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Entries Tagged as 'Photography'

Quicktip: Color Management System in SilverFast (part 2)

March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Photography, Processing, Quicktips, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials

In this article I will describe the second component of the CMS option in SilverFast Ai and SilverFast Ai Studio.

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Quicktip: Color Management System in SilverFast (part 1)

February 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · HowTo, Photography, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials, analogue photography

Basically color management allows for a complete controlled color reproduction through the entire imaging workflow.
In other words, the colors of your originals are maintained  over the entire process of manipulation with a high accuracy percentage.
There are two color management systems in SilverFast scan software, the one contained in SilverFast Ai and Ai Studio and the [...]

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Digital Analogue – beautiful stop-motion video

February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Photography, Distraction, Humour, Photography, Video, analogue photography

Really cool video made from a combination of old cameras mixed together with modern day sound and video. I even recognized some cameras I used to photograph with – back in the days.

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Quicktip: Managing resolution controls in SilverFast (Part III):

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Photography, Photography Business, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials

The previous articles (part 1 and part 2) described the different parts of the resolution control panel in SilverFast, how to use the resolution slider and the “Q-Factor and Screen” values.
The last part of the article deals with the input-output value entries of the resolution panel (number 3 of the graphic)

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Quicktip: Managing resolution controls in SilverFast (Part II):

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Photography, Printing, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials, analogue photography

In the Previous article I described the different parts of the resolution control panel in SilverFast, and how to use the resolution slider.
This article deals with the second part of the resolution panel, the “Q-Factor and Screen” values.

Where Q-Factor stands for Quality factor and Screen value is related to the lines per inch used for [...]

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Quicktip: Managing resolution controls in SilverFast (Part I):

December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HowTo, News, Photography, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials

SilverFast has a very complete set of controls for managing the scanning resolution (although sometimes complex to understand). When mastered and properly used, these controls can prove very effective.
The resolution control panel can be found under the “Frame” tab and is basically divided into three:

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Film-based photography contest

November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Flickr, News, Photography, Scanner, SilverFast, analogue photography

A little while ago we announced our dedicated SilverFast Flickr-group here on our blog.
We just discovered another interesting Flickr-group that is part of a cool photo competition, started and prominently endorsed by the popular german magazin Spiegel Online.  Filmchemie is the Flickr-group for a series of articles on film-based photography and they regularly showcase the [...]

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SilverFast 64Bit HDRi raw data format – now available for Epson scanners

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · HDR, News, Photography, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

NEW: The SilverFast 64bit HDRi Raw data format is now available for EPSON scanners!
LaserSoft Imaging has developed the 64bit HDRi RAW data format and is now providing support for the first EPSON scanner models.

The significant advantages at a glance:

64bit RAW data including the infrared channel means highest quality
fast archiving even of large collections possible
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The SilverFast HDRi RAW data format with infrared channel

September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · HDR, News, Photography, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

NEW: The SilverFast HDRi RAW data format with infrared channel
The SilverFast HDRi RAW data format uses 64bit HDRi color files (and 32bit grayscale files respectively), that contain all readable image information. This includes the information of the infrared channel, which’s data can be used for image optimization, e.g. for dust and scratch removal. Hence, HDRi [...]

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SilverFast scanner calibration targets: 10% off

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Digital Photography, News, Photography, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast, analogue photography

LaserSoft Imaging is offering their IT8 targets at a 10% reduced rate until september 20th.
The patent registered Auto-IT8-Calibration is reliable and easy to use due to the barcode technology integrated into the LaserSoft Imaging calibration targets – This is the reason, why SilverFast was awarded by the EDP as the best color management software [...]

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