Jackie,

As another user of the Epson 3200, I like to add a supplement to Beth's post. When I scan in the Professional mode, which is all the time, I have two choices.

The first is to scan individual frames. This allows for greater control to compensate for the differences in exposure, contrast, color balance, bias towards high or low light of each image in as much as it varies from the adjacent frames. Sometimes when the negatives or positives (slides) are too under exposed, they are near impossible to see in the Preview scan. I ussually allow the Auto adjust to lighten it so I can just see what the frame is about. After dragging a marquee to frame and zoom in for fine adjustment of the crop, I hit Reset button and let it go dark again. Next I would go to the the Histogram for exposure adjustments and /or play with the Curves, in RBG or the individual R,G and B colors. I make use of the scanning software's functions not found in Elements to give the scanned image a preliminary leg up before the fine-tuning and enhancement with PS Elements.

The second is to "gang-scan" adjacent frames in two's or more, if they share pretty much the same exposure characteristics. In this kind of scan, I usually name the scanned strip of several frames as Strip 1 (and so on) and save it. If this step is skipped, when individual frames are selected with the Rectangular Marquee or Crop tool (no more controversy on this subject, please! ;)) and saved, the strip of frames will disappear! Saving the scanned strip allows me to recall it to the desktop again to select, crop and save the subsequent frames. The alternative, as Beth decribed it, would be to duplicate the scanned strip the same number of times as the number of frames there are in the scanned strip. Then proceed to select individual frames to save.

FWIW, I offer my workflow as a starting point only. As you delve deeper into using the scanner, there will be better and quicker ways to suit your own workflow. Should you have other questions on the subject, I'll be happy to furhter discuss with you. Good luck.

Shan

guybc

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