Digital BW, The Print

At 01:12 PM 6/18/2003, you wrote:
>Personally I'm not sure about view scan. Perhaps I'm not using it
>right but it's 50/50 for me whether I get a better scan using it or
>from just using the FS4000 by itself. When I scan my holga 2 1/4's
>with my Epson 1200U they usually look better with Vuescan but not
>always.
>
>Do others of you find these same inconsistancies?
>
>Tim

Nope. I use Vuescan almost 100% of the time because I have found I get 
better scans with it than with almost anything else on virtually all of my 
images. Maybe you're expecting the scan to look great as it comes in from 
the scanner. Rather than that, I set Vuescan to capture all of the tonal 
range of the image, which makes the image somewhat low contrast initially, 
then I make curve adjustments in Photoshop. This way, I know I'm getting 
all the image has to offer. Other software I have used made the initial 
scan look better than Vuescan, but I found that usually one or the other or 
both ends of the tonal range were getting clipped, so I wasn't getting all 
the information. I also do no sharpening or filtering in the scanning 
software. I do all this in Photoshop.

Stan

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