Because the most popular OS suppliers has a tendency to leave you out in the cold after some time. I am slowly replacing all the proprietary software that I have been using so far. Has somebody here tried Linux based software? You should be able to get a hold of a copy of XP for next to nothing these days. Perhaps since you have an Intel-mac you could dual-boot or run some ort of virtual machine with Windows XP. I have found that even when trying to scan flat though that I end up getting best results when doing minor tweaks in the scanning software first, rather than trying to do everything in Photoshop (mainly color balance is the big issue). Honestly, though Vuescan is a bit clunky, it seems to be the best option. I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as easy scanning software. On top of that, they stopped supporting the non-Intel macs, so forget Apple for me. I got tired of the versions of OSX that kept screwing up all my investment in peripherals.

You can scan it as positives and then do everything else in Photoshop.īut remember that the scanner is just a camera and will do it's own thing with the negative, that i find you need to set the black and white points in the scanner software te get the negs at the right starting point. I don't really mind paying for Vuescan $30, if it would have had a nice interface, work properly in OSX and have a simple one click button to turn off all the inside processing and preview the differences I make with the exposure levels

Or maybe that's an idea for a project, and somebody would like to chip in? Is there a piece of software that can do that? Simply get me a tiff/dng from the Plustek? Plus I found out that most of the features in this software are useless to me, I much rather scan everything flat, just being able to adjust scanners resolution and exposure and do all the sharpening/reversing the negative and color correcting (white balance) in Photoshop/GIMP I am using a Mac with a Plustek scanner, and found out that both Vuescan and Silverlight are not Intel Mac compatible (they are still running on rosetta).

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