Not perfect and some frames will have a few spots that need cleaning. My negatives come out clean because of the workflow I’ve developed. Ok then - I’ll cook up additional episodes of how I scan using VueScan. How to Scan B&W Negatives: The Power of Curves How to Scan B&W Negatives: Adjusting Levels How to Scan B&W Negatives: An Introduction If you missed the first four episodes in this series, here are the links: If you have an old film scanner, the old drivers probably won’t work with newer operating systems, but VueScan can keep it running. The scanner works flawlessly with VueScan running on Linux Mint 9. I use a Minolta ScanDual III that’s about eight years old. I’m a very satisfied customer who paid full price for the pro version once I saw how well VueScan worked for me. There’s no cost for the trial and the only limitation is watermarking on the scans. If you’re interested, you can download the latest version of VueScan and try it for yourself. If there’s enough interest, I’ll continue the series with in-depth, step-by-step of my entire workflow. I’ve developed an efficient workflow for scanning and editing my B&W negative scans. This tutorial is an introduction to how I use VueScan. The next step would be running the actual scan.Īfter scanning, I typically open my 16 bit grey scale tiff file in Picture Window Pro (PWP) to fine tune the tones, then downsize (if the image will go on the web) and sharpen. I tweaked the curve to get a bit more contrast. Here’s another view of the same scan but with the curve graph showing instead of the histogram. VueScan Screenshot (curve) - Click to Enlarge
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