Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements

["Robert Kehl" <bobkehl@kvernkehl.com>]

Ed,

Thanks for the opportunity for all of us to give you input.


1.) The zoom preview sounds awesome.   If we could zoom in two to four times
to 400% it would be even better.

2.)  Yes.

3.)  Sounds like a good improvement.


I would also suggest that a Prescan Tab should be added to the left side
that would display a Prescan Window.  A Prescan button would also be added
that  would allow a low resolution prescan of whatever film was placed in
the scanner, up to 40 frames.  The frames would be displayed in the Prescan
window as thumbnails.  These thumbnails would be selectable via the mouse
using standard Windows selection techniques. (left click, control-left
click, shift-left click).  The selection would show up in the Frame Number
settings, which would now be on the updated Crop Tab.

While your at it, a histogram with mouse selectable white and black points
would be way cool.  Along with a little Unsharp Mask most images could be
scanned and be ready to go straight out of Vuescan.   Photoshop would only
be needed for image manipulation or darkroom type finessing,  not for
scanning images.  And the value of Vuescan will have grown exponentially
(IMO).

Keep up the great work!

Bob Kehl



----- Original Message -----
From: <EdHamrick@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Improvements


> I'm thinking about some improvements to the VueScan
> user interface, and I'd like to solicit feedback and suggestions.
>
> These are the main things I'm thinking of - let me know if you
> don't like these changes or if you'd like to see things done
> differently:
>
> 1) Adding a "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" button that will double
> (or halve) the size of either the preview or scan images.  While
> zoomed, the preview or scan window will have scroll bars.
> I'll also remove the "Exit" button to free up some space.
>
> 2) Move the Preview and Scan tabs to the left side of the
> window and move all the option tabs to the right side of
> the window.
>
> 3) Reorganize the tabs on the right side to make them
> a bit more logical and useful (these suggestions came
> from a helpful user):
>
> Scanner tab. This tab would include Scan From, Mode, Auto Scan, Auto
Eject,
> Media Type, and Bits Per Pixel from the Device tab; Resolution, Auto
Focus,
> Auto Exposure, and Number of Passes from the options tab.
>
> Color tab. This would include all the items in the current Color tab, plus
> all the items in the Media tab.
>
> Crop tab. This would include all the options from the current Crop tab
plus,
> from the Device tab, the Region, Mirror, Rotate, and Frame numbers
settings.
>
> Files tab. Everything from the current Files tab, along with Size
Reduction,
> Get dpi, and Watermark from the Options tab.
>
> Preferences tab. This would have all the settings from what is now called
the
> Window tab.
>
> If you have strong feelings about my doing things differently, please
> let me know soon.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick