Tips wanted: Scanning Fuji 400H with Vuescan

[cbretteville]

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Hi,

Any one have any tips on colour setting to use when scanning Fuji 400H with Vuescan?

Thanks,

Carl

[250swb]

Never used it Carl, but as always the general advice is to just get a low contrast scan and sort it out colour balance etc. in post processing. You can knock yourself out trying to create a good scan direct from the scanner only to find the 'Auto' buttons for contrast, colour, etc. in Lightroom or Photoshop do everything for you. Of course the 'Auto' buttons are only a starting point, but you get the idea, don't bother much with refining the scanner software settings, make them sensible but that's all you need.

 

Steve

[DigitalHeMan]

Personally at the moment I am scanning as a raw negative file using Vuescan, and then using the ColorPerfect plugin in Photoshop to turn the image into a positive. Works well for me

[Mike Rawcs]

This website gives useful information for scanning with Vuescan.

 

John B. Crane - Photographer | Portra Color Negative (C41) Scanning Workflow

 

I found it very useful.

 

Setting the IR cleaning to 'Light' works very well as does using Levels in Photoshop to set the black and white points.

 

Some good landscape photos on John's website too.

 

Mike.

[A miller]

Never used it Carl, but as always the general advice is to just get a low contrast scan and sort it out colour balance etc. in post processing. You can knock yourself out trying to create a good scan direct from the scanner only to find the 'Auto' buttons for contrast, colour, etc. in Lightroom or Photoshop do everything for you. Of course the 'Auto' buttons are only a starting point, but you get the idea, don't bother much with refining the scanner software settings, make them sensible but that's all you need.

 

Steve

 

Good advice here. I always go for flat scans and max resolution and then sort it out in LR. It is hard to be sure you are doing it right int he scaning workflow unless you preview at very high resolution, which is a huge drain on time. I usually preview at the lowest resolution and check the image for framing and composition, and perhaps some dust removal if needed.