INSTALLING & UPDATING
- Getting started with VueScan VueScan is a powerful scanning tool that's aimed at helping you get the most out of your scanner and producing stunning results from your scanned photos. It's packed with loads of useful and powerful features and currently supports more than 4300 scanners from 35 scanner manufacturers on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- A comparison between Negative Lab Pro and Vuescan for converting color negative film. My '35mm Film Photography Course' on Skillshare (FREE with this link).
- Negative Lab Pro gives you full control over how to interpret the very brightest and darkest parts of your scan, all non-destructively. This is one of the advantages of a fully-raw, non-destructive process while the default is set to push the black point and white.
MAC Installation
Windows Installation
Activating Your License
Updating Versions
SCANNING GUIDES
Learn the settings and techniques for getting the best scans to work with in Negative Lab ProVuescan RAW DNGs. Both Vuescan and Silverfast are capable of creating RAW DNG files. Negative Lab Pro includes unique RAW Profiles made just for these type of files. These RAW DNGs are generally better to use (vs regular tiff files) for a number of reasons: It. Hamrick Software's VueScan Professional is very well suited to create linear scans of slides and negatives since the professional version of VueScan features a special RAW output mode. To create suitable scans you first have to select the input tab and to choose either slide or color negative from the media pulldown list.
Digital Camera Scanning
Vuescan RAW DNGs
Silverfast RAW DNGs
Basic TIFF Scans
GETTING STARTED with NLP
Learn the basics of how to use Negative Lab ProPreparing your Negatives for Conversion
Opening Negative Lab Pro
Convert Settings
Editing in Negative Lab Pro
TONE Settings
COLOR Settings
Sharpening
Saving Your Default Settings
Positive Copies
Workflow Tips and Tricks
WORKING WITH BATCHES
Learn how to work with batches in Negative Lab Pro to speed up your workflow and produce more consistent results.Batch Conversions
Batch Editing
Sync Scene
Sync Settings
Unconverting
WORKING WITH BLACK & WHITE
Negative Lab Pro isn’t just for color negatives… it’s also an incredible tool for black and white film processing.Vuescan Vs Negative Lab Pro
B+W Conversion
Recommended Settings
Toning Black & White
Vuescan Negative Lab Products
ADVANCED EMULATIONS – COMING SOON
Matching Lab Scanner References
Matching Fashion C-Prints
Matching B+W Toning
FILM METADATA GUIDE
Negative Lab Pro adds a film-centric metadata section to Lightroom. Learn it can help you better catalog, organize, and share your film shots.Why Add Film Metadata
How to Add Film Metadata
Using Film Metadata in Lightroom
Exporting Film Metadata
Metadata Field Guide
LIGHTROOM TIPS AND TRICKS
Part of NLP’s power comes from its close integration to Lightroom. Learn how to take full advantage of this integration.Speeding Up Lightroom
Sharpening and Noise Reduction
Non-Destructive Cropping
Texture
HSL Color Panel
Lens Correction
Guided Upright Tool
Spot Removal
Graduated Filters
Pano Merges
Enhance Details
The Book Module
Other Plugins
Positive Copy Tips and Tricks
FIXING IMAGE ISSUES
Learn how to improve your image results by fixing common issues“My DSLR-scan has orange blobs or orange edges”
“My scans always have a blue tint”
“When Lightroom syncs my conversion to mobile or web, they get messed up”
“I’m converting a black and white photo, but it is showing up as having a tint to it, and not pure black and white”
TROUBLESHOOTING
Vuescan Pro Mac
Fixes for the most common installation and setup problems with Negative Lab ProVuescan For Windows 10
“I get an ‘Unknown Developer’ message when I try to run the MAC installer”
“My shortcut key isn’t bringing up Negative Lab Pro”
“The settings in Negative Lab Pro are not updating in real time”
“I need to reinstall and I can’t find my download or license key”
“I get an error when I try to enter the license key”
“I’ve entered the license key, and it shows that it accepted the key, but it still remains in trial mode afterwards”