gbealnz
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Can someone with experience suggest a few settings please.
I have a nice Plustek 8100, and scan using either Silverfast or Vuescan. I like Vuescan as it gives me 16 bit with B&W, and I always seem to get 8 bit when I use Silverfast. This likely though is an input I am either not doing, or not doing correctly. I occasionally scan older 35mm slides, and more recently scan the odd roll of colour neg that I shoot, all 35mm of course.
So, what I am asking is a couple of settings that I use most. I usually "proof sheet" my 35mm shots, and add them to a digital contact sheet, this contact sheet being done within CS6 (I found this by accident and it is exactly what I was wanting). For this I want about 100kb files, and suitable only for low-resolution viewing, exactly as you would expect on a contact sheet..
The only other real use is for when I scan to post or share. Logic from most suggests the max you can scan at, and I take this on board, but usually I get a decent sized file and work with that. Here Silverfast is simpler, I can set the sizes I want, both pixel and dpi and scan, and usually this works quite well. Vuescan on the other hand is a minefield to me. I am scanning right now, and there is all manner of settings. I'd be happier with a simple setting that I could use, writing down the parameters until I got really competent with it.
Any suggestions, apart from RTFM, which I have tried. It's either real simple for an office scanner, or that complex a simpleton like me struggles with.
Gary
I have a nice Plustek 8100, and scan using either Silverfast or Vuescan. I like Vuescan as it gives me 16 bit with B&W, and I always seem to get 8 bit when I use Silverfast. This likely though is an input I am either not doing, or not doing correctly. I occasionally scan older 35mm slides, and more recently scan the odd roll of colour neg that I shoot, all 35mm of course.
So, what I am asking is a couple of settings that I use most. I usually "proof sheet" my 35mm shots, and add them to a digital contact sheet, this contact sheet being done within CS6 (I found this by accident and it is exactly what I was wanting). For this I want about 100kb files, and suitable only for low-resolution viewing, exactly as you would expect on a contact sheet..
The only other real use is for when I scan to post or share. Logic from most suggests the max you can scan at, and I take this on board, but usually I get a decent sized file and work with that. Here Silverfast is simpler, I can set the sizes I want, both pixel and dpi and scan, and usually this works quite well. Vuescan on the other hand is a minefield to me. I am scanning right now, and there is all manner of settings. I'd be happier with a simple setting that I could use, writing down the parameters until I got really competent with it.
Any suggestions, apart from RTFM, which I have tried. It's either real simple for an office scanner, or that complex a simpleton like me struggles with.
Gary
