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I have just finished the 100+ page PDF User's Guide to VueScan (VS) and was again reminded why I have had a love/hate relationship with this software over the years. I applaud Ed for providing a detailed guide for VS, but it leads me to believe that it was written for an audience of one - Ed himself. Little of it is user friendly, and it left me with more questions than answers after doing a full pass on the entire file.
Having said that, I will still be using it to run a flatbed scanner to scan a large number of old photographs (no negatives or transparencies as those will be handled with different hardware). My objective is to scan a 16-bit TIFF master copy that I can import into a LR catalog and then export out any derivatives as needed (e.g. posting on the web). I plan on cleaning the files up as time permits, but I do not necessarily have plans at this time for any extensive restoration. My other objective is to do the best scanning job that I can (given the material that I am working with) so that I do not find myself wanting to re-scan the images down the road. Reprocessing them later is LR would be fine, but I prefer not to have to re-scan if possible.
So, my questions revolve around how much do I want VS to process the master files during scanning? Are there adjustments or corrections that are better done in VS during the scanning process than in LR afterwards? Or should I leave it to LR to do most of the heavy lifting? I know that VS has quite a following, but there is no official forum that I could find and I have yet to find any information on the web that discusses the program's many features in any depth. Some of VS's features could be the next best thing to sliced bread, then again they might not hold a candle to what LR can offer. Scanning old photos is not an area where I have a lot of prior experience, and I am not sure that I have the wherewithal to fully figure this out on my own in any reasonable amount of time. Any thoughts about VS's features or links to information about them would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--Ken
Having said that, I will still be using it to run a flatbed scanner to scan a large number of old photographs (no negatives or transparencies as those will be handled with different hardware). My objective is to scan a 16-bit TIFF master copy that I can import into a LR catalog and then export out any derivatives as needed (e.g. posting on the web). I plan on cleaning the files up as time permits, but I do not necessarily have plans at this time for any extensive restoration. My other objective is to do the best scanning job that I can (given the material that I am working with) so that I do not find myself wanting to re-scan the images down the road. Reprocessing them later is LR would be fine, but I prefer not to have to re-scan if possible.
So, my questions revolve around how much do I want VS to process the master files during scanning? Are there adjustments or corrections that are better done in VS during the scanning process than in LR afterwards? Or should I leave it to LR to do most of the heavy lifting? I know that VS has quite a following, but there is no official forum that I could find and I have yet to find any information on the web that discusses the program's many features in any depth. Some of VS's features could be the next best thing to sliced bread, then again they might not hold a candle to what LR can offer. Scanning old photos is not an area where I have a lot of prior experience, and I am not sure that I have the wherewithal to fully figure this out on my own in any reasonable amount of time. Any thoughts about VS's features or links to information about them would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--Ken