Scanning 35mm slides

I'm attempting to scan 35mm color slides using Epson Scan and an Epson 3170. I've got the scanner set up correctly, the slide holder in place, etc. But when I scan the slides, they turn out incredibly dark, even if the slide photo is well-lit. I've checked the settings (using professional mode) and they are correct as far as I know. A friend suggested that I should try to select the area inside the white slide frame before I scan, but I'm not clear on how to do that before scanning. I can't find any tips on the Epson site, so I thought I'd ask here. Any help greatly appreciated.

How is Photoshop involved in this operation?
I suggest you download the trial version of VueScan and try scanning with that. If there's nothing wrong with the scanner and/or its transparency adapter, VueScan should give you a proper scan at its default Transparency settings.
The scan will have a watermark making the image unusable because it's the demo version, but the exposure and the colors should be spot on.
VueScan: http://www.hamrick.com/
Of course, I'm assuming the transparency scanner is properly connected to the scanner. :)

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Scanning 35mm slides to create slide show

My objective is to scan 35mm slides and create a presentable slide show for viewing on a computer monitor and TV. (regular TV)
I am using an Epson 4490 Perfection scanner and Photoshop Elements 2 software.
This should be relatively easy, but I'm running into difficulty and can find nothing in the "help" section of the software that answers my question.
How would you set the scanning options to obtain a good quality scan, without the software automatically cropping the slide, and being of good quality when viewed on the monitor/TV?
After completing the scans, I'll need to create the slide shows and save them to disc. Any suggestions or information you could offer in these areas would also be helpful:
- Tutorials for creating slide shows, included in the Elements 2 program or elsewhere.
- What would be the best quality disc to save these to?
Thanks so much for the help

Lauraly.....
I haven't actually done what you intend but here's some things to consider.
Your 35mm slides have an aspect ratio of 3:2 ( 36mm x 24mm). Normal TVs and many Monitors have and aspect ratio of 4:3. Some widescreens TVs are 16:9. This means you wont get a 35mm slide to fit exactly. Either it will be 'letterbox' sshape on your screen or if you size to fit then something will be cropped off.
As for scanning you should consider what resolution you need for the end display. If your display has for example a width of 1280 pixels then you should aim to scan the slide to achieve the same number of pixels - which works out to be approx 355 pixels/cm or 900 pixels/inch. For a TV you could probably get away with less.
If your scanning the slides you may want to go flat out so that the images could also be printed out sometime in the future in which case you may want to scan at something like 3200 or 6400 pixels/inch.
Once you've scanned the images you'll need a program to make the slide show. Photoshop Elements 5 can do this but in my opinion Proshow Gold is a better program. Don't make a Video CD (VCD) - the quality of the playback is poor. Go for high quality DVD
Elements can't actually burn the DVD - you need another program for that. Proshow will do everything and more.
You can download a free program from Microsoft called Photostory 3. It will allow you to make the slide show for playback on your PC - including music - but to make a DVD you need another program. If you have a DVD burner the s/w for that may be suitable.
Hope this helps.
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Scanning 35mm slides into iPhoto

Can I, and if so, how do I scan 35mm slides into an IMac? I have a Nikon Super Coolscan5000. I have plugged it into the USB port on the back of the IMac but the computer does not recognize the scanner.

Can I, and if so, how do I scan 35mm slides into an IMac? I have a Nikon Super Coolscan5000. I have plugged it into the USB port on the back of the IMac but the computer does not recognize the scanner.
Sure - all you need is a Mac compatible 35mm scanner with Mac software
From the Nikon page (found using Google)
For Macintosh
CPU: Power PC G3 or later (G4 or later recommended).
OS: Mac®OS 9 (9.1 or later), Mac®OS X (10.1.5 or later).
* RAM: Mac®OS 9: 64MB or more (256MB or more is recommended), Mac®OS X: 128MB or more (512MB or more is recommended).
** Hard disk: 70MB required for installation (200MB is recommended) with an additional 200MB >(Mac®OS 9) or 550MB (Mac®OS X) of free disk space while Nikon Scan is running.
Display: 800 x 600 with 16-bit color (full color recommended).
Interface: * USB: Built-in USB 1.1 ports, USB 2.0. Others: CD-ROM drive required for installation.
my first suggestion would be to read the Nikon manual - it probably tells everything you need to use it on your Mac
Or take a look at Preview - it has the capability to import from scanners
LN

Transfering scanned 35mm slides

What is the suggested file size for scanned 35mm slides to transfer to iDVD? My file sizes I believe are too small at about 260Kb per image, and I think the processor is working so hard to bring them up to the iDVD format, that more often then not, during the burn process my computer will freeze up entirely. And the ones that do complete the burn process, the images are poor quality when watched on a regular television. I am currently using an Epson Perfection to perform the scanning process. thanks for any help.

oliviagrace,
See iDVD 6.0 Help - Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html
It will answer your qurstion.

Scanning 35mm slide to convert to digital.

I am about to begin scanning 35 mm slides I have taken over the last 30 years hoping to preserve in a digital format. Are there any tips I should be aware of in preforming this task. I am particularly interested if here are any settings for size... so that when they are projected on screen I have something filling the screen without large amounts of black boarders.
Also is there any special way they should be stored in iPhoto. (other than events, etc.)
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Bilco

Lauraly.....
I haven't actually done what you intend but here's some things to consider.
Your 35mm slides have an aspect ratio of 3:2 ( 36mm x 24mm). Normal TVs and many Monitors have and aspect ratio of 4:3. Some widescreens TVs are 16:9. This means you wont get a 35mm slide to fit exactly. Either it will be 'letterbox' sshape on your screen or if you size to fit then something will be cropped off.
As for scanning you should consider what resolution you need for the end display. If your display has for example a width of 1280 pixels then you should aim to scan the slide to achieve the same number of pixels - which works out to be approx 355 pixels/cm or 900 pixels/inch. For a TV you could probably get away with less.
If your scanning the slides you may want to go flat out so that the images could also be printed out sometime in the future in which case you may want to scan at something like 3200 or 6400 pixels/inch.
Once you've scanned the images you'll need a program to make the slide show. Photoshop Elements 5 can do this but in my opinion Proshow Gold is a better program. Don't make a Video CD (VCD) - the quality of the playback is poor. Go for high quality DVD
Elements can't actually burn the DVD - you need another program for that. Proshow will do everything and more.
You can download a free program from Microsoft called Photostory 3. It will allow you to make the slide show for playback on your PC - including music - but to make a DVD you need another program. If you have a DVD burner the s/w for that may be suitable.
Hope this helps.
Colin

Scanning 35MM slides - which DPI?

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The scanner will scan slides up to 4800 dpi, but it will take a lot of time and create very large files as well.
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Hi John,
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http://www.rogerhalstead.com/scanning.htm

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Similar problem with a Photoscanner HPscanjet 4890 : all ok for doc's pdf pictures ... but no way to scan 35mm slides with the HP soft. The preview scan is OK, as well as the thumbnails of the16 scanned slides. As soon as I start to save those slides, I got a message that the scanner couldn't write the file.
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If you have a possibility to boot up on good ol' SnowLepoard - you can just scan your slides or strips as usual.
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HP Scanjet5500c dark images from TMA adapter for 35mm slides

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Hi there @talker2002
Welcome to the forums
By your description, it does seem like a burnt out bulb. As HP does not replace the actual bulbs, I would suggest calling phone support directly to see what your options are.
If you are calling within North America, the number is 1-800-474-6836 and if you are calling outside of the US/Canada,: click here.
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Is such problem actually related to the recent update of Mac OS, or is the scanner( or my mac) infected or unadjusted correctly in some way ?
if the Apple software update produced such problem, how could that be justified ? Because all must be digital to be compatible with modern Mac's, and their design of newer OS are considewrinf scanning 35 mm archives an obsolete option in 2015 ?
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When scanning multiple slides or 35mm strips the scanner needs to write a text file to organize the separation of all the individual pictures. I saw this under SnowLeopard:the scanner writes a number of small temporary files in the root directory. Apparently, on Yosemite this is not allowed ...
My work around (from last week) :
If you have a possibility to boot up on good ol' SnowLepoard - you can just scan your slides or strips as usual.
What i did on Yosemite :
Start the scan, on the sidebar it will show a scan with all individual pictures on it, and below all the single pictures.
Now, delete all but one of these single pictures.
Then, on the multiple view, extend the last only selected picture all over all the others, the individual one now shows you the whole assembly !
Save it (its a single file with all on it, it can grow very large - mine was 1.5 GB)
Then do the separating job manually, in Gimp i selected and saved picture after picture in individual files. After 50 or so pictures that procedure goes very fast

Why did my CanoScan 8800F stop scanning my 35mm slides into IPhoto 09 version 8.1.2 (424)? I did it exactly the same way as I had done about two hundred other slides.

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Aside from looking at the pretty transitions, did you read
the rest of the
page? See the part where it says "Step 1 - copy and
paste....."
Then do Step 2. It just can't get any easier than that.
Read the bit underneath step 2 and it tells you how the
script can be used
multiple times on a page - Again - step 1: you give it a new
name in the
javascript file, and add the names and paths of the images
for the
consecutive slides you wish to display. Then, again, Step 2 -
you call the
slideshow somewhere on your page.
Without sounding condescending, sit back, read the
instructions again, and
have a go at implementing them into your page.
Upload your efforts, post a link to the page, and we'll be
able to help you
further if you need it.
You can describe what you have, how you want it to work, but
until we see a
page live, its a bit hard to help further.
Last resort, spring for a paid solution to do it all for you
(which I highly
recommend) -
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/index.htm
Brendon
"Fugasi" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Brendon-
>
> >I've used this one many times before with good
success:
>
> I don't know how to use this, its a bunch of code.
>
> 1. Do I C&P this and paste it into my page? Where on
the page?
> 2. I actually want to have four separate slide shows
happening at once on
> the
> same page. Will this code allow me to do that?
> 3. Right now I have four photos in-line horizontally in
non-css table. I
> want
> those four to interchange as a slow dissolve slide show.
How do I specify
> that
> I want the slide show to appear in the table cells?
>
> Thanks
>

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Hi All,
I am using the Nikon Super CoolScan8000 and Vuescan program to scan a slide film. I am scanning at this setting: scan resolution 4000 dpi. I have to make it a certain dimension that someone has been asking me for. They want the image at Width = 60cm (approx. 23 inches) and 300 dpi.
When I scan at 4000 dpi, I'm not sure what size to make the printed width. I have experimented numerous times and I've had no luck with getting exactly what I want. It seems that when I make the width 60 cm (the height adjusts proportionately) and the dpi at 300, the quality is not that great, which it definitely needs to be because it will be printed at a large size.
Someone please help ASAP!
Thank you!
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I'd like to import 35mm slides into a FCP project.
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Thanks in advance
Ivan

Any device that will run under Lion is a good bet.
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Greetings All - I am looking for 35mm slide scanner recommendations in order to scan in ~1400 slides that have been in our family for many years that won't 'break the bank'. I'd rather have a piece of hardware that is dedicated for this task as opposed to a new scanner but all recommendations are helpful. When it is all complete I'll probably eBAY or otherwise dispose of the scanner in a similar manner.
Thanks in advance.

Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED with Slide Feeder SF-210.
http://nikon.ca/en/Product.aspx?m=16314
Not sure what you mean by "break the bank"... There are services out there that will scan your slides in bulk volume. Scanning 1400 slides is not an easy job since it is tedious. You can only fill this slide feeder with 50 slides at once, come back a few hours later, drop in another stack.

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I have hundreds of 35mm slides that have faded badly. I would like to scan them and restore them using Photoshop Elements 4. Is there anyone who can tell me how to proceed? Thanks in advance.
Shirley

First scan them. :) This is a good site for some basic information:
http://www.scantips.com/index.html
Several months ago, someone was working on faded slides, frustrated because none of the advanced editing techniques were working very well, and they were also very time consuming. I suggested she try (Editor) Enhance>Enhance Color>Color Variations. Apparently that sounded too simple to her to be worthwhile, because she tried a number of other things that were suggested first. She finally used my suggestion as a last resort, and it worked. :) So, if the slides really have faded and/or shifted color, run them through Variations before struggling too long. That simple little feature can give the color a quick boost before you go on to using more advanced editing techniques. It's not the only thing you'll want to do, but it's a great starting point.

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