The VueScan Bible: Everything You Need to Know for Perfect Scanning

by Sascha Steinhoff

Overview

VueScan is the world's most widely used software interface for digitizing film and prints on flatbed and film scanners. This powerful yet affordable program supports over 1500 scanners and 321 digital camera RAW file types, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Much more than a simple scanner program, VueScan allows you to perform functions such as color restoration, adding sharpening filters, adjusting white balance, rotating images, and batch scanning multiple images. It also provides output to a variety of formats including TIFF, JPEG, and searchable PDF files (even all three simultaneously). The Pro version outputs to the RAW format and provides options for color adjustments, and more.

Despite its popularity, the documentation for VueScan does not provide enough information to use the full power of the system and makes it difficult to get started. The VueScan Bible is the missing manual for new, experienced, and prospective users of VueScan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933952697
Publisher:	Rocky Nook
Publication date:	07/07/2011
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sascha Steinhoff is a computer expert by training and a photographer by passion. He used several rainy seasons in Galway, Ireland to learn everything he needed to know about scanners and scanning software. He soon realized that a good scan requires as much work and know-how as a good camera shot, and that a scanning workflow is essential to get the job done efficiently.

Sascha recently gave up his position as an editor of a leading German technical magazine to move to Bangkok, Thailand, where he is currently working as a freelance journalist and project manager.

Complementary information about the scanning techniques described in this book, as well as as a place where Sascha will reply to inquiries, can be found on his website at http://scanguru.info.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: VueScan – Look and Feel

Chapter 2: Initial Setup

Chapter 3: Resolution and Scanning

Chapter 4: File Formats

Chapter 5: Scanning Media Types

Chapter 6: Special Scanning Techniques

Chapter 7: Scanning Workflows

Chapter 8: Reference – Input Tab

Chapter 9: Reference – Crop Tab

Chapter 10: Reference – Filter Tab

Chapter 11: Reference – Color Tab

Chapter 12: Reference – Output Tab

Chapter 13: Reference – Prefs Tab

Chapter 14: Menus, Buttons, and Shortcuts