Thanks to the ability to select a film type, you can edit the scans more accurately. If you do not know the film type, select Color Negative/Generic. You can choose among Kodak, Gold, T-Max, Fujifilm, and others. When scanning a film on film scanners, you can specify its type. The Professional mode includes such VueScan advanced features as specifying color depth, adjusting color space, histogram, watermarks, and more. In the Standard mode, you will have several additional options, such as Crop, Filter, Color, and Output. In the Basic mode, you can only scan photos without resizing or changing saturation.

Preparing this VueScan review, I managed to scan pictures on a device released in 2002. The program supports not only new models but also old scanners. The list of supported scanners includes all popular and even the latest photo scanners from world-known manufacturers such as Apple, Dell, Epson, Canon, Nikon, etc. You can use this program without configuring your PC or existing scanner software. VueScan runs on all operating systems and is compatible with most flatbed and film scanners and their software. If the picture has problems with color or saturation, you can edit the photo directly in the program.

For my $40 invested in VueScan I can only use the trial version now.The VueScan full version allows you to scan photos, documents, films or slides very quickly. Let this be a lesson: When you deal with an individual developer as opposed to a corporation (such as LaserSoft and it's Silverfast scanning software), they are free to dismiss your claims and turn their back. Nothing doing, he said archived older versions would take 'hundreds of megabytes' he said. I first asked to go back to the earliest version that I downloaded and forget about the upgrade.

I've already paid $40 once, and won't pay it again. Hamrick wants another $40 to upgrade to the professional version. But now Hamrick is charging me ANOTHER $40, refusing to allow me to use the remedy version without the watermark on every scan in the trial version. Without diagnosing the problem, Hamrick suggested I download the latest version - 8.4.85. After struggling (and numerous hours invested) I finally sent a detailed description of the problem to Hamrick, as he asked. But the update caused Vuescan to behave unpredictably and often crash my Mac running OS X / 10.4.11. I purchased Vuescan standard edition in 2007 ($40) and upgraded within the year allowed. Let this be a lesson to would-be VueScan buyers.

Free vuescan without watermark