If you select 'Negative film' or 'Slide film', the cropped image will be comparable to the original scene that was photographed. When you use either film option, the Color tab then lets you choose the film manufacturer, the brand, and film type to enable VueScan to refine the result further.

• Vuescan Negative Lab Pro
• Vuescan Negatives
• Vuescan Negative Color
• Vuescan Negatives
• Vuescan Negative Screen

INSTALLING & UPDATING

Learn how to install and update Negative Lab Pro

MAC Installation
Windows Installation
Activating Your License
Updating Versions

SCANNING GUIDES

1. In the Input Tab I ensure film type is color neg, follow the advanced workflow (per you), initially output a Vuescan Raw File (tiff format, 16 bit rgb), and then scan-from-disk with Vuescan with that file. Mendelleisk, Aug 20, 2010 #1.
2. Verdict: VueScan is scanner software that allows you to get digital copies of negatives, photos, and documents. Using this program, you can scan several images at once without adjusting the sizes each time. Although VueScan doesn’t always correctly display the scan result during preview, it edits shots rather well.
3. If your negatives are that old or that precious, you can also probably find a camera place around the area or a business dedicated to film scanning that can take care of this for you.

Learn the settings and techniques for getting the best scans to work with in Negative Lab Pro

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 Pro

Preparing 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.

B+W Conversion
Recommended Settings
Toning Black & White

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.

Vuescan Negative Lab Pro

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

Vuescan Negatives

“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

Fixes for the most common installation and setup problems with Negative Lab Pro

“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”

Every film photographer who digitizes their negatives at home has come across the same issue: which negative conversion software is the best?

Vuescan Negative Color

In this video, Kyle McDougall does a pretty rigorous comparison of two types of scanning software: Negative Lab Pro and Vuescan. To do so, he takes four color negatives from four different types of 35mm film: Kodak Portra 400, Kodak Ektar, Fuji Pro 400H, and Cinestill 50D. Like several of the comparisons/experiments that McDougall has done previously, this one takes a deep dive into a topic that is really important to many film photographers.

Vuescan Negatives

Personally, I use Negative Lab Pro at home, and I have really enjoyed using it over the software that came with my Epson scanner. In all honesty, I think that using Negative Lab Pro has really fueled my passion for shooting film with how easy it is to get negative conversions at home like I would expect to get back from a lab. Even in the comparison with Vuescan, I think it's night and day.

Vuescan Negative Screen

What do you think about the results from McDougall's comparison? Did you have a preference? And if you shoot film, do you have a preferred software for converting your color negatives?