Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!Ĭan someone please give me some guidance on which of these is 'better' as a starting point for more editing ? I would have thought that the left hand side image is a more accurate representation of the exposure of the in-camera image, since the histogram is in the middle, aswell as having more differentiation of tones rather than everything clumped together in the whites. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… This image was quite well exposed in-camera I believe. The right hand scan being much brighter of course and the corresponding histograms from Lightroom are included below also to illustrate how much more white is in the scan that was cropped prior. This can be seen here - These are the scan output results I get if I don't crop the border before hitting 'scan' (left image) or if I crop the border before hitting ‘scan’ (right image).
crop out the white border) before scanning I get a much greyer output scan than if I crop the border off prior to selecting 'scan'. Using the attached image as an example, if I don't crop into the image (i.e. I have been using the crop setting '35mm negative', which leaves a white border around the preview image. As such I am keeping my Black and white points set at '0' and both curve low and curve high set to 0.001 I've been following the advice of posts on the forum regarding Vuescan settings and my workflow is such that I'd like a flat scan from Vuescan, giving me as much image info as possible which I can then carry to Lightroom / Photoshop for editing. I'm new to scanning and hope someone will be able to point me in the right direction here.