Hi Jumpman2,
Thank you for taking up scanning.
Vuescan:
neutral looks better than autovl
photo looks better than document
of the Vuescan ones I prefer 4
Epson:
little difference between photo and document. Does your Epson software have a magazine setting? Mine does.
Of the Epson ones I prefer 1.
When I compare 1 and 4, 4 looks clearly sharper. However, the sharpening has some undesirable effects. It creates a pattern, that shows on the cheeks and the gloves. The lingerie looks better on 4, but IMO the skin looks better on 1.
First I liked 4 better, then 1. Anyway, out of 1,2 and 4 I would suggest to pick what you prefer and/or works fastest.
One more suggestion, here is number 2 recompressed to 70%:
I thinkyou can easily save on file size and download/upload time by using more compression.
Good luck!