I've upgraded 35-mm slide scanners and am writing about the experience. Two years ago I scanned all my father's slides using a Braun Multimag SlideScan 4000 and wrote about the experience in another post:
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Hardware:
- Apple MacBook Pro running OS 10.9.4
Step 1: Purchase VueScan
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Step 3: Set up the VueScan settings.
This is the left pane of the VueScan window. It has 6 tabs at the top: Input, Crop, Filter, Color, Output, and Prefs. The online (html version) manual can be located here. I have created direct links to each section below (the titles).
Input Tab
The settings that are important on this section are (and click on the hyperlinked name to view the official manual section for that setting on VueScan's website):
- Task: Scan to file
- Source: the scanner you want to scan with
- Media: Image (don't use any of the other settings)
- Batch scan: I would always use the 'List' setting because many times I wouldn't have the cartridge completely full. This allows you to have a lot of control over the scanner and which slides in the cartridge it scans.
- Frame number: this should be 1 if you are starting out on slide one–I captured this image while it was on slide 3. When you click the blue 'Scan' button this number should be on the slide that is in the scanner.
- Scan resolution:This determines how good of an image you get as far as details are concerned and will determine the file size as well. I wanted the highest resolution possible so if I threw the slides away I'd be getting all I could from them digitally.
VueScan Input Settings |
Crop Tab
The first time I used this software I had some problems with the cropping being off so instead of trying to play around with the settings I set it to maximum and used Photoshop's Crop and Straighten Photos command to manually do it. I preferred this because it gave me the raw scans of each slide.
VueScan Crop Settings |
Filter Tab
This is an important setting to save you a lot of time and to give you the best results. I chose the medium Infrared clean setting and below you can see the difference.
VueScan Filter Settings |
Before and After 'Medium' Infrared cleaning (click on the image below to see a larger version).
Before (left) and After (right) infrared cleaning–note all the specks in the sky on the left image |
It is most visible in the sky, but you can also see it on the road as well. Here's another great example of the amazing difference the infrared filtering does (click on the image to see a larger version):
Before and after infrared cleaning–check out the difference in the sky |
Here's an example of where the infrared filtering didn't quite do the job (left) and where I used Photoshop's Spot Healing Brush Tool to fix it (right):
Fixing what the infrared filter doesn't quite fix |
Specks like the one above are most often noticeable in large areas where there is no color differentiation. They are easy to fix though.
VueScan Color Settings |
VueScan Output Settings |
VueScan Prefs Settings (part 1 of 2) |
VueScan Prefs Settings (part 2 of 2) |
Step 4: Load the slides in the magazine.
When the white bar of the magazine is away from you, the slide slots number from left to right, and on the top the slide should be inserted upside down and with the generic side (this side towards screen) to the left and the date on the right. Sometimes the generic side will be upside down and sometimes not and sometimes they put the writing on the top and bottom so it is right side up regardless. The most important part is not whether the slide is right side up or upside down but that the generic side is on the left. You can easily rotate the image and it is obvious that it needs rotation but if it is mirrored it is harder to tell. Mirroring scanned images is easy but if you are not familiar with the photographs or there are no words to see that they are backwards, you may not notice that the images are mirrored.
Here the slide is being inserted in slot 1 upside down and with the 'this side toward screen' on the left side |
Step 5: Insert the Cartridge into the Scanner.
With the arm all the way in I insert the cartridge from the left until it rests up against the arm as seen here:
Slide the cartridge in from the left and all the way till it rests agains the inserted arm |
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Pull out the slide arm with your fingers |
Then reinsert the arm, which automatically moves the cartridge to the right and loads slide one into the scanner.
Push the arm back in and it will load the first slide |
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Step 6: Click 'Scan' (in VueScan).
Make sure all your setting are correct before starting the scan because you cannot change them after you click 'Scan.' If you were fast enough from when you turned the scanner on and when it warmed up it will begin scanning immediately. If you let it sit too long it will advance 1 slide and load slide #2 and then go back to slide 1 and then go through a warm up session again before it begins scanning. That would alarm me when I first began scanning but you'll get used to it after a while.
VueScan automatically names the files sequentially with the date as the prefix of the file name.
Tips and Troubleshooting:
Don't forget that the scanner arm needs space to come out!!
In all the scanning I've done I've accidentally set something in the way of the slide arm. When I set up the system in my office I took some post-it notes and made a little barrier to remind me not to get in the way:
PowerSlide 5000 with post-it note barrier to protect the scanner arm |
Performing Batch Rotation and Mirroring
If you are using a Mac running a recent version of OS X I recommend using Automator to create applications to automate rotating or mirroring (if you had the slide in backwards) images. This beats opening them one at a time in a photo editor and needing to re-save them. With automator, you can create a program which allows you to simply select the images you want to perform the particular manipulation (or series of manipulations) and then click on the application in the dock. I have written some tutorials on how to use automator:
Custom-Made Automator Image Manipulation Applications |
Scanner Arm 'Misses'
I've had instances of when the scanner arm will slip along the side of the slide and not push it into the scanner. This is usually because a slide is bowed in the middle or you were scanning thins slides using the big white 50-slide cartridge. The scanner does not detect this and gives you a scan that looks like the following:
Scanner Arm 'miss' result |
Because the scanning software numbers the slide scan files numerically, you can track down which slide it missed and go back and scan it individually. Scanning an individual slide can be accomplished using the batch can and just list the slides you want scanned like this: 1,4,10-11.
Pink Faded Slides
I ran into batches of slides that were pink tinted. I had a hard time figuring out what might cause them to be like that but it seems that certain brands of slides (for example Ektachrome) do not hold their color while Kodachrome does hold its color. The pink slides are examples of a poorer brand of slide that has just not held up over the years. I found a website that goes in-depth on how to correct this issue while scanning.
A pink (color faded) slide scan on the left and the color-corrected version on the right |
To correct this issue in Photoshop CS4 select the following menu item:
Image > Adjustments > Color Balance
Color Balance in Photoshop CS4 Menus |
Then adjust the Cyan/Red level all the way over to the Cyan side and play around with adjusting the Magenta/Green level over towards the Green side:
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Adjusting the color balance of a pink-tinted color-faded slide scan |
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Alternatively you can bring up the Color Balance window by using the keyboard shortcut: Command-B.
All my film/negative scanning posts:
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- How to Scan Slides on a Pacific Image PowerSlide 5000 With VueScan on a Mac (this post)
Helpful Links:
- Pacific Image PowerSlide 5000 User Manual (pdf)
- How to Clear a Jammed Slide on a PowerSlide 3650 or PowerSlide 5000 (pdf)
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