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Thank you! Definitely helped to make sense of all settings in Vuescan

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Eureka! You have no idea how many sheets I have wasted finding the answer to those red shifts on black and white printing from my P600. The answer was there all the time! Thank you for this excellent and thorough tutorial. It's the difference between producing saleable fine art prints and rejects.

GREAT INFO! I have been mostly shooting in JPEG format, but you have convinced me that RAW is definitely the best way to go for White Balance results..THANKS!

Hi. How long would this gallon last for... or how many rolls i can fix with the one gallon? Thank you

Thank you !

Thank you ever so much! This color match was about to drive me nuts.

This would be a lot more value if you used a negative with some color instead of that flat ugly car on a rainy day.

One disadvantage of selecting the highest DPI might be that most cheaper scanner kinda suck, and don't actually produce more quality... so it just slows you down a lot while scanning.

Use a cheap MAGNETIC.stirrer.....really mixes it....

If you have the Commercial Edition with Violet ink instead of Light Light Black, you do not get the option of Advanced Black and White. Do you have a workaround?

Thank you that was very helpful. What format do you save from psp please? Is that also tiff?

This was really helpful. I'm getting back into film photography after a 12 year break and the learning curve of Vuescan is quite high, this definitely saved me some trial and error.

Thank you so much for this video! I’m a film photography novice but decided to make the leap into scanning my own film with a second hand Plustek 7200 and VueScan. This tutorial was a game changer!!

Thanks for this absolutel perfect instruction!

Thank you so much. I just got out my v750 & it's been over 10 years since I've used ot, I had totally forgotten what to do! 😊

Thank you for this very useful tutorial. I am using version 9.8.32.10 and the menus have been added to. I am struggling with scanning prints, both 100 year old B&W and 1970/80/90's colour where I have no film. Please would you consider a tutorial about scanning prints too?

thank you for saying to set the white point to zero, it was blowing out my photos.

where can I get the image you are using for calibration?

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Wow. Your technique looks "violent'... Have you ever had a problem with dark hallo over sprocket holes on the negative?

This is out of stock everywhere unfortunately and I have no idea why Sekonic has stopped making them. Is a shame, I have several cameras I'd love to profile with my Sekonic 858..

WOW! Your audio is so low I can't watch the video and listen because I need to put my head to the speaker.

Hello. I can’t get past the hump of knowing if it’s centered or not. I feel 120 is more difficult than 35mm for that reason.

Hello Christopher Thanks for this tutorial which helped considerably in setting up my Canon FS4000 scanner for scanning slides. I have however still been having difficulty bringing out sufficient detail in shadow areas - particularly with underexposed slides ; I tried doing 4 passes as you suggested but found that there was barely any improvement in shadow detail and the shadow areas remain "blocked up". However I came across on another website a reference to the "multi exposure" setting which your tutorial just says to leave unchecked, so I had not previously tried this option. But, according to the VueScan manual, this setting is intended to bring out detail from the shadow areas ; here (between inverted commas) is what the manual says : - "This option provides a way to get additional detail from the darker parts of the scanned image. It is available on scanners that are able to increase the CCD exposure time. A first pass is performed as usual with the normal RGB exposure. This will be an appropriate exposure for the image as a whole. Then a second pass is performed with a longer exposure, which can reveal additional detail in dark areas not captured in the first pass. VueScan then merges the results of the two by choosing from either the first or second exposure pass." Having (albeit only briefly) tried this setting it does indeed seem to produce a scan that compared to a scan without this setting gives a wider range of detail into the shadow, so thought I would bring this to your attention in case you (and others reading this posting) were unaware of this function. Thanks again for taking the trouble to produce a useful tutorial.

Thanks for the update.

Thanks for making this tutorial. My impression is that the goal is to make the scan as close to the desired end result as possible so that the scan has the information to be read in PS or LR. Is that not correct? For example, increasing Brightness to lighten up the shadows, kind of like exposing to the right. I have checked the pixel colors box to see clipping and/or out of gamut and then struggled to fix an issue with the various sliders and the histogram in the Color tab. Do you not do this and rely on PS/LR for the fix? Also, would 64 bit be even better than 48, putting the scan time aside? Thanks again.

Thank you for the excellent tutorial. One small question: with regard to using 48 bit depth, what is your guidance on why not to select 64 bit RGBI. Is it because the "I" in RGBI is for an infrared channel used only for the dust and scratch removal processing? Would using 64 bit RGBI have any advantage over 48 bit otherwise, or would it just unnecessarily bump up file size and/or scan time for no other benefit? Again, thanks again for producing such a concise and informative tutorial.

Thanks Christopher. I just received my Epson V600 today. By watching this I was at least able to use the Epson software to obtain my first scan of a little watercolor painting. Please create a video of taking an old black and white photo and taking it step by step through the scan process, preferably via VueScan, and then finishing the adjustments in Photoshop. If you have a way to donate to you I would be glad to do so. Thanks for your work. Aubrey I found it and made a donation. Thanks again.

On A Mac, it seems Advanced BW mode is only available in Photoshop. DXO, Affinity Photo, and ArtStudio ALL do not show this printer options dropdown.

This is a wealth of information. Thank you! Why don't you save as raw DNG?

[10:09] I've found rotation to be buggy or sticky. For multiple negative scanning operations, I'd recommend, NO adjustment and flip in PS later etc.

I would disagree that scanning B&W in RGB mode only makes a bigger file; it does give a lot more too; maybe your scanner does not need the extra assistance; I'm recently scanning with a flatbed, in RGB mode [by accident] and yes; it is different ~ I'm getting a bronzed effect ~ almost like colour or that Sepia Toning that I never did like, or get right 55 years ago. ~ ;)

thank you so much

My SC-P600 doesn't give me those options in Photoshop but does in the Epson Pirnt Layout App for the Mac.

My settings won't save. I'm doing this through lightroom and when I save the settings they keep reverting back to what they were previously.

You sound like you know what your talking about I need some advice brother, So boom I have 3 inkjet printers, 2 are MICR HP Envy and 3755 Deskjet and the 3rd is just a regular hp smart tank 5000 right. They all have built in scanners but the envy and smart tanks scanners are more better because they have one of those compartments where you have to lift it up and then bring the cover down to scan. SO MY ISSUE IS when I try to scan a colored document or photo it lightens the color of the image and doesn’t scan the exact color. PLEASE TELL ME HOW I FIX THIS!!!! I want all my scanned documents to be identical in color when I print it. What do I do???? I’m hearing about profiles but idk nothing about that

thank you sooo much, you saved my bad scans. Now I have excellent ones

Hi did you make the other video on Advanced profiles thanks mark

Hi I am watching your video again and you made a very good job of the video and you Describe the procedure very well I have been all over the Internet trying to find how to set up these light metres and your video is the most Understandable procedure on how to set it up I am the same as you I suffer with a lot of illnesses with arthritis and pancreatitis and it makes it so hard to be able to get out like I used to be able to it’s quite sad really where we can get out like we did Years ago but again thank you so much for the video Mark

When I am setting up the sekonic L-858d-u with the new module for flash I think the best way to go is setting up White balance first and then setting up the light meter Next but we’re do I start to get a base line from the start how would you go about this I no I have to take 3 photos Either side three stops under and three stops over can you help me in this Project many thanks Mark

Thank you so much

I always get super green blue negative scans with Vuescan and my V700. The only setting that comes close to normal is auto levels. Nothing else works. Any ideas?

The only reason I have found to scan in RGB instead of 16 bit Grey is that some tools in photoshop and other editing software seem to get confused when working in greyscale. Even the SilverEfex Pro sometimes gets a little wonky if the image is not RGB so if I am not as concerned with the increased time and file size it is something that I occasionally do if I plan on using anything that relies on the different channels even though they are all grey.

Thank you for providing an excellent tutorial. I have a question. I am using Lightroom's color grading panel to add a warm color tint to my black and white photos, because I love the color blending, luminance and saturation aspects of that tool. I then open the file in Photoshop for tweaking in layers and print optimizing, and then print using Photoshop to manage color. Should I be concerned about the grays being neutral and color casts when printing in this manner? Thanks.

Excellent run through Chris, many thanks. I keep getting lost in the printer driver between basic and advanced settings, but your walk through is informative. And you've solved a problem for me. I had stumbled across the setting for the platen gap a while ago when looking for a fix for a head strike on Canton paper, but could I find it again! No way. Now I know where the option lives. Cheers.

always choose raw, and image not color negative so image won't be inverted

Great tutorial, thank you! made using my new slide scanner a cinch.

When I scan a black and white 35mm negative strip and select one of the images, the crop lines show but the autofocus point does not appear in the overview window. Is this a feature of your particular scanner do you think? I am using my Epson V600

Thanks for going through your settings - I'm back using VueScan again after a long break from scanning and your tutorial proves useful in getting the most from the scanner before taking the image into photoshop, etc. One issue I am trying to sort is that I cannot get VueScan to show in the import section of Photoshop. I just moved to Mac OS from Windows where VueScan was present as a plugin, but it does not seem to have installed on the Mac. When I try adding the scanner using Mac OS it does not see my scanner, however using VueScan as standalone on the Mac shows the scanner and works just fine. Just wondered whether you have any experience with this before I head over to VueScan for a support ticket :)