![]() ![]() This should be a detailed area, not a flat tone. On the Nikon scanners, you can choose a pont on the image for the autofocus mechanism to lock on to. Auto Focus: Always (if your scanner offers this.flatbeds don't usually). Auto Flip, Auto Skew, and Mirror: Leave these unchecked. If the preview is upside down or turned on its side, change the rotation setting to correct that. Rotation: Leave this alone until after you do the preview scan. You'll regret this deeply when you decide to make a larger print and have to rescan and redo ALL your post-processing, dodging and burning, retouching, etc. Don't scan lower thinking you'll make smaller prints. Scan Resolution: Whatever your scanner's highest is. Scan From Preview: Leave this unchecked. ![]() A 24 bit image will fall apart and show color banding when heavily edited. Color neg scans need a lot of editing for contrast and color. You don't see this option in my screenshots because I was using a film holder that only allows one neg at a time to scan. See my Vuescan Batch Scanning Tutorial for directions. Batch Scanning: This allows scanning more than one image at a time. Media: This tells Vuescan what type of film you're scanning. If your film scanner is the only scanner you have, it will already be chosen by default. Source: If you have more than one scanner connected to your computer and powered on, you'll need to choose the one that you are using. Options: This should be set to PROFESSIONAL. Vuescan's Mac and Windows versions are identical, so these settings work on either OS. The Professional Version is required for film scanning the cheaper versions do not work with film scanners. My instructions below are for the Professional Version of Vuescan, using the advanced control set. It tends to be unstable on later versions of PowerPC OS-X and Windows, and does not work at all on the Intel Macs and Apple Silicon Macs. I use Vuescan, rather than Nikon's scanner software, because Nikon stopped supporting Nikon Scan years ago. The information that I give below should work perfectly for any Nikon Scanner, and should be pretty close with other film scanners. You can also watch a video version of this tutorial on YouTube.įor this tutorial, I used a Nikon LS-50 (Coolscan V) scanner with Vuescan software. My examples below show a few of my photographs with the unedited scan and the final edited version so that you can see just how much needs to be done. Film scans need to be edited in Photoshop or whatever software you like to increase the contrast to normal, and to fix the color balance. That's ok we can correct the color later in editing software like Photoshop. This is because of the orange base color of the film, which film scanners have a hard time removing. In addition, color negatives often have terrible color balance right out of the scanner. A full range of tones on a negative will include some areas of clear or near clear film in the deepest blacks, but the brightest whites in a properly exposed negative will not be near as dense as the blacks in a slide.įor that reason, negatives will always scan in very flat looking. A full range of tones on a color slide will include areas of totally clear film and areas of almost opaque black. How To Scan Color Negative Film With Vuescanįilm scanners are designed primarily for scanning color transparencies, which have a much greater density range than a color negative. ![]()
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