Digital BW, The Print

Dear all
Can anyone direct me to some places where I can read some tips, 
advice, etc on that wonderful piece of software "VueScan". So far I'm 
more than impressed and would really like to get my teeth into things a 
bit further.

Sl\ufffdinte
Iain

Bob,
I already have the trial and will be giving the flexible friend a seeing to 
this weekend. It is having mucked about with the trial that prompted this 
tread as I'd like to use my lunchtimes reading some learned advice 
from people such as your good self

Sl\ufffdinte
Iain



Download the free trial program: www.Hamrick.com  
Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Iain Kirk"
<ham4472@l...> wrote:

> Dear all
> Can anyone direct me to some places where I can read some tips, 
> advice, etc on that wonderful piece of software "VueScan". So far I'm 
> more than impressed and would really like to get my teeth into things a 
> bit further.
> 
> Sl\ufffdinte
> Iain

Download the free trial program: www.Hamrick.com  
Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Iain Kirk"
<ham4472@l...> wrote:

> Dear all
> Can anyone direct me to some places where I can read some tips, 
> advice, etc on that wonderful piece of software "VueScan". So far I'm 
> more than impressed and would really like to get my teeth into things a 
> bit further.
> 
> Sláinte
> Iain

> Can anyone direct me to some places where I can read some tips, 
> advice, etc on that wonderful piece of software "VueScan". > Sláinte
> Iain

http://homepage.mac.com/onelucent/VS/vsm.html

While John's tutorial on Vuescan is excellent, please don't think
Vuescan is this complicated. It's a simple intuitive program where the
defaults work very well. You do have to make some simple selections
from a menu but the answers are obvious. I've found you just load it
up and use it. 

I can't even remember is Vuescan has a manual or not as I've never
found need to refer to it. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo
<jvlist@c...>" <jvlist@c...> wrote:

> > Can anyone direct me to some places where I can read some tips, 
> > advice, etc on that wonderful piece of software "VueScan". > Sláinte
> > Iain
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/onelucent/VS/vsm.html

> defaults work very well. You do have to make some simple selections
> from a menu but the answers are obvious. I've found you just load it
> up and use it. 


I don't find the answers are obvious or selections simple 
(particularly in choosing a film type), but reading through the html 
help and some trial-and-error will help you gain an understanding 
fairly quickly. Some of the controls, in particular for cropping when 
working with slides and negatives on my Epson 1660 flatbed, seem a 
bit kludgy (there is a mismatch that develops between preview and 
scan modes that can only be cured by restarting the program). 

I'm glad it has a histogram display, but making gamma etc. 
adjustments is not as straightforward as it is (for example) in 
photoshop. Would be nice to see an 'adjust curves' type of control.

It does seem to extract an order of magnitude more highlight and 
shadow detail from an original, than the native epson scanner sw is 
capable of.

You can find excellent tips on vuescan on the following forum

<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=VueScan&num=10&as_scoring=d&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=comp.periphs.scanners&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&as_umsgid=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=13&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2003&safe=images">Click here: Google Search: VueScan group:comp.periphs.scanners</A> 

Jesse Kramer, M.D.
Redding, California



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