Photoshop 7 scan artifacts

[NormanGW]

I have just had a system crash and have had to reinstall Windows 7 and all programmes. (No data lost, thanks to good backup) When trying to scan though, I am getting some terrible artefacts and I am unable to see why. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this. It is on all the negatives I am scanning. Up to the O/S crash, I was able to scan wothout a problem

My system is running Win 7, with latest patches and upgrades

Scanner - Canoscan 9000F with latest driver

Software - Photoshop 7

Scanning using CanoScan 9000 TWAIN and Scangear in advanced mode, 120 format 6x4.5, output resolution 3200 (changing this makes no difference), unsharp mask on, FARE Low, Fading correction medium. Altering these makes no difference though.

This is the Scangear prescan:





This is the result in photoshop:





There is a horizontal line running across the wings of the cars and triangular artefacts have appeared.

Any advice would be gratefully accepted. Thanks for reading my request.

NW

 

[silvershoes]

What happens if you scan via Windows and open in the file in Windows viewer?

I'm not sure your problem is with Photoshop 7 itself, that's just where you see it. Win7 has its own utility (Windows Fax and Scan); trying it might help you decide where the fault lies.

 

[NormanGW]

Thanks for the suggestion. Tried that and because I am scanning a negative, the windows scan would not work.

After more diagnostic work, I have identified the problem as the canon software. I installed a copy of Photoshop CS and had exactly the same problems, I had a copy of SilverFast SE, so I installed that and re ran the same scan.

The artefacts have all gone and the scan result is good.

I am unable to identify what it is in the ScanGear software that is causing the issues. It is the same programme that I had had installed before the crash. But at least I have identified what to do to remedy the problem.

Now I just have to learn SilverFast!

Thanks for reading my request.

NW

 

[graybalanced]

Not sure if this is the answer, but ScanGear is bundled with the scanner and tends to be more a consumer solution, while SilverFast is professional. As consumer software, ScanGear is going to try harder to auto-correct everything to provide a "good enough" finished product for a consumer, while SilverFast is probably going to be more restrained and provide a better starting point file where additional post processing is expected to be done in Photoshop. Based on the differences between the two applications, SilverFast should be expected to do a much better job on negatives.

 

[JulesJ]

I didn't know there was a PhotoShop 7. Where did you buy it? I thought after PS CS6 it is now CC

 

[Thomas Niemann]

JulesJ wrote:

I didn't know there was a PhotoShop 7. Where did you buy it? I thought after PS CS6 it is now CC

Photoshop 7 was released in March 2002.

 

[JulesJ]

Thomas Niemann wrote:

JulesJ wrote:

I didn't know there was a PhotoShop 7. Where did you buy it? I thought after PS CS6 it is now CC

Photoshop 7 was released in March 2002.

I think you must mean Elements, there is no PhotoShop 7

 

[Conchita]

As Thomas Niemann said, PS 7 was released in 2002. It was the basis for PSE 2. There was photoshop, and plenty of it, before the stupid CS thing got started.

 

[graybalanced]

JulesJ wrote:

Thomas Niemann wrote:

JulesJ wrote:

I didn't know there was a PhotoShop 7. Where did you buy it? I thought after PS CS6 it is now CC

Photoshop 7 was released in March 2002.

I think you must mean Elements, there is no PhotoShop 7

Photoshop is over 20 years old. Originally it was numbered version 1 through 7, and then after that it was Photoshop CS through CS6 when it was part of the Creative Suite. Now it is part of the Creative Cloud (CC) with no version numbers I guess.

If you don't believe this, next time you are in the latest Photoshop look in the About screen and look at what it says for Version because it is going to say 14.0. This is because version 8 was CS, v9 was CS2... v13 was CS6 and version 14 is Photoshop CC.