Converting colors to grey has always been difficult to control. SilverFast has created an easy way to solve this problem.
SilverFast’s SC2G, Selective Color to Grey, can maintain the grey shade differentiation by controlling the conversion process. For all six colors: Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, the user can control into what shade of grey the color will be converted. Since the whole process is interactively monitoring the final grey image, the user quickly achieves the desired result.
This article by Photographer Doug Menuez is giving us a different perspective on the good old debate of “film vs. digital”. Different in terms of not so much a comparitive technical aspect. Doug reflects the change of mind that happens when using any of them consciously.
I recommend to save up this article for that special moment with a cup of tea or coffe in your probably busy day-to-day jazz. Read it and contemplate over it for a while. Do not hesitate to share your views with us right here in the comment area.
Please visit us there and post your pictures scanned and/or edited with SilverFast or comment on those of other SilverFast users. You can start a discussion as well, SilverFast staff is present. But please try not to ask support questions there. If you want fast and sufficient support for your SilverFast please use the official support pages on our website.
With the introduction of the Automatic Frame Detection multiple reflective or transparent images can now be selected, scanned and optimized automatically with a single mouse-click. This comes in especially handy when scanning away a analogue archive of slides or reflective originals. [Read more →]
According to this post Time Warner and Google launched the availabilty of the LIFE photo archive on Google. The project has been in the making for the last two years with now supposedly ten million plus images available for search now. [Read more →]
In october we released a new concept with SilverFast acting as an integrated solution for digitizing and archiving your slides and originals. It’s a collection of effective tools that will “get you into town” fast and effectively when it comes down to image quality and preserving all details. Our CEO and President, Karl-Heinz Zahorsky, created a short 1-minute quicktime movie that demonstrates the basic principles behind this solution. Please go to our website and read the October newsletter or click here.
The videoblog from Tiger Direct is currently running a nice feature on the Plustek Filmscanner 7300 which is bundled with SilverFast. It´s got a taste of “homeshopping TV goes Youtube” but it´s actually well done since it sums up the main features of the bundled SilverFast version.
Important news around this time of the year from a small but innovative start-up company located in Bonn, Germany - Eggjet. In addition to their Eggjet-Printer series they now offer 2 3D Egg scanners.
These are some of the specs:
The egg-scanner with the best value for private use:
- single-egg-input
- 3D scan-system
- 300 dots per Egg
- 1 EPM (egg per minute)
Frankly there is no SilverFast support available for this scanner but we will gladly accept requests.
On behalf of the whole team at LaserSoft Imaging we wish you Happy Easter 2008 !
This post was inspired by the DDQ (Digital Darkroom Questions) newsletter from Tim Grey. I can highly recommend his newsletter because it deals with practical issues from”joe average end users” like you and me. He also publishes a blog with interesting thoughts and ideas on Digital Imaging.
The idea of his newsletter is that subscribers get to send Tim questions and he will pick one of them to be featured and answered. This particular subscriber wanted to change the creation date of his scans (lets’s anticipate he was using SilverFast) to the date he took the shot. Because any scan software will take the day the scan was made as a creation date it is most likely not the date the photo was taken originally. Which is why I decided to pass on the info. [Read more →]
