Copy the entire folder “NegativeLab Camera Profiles” (from your unzipped download) into this CameraProfiles folder. If planning on using Vuescan RAW DNGs, copy the “Vuescan Profiles” folder, also into the “CameraRaw CameraProfiles” folder. VueScan is my daily-driver for importing my line drawings into PhotoShop for my “watercolor work.” The technical art I do for In-Fisherman publications has become their signature look with this working method. What have been the main benefits of VueScan for you? It seems like VueScan.
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Every film photographer who digitizes their negatives at home has come across the same issue: which negative conversion software is the best?
- Vuescan 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.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: I skipped an important step in the video. Correcting white balance is absolutely necessary to get a proper color. You may use the white balan.
- From the research I've done a lot of people are saying scanning and exporting a raw DNG file on Vuescan and using the Negative Lab Pro plugin in Lightroom to interpret it is the best approach for scanning on a flatbed - so I just wanted to see what people thought of this and their experience with it.
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.
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 Lab Project
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?