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 overall brightness and…