[filmscanners] Summary of VueScan suggestions

["" <EdHamrick@aol.com>]

I've attached below a list of the suggestions people have
made in the past few days.  If a suggestion has been made
more than once, a count is at the front of the line.

VueScan 7.4 incorporates a real-time (or near real time)
preview update (along with a scan update).  I'm guessing
that this will meet most of the needs for the histogram with
sliders, since the histogram updates as well when an
option slider is changed.  (It's difficult to explain why
this works better than putting sliders on the histogram,
but the complexities of the options that affect the
histogram make it infeasible to put the sliders directly
on the histogram).

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

6 Histogram with sliders (like Photoshop)
6 Multiple previews (batch previews)
5 More film types (Fuji, Ilford, Agfa, old films)
4 Real-time preview update
4 Custom monitor profiles
3 Curve tool
2 Options for sizing output (different units, different dpi)
2 Multiple IR cleaning levels
3 Better frame offset/auto cropping on LS-4000
2 Root file name for raw and crop files (or make crop take raw root name)
2 Display focus point
2 Use wildcards for raw scan files, put outputs in different directory with
same names
2 Eye dropper for black, white, midtone
2 Better IR dust removal on FS4000 and 2740S
2 Rescan for new devices (i.e. USB devices)
2 Carry .ini files from one version to the next
2 Grain reduction improvements
2 Pause/Resume button (with auto resume after time limit)
  Make preview/scan go blank before starting scan (maybe)
  Q60 scanner calibration
  More scanner resolutions (i.e. intermediate resolutions)
  User-generated film profiles
  Better IR cleaning on Nikon
  More in-depth user's guide
  Reset button to reset to defaults and exit button
  Up/Down arrows for changes, shift for 10 unit changes, mouse wheel
  User's Guide in PDF format
  Spinners (up/down clicks)
  Preview scan at 100%
  File names on index page
  Trimming black/white points with mouse
  Calibration for Tri-X and Ilford HP5
  Automatic registration of multi-pass scans
  Descreening (frequency domain)
  Show focus point in preview pane
  Faster writing of compressed tiff files to disk
  File name should stay visible after files written
  More detail in user's guide about color balance, media type, black/white
points
  Multi-thread VueScan
  Remove X/Y window offsets from Prefs tab
  Auto rotate (put lightest part of frame at top)
  Color sampler to sample pixel values with mouse
  Sliders need incremental adjustments (wxSpinCtrl)
  Pixel radius for IR cleaning
  Map film frame numbers to file numbers
  Allow arbitrary color profiles for scanners
  Allow arbitrary color space profiles for output files
  TWAIN or Photoshop filter
  Add non-default option settings to comments field of images
  Side by side view of preview, before and after changed option
  Some options should be reset when frame number changed
  Leave message somewhere saying what last processing option was (or have log
window)
  Make sure status window isn't truncated by long file names
  Change Output tiff settings when "Device|Bits per pixel" changes

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