Film emulsions are in constant change, even after they have been developed and fixed. Humidity, temperature, light, etc keep changing film and pictures start to fade or change. These changes plus scratches and dust particles deteriorate the image and film emulsion. SilverFast was conceived with this type of images and users in mind. With assistance of fully automatic or […]
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Quicktip: HiRePP (High Resolution Picture Performance) is sweet!
December 20th, 2010 · No Comments · analogue photography, Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials
One of the mostly overlooked features in SilverFast is HiRePP which stands for High Resolution Picture Performance. It lets users open huge files in almost no time, even gigabytes picture files can be opened by SilverFast HDR or HDR Studio within seconds for editing.
Tags: Alejandro Morales·analog to digital·analogue·analogue photography·Digital Photography·digital workflow·Quicktip·Scanner·scanning
Quicktip: Expanding the dynamic range of your pictures with HDR scan mode and Multi-Exposure (Part II Multi-Exposure)
August 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Processing, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials
In the first part of the article I mentioned the advantages of this procedure and briefly introduced concepts about the bit depth of image files. Also explained the creation of raw files from SilverFast, the different types as well as their differences. Now it’s time to explain Multi-Exposure (not standard in all SilverFast versions).
Tags: analog to digital·analogue photography·Digital Photography·HDR·High Dynamic Range·How to·multi exposure·Quicktip·raw files·SilverFast Quicktip
Quicktip: Why and how to IT8 calibrate the scanner (part I)
June 23rd, 2010 · 42 Comments · analogue photography, Digital Photography, HowTo, News, Photography, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials
Although Color Management is a very extent topic, I will briefly mention three good reasons for an IT8 calibration: Color reproduction accuracy Scanner aging. Construction parts age and with it the way these devices “see” things. These changes are reflected in light color inaccuracies which can be corrected by generating new color profiles for the […]
Tags: Alejandro Morales·Color Calibration·color management·digitizing·effective tools·image quality·IT8 calibration with SilverFast·Manual calibration with SilverFast·manual color calibration with SilverFast·Quicktip·SilverFast·SilverFast Quicktip·workflow
Quicktip: Using high resolution preview to your advantage.
May 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · analogue photography, Digital Photography, HowTo, Photography, Quicktips, Scanner, SilverFast, Tips and Tutorials
SilverFast (and most scanning applications) perform prescans in a low or very low resolution. The reason for this is to “save time”. While that is a good argument. The drawback of quick (slo-res) prescans is, that the image you are using for corrections and adjustments does not correspond 100% neither to the details of the […]
Tags: Alejandro Morales·digitizing·High res·high resolution preview·Quicktip·SilverFast·SilverFast Quicktip·workflow