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Scanning grayscale photos - SilverFast Tutorial
From the course: SilverFast: Scanning
Scanning grayscale photos
In this video, I'd like to show you how to capture a continuous tone grayscale image using the Manual toolset in SilverFast. And if you have been through the automatic version, you are going to see a lot of similarities but you are also going to see that we have a lot more control working in Manual mode. First thing we have done here is I have clicked on Prescan, so we could actually see the image and that's a good place to start. Now, let's talk about what some of the challenges are and what some of our goals are for capturing a continuous tone grayscale image. This is a great image to do for continuous tone scans because it has so many of the common scanning challenges and goals that we have in continuous tone grayscale images. One of our first issues is going to be maintaining highlight detail and shadow detail. And in this particular image, the white fur and the dark fur are going to be critical portions of this image. We also of course want to have and address the issues of…
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Scanning simple line art and changing it into vectors7m 38s
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Scanning simple line art and keeping it as pixels5m 41s
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Scanning detailed line art8m 18s
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Scanning grayscale photos14m 5s
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Scanning landscape color photos15m 51s
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Scanning color portrait photos13m 56s
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Scanning color product shots9m 29s
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Scanning a color photo as a grayscale image4m 31s
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Scanning a piece of positive color film5m 52s
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Scanning a piece of negative color film9m 56s
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