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After impulse buying ColourPerfect and getting a new V550, I wanted to scan a few of my old rolls with VueScan. But... Oh God, I tried watching the tutorial for black and white scans in the ColorNeg site but 5 minutes in, I wanted to go scratch my ears out.

Anyone got any experience with working on linear black and white scans with CS6 and ColourPerfect?
 

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The Epsom software does a good job, why not just use that?
 
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Well, I could also! I usually use the Epson software for black and white and just adjust things in Photoshop but I figured since I bought the ColourPerfect, might as well try and figure out how to do black and white with that one as well!
 
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I hate vuescan. Maybe i'm not using it right, but I never was able to get good scans with it. The Epson software has always worked fine for me.

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How do you use Vuescan then? I'm very curious as there really are tons of ways to do things with this program.
 

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How do you use Vuescan then? I'm very curious as there really are tons of ways to do things with this program.

I dunno, I haven't tried in a couple years. Epson's software does what I want, and I'm an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kinda guy when it comes to my scanning software.

Maybe the current version is better, I dunno, but when I was trying it before, I couldn't get the color right easily, and my scans all looked super grainy, even if the negatives weren't. Of course, the color part only applies to c41 negatives.
 

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It's relatively common to scan black and white negatives as of they were color positives. With some software, that gives deeper bit depth, and a bigger file to work with than using the B&W negative setting options. I do most of mine that way.
 

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