Stealth3kpl Posted July 21, 2011 Share #1 Posted July 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) This has just arrived. Amazon.co.uk: vuescan bible I haven't flicked through yet. Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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biglouis Posted July 21, 2011 Share #2 Posted July 21, 2011 A review would be most welcome. I am almost certain I am not getting the best out of Vuescan which is a great piece of software in my experience. In particular we would all like to know how to get the sharpest scans possible! LouisB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted July 21, 2011 I'm having a quick flick through on my lunch break. Mmmm, let's not get our hopes up. I'll have a good look through over the next few days but I've not seen anything Earth shattering yet. In fact it's starting to look like the book I hoped that it wasn't going to be . So far, I haven't seen any reference to sharpening, Big Louis. Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfage Posted July 21, 2011 Share #4 Posted July 21, 2011 Hmm. That's too bad. I'd like to figure out why my prescans suddenly look like they were done on a really cheap photocopier. Has anyone encountered that? I am using a new (old) Mamiya 35mm. One roll was "a little" underexposed. That was particularly bad. The scans were fine. It's just the prescans that look awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted July 21, 2011 Share #5 Posted July 21, 2011 Hmm. That's too bad. I'd like to figure out why my prescans suddenly look like they were done on a really cheap photocopier. Has anyone encountered that? I am using a new (old) Mamiya 35mm. One roll was "a little" underexposed. That was particularly bad. The scans were fine. It's just the prescans that look awful. Hmm - not sure whether you're doing what I do, but I tend to simply do prescans (or 'previews') of the entire roll, and save them as low-res reference thumbnails. I don't think the intention is for the preview to look that great, but you can choose your own settings, just the same as for the final scan. Plus one for a review of the book, Pete - when you have the chance. I'm pretty happy with my linear raw scan workflow, but maybe there's a setting somewhere that could be bettered... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted July 21, 2011 Plus one for a review of the book, Pete - when you have the chance. I'm pretty happy with my linear raw scan workflow, but maybe there's a setting somewhere that could be bettered... I know what you mean! I'm happy with with my workflow for Vuescan and for Epsonscan. I pre-ordered the book a few months ago and I'm feeling a little reluctant to immerse myself in it all again. You'll be alarmed that I've managed to skim-read the whole book in the space of a hour. I don't feel there was a great deal more information in the book than we have covered in our various threads and the links there-in. The book is largely a more user friendly summary of the official Vuescan help pages. A good overview of the program but never really gets down to the nitty-gritty. I suppose I was hoping for step-by-step examples of various scenarios. The explanation of the various settings in the software are clearer than those in the official help pages but still leave one wondering if there is more to know and, again, longing for some scenarios by way of example. I've come away from it feeling that I'm doing as much as I can with my present workflow. On the whole I feel it favours setting up Vuescan to obtain RAW files. It emphasises how quickly these can be taken back into Vuescan to process and output as another file type without having to go through the scanning process should a mistake be made post processing the file. However, it does conceed that such PP is better done in PP software such as Photoshop. There were no new magic tricks for colour balancing, in fact nothing in depth regarding PP such as sharpening the digital file. There were some basic recommendations for a few of the settings of the various Tabs. I'm a bit miffed that I've had to wait so many months for this book that promised so much. I don't require it anymore. I'd pre-ordered with Amazon and paid £25-69 and then find Amazon selling it at £15-63 with free delivery. As I type I'm printing out the returns label. The above is from my perspective. I should say that I would've found this book very informative a few months ago and I would recommend it to someone new to Vuescan. It would save a lot of surfing the net and confusion. It provides at the very least a solid starting point for using Vuescan but only a starting point. The only way to get anywhere with Vuescan is to sit down and scan and scan and scan. Like most things experience is the name of the game. Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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