#VUESCAN PROFILE SCANNER HOW TO#

However, carrying around that target and positioning it so it doesn't fall over and so you can get a near head-on picture for scanning the target makes grey cards feel positively ergonomic. It does provide a way to get color rendition spot on instantly. From there you scan the negs in Vuescan using your already profiled scanner and make a film profile. To do it you need a mounted target of sufficient size (Wolf Faust sells A4 camera targets if I remember) and you need to shoot it with the desired film under the desired light and desired exposure level. The only requirement for targets is they come with a text file defining their color patches, which might limit them to just about Wolf Faust targets only actually.įilm profiling is useful, it's just a pain in the ass. Given that the spectra of the dyes or pigments and the scanners color filters may not match perfectly individual targets for each dye family of film may improve things further but that's an expensive way to go. You use a slide target to calibrate transparency scanning and a print target to calibrate reflective scanning. Scanner profile for the scanner response to film, not the film's response to light. No books on Vuescan's quirks unfortunately- try searching here and on google groups. I recommend a book like Real World Color Management or Real World Adobe Photoshop to better understand what you're doing. Normally to choose a profile you'd do print with preview in Photoshop and select the right ICC file. I wouldn't do this but just use the perfectly good profiles that likely came with your printer for a given type of paper (with an Epson, select the paper type in the driver, etc). You would create a printer profile, make sure it's in the correct profile folder for your operating system.

I would not create printer profiles in Vuescan- it's a piece of scanner software. Film is for negative and probably not worth doing at all. Ignore the film and printer profiling features.Ģ. Wolf Faust IT8 Velvia 35mm- a particular batch). Point Vuescan towards the data file for the exact target you want to scan (i.e. You can create *multiple* profiles for a scanner/media combination or multiple combinations. Vuescan to do more than it is capable, but only to understand what it is doingġ. My questions above are not designed to get I'm attracted to Vuescan because it seems so simple, and Let me finish by saying that I know Vuescan is not a sophisticated profiler,Īnd that if I want precision, or more precision, that I should use Silverfast To choose different printer profiles for different paper. Second, as in my prior paragraph, there does not seem to be an obvious option

#VUESCAN PROFILE SCANNER HOW TO#

How to get the printer software to recognize the profile Vuescan creates? Do I have this right, and if so, I wonder Only the scanner and a printer profile needs to be used by whatever software isĭriving the printer-Photoshop, e.g. First, as I understand matters, Vuescan operates The instructions to profile the printer are also straightforward, and IĪssume that I should print a target on the paper I will most often use. It seems as if once you've profiled your scanner for 'film' Seem to find in the Vuescan instructions how to choose a profile for a Word 'film' as opposed to 'slide') and then use this profile for scanning That I choose a tranparent target (all positive, I presume, despite the With a requirement that the scanner is profiled, as I mention above. The instruction to profile film is straightforward enough, though it starts Realize that I'm still not clear on this.)Ģ. Question I asked in an earlier post, and I apologize for the redundancy, but I Serve as a basis to profile the scanner generally? (This is related to a Instructions say 'profile scanner' not 'profile paper,' and the profile createdĪpparently is used as a basis later for profiling film and profiling the Material that will most often be scanned. User profile a reflective target that most closely matches the reflective

My speculation is that it means to have the

The instructions to profile the scanner suggest using an IT8 target, but

It has three categories of profile: (i) profile scanner (ii) Vuescan offers what strike me as an odd set of instructions on color

Vuescan profile scanner