Re: PAW 6, Vuescan?

  • From: Carl Socolow <csocolow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:18:04 -0500

Tina,

I use Vuescan with a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000. Below are several tutorials that I've used to clean up dust & scratches in Photoshop after scanning. Sometimes if there aren't too many scratches I just create a copy of the background layer as my first step, name it cleanup, and rubber stamp it. Regardless, I usually do my cleanups on a copy of the background layer named as above:

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/tutorials/tutorial_5_1.htm

See also Eddie Tapp's scanner dust spotting quicktime tutorial at:

http://www.photoworkshop.com/registered/softwarecinema/misc_tutorials.html

Hope this helps. I prefer the second version with a background copy layer again.

--
Carl Socolow

http://www.socphoto.com/herethere/
http://www.leica-gallery.net/socolowpersonal/index.html





Tina Manley wrote:

PAWs:

O.K. all of you Vuescan users -

I'm trying to learn how to scan black and white with Vuescan. Since I can't use Digital ICE with B&W, I'm looking for some way to cut down on the spotting when I scan all of these old black and white negatives and that's why I downloaded Vuescan. So far, I'm not too impressed, but maybe I'm overlooking something obvious. When I crank the infrared cleaning up to high, the image gets too soft. When it's on medium or light, I still have to spend a long time spotting out dust and scratches. These first two were on medium, but I did a lot of spotting. Am I overlooking something obvious or expecting too much? These are old negatives and I've cleaned them as much as I can without scratching them more.

Other than that, these are all photos I'm scanning for stock. What do you think? The second alternate is another old Kodachrome.

Week 6: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515879
Alternate 1: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515884
Alternate 2: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/39515900

Thanks for looking.

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com




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