Dear SilverFast User ,
Please keep in mind to regularly install the actual update for your SilverFast software, since SilverFast is constantly being developed and improved. Bug fixes, speed improvements by code optimization, and new features, each new update comes with advantages for you.
Updates within your SilverFast edition are always free. At present, the latest version is 8.0.1r35. Click the "Update" button, if you have not yet installed this version. Below are some infos on recent changes and new features. For example, you can publish your images directly from your scanner to flickr and to facebook.
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With the new version of SilverFast 8.0.1r35 it is possible to publish images directly from your scanner or from HDR image processing to flickr and to facebook without using storage on your hard drive. flickr, as an online portal for publishing digital images, and facebook, as a popular social media platform, offer a comfortable way to share your own images with other users or friends and family.
Registering a flickr account is completely free of cost, and the new "Image to Web" feature is included with all SilverFast editions. Please also have a look at our movie and PDF manual, which will show the new feature in detail.
- Direct upload to flickr and facebook from SilverFast
- Setting the most important flickr/facebook image options in SilverFast
- Included with all SilverFast and HDR Software versions
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(Movie – Upload to flickr
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With the SilverFast 8 Densitometer you can easily check gray and color value of an original. You can also review the tonal changes resulting from image optimization for each pixel. The Densitometer dialog's left column shows the original values of the prescan, while the right column shows the tonal values of the resulting scan including effects of activated image optimization tools.
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The Densitometer included with the actual SilverFast update, visualizes tonal changes now in a before/after comparison. You will see at a glance how the applied SilverFast tools effect the image at selected pixels.
SilverFast SE 8 and SE Plus 8 Densitometer features
- display RGB tone values and brightness for each pixel
- display black point and white point
- direct before/after comparison of individual pixel color values using the mouse
SilverFast Ai Studio 8 Densitometer features
- display RGB tone values and brightness for each pixel
- display in various color modes, such as RGB, CMYK, Lab and more
- display black point and white point
- display in 16bit – 65536 grayscales per color channel instead of just 256
- direct before/after comparison of individual pixel color values using the mouse
- output rotation and mirroring
Tip: Using a «Shift» click at the preview window, you can set up to four Densitometer measuring points.
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(Movie – Densitometer
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Many flatbed scanner models from different manufatuers provide the ability to quickly archive many images at once, thanks to their large-scale transparency units and special film holders. The image processing and optimization can be done later.
SilverFast knows all usual film holders and uses its Automatic Frame Detection to quickly find all originals. However, slides sometimes are set in their frames slightly shifted and image positions on film strips are varying.
To make sure not to lose any image data that could be cut off of such originals, just adjust the setting "Frame Finding: outset" in the SilverFast preferences before scanning. Using this option, scan frames are created slightly larger than actually needed. You no longer have to review each scan frame individually before starting the scanning process and will save much time. Later during image processing you will cut the scanned images to pefect size. This feature is only available with the SilverFast Ai Studio 8 version. Get the Upgrade.
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(Movie – Find Frames: Outset
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Do you often scan digitize images, which require a similar workflow, the same tools? Using SilverFast 8, you adjust your working interface, the arrangement of tool dialogs now only once. You can save this setup and reload it without effort any time later. This new feature allows to resume scanning within seconds.
You access this tool through the top menu bar. Select SilverFast 8 and Preferences. Open the General tab and you can create and edit new presets below with the Persistent tool dialogs preset menu item. Selecting a preset from the drop-down list will apply it to your tool dialogs.
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Dear customers, Typhoon Haiyan recently hit the Philippines and its inhabitants with catastrophic consequences. Especially the poorest children suffer from water shortages and lack of food.
For this reason, LaserSoft Imaging has immediately donated a larger amount and we would like to continue helping together with you. Therefore, until the end of this year, we will directly give an amount of € 2,- to the UNICEF fund-raiser for every SilverFast software or software upgrade sold.
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With best wishes for brilliant pictures
yours
Karl-Heinz Zahorsky
President & CEO
LaserSoft Imaging Inc.
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