If you set your black point to 0, and your white point to 0, you will capture 100% of
the data that comes from the scanner. However, since vue scan uses the preview you do
to determine the exposure, on those scanners that can vary the exposure, it is
important to do your cropping correctly. I find that Vuescan when I DO use a black
point higher than 0 on my Scanwit (which cannot vary exposure), often chooses the
slide mount as my black pixels.
This can be futher controlled by using a larger buffer setting, which extends the
distance into the crop frame that the pixels are ignored for exposure and "levels"
adjustments. The White point and black point basically accomplish the same as levels
in PS, but with less control.
>> Assuming that you want to do the bulk or all of your photo manipulation in
>>
>> Photoshop 6.0 what are the best file/data format settings to choose in
>> Vuescan in order to obtain the most complete raw data from the scan?
TIF is the preferred format, it looses no information and except for the LZW
compression, nearly every program that works with graphics can open the files.
Other item of note is the make sure on the DEVICE TAB you choose the more than 24 bit,
and again on the files tab for output you choose 48 bit tiffs. Then do the 16 to 8
bit conversion in PS.
>> Is it fine to save it as a .tif with Vuescan and then open it later
>>
>> in PHotoshop 6 or is there a better method.
It's a long journey.
>> Many thanks from someone who is still getting used to Vuescan and digital >>
editing.
>> Cheers
>> Felix
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