Silverfast Software Reviews Full A Range

As seen on the illustration, there is detection and potential correction taking place over too wide an areathis would alter areas where correction is not required or wanted.

This softwarehardware solution worked with numerous scanners by isolating the offending dust and scratches on a separate infrared channel that it then dumped when the final scan was made.

This made cleanup of these images a particularly laborious task that required patience, skill and select image editing programs.

SRDx, which comes in SilverFasts Ai Studio 8 scanner software, is a dust and scratch removal clean-up tool for black-and-white negatives and Kodachrome.

It extends the ability to clean up Kodachrome and black-and-white negatives to many more scanners, including those with or without the Digital Ice option.

I do keep my slides in better shape than this although there were some glitches in the emulsion: I added some dust to put the software to the test.

LaserSoft Imaging is a software company that makes various scanning software packages, from simple to pro, for a very wide variety of scanners.

Of note is that owners of no-longer manufactured (and no longer supported by the manufacturers) scanners, such as those from Nikon and Minolta, still have the opportunity to use this latest advance in scanning with their units.

You can check the list on their website.).

Could SRDx help me rescue this image before it deteriorated more.

For many years, much of my work was on a variety of black-and-white negative films and while I was fairly diligent about proper archival materials for storage there were some inevitable mars and blemishes on older images.

The same went for Kodachromes, my main choice for color transparencies.

Davids reviews were classics on both the product review and overall scanning tutorial side.).

For this review I worked with Plusteks OpticFilm 8200i scanner for 35mm film size.

You can find our previous coverage of this scanner here.).

Silverfast Software Reviews Full A Range

For starters, do not get too interpretive, that is, give yourself room to play and scan for as full a range of color and tone as possible.

Secondly, do not be lazy about making corrections that you assume you can correct later.

The latter is paramount because a film scan, while digital files result, does not have the leeway that a digital camera file provides: you are in essence locking in certain parameters when scanning.

At first, the software can be daunting, but the company has numerous videos and tutorials available on their site, as well as a training offering.

Note that there are numerous and plentiful film profiles installed that help you get on your way.

Starting at the top, the three boxes allow you to toggle between full and closeup views (the HQ box renders a high quality preview that for me was a bit slow in rendering and not necessary for the work).

Exact Preview) will show adjustments and bring up the Navigator where you can move a selection area around the print for fine tuning; thats where to begin the work.

The Mode dropdown menu has Mark, Correct and Original settings.

The Masks are used for drawing larger areas for correction, like sky and ground.

The Expert settings are accessed by clicking on the graduation cap at the bottom.

The cyan color overlay shows where the software has detected problems and anomalies, but there are consequences to over-correcting.