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How to Properly Place Photographic Film or Negatives on Your Scanner
Correctly positioning your film or negatives on your scanner, including knowing which side to scan, is crucial for achieving high-quality scans with SilverFast. This guide will help you understand the structure of film, how to place it correctly on ...
Unlocking Sharper Scans with SilverFast's Focus Control
Many high-quality scanners, including both flatbed and dedicated film scanners, have the ability to adjust the focus of the optics. This allows the scanner to offset the focus up or down by several millimeters from the regular focus level. Some ...
Assistance with Color Discrepancy in Scanned and Edited Photos
In SilverFast, go to the 'Preferences' and select 'CMS (Color Management System)'. Make sure that the 'Internal (working) is set to the same color space as your third-party editing software. For example, if you are using Adobe Photoshop, you may want ...
Color Cast appears on final scan when scanning negatives
You are scanning negatives and compared to the preview scan, the image finally saved differs in color and or brightness? When scanning or processing negatives, the "NegaFix" filter gets different input data depending on the scanning resolution and ...
Scanning Negatives: Negatives not transformed but remain positive
When scanning negatives or slides, it's important to understand the impact of different scanning modes on the final image. One common issue users encounter is that the preview image may appear as a positive, but the final scanned image remains a ...
Resolving Black Scans: Troubleshooting Transparency and Negative Scanning Issues with Epson V800 and V750 Scanners
When scanning transparencies and negatives, it's essential to ensure that both the scanner settings and hardware are correctly configured. If you're encountering issues, such as a black prescan, with your Epson V800 or V750 scanner, follow the steps ...
Resolving Missing MSVC DLL Errors
MSVC is short for Microsoft Visual C and these files are part of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. Missing files of these types often look like this: MSVCP170.dll MSVCR170.dll MSVCP140.dll MSVCP140_1.dll MSVCP120.dll MSVCP100.dll MSVCR140.dll ...
SilverFast crashes when launching a preview
Problem: SilverFast crashes when launching a preview. It is possible to scan without previewing. If you encounter such a problem, it's probably the fault of a corrupted screen profile. SilverFast uses the screen profile for color management. A ...
Preview issues with Plustek OF 8100 and 8200i on macOS since 9.1.6 update
With 9.1.6 a new universal driver for the Plustek OpticFilm 8100 and 8200i for macOS was introduced. Using this driver might lead to issues like: black preview screens strange lines in the preview (cf. image to the right) crashes during preview We ...
I got an old Kodak IT8 target I want to use for calibration. Where can I download the reference file?
In order to use an older reference file from Kodak, you will need to identify first which file to use. For current high quality targets from LaserSoft Imaging has a barcode that can be read by SilverFast. The corresponding reference file is thus ...
How can I use my calibration targets from X-Rite which came with my scanner with SilverFast Ai Studio's IT8 calibration feature?
Epson Perfection V750 and V850 come with SilverFast SE Plus and additional software from X-Rite and targets for IT8 calibration. What if you've upgraded your scanning software to Ai Studio and now want to use its superior calibration feature with the ...