1 VueScan User's Guide Copyright 2015 Hamrick Software
9 Getting started with VueScan VueScan is a powerful scanning tool that's aimed at helping you get the most out of your scanner and producing st
INDEX 99 Prefs | Anti alias text Controls whether 1-bit images (i.e. text and line art) are displayed with anti-aliasing. This results in smoother l
INDEX 100 Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons You can use this option to remove the slider and spin
INDEX 101
102 Index —C— Cancel button, 48 Color | All frames, 78 Color | Black point (%), 73 Color | Black point red/green/blue, 73 Color | Brightness, 75 Col
INDEX 103 Input | Default folder, 63 Input | Descreen, 71 Input | Descreen dpi, 71 Input | File type, 63 Input | Files, 50 Input | Fine mode, 60 Input
INDEX 104 Prefs | Enable density display, 99 Prefs | Enable popup tips, 100 Prefs | Enable raw from disk, 99 Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons, 100
VueScan User's Guide 10 Basic Workflow You can do most things in VueScan by simply pressing the Scan button (p. 47). You can also see more option
VueScan User's Guide 11 Scan and save 1. Click the Scan button (p. 47) 2. Wait for the scan to finish. This varies depending on your sca
12 Common tasks Scanning to a multi-page PDF file Ever wanted to be able to scan in and send a multi-page document to a colleague, or a long magazine
VueScan User's Guide 13 3. The PDF file now contains pages 1,3,5,7,9 Scan the back sides 1. Place the documents in the document feeder back
VueScan User's Guide 14 clicking the Scan button (p. 47) 2. On the Options panel (p. 9) select the Input tab (p. 49) 3. Set Input | Auto re
VueScan User's Guide 15 3. Click Print to finish the job Saving files VueScan automatically saves each image or document you scan automatica
VueScan User's Guide 16 Name your image 1. In the File name box, delete what's there already and type in a name for the image 2. Ad
VueScan User's Guide 17 1. Select the Input tab (p. 49) on the Options panel (p. 9) 2. If you want to output the image to a printer go to
18 Quick settings Each task so far has been carried out using the basic, default settings. These are fine for scanning photos on a flatbed scanner. I
1 Contents Getting started with VueScan ...9 Common tasks ...
VueScan User's Guide 19 4. Set Input | Mode (p. 50) to "Transparency" 5. Set Input | Media (p. 50) to "B/W negative" Ch
20 Hints and tips Scan images only once If you want to try different ways of processing a negative or slide, you don't need to scan it more than
VueScan User's Guide 21 Each time an image is saved as JPEG, some information about the image is lost, even at the highest quality (and lowest co
22 APPENDIX A: Advanced tools and techniques Most of the common tasks have already been covered in the previous section. The next section explains
VueScan User's Guide 23 Histograms Histograms are graphs that display the distribution of tones and colors in the scanned image. Dark tones are i
VueScan User's Guide 24 Graph curve: similar to the Curves tool in image editors such as Photoshop(TM), this allows you to fine tune highli
VueScan User's Guide 25 Using Raw Scan Files If you're scanning several images in one go, scan each image once and save the raw CCD data fil
VueScan User's Guide 26 starting file in the series (eg scan0001.tif) Use the File | Default options (p. 40) command to set all the other op
VueScan User's Guide 27 step #2 above, use a film frame that has an area that would print as pure black for negative, or pure white for slides. R
VueScan User's Guide 28 3. Click the '@' button next to Color | Scanner ICC profile (p. 76) and choose where you want to write the I
CONTENTS 2 File | Default options ... 40 File | Q
VueScan User's Guide 29 To profile your printer with an IT8 target: 1. Profile your scanner (see above) 2. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to &quo
VueScan User's Guide 30 To profile your film with an IT8 target: 1. Profile your scanner (see above) 2. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "
VueScan User's Guide 31 VueScan does two different things: it scans an image, and then it processes the raw data from the scanner to produce a c
VueScan User's Guide 32 When the preview or scan is performed, the raw data is put into a memory buffer. If the Output | Raw file (p. 88) option
VueScan User's Guide 33 Imagine taking a picture of a typical outdoor scene with a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds along with a person standin
VueScan User's Guide 34 Another useful way of getting multiple image samples is to scan at a higher resolution and then average adjacent blocks o
VueScan User's Guide 35 VueScan contains information about the color sensitivity of many different types of film. Use the table below to iden
VueScan User's Guide 36 FUJI Super HG 400 FUJI HG400 CH-1/NONE/GREEN FUJI Super HR 100 Gen 1 FUJI 1
VueScan User's Guide 37 KODAK GOLD Super 200 Gen 4 GOLD 200-4 KODAK GOLD 200-4/GREEN/GREEN KODAK GOLD Super 200 Gen
VueScan User's Guide 38 KODAK TMAX-100 TMAX CI = .80 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .80 KODAK TMAX-400 D-76 CI = .40
CONTENTS 3 Scan+ button... 47 View bu
39 APPENDIX B: Buttons, menus and options reference The following sections describe, in detail, what each and every one of VueScan's controls an
INDEX 40 This command lets you load the current options settings from a file. File | Save options This command lets you save the current options setti
INDEX 41 Scanner | Preview Same as pressing the Preview button (p. 46). Scanner | Scan Same as pressing the Scan button (p. 47). Scanner | Scan+ Same
INDEX 42 The dark voltage level of each CCD element is slightly different When properly calibrated, the scanner should theoretically produce t
INDEX 43 Profile | Profile printer See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film. Profile | Profil
INDEX 44 Image | Release memory This command releases the memory used by VueScan to store the most recent scans and previews. This can be useful if
INDEX 45 command will change the pages to 13578642. This is useful for un-doing the effect ofPDF | Interleave (p. 44). PDF | Swap even/odd This comman
INDEX 46 Mac OS X: /Users/yourname/.vuescanrc Linux ~/.vuescanrc Windows XP and earlier: Registry HKEY_C
INDEX 47 This button does a quick preview scan of the area described byCrop | Preview area (p. 68) and displays it in the Preview tab. A preview scan
INDEX 48 Cancel button This button is displayed when a scan is in progress. When you press it, the scan is stopped and batch scanning is stopped. Save
CONTENTS 4 Input | Focus ... 57 Input
INDEX 49 Previous frame button This button goes to the previous frame. Next frame button This button goes to the next frame. Input tab This tab conta
INDEX 50 Input | Source If you've got more than one scanner on your system, this lets you specify which scanner you want to use. A special &qu
INDEX 51 There are two lists of media, depending on whether you're scanning paper (reflective media) or film (transmissive media). Reflective med
INDEX 52 This option is used with flatbed scanners to specify the size of the reflective media you're scanning. If set to "Auto", the f
INDEX 53 Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning with 1 bit per pixel. Input | Batch scan If you set this option to "All", p
INDEX 54 Change Input | Frame number (p. 54) to view each previewed frame. Adjust rotation and cropping for the frame. When done, move to the
INDEX 55 hardware. It is not available for most film scanners or flatbed scanners. This is the distance between the starting positions of two consecut
INDEX 56 You can also select a specific scan resolution from the list. Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Input | Scan dpi If Input | Scan
INDEX 57 Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Input | Skew Use this option to rotate the image by a small angle to correct for images that a
INDEX 58 media or when the scanner is capable of addressing frames separately. Input | Auto save If this option is set to "Preview" or "
CONTENTS 5 Crop | Buffer (%) ... 68 Crop |
INDEX 59 Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner's lamp can be controlled. Input | Auto eject This option controls when the me
INDEX 60 in the output. Noise will appear as one pixel whose color or tone is different than surrounding pixels. By taking multiple passes and a
INDEX 61 image. It is available on scanners that are able to increase the CCD exposure time. A first pass is performed as usual with the normal RGB
INDEX 62 exposure time and the Input | Lock exposure (p. 61)option is on. The infrared CCD exposure time is only displayed if the hardware is also
INDEX 63 Procedure in this User's Guide. Input | Default folder This is a mirror of the Output | Default folder (p. 80) option. Input | File type
INDEX 64 scan tab for VueScan to display the result of the cropping automatically. The scan tab will use the data from the preview if a full scan h
INDEX 65 Basic Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Crop size (p. 64) is set to "Manual". Crop | Auto offset Setting this option will
INDEX 66 Crop | X/Y images Set these options to set up a grid for scanning separate images. Each image within the grid can be cropped and rotated i
INDEX 67 orientation to match the image. To save time when batch scanning, clear this option andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 66) and set Input | Lock exposu
INDEX 68 area that is cropped, it will tend to include areas of white (or black) in the resulting image; if these parts of the image were not ignor
CONTENTS 6 Output tab ...
INDEX 69 Crop | Focus X/Y offset This option determines where the auto focus is centered. This position is displayed on the preview as a small anim
INDEX 70 Filter | Infrared clean When an infrared channel is available, use this option to remove dust spots and scratches. It only causes image s
INDEX 71 Input | Descreen Set this option when scanning images made up of an array of dots in a "screen" pattern. Basic Option: This option
INDEX 72 setting of White Balance is appropriate for typical lighting conditions. See the topic "Adjusting Color Balance" for general gui
INDEX 73 This is a simple mapping of the darkest color to 0.00 intensity and the brightest color to 0.95 intensity. White balance VueScan analyze
INDEX 74 use the Input | Lock image color (p. 62) option. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Lock image color (p. 62) is set. Color
INDEX 75 Double-click on the graph of the curve to reset these options to their default values. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Colo
INDEX 76 If you use specific color spaces, you must ensure that all other software, printing, etc. that operates on that source uses the same color sp
INDEX 77 (Professional Edition only) Every IT8 or Q60 target has an associated data file that describes the measured color at each square in the targe
INDEX 78 Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set. Color | Out of gamut color Use this option to show th
CONTENTS 7 Output | Index width ... 88 Output |
INDEX 79 The various measures of the image files produced will be displayed in the status area at the bottom right of the VueScan window. File naming
INDEX 80 Use an asterix (*) for the output file name to cause the raw file name to be used. For instance, when scanning raw files with different na
INDEX 81 If the "Printed size" is "Scan size", you can increase the printed size of the output file with this option. This option
INDEX 82 Output | TIFF file This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a TIFF file when scanning. Basic Option: This option is always di
INDEX 83 Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 82) is set. Output | TIFF compression This specifies whether to use comp
INDEX 84 Output | JPEG size reduction You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set t
INDEX 85 Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Output | PDF file name This specifies the name of the PDF file to hold the cropped and process
INDEX 86 This specifies whether to use compression when writing the PDF file. PDF compression uses the JPEG format internally when writing PDF files w
INDEX 87 This specifies the name of the OCR text file to hold the text from the scanned image. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it
INDEX 88 Output | Index file name This specifies the name of the file to hold the index images. Index files are always saved as windows bitmap (BMP
CONTENTS 8 Prefs | Exit when done ... 98 Prefs | Bee
INDEX 89 (Professional Edition only) This enables writing raw data from the scanner to a TIFF file. The raw files are the result of the first of two s
INDEX 90 Output | Raw size reduction (Professional Edition only) You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instan
INDEX 91 It's much faster to save the raw file at the same time as the scan, since writing the file is overlapped with scanning the data. Advance
INDEX 92 Output | Copyright This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field and in OCR text files at the top of the page. You
INDEX 93 This tab lets you set preferences that control the behavior of VueScan. Prefs | Language Use this option to set the language to use in Vu
INDEX 94 This also affects the units displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. Advanced Option: This option is always displaye
INDEX 95 The default value is "default". On Windows, if the editor name is "default", the file association for this type of file w
INDEX 96 multiplier). You can adjust the curve by moving the small triangles under the histogram. If you choose "Image", a histogram of t
INDEX 97 when animated, but can be distracting. The option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Thick crop box
INDEX 98 Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Warn on no scanner When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message when a scan
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