Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Post wrote: >I played with their demo version- I am very impressed! I too would like to >hear some more 'personal' experiences, and impressions about the Silverfast >software! I think the main thing about this software is that it's equally user-friendly to rookies like myself and scanning sophisticates who want total control over what they're doing. The user interface is very intuitive, and (dare I say) Mac-like. It has an 'automatic' feature which adjusts for optimum contrast and brilliance at the pre-scan stage (that's the doohickey that looks like a lens iris), and it also has a series of choices where it optimises for, say, 'skin tones' or 'technical'. In 99% of cases this works very well with both trannie and reflective material. But if you want the individual controls, they're all there. Good manual too. Getting the scan bang-on saves hours of fiddling about in Photoshop, though I also use a a brilliant PS plug-in called Extensis Intellihance Pro at this stage. Run your scanned file through this one filter, and it intelligently optimises about ten parameters at once. If you don't like its guess, you can easily change them one by one, and see exactly what it does to the result in a side-by-side comparison with the original. Both Silverfast and Intellihance are great timesavers. I'm certainly going for the Silverfast upgrade to 4.0, which seems to do even more things automatically for enthusiastic amateurs like me. Happy scanning! Slan Alex Alex Hurst Cork Florists 19 Winthrop St, Cork Republic of Ireland Tel: +353 21 270 907 Fax: +353 21 271 248 email: corkflor@iol.ie Website: http://www.flowerlink.com/corkflorists Home website: http://homepages.iol.ie/~corkflor/