I’ll walk you through the configurations in each of these tabs, relative to the Epson. VS is organized in six different tabs, Input, Crop, Filter, Color, Output, and Prefs, all which contains settings that can impact your scan. Note, IT8 film targets are only useful for slide film, and VS is terrible at IT8 calibration, as it doesn’t use 3D color LUT (Lookup Table), it uses a simple 3×3 sampling matrix which is very limited in accuracy. It’s unfortunate, as you’re dropping cash for software to basically “do nothing” for you.įortunately, you can really harness the power of RAW scans as your scanning workflow matures through IT8 monitor calibration and film calibration from mature software like ColorPerfect film profiles or slide specific IT8 targets. Epson Scan or SilverFast Ai), and software like VS does.

Most software packages that come with consumer scanners do not offer this ability (e.g. CCD on Epson v800), without any manipulation from the scanning software.

Much like RAW output in a digital camera, the linear scan is RAW output straight from the scanner’s sensor (e.g. Since VS can work with a number of different scanners, get to know your features and how VS can take advantage of them. In this post, I’ll walk you through the process of obtaining a linear scan using VueScan 9 (9.5.69), on macOS Sierra, with an Epson v800.

In general, I only use VS for its RAW, linear capture, so that I get complete control of the image without auto-editing from the scanner and software. I can’t say it’s the most user friendly, but it gets the job done.

It has many functions and features, with a relatively simple user interface. VueScan (VS) is popular scanning software solution offered by Hamrick Software.

How to use vuescan to scan film