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SilverFast™ Quick-Start Manual 1

Quick-Start

ScanPilot™

First time starting SilverFast you will be greeted by the ScanPilot™. Ifyou press the start-button the ScanPilot™ shows the required steps inthe best possible order. They are for example prescan, frame selec-tion (which part you want to scan?), auto function, final scan. Afterthese steps your image has been scanned 1:1.

You can stop the ScanPilot any time you want by pressing the stop-button, and then use the SilverFast tools manually.

By pressing the Prefs-button you canexpand the tools-list used by theScanPilot™. Click the check boxesbeside the desired tool. The ScanPilot™

guides you through the professionalsteps* to achieve best quality. You willfind a tools description in this Quick-start and in the manual on CD.

❋ refer also to: »Workflow optimisingimages« on page 45

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Quickstart

1. Start SilverFast

After successful installation, start Photoshop and select “SilverFast(Scanner)” under “File” and “Import”.

2. Serialization

The main scan dialog comes up with the serialization dialog, whereyou input your name, company and the serial number (from the backof the booklet). Be sure to input numbers without spaces and lettersas capitals. Check that the number has only “ZEROS”, not “O-letters”,inside. Click “OK” when done.

3. Prescan

Press the “Prescan” button to startthe prescan. Now adjust your frameby dragging the selection marqueeover the image accordingly. Makesure the marqueed frame is insidethe image and does not includewhite or black areas from the pres-can.

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4. Image Type

Under “Image Type” make the appropriate selection to configure the“Auto-Adjust”, so the automatic image control knows how to optimizethe image. Immediately after the selection of an Image Type, the Auto-Adjust is applied automatically (notice how your image is optimized).

5. Auto-Adjust

If you do not change “Image Type” selection you can press the Auto-Adjust icon in the tool bar to optimize the image. You’ll realize howhighlights, shadows and midtones are automatically corrected.

6. Correcting Brightness

If the image looks too bright or toodark you can open the “GradationDialog” from the tool bar.

Use the midtone slider to correct theoverall brightness of your image.

Any correction that you perform caneasily be undone by typing“Command-Z” and redone by typing“Command-Z” again (“Crtl-Z” on aWindows PC, respectively). In fact, youcan toggle between the two.


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7. Selective Colour Correction

Open the Selective Colour Correction fromthe tool bar and click into your image onthe coloured object you wish to correct.SilverFast recognizes the colour andchanges the colour in the center of thecolour circle accordingly.

By clicking into the top or the bottom ofthe HSB-Controls and holding the mousebutton down, you can change the Hue,Saturation or Luminance of the colourselected.

HSB-Correction allows easy colour con-trol. You can get more sophisticatedcontrol by typing numbers into the cells ofthe Colour Matrix or by selecting presetsfrom the pop-up menus in the top colourpatches of the matrix.

You can also use the Colour Circle tomake corrections. Up to six corrections(for each of the RGBCMY colours) can bemade at a time.


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8. Image Dimensions

Set your image dimensions, such as output size and printing screen,as desired.

Setting the output size Setting the printing screen

9. Defining Unsharp Masking

Under “Filter”, select “Unsharp Masking” to define the sharpness of yourimage. Since sharpness is related to image scaling and resolution, makesure you have set output size and output screen of your scan beforesetting Unsharp Masking.

To view the sharpness of the final scan, click on “Prescan” and clickinto the area of interest in your image. SilverFast commands thescanner to pick up the selected portion from the image to judge thesharpness effect. The “before” and “after” sharpness effect can beseen by clicking on the image inside the Unsharp Masking dialog.You can change any of the Unsharp Masking parameters and viewthe effect on the image immediately.

10. Select the Colour Model

By pressing the “command” key and clicking the “Scan” button a pop-up allows you to select the output colour model (PC users click with theright mouse button on Scan RGB key): RGB, ColorSync, Cie-Lab, P&PCMYK. After the selection is done, the scan button changes according-ly. Default is “Scan RGB”.



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11. Start the Scan

To start the scan, press the “Scan” button and the scan into yourimaging application begins. For further options such as batch scan-ning, look up the main manual PDF on the CD.

12. General Reset

To reset all corrections in a scan frame, press the “Option” key andclick on the “Option” button in the main SilverFast dialog box (PCusers press the “Alt-key” and click on the “Option” button).

13. Plug&Play CMYK

If you want to use Plug&PlayCMYK output, make sure a colourseparation table e.g. “Sep EuroUCR340” is loaded from inside theSilverFast-Folder into your imagingsoftware (e.g. Photoshop).

If the Plug&Play CMYK menu choice is gray so you cannot select it,choose a separation table under the “Plug&Play CMYK” menu in the“Option” dialog window.

Attention!To work correctly, make sure to select in Photoshop and in SilverFastthe same “separation table” or“CMYK-ICC profiles” or “Output RGBprofiles for RGB printers”.



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Colour managementCalibration of your scanner with SilverFast IT-8 calibration

IT-8 target calibration is the industry standard for calibrating inputdevices. Now SilverFast has integrated (optional) a professional toolfor calibration and for the creation of ICC profiles to be used withApple’s ColorSync 2.5 or under Windows with ICM 2.0. To order thisupgrade, contact LaserSoft Imaging.

SilverFast has made the process of IT-8 calibration very convenient –all steps are performed automatically by the software, just follow theinstructions outlined below.

➀ Position the IT-8 reference chart on your scanner bed.

Make sure that the IT-8 target is positioned straight within thenormal scan area, preferably where the scan starts. Avoid thoseareas which are reserved for scanner internal calibration. Theorientation of the target should be as shown on the left.

➁ Click “prescan” (the scanner performs a prescan).

➂ Drag the selection marquee across the IT-8 target so that:

a) the upper-left edge of the marquee aligns with the upper-left edge of the IT-8 colour patches,

b) the upper-right edge of the marquee aligns with the upper-right edge of the IT-8 colour patches,

c) the lower edge of the marquee aligns with the lower edge of the ray scale strip.

Note that the uppermost left and right patches of the gray scalestrip remain outside of the calibration selection..

➃ Now click the IT-8 calibration button .

Important!When using “IT-8 calibra-tion” please purchase IT8target and its referencedata from film maker (e.g.Kodak, Agfa, Fuji).



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➄ Click on “Start” in the dialog “IT-8 Calibration” andchoose the reference data file which, came with your IT-8 target, inthe file selection dialog. Make sure to choose the right file: there isone reference file for reflective and one for transparency mode.

For example, the reflective IT-8 “Kodak Q-60 colour input Target”the file “R1199601.Q60” has to be selected.

The reference data file contains the exact spectro-photometricvalues of your IT-8 target.

➅ If the positioning of the selection marquee is correct, SilverFast willstart the calibration procedure. If the positioning is incorrect, you will be asked to repeat theselection and start the calibration again.

After the calibration has been completed you will get the message“Calibration has been successful”.

Now click the check box “Use Calibration” and leave the IT-8calibration dialog by clicking .

➆ The calibration button has now become coloured and is nolonger gray . This indicates that the calibration is now active.

If you want to switch the calibration “on” or “off” later , select ordeselect in the option dialog , under “Colour Management /Scanner ➞ Internal”, the item “Calibration”. Close the option

dialog with .

Check with your IT-8 targetmaker about the reference datafile of your IT-8 target.



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The concept of optimising images When optimising scanned images, using the tools in the correctorder significantly influences the results that can be obtained andleads to the optimum output quality.

➀ Basic choice of white / black point and colour correction.The black / white points and colour correction can be set manu-ally or by using the auto-adjust function.

➁ Optimising gradationIf necessary, further individual optimising of the image withgradation curves (midtone and contrast) is possible.

➂ Selective colour correction If desired, you can correct individual colours with the selectivecolour correction. (It is also possible to use an ICC scanner profilefor applying colour correction).

➃ Size adjustment and scalingScale the image and scan frames individually in height and width.

➄ Sharpening (unsharp masking)Choose, according to type of image and scaling, the optimumsetting for Unsharp-Masking.

➅ Output format selection (e.g. Plug + Play CMYK)Select “Scan RGB” – “LAB” or “Plug + Play CMYK”. Select theappropriate separation table or ICC-profile (in case you scanCMYK) for your type of printing.

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Workflow of optimising images

Output scan

Image auto-adjustDefining highlight / shadow

Adjusting gradation curves

Selective colour correction

Unsharp masking

Output profile

Size adjustments

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OptionsBefore you start working with SilverFast, please set important prefer-ences under the Option dialog. These preferences are automaticallyincorporated into the next scan operation.

Attention: The “default dialog” windows differs from scanner toscanner and some features are only available for certain scanners orcertain imaging software.

The following parameters are set:

General defaults• Colour model RBG or CMY

Here you can toggle between RGB- and CMY-Indication for grada-tion curves and the histogram.

• Units of measure in cm or inchSwitches the units of measure between “cm” and “inch”.

• Densitometer radiusThe area of the densitometer reading can be set to 1, 2x2 and3x3 pixels.

• Default settingHere previously defined default settings can be selected . Thesesettings must have been allocated to a name under "Settings“ inthe "Frame“ panel. With the "Apply" button the new default set-tings can be instantly applied to the currently active frame. Anynew frame will automatically have the allocated default settings.

• Gamma-gradation

This adjusts the general brightness of the image for midtone andshadow. In general, a gamma of 1.6-1.8 is recommended. Fortransparency, the gamma is normally higher than for reflective(transparency 1.8-2). Check that your monitor is set to the correctgamma in order for the tonal values to be displayed evenly. Forbest results scan a gray calibration strip and adjust your gammaaccordingly.

• Q-factorThe Q-factor is the quality factor for an image. The range is from1 to 2.5. Please refer to manual addendum (Calculating thescan resolution).



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Important!Please note that some of highlightor shadow details will be lost byselecting “Levels”. Because the “auto-adjust” with“Levels” will disregard more pixels.

*AttentionThe “default dialog” windowsdiffers from scanner to scannerand some features are onlyavailable for certain scanner orcertain imaging software.

• Reopen SF after scanNormaly SilverFast (as Photoshop plugin) will be closed afterscan and has to be started again for next scan.

Auto defaults*• Auto-threshold

Determines the sensitivity (0-30) for the auto-adjust. Smaller values= more sensitive. Recommended values are 2 to 12. You can useRGB levels instead of pixel ratio when moving into the histogramby selecting “Levels”.This function is efficient if you wish to opti-mise an image by only using “auto-adjust” in order to remove basecolour like a white or a black in the scanning image.

• Highlight offset (brightest point)Minimum value for the brightest point in % (eg. 3%)

• Shadow offset (darkest point)Maximum value for the darkest point in % (eg. 98%)

• Auto-pip-factor The auto-pip-factor influences how the gradation-automatic makesan image that is too dark, brighter and an image that is too bright,darker, by means of the automatic adjustment of gradation curves.

• Automatic when ADF*Invividual image auto-adjust for each scan



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CMS (Colour management) defaults*• Colour Management

• CMS Scanner > InternalHere the preferred model for correcting the colour deviationsof the current scanner can be selected. The choice is between“none”, “Calibration” (SilverFast's own IT8 colour calibration)and “ColorSync” calibration.

• CMS Internal > MonitorHere the matching from the internal colour space of SilverFastto the current monitor is being defined. "None" is if the userdoes not want any matching. ”Automatic” is for PhotoShop.(Please check the internal ICC profile set in SilverFast shouldbe the same as the one allocated in PhotoShop's internalcolour space). “ColorSync” is for those applications that donot supply matching from inside the application but the userdoes want colour matching.

• CMS Internal > OutputThe preferred system for defining the output colour spacegeneration can be chosen here. Select “RGB” for no outputmatching. “ColorSync” if you want ColorSync to do the outputmatching. “Cie-LAB” if you want to generate device indepen-dend colour space. “P+P CMYK” for SilverFast's own powerfulseparation to CMYK with PhotoShop matching.

• Profiles for ColorSync • Scanner (Reflective)*

ColorSync profile for the reflective unit of the scanner.• Scanner (Transparency)*

ColorSync profile for the transparency unit of the scanner.• Internal

ColorSync profile for the internal colour space.• Output / Printer

ColorSync profile for the printer.

*AttentionThe “default dialog” windowsdiffers from scanner to scannerand some features are onlyavailable for certain scanner orcertain imaging software.



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• Embed ICC profilesThis option enables the user to pass the image data to an applica-tion which would do automatic matching with the embeddedprofile. When a TIFF-file is generated from SilverFast the ICC-profile is embedded into the TIFF data.

• Calibration profileThe calibration profile is a SilverFast proprietary profile generatedfrom the IT-8 target calibration. This is to calibrate the input device(scanner, digital camera) and can be selected here.

• Plug + Play CMYKThe separation table or ICC-profile Plug+Play CMYK separation ischosen here.

Special defaults*• Halftoning*

Dithering algorithms for scanning halftone images in lineart mode

• Colour filter (blind colour)Select the colour, which you wish the scanner to ignore duringmonochrome scans. You can choose between red, green or blue.

• Scan Draft*For scans with reduced quality.

• Prescan Draft*Faster prescan with reduced quality.

• Prescan “monochrome”In case there is scanning in grayscale or black and white only, youcan speed up the prescan considerably by selecting “Prescanmonochrome” (filter has to be set to green or any colour exceptwhite).

*AttentionThe “default dialog” windowsdiffers from scanner to scannerand some features are only avail-able for certain scanner or certainimaging software.



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Keyboard Shortcuts MacScanPilot

Apply / execute current tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .b

Scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Button i or k

PreScan / Scan

Stop prescan / stop scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + .

Frames

Frame numbers visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Duplicate frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + click

Set frame to full scan size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + A

Delete frame (extended keyboard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .y

Delete frame (normal keyboard) . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + n

Frame reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + click on option button

Auto-adjust

Resetting auto-adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + click onto

Highlight / shadow tools

Set highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .white triangle

Set midton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pipette

Set shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .black triangle

Keeping tool active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a

Reset highlight / shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a +

Display brightest point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + q

Display darkest point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + v

Histogram

Show result histogram . . . . . . . . . . . .a in the histogram dialog



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Select all colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + A

Select additional colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .q + click in prescan

or q + click on LED below column

Reset

Reset all parameters . . . . . . . . . . . .q + click on option button


Undo / redo last operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + Z

Opening a dialog window

Zoom in preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 1

Image auto-adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 2

Histogram dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 3

Gradation dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 4

Global correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 5

Selective colour correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 6

Expert dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + 8

Leave dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .s

Start scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .b

Undo / redo last operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .½ + Z

Show optical scan resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Show scan interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v+ q



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Keyboard Shortcuts PCScanPilot

Apply / execute current tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .b

Scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Button i or k

PreScan / scan

Stop prescan / stop scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + .

Frames

Frame numbers visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Right mouse button

Duplicate frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + click

Set frame to full scan size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v+ A

Delete frame (extended keyboard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .y

Delete frame (normal keyboard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + n


Auto-adjust

Resetting auto-adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a +

Highlight / shadow tools

Set highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .white triangle

Set midtone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pipette

Set shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .black triangle

Keep tool active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a

Reset highlight / shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a +

Display brightest point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + q

Display darkest point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + v

Histogram

Show result histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a in histogram-dialog



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Select all colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v+ A

Select additional colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .q + click in prescan

or click on LED below column

Reset

Reset all parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . .q + click on option button

Frame reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a + click on option button

Undo / redo last operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v+ Z

Opening a dialog window

Zoom in preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 1

Image auto-adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 2

Histogram dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 3

Gradation dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 4

Global correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 5

Selective colour correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 6

Expert dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + a + 8

Leave dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .s

Start scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .b

Undo / redo last operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + Z

Show scan resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Show resulting interpolated resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v + q


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