Going to go ahead and buy your book since I am curious about the different workflows you mention.Silverfast Hdr Studio 8 Serial Number EXCLUSIVE I'll keep at it, since it would be my guess this is the only way going forward with Silverfast, and (I'm guessing) at some point Silverfast 6 won't be supported on Windows 8, 9, etc. However, I do not know if it was "smart" enough to analyze the image and then customize its settings based on edge detail/frequency. It would apply sharpening based on output resolution and dimensions. With version 6, the Auto USM was extremely "intelligent". I use Silverfast Ai Studio 8 to create "raw" 64-bit HDRi scans and then use HDR Studio 8 to process those into "master" files. I almost wonder if one of the settings I have selected is overriding or otherwise conflicting with another. Yes, it appears as though the sharpening algorithm has been improved, but from what I can gather, the expert dialog (which I have been using) appears unchanged from version 6. One can obtain good results from any of them when used properly (which does have a learning curve) but that said, sharpening film scans - and all the more so if they are from colour negative film - is kind of a fine art, so when I really want to exact the most control over process and precision of outcome, I'll not sharpen in scan software at all, but use Photokit Sharpener 2 in Photoshop.īTW - if you are thinking of buying the book - you don't need to take on much up-front risk over this - on the SilverFast website there are three extracts of content posted for free download, which should give you a pretty good idea of what you'd be getting. I do have quite a bit of material in the book on sharpening scans for all four options at play here: SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Lightroom and Photoshop. I can't know, but perhaps some more experimenting would help? The manual controls in version 8, especially with the expert dialog give you more control over the effect than was available in version 6.6, so *in principle* it should be possible to do even better - but with these things, from a user perspective of course only the results speak for themselves. That's an interesting insight about the difference of sharpening quality you are finding between version 6.x and version 8. I'm kind of happy there is no Auto-USM in SF8 - at least none I have seen, unless I'm missing something. To implement a multi-stage sharpening workflow that starts with Capture Sharpening and ends with Output Sharpening, one needs to be very mindful of the image-specific symbiotic relationship between the stages of sharpening, and treat anything one does about sharpening in the scanner software carefully, because once the scan is made, those sharpening choices are "baked-in" and not reversible without rescanning the image. As well, I see great merit in the multi-stage sharpening workflow supported by Pixelgenius LLC as originally conceived by the late Bruce Fraser. There was such a thing in SilverFast 6.6, which I never used, simply because of my aversion to automated algorithms for something as image-specific and impacting on image quality as sharpening. I should clarify my post immediately above to emphasize that the absence of an Auto USM feature is within all previous versions of SilverFast 8.
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