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Ive noticed that Vuescan allows the saving of custom named ini profiles - these are assigned a shortcut in the drop down menu. Tapping the short cut key for the relevant profile (eg F1, F2 etc) before scanning the preview should reload your setup.

70 months ago(permalink)

I never use the default. I have a series of saved profiles (with appropraite names) that I switch between. Makes it so much easier to keep things how you want them and seems to work fine across versions, you just need to load the appropriate profile before you start your first scan..

69 months ago(permalink)

it is always possible to backup the .ini file or copy it to another location.

Other thing: Do you install Vuescan in the same folder which holds the ini file? It could help installng vuescan as Administrator in a separate folder. On running vuescan as regular user, the .ini file will be created in the personal appdata folder and thus preserved when updating vuescan. Sorry, can't say yet which folder exactly since I'm on Linux and not on a MicroSnoop system :-)

69 months ago(permalink)

Thanks for all the responses. Having been a VueScan user for many years (since Version 4 I think) I am aware of the facility to create custom ini files and have always made use of this.

My problem is that with recent versions these files are always over ridden after an update to the basic, presumably default, settings. This never happened before.

Yes, I do keep copies of my custom ini files elsewhere but having to copy these over each time there is an update becomes tedious and shouldn't be necessary in my opinion.

Updating almost all of my other software over the top of previous versions invariably retains my existing preferences etc as did VueScan once.

69 months ago(permalink)

Short joy btw. I did the latest update and kaboom, vuescan doesn't recognize my scanner ;-(

About Mac > system report > FireWire, I see my RATOC FireWire adapter but not Vuescan.

Hamrick said, something is broken. Well...

Anyone know how to complete reset Vuescan ? TIA

43 months ago(permalink)

My impression is that all of VueScan's state is saved in your vuescan.ini file, which is in your Pictures/VueScan folder. Remove (or rename) that and you should be good to go. You might try finding the old version (the one that worked), either from your own TimeMachine backup if you have it, or online, and seeing if it's a version thing.

43 months ago(permalink)

FWIW, I have the same issue after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 when everything worked fine on 15.10 with my Brother MFC-J485DW. However, the only reason I used VueScan in the first place was that I couldn't get Simple Scan or XSane to work over the network for some reason. However, I've gotten both to work with the Brother drivers on 16.04 installed via the "Driver Install Tool" downloaded from the Brother website. Just make sure you set up your scanner with a static IP address (I used the router configuration with a static DHCP lease to do this) and you should be good to go. Granted, this doesn't really answer your original question (or mine), but it provides two alternatives, hopefully.

First on the router, you must assign a fixed IP to your multifunction printer. Once this is done, you need to open the firewall ports on your PC.Open the terminal and enter the following rule:"sudo ufw allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" without the quotes.Where in place of the X you have to put the real IP of your multifunction printer.Now vuescan will work.Then to delete the rule always from terminal type:"sudo ufw delete allow xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

Recenly I did some experiments with long exposure photographs of the

nightsky (20, 30, 60 seconds). Just looking at them with the eye, I was

quite happy with what I saw.I wanted to scan them with my Benq Scanwit 2740S and VueScan 7.5.54, but

I could tell that there would be difficulties, because, well, they are

really dark. And as expected VueScan 'helped' me by brightening up the

picture tremendously. But that wasn't wat I was looking for. So first I

put the Color balance (under the Color menu) on 'None' and then on

'Night'. 'None' was better, but still it was too bright. I fiddled with

some other options like 'Slide curve'.I'm very interested to hear suggestions how to improve scanning these

nightsky images.Thanks,

Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Were these slides or negatives? I have a similar film scanner (Minolta Scan

Dual II) with similar specs and think you may be seeing one or both of the

following:1) If slides, the slides are going to be almost pure black. This is a very

challenging task for any scanner since the scanner needs to be able to shine

a strong enough light through the film to get a signal to the CCD. Your

scanner has a modest dynamic range (3.2 according to specs, out of a maximum

of 4) which is where this comes into play; the larger the dynamic range, the

more of the full spectrum of grays from white to black can be recorded. So

you can either underexpose one area to get the right exposure on another, or

vice versa. In the absence of a strong enough signal (underexposure) you

may see electronic noise, apparent as speckles (pixels) that should be pure

black but are some other color. If you overexpose, where there *is* light

in the image, the scanner may "bloom" where the charge from one pixel spills

to another, causing it to be overexposed.VueScan has the ability to increase exposure manually: DeviceLock Exposure

will reveal the RGB exposure setting. Check the user guide under Advanced

Workflow suggestions for a good procedure to set that. Further, you may

also have luck using "Long exposure pass" which essentially takes a normal

exposure and then an overexposure and merges the best of the two ...

although this can fail at the edges, so your results may or may not be any

good in this case.Negatives are different: the emulsion is thinner and usually less problem

for scanners, and furthermore you should have an almost purely clear frame.

In this case, use the advanced workflow suggestions (in user guide) to lock

the exposure and film base color.2) Whether slides or negatives, you may also see VueScan trying to do what

it does well under normal conditions, which is to provide a white-balance of

the scene. This is fine in daylight, but will tremendously amplify

electronic noise in the scene you are working on by lightening everything.

Depending on what you are scanning, you'll probably want to try either a

Night, Neutral, or None for color balance. You may also want to try this

with the Curves feature set to "Log (Dark)". You can get a pretty good idea

of what the scanner actually saw by looking at the scan result with color

balance set to None, this and the histogram may help guide you in how to

adjust for this lighting condition.Keep in mind that the two problems can interact: a very noisy scan (perhaps

resulting from underexposure, very dense slide film, or a lower quality

scanner) will be highlighted by any VueScan adjustments that make things

brighter. Get the exposure right first using None for color balance, then

get the color balance right.Hope this helps.Tom"Marcel-Jan Krijgsman" wrote in message

news:3DBD575D...@tiscali.nl...

Try drastically increasing the Black Point %. (Also the white point,

probably.) This will make them look more like the prints you probably

got back from the processor.Note that when taking such long exposures, you may be allowing much

more light onto the film than you can pick up with your own eyes even

with pupils wide open. Your long exposures may look more like the

scene would look to a nochturnal animal!Hmm... it would be worth figuring out for a given film ISO, what the

exposure time corresponding to the human eye's maximum light

sensitivity is. Then, if you just want to record what you see, you'd

just use this exposure time without having to bracket excessively

(unless you want also to maintain detail in regions lit by street

lights, moon, etc - then you'd have to expose for these - just like

when you shift your eyes from the shadows to a lit area, your pupil

closes down accordingly.)-Gary

It's not clear to me whether you're using slide film or print film. However,

you probably need to adjust the ColorWhite point to 0.001% or 0%, and then

adjust the Brightness. You probably don't want to change the 0% Black point

setting, but that depends on the image (stars, nebulae, planets of perhaps

moonlit cloud formations or cityscapes) and the resulting histogram. The

Neutral color balancing will give you most flexibility for accurate colors.Knowing the type of film (reversal or negative) would help in giving a more

to the point suggestion for improvement (something along the lines of the

Advanced Workflow Suggestions).Bart

The Scanwit in general seems to be set up for negatives. This causes every

slide, not only night skys, to appear very dark. I would do a RAW scan in

vuescan (i.e., without any processing in vuescan), take the pic to a photo

editor and adjust the curve. Make it look like an arc (from bottom left to

upper right, ofcourse ;O)) as this gives the best result IMHO. A nice

"howto" can be found at (short description in the review, more on the links on bottom of the page).HTH

Sebastian

I meaned while looking with the naked eye at the slide. Yes, slides, sorry I forgot to mention that.Okay, you mention Color Black point so I did some experimenting with that value. I had Color Balance

set to 'None' and then you don't get to choose the Black point. So now I set Color Color Balance to

'White Balance' and set Black point (%) to 1 and White point (%) to 0. And indeed, it comes out much

darker. Probably Color Balance on 'Night' would be more sensible, but I like what I'm seeing. Some more

experimenting will be required.Thanks for pointing that out.Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

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