Scanning Software

[robhooley167]

Hi Gang

Can anyone reccomend some scanning software which gives a decent amount of control, like Vuescan
Whilst vuescan is great when it works, it is possibly the glitchiest piece of software ever written and drives me spare with its crashes :bang:
Is silverfast any better?
This is for a V500 btw

:nuts:

 

[AJQS]

Silverfast has oodles more control, but in my experience it's even glitchier than vuescan!

 

[robhooley167]

Silverfast has oodles more control, but in my experience it's even glitchier than vuescan!

Oh Brilliant... :bang: might see if a newer version of vuescan exists

 

[freecom2]

Is there a reason you don't use Epson Scan? I've always been happy with it, and this comes from someone who used Silverfast and actually didn't mind it (to an extent).

 

[robhooley167]

Is there a reason you don't use Epson Scan? I've always been happy with it, and this comes from someone who used Silverfast and actually didn't mind it (to an extent).

Mainly the amount of control and it's also refusing to work at the moment, application doesnt load but it appears in the taskbar, attempts to close it refuse to work as well

 

[Knikki]

I have used Epson scnning software, Vuescan and Silverfast but an older version:

Vuescan for the money worked well and found it to be stable

Epson scan was ok but fairly simple and most of the adjustments can be done in photoshop

Silverfast is a very powerful piece of kit but is a pain to learn how to use.

All of them I found fine to use but each had its own issues the big thing with Silverfast is it is not intuative to use and expensive.

If your haveing problems with software on a PC then there could be a number of reasons.
Simple solutions is to uninstall EVERYTHING and reinstall and reset up and if that still fails then check the relevant manufactures websites for updated drivers/versions of the software.

 

[john-oh]

I've never found Vuescan unstable.

As you seem to be getting problems with Vuescan and the Epson S/w maybe the reason is elsewhere ?

The latest version of Vuescan is 9.0.88

 

[srichards]

Vuescan is buggy. I've been using it to scan in lots of old films. It's crashed out once (that's a lot on a mac) and I've also noticed the rotate feature is very prone to ignoring your setting, ditto the crop box when you're doing a batch. The crop box and rotate settings should be remember on a per frame basis but I've found sometimes it just ignores them.

I've tried a couple of different versions and they're the same. The latest is the one that crashed. The earlier one I had (January or so) didn't.

 

[EdMoss]

Vuescan, then colorneg, if you are scanning colour.

 

[robhooley167]

Since yesterdays frustration i upgraded to Vuescan 9.0.88 and it works like a dream, all i can assume is that it was a glitch with V8 :shrug:

 

[srichards]

I'll try the latest one too. Only updated the other week. He's a b****r for new releases

 

[dalex_257]

Epson scan was ok but fairly simple and most of the adjustments can be done in photoshop

There is a slight twist to Epson software. Epson software can do something that others don't seem to - if you tweak the curves, it seem to selectively adapt the exposure time (so your scan times grow longer or shorter depending on that). In all the others (Vuescan, SF) the curves are applied to a scanned image. The chap who discovered it published the article here and I have done a little experiments on my V500 and he does seem to be correct.