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Re: Scanner software for Mac

From Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Scanner software for Mac
Date 2012-03-27 14:31 +0200
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Hi Warren,

> Care to elaborate? We've been using VueScan for a good ten years; we've
> scanned (literally) over a thousand images, prints, negatives, slides,
> documents and whatnot.  We don't even use particularly good scanners
> (Canon 8400F at the moment). Granted, VueScan is a bit quirky to set up
> (or rather, to understand how to set up), but once you do, it does what
> it's supposed to do.
> 
> Anyway, it's about as good as you're going to get without spending a
> bunch of money. You could Google for Iris Powerscan. I've never used it,
> but I'm told it's very good.

... I'm not worried about spending money. I registered VueScan and 
payed the price as I do for any other piece of software I use.

The story is this: I'm currently in the process of digitizing the whole 
family image archive. That includes 110 format negatives, the most 
crappy Polaroid instant photo shit, 60x60 negatives (two half-scans 
necessary because of physical constraints of the lamp), 35 mm films 
which are everything else than flat and all such stuff. Many negatives 
date back to the 1960s and some are even older. You can imagine the 
quality...

Anyway, I have a long list of things I would wish VueScan had. It's not 
its image correction features, though there are some points as well, 
it's more user interface stuff, loads of small things that make using 
handling VueScan's interface by far less effective as it could be.

Examples:

The save, print, Rotate and magnifier buttons don't belong in the lower 
right corner. Moving the mouse there is way too long, i.e. all 
essential controls are seperated too much.

The selection frame should have an inner marking that shows where to 
move the mouse to turn it to the hand allowing to move the whole frame.

The selection frame's area should be clearly defined. I found that the 
upper and left lines of the frame seem to include the scanned area 
while the right and lower edges don't. The whole frame should either 
completely surround the scanning area or are part of it but not both.

Considering the state of the negatives, I can't just lock the *exact* 
image colors, exposure, etc. Even if I calibrate the negative base 
colors I get different results. Interestingly, if you tick for example 
color correction on one image frame, then it shows a beautiful image 
for one negative strip. Then, move the selection frame to the next 
image on that same strip and all is lost, though the both images look 
beautiful with the frame positioned around the first image. I know, 
things like fading and color correction have to evaluate an image and 
determin certain values based on that evaluation. Of course, that 
evaluation naturally different for each and every picture. What I would 
like is a features that allows applying the exact image properties of 
scanning one image to another.

Btw., VueScan likes to happily reset all its settings between restarts 
from time to time, a "feature" I absolutely hate!

Back to the UI stuff: I think, the Prefs pane should be a Preferences 
menu, like it's standard on a Mac. For the Windows version, it should 
consequently be moved to a menu Tools/Options or something like that. 
Also, temporary settings like file names, etc. should be separated from 
permanent ones like use a temp file and that sort.

etc., etc., etc.

The list is really long, believe me. And I guess it's better not to 
swamp Ed with such a long list because I figure he'd refuse to 
implement any wish at all then. :-(
-- 
cul8er

Paul
paul.foerster@gmx.net

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Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-03-27 11:59 +0200
  Re: Scanner software for Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 07:57 -0400
    Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-03-27 14:31 +0200
      Re: Scanner software for Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2012-03-27 07:20 -0700
        Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-28 05:28 +1300
          Re: Scanner software for Mac Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-03-27 12:52 -0400
            Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-28 06:42 +1300
              Re: Scanner software for Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 14:44 -0400
                Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-28 08:17 +1300
                Re: Scanner software for Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2012-03-27 13:04 -0700
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2012-03-27 21:01 +0000
                Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-29 02:28 +1300
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 09:59 -0400
                Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-29 05:16 +1300
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-03-28 11:00 -0400
                Re: Scanner software for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-29 05:16 +1300
              Re: Scanner software for Mac Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-03-30 23:40 -0400
            Re: Scanner software for Mac dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-28 10:16 +1100
        Re: Scanner software for Mac Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2012-03-27 18:07 -0400
          Re: Scanner software for Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2012-03-27 15:14 -0700
          Re: Scanner software for Mac Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:40 -0400
      Re: Scanner software for Mac isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2012-03-27 10:09 -0700
        Re: Scanner software for Mac dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-28 10:26 +1100
        Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-01 15:08 +0200
          Re: Scanner software for Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2012-04-01 20:29 +0000
            Re: Scanner software for Mac isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2012-04-01 23:15 -0700
              Re: Scanner software for Mac "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2012-04-02 17:45 +0000
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2012-04-03 19:55 +0000
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Michael Siemon <mlsiemon@sonic.net> - 2012-04-03 15:14 -0700
          Re: Scanner software for Mac isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2012-04-01 22:41 -0700
            Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-02 19:42 +0200
      Re: Scanner software for Mac Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:11 -0400
        Re: Scanner software for Mac dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-28 14:20 +1100
          Re: Scanner software for Mac Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-28 20:56 -0400
      Re: Scanner software for Mac "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2012-04-02 17:21 +0000
        Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-02 19:50 +0200
          Re: Scanner software for Mac "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2012-04-04 02:11 +0000
            Re: Scanner software for Mac dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-04 13:37 +1000
              Re: Scanner software for Mac isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2012-04-03 21:01 -0700
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-05 15:50 +0200
                Re: Scanner software for Mac isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2012-04-05 21:23 -0700
                Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-08 10:15 +0200
            Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-05 08:51 +0200
  Re: Scanner software for Mac Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:00 -0400
    Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-01 15:09 +0200
      Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-01 16:14 +0200
      Re: Scanner software for Mac Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-02 00:57 -0400
        Re: Scanner software for Mac Paul Förster <paul.foerster@gmx.net> - 2012-04-02 19:35 +0200
  Re: Scanner software for Mac Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2012-03-28 22:03 +0100
    Re: Scanner software for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-03-28 16:26 -0700
      Re: Scanner software for Mac Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2012-03-30 00:22 +0100

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