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SilverFast Ai STUDIO

SilverFast Ai STUDIO - 6.4.2r9

scanner software for most scanners

All Time: (3.1)
Version 6.4.2r9: (4.5)
Selected Version: 6.4.2r9
Release Date: 2005-10-13
License: Update
Downloads (version 6.4.2r9): 113,770
Downloads (all versions): 182,586
Price: $59.00

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SilverFast is high-end scan and imaging software from LaserSoft Imaging. By now standard for Desktop-Scanners and available for over 270 scanners for most OS. SilverFast combines an intuitive user interface with highest professionality. Beginners and professionals will appreciate the intelligent automatic functions as well as the possibility to manually adjust the image at any point. The professional user can adjust any operation via numerical input and can precisely monitor the results using a densitometer. The ScanPilot helps the novice user step by step to a brilliant image.
  • SRD- Dust and Scratch Removal
  • SCC - Advanced Selective Colour Correction
  • ACR - Adpative Colour Restoration
  • SC2G - Selective Colour to Grey
  • GANE - Grain and Noise Elimination
  • MidPip4 - Advanced Colour Cast Removal
  • QuickTime Movie Tutorials
  • AACO - Auto Adaptive Contrast Optimisation
  • An excellent tool for the correction of dark, high-contrast areas of an image while preserving the details in the highlights. It operates automatically when selected but can also be manually adjusted. The intensity and the complexity of the shadows, which are to be lightened, can be adjusted without affecting the highlights of the image.
  • Extended print dialog with copy function
  • This new function offers the possibility of printing images or image parts selected in the preview. The selection can be scaled, rotated or positioned manually on the print sheet. Also a 1:1 print-out, similar to a photocopy, is possible. The position of the images on the print sheet is pre-set by the position on the scan screen, but can also be manually adjusted by the user.
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  • Picture Setting Dialog
  • This dialog displays a real-time output histogram that shows the effects of all SilverFast Ai Studio settings on the final scan.
  • Clone Tool
  • A powerful 16-bit Clone Tool which extends the previously implemented SRD function has now been developed. Major defects and severe scratches on the image may easily be removed or corrected. Entire areas of the image may be removed, retouched and altered. SilverFast Ai Studio may now be used for complex catalog production - without the need for additional imaging programs or tools
  • Unsharp mask PLUS
  • The USM dialog and its preview windows may now be freely resized and enlarged by click-dragging the lower right corner of the window. Now a better control of the image is achieved before scanning which allows a much larger preview of the final sharpening effects
  • JPEG 2000 support
  • The support of the JPEG 2000 format enables SilverFast˜s strongest compression to process such data up to 7 times faster than any other imaging software. In combination with SilverFast™s HiRePP function even 3GB files may be compressed and re-opened very quickly.
  • IPTC data support
  • The storage and administration of the scanned image files are very convenient due to the possibility to add individual comments, which are stored with the picture (embedded into the picture data) according to the ITPC standard.

    What's new in this version:

    • PrinTao is the new professional printing function introducing layout functionality for images and text. (Full text only in STUDIO Upgrade)You are able to create your individual layouts with text and images at a high efficiency. The integration of image processing, layout functionality and printing by a single software tool is unique.
    • SilverFast JobManager. It is now possible to determine the way and order, in which the file name will be constructed (index at the end of the file name or at the beginning, prefix/suffix). The start index can be negative or zero, too.
    • Enhanced Automatic Descreening. The new enhanced descreening is able to auto-detect the screen of the original. The user is able to apply it as a full automated function without any necessary adjustments or as half automated version with auto-detection and user individual settings in a dialog.
    • JobManager: corrected minor displaying errors.
    • Maximum number of lines possible to scan increased.
    • iSRD: white scans as results of combining iSRD, batch mode, auto adjust, AACO and scanning to Photoshop - fixed.

    Operating System Requirements:

    This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

    • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
    • Mac OS X 10.3.9
    • Mac OS X 10.3
    • Mac OS X 10.2
    • Mac OS X 10.1
    • Mac OS X 10.0

    Additional Requirements:

    • Mac OS X
      Tiger compatible

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    Version 6.4.2r9:
    Overall Rating: (4.5) Features: (5.0) Support: (4.0)
    Ease of Use: (4.5) Quality / Stability: (4.5) Price: (4.0)
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    SilverFast Ai STUDIO CommentarySilverFast 6.6.0r1a supports all Nikon Film Scanners now under Mac OS Leopard - Version: 6.6.0r1, 6/27/2008 08:56AM PST

    LSI_Haarlaender
    Today LaserSoft Imaging has released SilverFast 6.6.0r1a, a Leopard compatible version for Nikon film scanners.

    Apart from supporting the 35mm scanners Coolscan IV and V ED, Super Coolscan 2000, 4000 ED and 5000 ED, now also the medium format scanners LS-8000 and LS-9000 are fully supported unter Mac OS X 10.5 - IntelMacs included - with SilverFast 6.6.0r1a.

    Nikon Filmscanner are now addressed directly without any detour through the MAID-module.

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    SilverFast Ai STUDIO CommentaryStill not ready for prime time - Version: 6.5.5r4, 2/23/2008 03:02PM PST

    (2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

    sfoster
    Once again, an "update" of one of the most bug-ridden pieces of software on my 3 gig, Leopard-loaded Mac Pro, just got more buggy. I'm scanning with a Nikon CoolScan 5000. Downloaded and installed the 6.5.6r4 update today in hopes the good developers at LaserSoft Imaging, who seemingly produce Mac versions of SilverFast products as an afterthought, fixed the bugs in version 6.5.5r3. Nope, version 6.5.5r4 doesn't just hang itself up, it will hang up your entire Mac Leopard System requiring a forced restart of the computer. If you trash the LaserSoft preferences frequently—like each day you use the program—it seems slightly more stable, but that doesn't seem like it should be a necessary step for using an expensive software package. DEVELOPERS -- PLEASE FIX THIS SOFTWARE AND TEST IT BEFORE RELEASE. I'm a full price paying customer not a beta tester!

    Thank you.
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    SilverFast Ai STUDIO CommentarySilverfast website won't allow selection of 10.5 Leopard - Version: 6.5.5r3, 1/20/2008 12:00AM PST

    macs4e4
    Even though they say it works with Leopard, their download page only shows 10.4 Tiger as a download type. I don't know if this is a mistake or a way to say, 'it's not my fault' if it screws up my Mac!
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