How to scan slides?

Watervrees
Your details are unclear to me regarding the involvement of Premiere Elements (any version) in your question of
"How do I scan slides."
I am not sure if your are
a. In Elements Organizer of Photoshop Elements 12
b. In Elements Organizer of Premiere Elements 12
c. In Photoshop Elements 12 Full Editor
You can scan into the Elements Organizer 12 mentioned above (a or b)
File Menu
Get Photos and Videos
Scanner
and the resulting formats will depend on the specification of your scanner (I can get jpeg, tiff, or png)
You can scan into the Photoshop Elements 12 Full Editor
File Menu
Import
and then look for the name of your scanner.
Before you do the above....
a. Go To
Local Disk C
Program Files (x86)
Adobe
Photoshop Elements 12
Optional Plug-Ins
Import-Export
and make a copy of "Twain_32.8BA" that is in the Import-Export Folder. Do not remove this file, just make a copy.
then
b. Go to
Local Disk C
Program Files (x86)
Adobe
Photoshop Elements 12
Plug-Ins
and paste the "Twain_32.8BA" inside the Plug-Ins Folder (you want the "Twain_32.8BA" as a file in the Plug-ins Folder. Do not put it into a folder inside the Plug-Ins Folder.
then determine if a. b. c recognize your scanner. It may not be. Then you will have to scan to the computer hard drive and then import from the computer hard drive into your applications.
Please let us know the outcome.
The above works for scanning photos. Other depends on the specifications of your scanner.
ATR
Add On...Do you have a copy of the HP Scanjet 8300 User Manual as a backup for information on the use of the scanner.
http://content.etilize.com/user-manual/1011648413.pdf

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My original idea (before I started testing) was that I would not ask the scanner to do much processing of the raw image, that I would edit in Photoshop. The reasoning was: there's no better image-editing program than PS, and if PS (or its plugins) can't improve the image no other software could.
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What intrigues me is that the scanner is able to automatically correct colour casts and improve contrast across a wide variety of slides. i.e. I have tested slides from the 1960s through to 2007 on various stock (Fuji, Anscochrome, Kodachrome, Ilfochrome). In almost all cases, and without changing the scan settings, images come up as good as the two uploaded images. The only setting I sometimes need to alter is what I call the "gamma", for slides that are underexposed or have a lot of dark regions where detail should be visible (and the reverse for overexposed slides).
Maybe I am not using PS to its full potential, so I am hoping that someone can have a go at editing the "natural" scans to see how close they can get to the corrected scans from the scanner – and then explain how they did it.
I am astounded at what the software inside this scanner can do with images. I thought PS was the be-all and end-all for images, but in my hands, PS comes in second and I'd like to know how to improve its performance.
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Notes
1. I purposely choose challenging slides for testing. They either have a large contrast range with visible detail in the highlights and shadows; or colour casts; or bright saturated colours.
2. When testing, I compare all scanned images as seen on my computer screen with the original slide on a hand-held light box viewed through a loupe. For example, all colours in the image called Slide Scan 15 GB, even the metallic-looking sheen of the raincoats, appear as a close match to the original slide. The only significant colour variation is in the foreground rocks (which are a grey-brown colour in the slide), and the sky (which is a slightly darker blue in the slide). This slide is, maybe, 1/2 stop underexposed which explains the saturated colours and the dark "natural" scan.
3. The scanner spends a significant amount of time applying corrections. An 18 MB image (2000 dpi) might take 30 seconds to scan, then another minute for the corrections to be applied.

Welcome to the forums elinhjulstrom,
I saw your post about the scan quality issue you are having with your Deskjet F2180 on Mavericks. I would like to share my ideas with you that might help.
Try:
Mac OS X: How to reset the printing system (This will delete all printers)
Repair disk permissions
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Zoom into it. There's a slider at the bottom of the iPhoto Window.
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Flattening
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Resolution
Will 5400 x 3700 files (versus resampling to 1920 x 1080) have a serious impact on the time in takes for any part of the process from importing into Premiere to encoding in Encore?
Image Order
Is it better to order and renumber images using Adobe Bridge, or should I just shuffle images around in Premiere? Working with Premiere alone would have the advantage that I can import the originals (if that is an acceptable workflow).
Packaging
When a project is finished, I want to package all the assets via Project Manager and archive them. And I'd rather not archive 100MB image files. Now, this is going to be a big ask, and I'll have to jump across to InDesign to explain. When I've used scanned images in InDesign, I link to the original 100 MB files. No problems whatsoever. Come archiving time, I package in one of two ways: use an InDesign script to crop and resample the original images, and then package; or I simply export to PDF, and during the export all images are automatically cropped, resampled, and saved within the PDF in whatever format I choose. A simple and elegant archive.
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Your last paragraph makes the most sense. Although a script in Photoshop would easily do what you want.
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When editing all done I would propose to save at 300 dpi. If the photo/slide requires no editing, I would also scan in and save at 300 dpi.
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I have read many books and tips but they all seem to think I want to produce prize winning images with amazing time consuming enhancements! I just want, as I have seen from other threads, to get into a simple routine and crack on through the pile of slides to produce acceptable digital images!
My simple mind suggests give Photoshop as much to work with as possible!
I have:
- a Minolta Dual 3 AF 2840 Slide scanner which has many features akin to Photoshop - curves, Levels etc.
- Photoshop 6.0.1 and Elements 2.0 - not very up to date I am afraid!
Three questions:
1) The maximum Scanner resolution is 2840 - I would have thought scanning at this best to get the most information of the image into Photoshop. Would this seem right - I can resample down to 300 dpi at the end?
2) How much editing should I do in the Scanner - to give Photoshop the best information to work with - e.g. should I use Levels/Curves in the scanner to brighten up the shadows for Photoshop etc?
3) Once in Photoshop for final editing, what is the best order of work and which tools best to use, bearing in mind for, say colour cast, you can use Curves, Levels, Colour Balance, Variations etc, etc.- it seems colour balance is best for this from what I have read. My suggested routine is:
Use Scanner to scan and do initial editing:.
- Clean slide
- Crop
- Set 2840 Resolution
- Pixel polishing etc
- Use Colour balance for colour cast
- Curves/levels to bring out detail from the shadows
- Scan
- Save as TIFF
Photoshop
- Crop
- Final Overall Tonal adjustments - Curves and Levels?
- Final Overall Colour casts - Colour Balance?
- Adjust specific tonal adjustments etc. for selected areas - Dodge, Burn etc?
- Other adjustments - Clone out blemishes etc.
- Unsharpen
- Resample to 300 dpi and save as JPG or TIFF etc. for required purpose - usually JPEG
Does this sound right - any suggestion for variation etc. will be most welcome?
Any other advice also most welcome!
Tony

Dear Marian,
Thanks for the prompt reply - it sounds like it is just what I want to hear!
Just to double check my understanding! Do you agree, then, that it is a good idea to scan slides (and negatives for that matter) at the maximum resolution for the purpose of further editing in Photoshop?
As you say, Photoshop will reduce the ppi automatically for larger images than the slide. Most of my final printed output will be 6x4" but it still gives me scope for a half decent print at 8x11" if I want.
As I understand it, Slides and Negatives are pretty dense and can accept high resolution scanning whereas to scan a magazine page, for example, there would be no need to scan at more than 300 dpi - in fact to do so may even produce funny results!
I know people can get carried away with resolution. I do get amused when people get excited about their super megapixel cameras when they ever only display the results on a screen or a small print!
Thanks again for your comments - if you can confirm the above, that will be one big issue solved for me.
Tony

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Hi,
I would first suggest trying a 3rd party scanning application such as VueScan, it shouls support Slides scanning and may provide you a workaround for your current Scanjet 4850, you may install a free trial first and check if that might do the trick for you:
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