removal is a full tutorial topic in itself. Use the separate R, B, and G channels in the Curves dialogue to remove any colour casts:įig 7. For flash and daylight the White balance choice seems to work extremely well.Ĭolor/Black point and White point: leave the black point at 0 and the White point at 1.Ĭolor/Output color space: use sRGB unless you have profiled your system, in which case you'll know which one you want to use. Input/Scan resolution: See my FAQ on scanning resolution.Ĭolor/Color balance: Notice the options for tungsten, fluorescent, and night. Input/Bits per pixel: See my FAQ on scanning bit depth. I use this whenever the neg has extremely bright areas, such as sunlit clouds or backlighting or specular glare. Input/Long exposure pass: A wonderful VueScan bonus. That may be an idiosyncracy of my scanner. Input/Number of passes: I find multple pass scanning actually increases noise. Here are a few thoughts on some of the other options in VueScan: The basic settings are to select Color Negative as the media type, White Balance as the Color Balance type, and pick the closest film brand to what you are using you can find among the out-of-date choices. VueScan has a daunting number of control options in advanced mode. Same film frame same scanner competent software. Notice that the blue sky has mysteriously re-appeared. Load film strip containing chosen frame in holder start VueScan click preview. As long as your using curves, you will keep all the info from the scan.Fig 3.

HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM PSP

I usually clip very little of my histo, and do all the contrast enhancements with curves in PSP 8. 1% of your highlights and you should be good to go.

HOW TO USE VUESCAN TO SCAN FILM PRO

The other really cool thing about the Pro version is lifetime upgrades, for free! As long as I work with film, I will use Vuescan.īTW, about those highlights, just tell Vuescan to only clip say. The only downside is that the 2400 PPI images take up close to 50mb a piece! I have an 80gb hd, and a 52x CD-RW, so I think I can handle it. The advantage of course is that you don't have to risk dammaging your negs trying to rescan them, and it saves time as well because you can scan a file faster than the actual neg. This way you have a file that is just like the negative, and can be rescanned just like the negative. RAW files work wonders when you are new to scanning and have yet to learn all the tricks. It only costs $20 more than the standard, but it allows two big things.įirst is RAW files.

How to use vuescan to scan film