VueScan Pro 9.6.46 Crack
Thaiel Trask
I've 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.
69 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..
68 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 :-)
68 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.
68 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
42 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.
42 months ago(permalink)
I think you should try again. For color negative, do this: uncheck all "lock" settings. Calibrate scanner. Preview a piece of clear leader - the whole frame need not be clear, in fact things may work more intuitively if it isn't. Click "lock exposure". Preview again, click "lock film base color". At this point (unless you select "white balance: none"), if you previewed a piece of film that is completely clear, the preview will appear pink(ish) and the scan histogram will span the whole range of values - that is normal, vuescan will by default choose the black/white points such that the histogram will span the whole range. Try selecting "white balance: none" in the Color tab to get rid of the (overcorrecting) behaviour. Irrespective of what your preview looks like, the film base color is selected correctly and locked in. At this point it doesn't matter at all whether the frame borders are selected or not - they let in less light than the emulsion, so the emulsion will be used for base color calculation.
You can now preview a frame with a normal image in it. If you want to lock white balance and brightness, click "lock image color" after you previewed the frame. You can adjust the black and white points for all three primary colors with image color locked and the changes should be applied to all subsequent scans. I write should because there appears to be a bug in the UI that does not apply the changes to previews, which is quite annoying (I contacted Ed Hamrick about it several times, to no avail).
If you want to be able to scan the borders (i.e., film carrier), I strongly recommend choosing a reference frame and doing the above "lock image color" on it. If the image color is already messed up by borders, select a small part of the image, then carefully select most of the image but leave borders out (small changes of cropping will not trigger recalculation of colors, but large changes will - that's why you need to select a small area, then enlarge to a big one). Also note that there is a setting in the "Prefs" tab (IIRC) that allows you to specify a buffer at the borders that will be ignored for color calculations - you can use this to make sure the borders are never included in the calculation.
Lastly, my preferred and recommended method of scanning negatives is to scan the leader, lock exposure and base color, then scan all frames into raw files. After I'm done with the physical scanning, turn the scanner off and restart vuescan; read in the raw scan of the clear leader to lock film base color, preview all image scans, select one with neutral grey, lock color on that, save settings, quit and restart vuescan (this because of the above mentioned bug), preview everything again (now the color lock has been applied to all previews), adjust colors and scan from raw to tiff. This way my scans have a correct base color, consistent (though perhaps not best) white balance and are extremely easy to touch up in your favorite image editor.
Steven beat me to it: upping your buffer percentage to around 15% will instruct Vuescan to ingore that percent of the edge. I believe it used to default to 15%, but it might have been revised to default to 0%. 0% is good only if you're dealing with raw files that are already cropped. Otherwise, and as long as there is a black surround on your images, you *need* to raise this percentage.
BTW, I've more or less given up on Vuescan for color negative film, and instead just scan as a slide with my scanner's OEM software, *only* ensuring nothing is clipping, and then invert and adjust through auto levels and a constrast enhancing curve in Photoshop. I might give it another try but I've found Vuescan very frustrating: color casts the norm, at least with my scanner.
From Peter's answer: "Lastly, my preferred and recommended method of scanning negatives is to scan the leader, lock exposure and base color, then scan all frames into raw files." Does locking the base color do anything during scanning into raw files? I thought such files contain the straight CCD output, unmanipulated in any way (most importantly, by any of the settings in the "Color" tab). Locking the exposure makes sense, but I'm not so sure about base color.
A difficult 2020 that has blended into a difficult 2021 has made it harder for many of us to get outside and shoot, but that doesn't mean you have to neglect your photography. If you're like me, you probably still have years' worth of unscanned slides and negatives waiting to be tended to some rainy day, and a COVID lockdown gives you a golden opportunity.
But are you better off using the software that came with your scanner, or should you shell out for a third-party alternative to get the best results? Before I rolled up my sleeves and started scanning, I wanted to answer this question for myself.
All three applications were tested with Windows 10 version 1909 on a 2018 Dell XPS 15 9570 alongside an Epson Perfection V850 Pro scanner. SilverFast SE Plus costs $99, although it was included free in the bundle with our Epson V850 Pro. VueScan Professional, meanwhile, is ordinarily $99.95.
Since I'm looking at this from the perspective of film scanning, I'm limiting my comparisons solely to scanning of positive and negative strip film and slides, and won't be considering features like document or photo print scanning, copying, OCR, and the like.
As is often the case with software from hardware manufacturers, Epson Scan's Professional Mode user interface feels quite dated and somewhat unintuitive. It's split across five floating control panels that, together, don't leave much room to preview your slides, yet still offers fewer controls than its third-party rivals.
Optional Full Auto and Home modes simplify things, but also hide many features altogether. And it's also sometimes a little buggy. For example, no matter how I configured Windows' resolution and scaling, its un-resizable configuration dialog overflowed its borders, preventing me from being able to do things like reset app defaults.
SilverFast has only two operating modes: WorkflowPilot or Manual. WorkFlowPilot only allows single-photo scanning, and takes you through the process step by step. Some choices feel odd, though: For example it won't allow you to simply scan a standard JPEG.
Manual mode gives access to everything at once, but is very busy and unnecessarily confusing. Button colors vary for no logical reason, and active functions are indicated only with a tiny red dot. Help is provided throughout, but the many (and often redundant) buttons linking to abbreviated PDF manuals and numerous lengthy tutorial videos make its interface even more cluttered.
I also found it prone to making me wait for preview scans more than its rivals, and cancelling a batch scan can be extremely tedious as it makes you separately cancel every remaining frame, one by one. This was my least-favorite interface of the bunch.
[Edit: I've since learned that SilverFast batch scans can be canceled entirely by alt-clicking the cancel button. This is, however, not obvious, although it's mentioned in one of 13 separate PDF manuals for SilverFast SE Plus 8 on the company's website.]
VueScan's UI has Basic, Standard or Professional modes, all three mostly using drop-down lists very logically arranged in two to five tabs. It's cleaner, faster and more modern than its rivals, and leaves more room to preview your images. Its single PDF user manual is also unusually detailed and helpful.
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