Batch Scanning Question

[OilNut]

I have an Epson V700 and I am test driving the SE Plus v6.5. I can scan in batch mode but is it possible to edit multiple images at one time. I am scanning 16 color negatives at one time and I find it difficult to edit each image individually. Any help would be great.

[LSI_Noack]

Dear OilNut

here's a hint how to save some editing work:
(1) Create first frame.
(2) Do all settings to the image you want.
(3) Generate new frames for the subsequent images by Alt-Clicking (upper left edge of the frame to be generated).
The frames will have the settings of frame one copied to them.
(4) You now only need to do changes to a frame's settings if they should differ from frame one.

Best regards
Sonny Noack
- Manager Technical Support, LaserSoft Imaging AG -

[blainesiesser]

Sonny,

The problem with this is:

Say I have 16 frames 8 of the frames are darker in exposure and 8 are lighter in exposure of the same film type.
Say I create a negafix profile and expansion range profile designed for the dark frames to look good.
I alt click all 16 frames so they have same settings. The 8 dark frames all now look great. The 8 frames that are lighter now have blown
highlights. Even if you try to edit them by changing exposure/curves/levels in the individual settings
you cant recover the highlights without creating a different expansion range profile for the lighter 8 images.
Thus you have to scan twice, once for the light ones and once for the dark ones. If you are trying to batch scan
hundreds of frames every week this kills the workflow process.
1. its hard to remember which ones you scanned in the first batch
2. it would be nice to do all the color correcting at once and leave the scanner alone for a while.

It would really be nice to be able to apply individual negafix profiles to individual frames and not have the
negafix be global. sometimes the global function is nice but maybe it would be better to have a box you
check or uncheck to choose global or individual parameters.

[LSI_Morales]

Dear Blaineslesser,

It would really be nice to be able to apply individual negafix profiles to individual frames and not have the
negafix be global.

Yeah! It would be nice to be able to apply individual NegaFix profiles to individual frames. However (as you correctly noted),NegaFix is a global adjustment. I will write your sugestion in our list of new features. Most likely our team will check on the possibility and feasibility of changing/adding this feature in future versions of SilverFast.

1. its hard to remember which ones you scanned in the first batch

Well, you could for instance scan all overexposed images in the first batch and all underexposed images in the second batch.
You could also include some code in the name, for instance "File_Oex_001.tiff" .

Cheers