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Special upgrade offer now also for Plustek Opticfilm 7200 and 7200i

May 18th, 2010 · No Comments · News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

Upgrade from SilverFast SE to SilverFast Ai with IT8 color calibration including a free target. Version 6.6 incl. 35mm target for 139,- * (to our online shop) Further details about this special upgrade offer you could obtain here … * Note: Please take advantage of this offer only valid until June 15th, 2010.

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NEW: Plustek OpticLab H850

May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

A scanner for histology samples. Medical and botanical histology samples have never been digitized as easy and fast as with Plustek’s new OpticLab H850 before. Using SilverFast with this scanner for the lab work is especially easy and time saving. If interested, please visit our produt page for the Plustek OpticLab H850 …

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Special upgrade offer now also for some Canon, Microtek and Plustek scanners

May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

Upgrade from SilverFast SE to SilverFast Ai with IT8 color calibration including a free target set. Version 6.6 incl. target set for 119,- * (to our online shop) The offer is availabe for Canon CanoScan 8400F, 8600F, 8800F and 9950F (further details …) as well as for Plustek OpticPro ST48, ST64 and Microtek ScanMaker i700, [...]

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Special upgrade offer for Epson Perfection Photo scanners 3200, 4870, 4990 and V700

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

Upgrade from SilverFast SE to SilverFast Ai with IT8 color calibration including a free target set. The offer is only available for the Epson Photo scanners 3200, 4870, 4990 and V700. (The following days we will expand this offer to further scanner models.) In order to achieve the best-possible workflow quality for your digital image [...]

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Quicktip: Color Management System in SilverFast (part 2)

March 16th, 2010 · 2 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 · 6 Comments · analogue photography, HowTo, Photography, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials

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 [...]

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Update: The improved Auto-Sharpening USM is now available for Canon and Nikon scanner

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · HDR, News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

(Click to enlarge) With version 6.6.1r4b SilverFast saves scanner related information along with the image data. This allows an advanced automatic Unsharp Masking for the later post processing with SilverFast HDR, which takes the specific scanner details into account and is therefore able to produce brilliant, pin sharp images. After this feature was previously available [...]

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

January 12th, 2010 · 3 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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Auto-Sharpening function USM for SilverFast HDR and DC is now aligned to the scanner

December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · HDR, News, Processing, Scanner, SilverFast

The human perception is aligned to the recognition of edges and lines. So the sharpness impression of photos can be increased by contrast rise of small brightness changes. Conventional sharpening functions often increase the detail contrast of the complete image in general and therefore strengthen also any image interference of the original, details get lost. [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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