For perfect Colors – Easily Remove Color Casts from your Images

Neutral Pipette

Color Cast Removal

Effects to the film material due to chemical processes even to already developed film, fading of photographic prints, different light sources during image acquisition – there are many reasons why images may show color casts. Manual correction is time consuming and can lead to falsified colors. The SilverFast Neutral Pipette is a tool, which makes color cast removal very easy.

A mouse click on the icon “Pipette” in the vertical toolbar opens a drop-down menu. By selecting the entry “Neutral Point” the mouse cursor turns into an eyedropper. By clicking on a color area of the image, which should appear neutral, the color correction is performed automatically. The exact change in color values at this point can be seen in the tool dialog “Neutral Pipette”. The neutral point can be deleted and set again at any time.

Automatic color cast removal by setting a neutral point
Before/after comparison in RGB or CMY
Up to 4 neutral points with SilverFast Ai Studio

Video I: Neutral Pipette

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See how effectively SilverFast's Neutral Pipette works:

After pre-scanning, the original shows a blue color cast.

Just setting a neutral point achieves a significant improvement – three mouse clicks, that’s it.

The Neutral Pipette dialog shows before/after RGB values of any neutral point.

Using SilverFast Ai Studio multiple neutral points can be set, for an even more precise color cast removal.

Up to 4 neutral points are possible using SilverFast Ai Studio.

The SilverFast 8 pipette tool is unbeatable. When scanning images with color casts, simply click on an area in the image that should be color neutral and the color cast is gone. This is an ideal tool for me as an absolute beginner of image editing.

Matt Richmond, Photographer

The time and effort spent in Photoshop editing and adjusting images produced by the Canon software far exceeds that required to produce superior results with the tools available in SilverFast. Automatic functions like auto-adjust, Color Cast Removal, and Adaptive Color Restoration have greatly simplified processing, and I have found that scans are significantly faster with SilverFast.

Roy Sprague, Photographer