Silverfast AI 8 - PPI question and noise problem
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 5:06 pm
Hello all,
I hope there are someone who can help me answer a few questions. I have just changed scanner and software from Epson v750 and Epson SCAN to Plustek 120 and Silverfast. So far I like silverfast, it's easy to use and has alot of great tools.
1. Question about PPI. So i can manually put in the PPI in the preset box. For some reason the maximum PPI I can put in, is 1200. I know the scanner itself can do a max of 5300. What I can do is to drag the Res. bar in silverfast up to a higher PPI but when I import the file into photoshop it is the PPi that I put in the box (preset box) that seems to transfer into the data of the image. So is there any way to fix this? or is there something I am not aware of? How can I acutally scan at 5300 PPI and get that information in photoshop as well?
2. I am getting a great deal of digital noise in the images I scan. I understand that scanners will give me some noise, but I am looking at two identical images scanned with the different scanners. 1 scanned with the Epson and the epson software, and then the same image scanned with the plustek and silverfast. The one scanned with silverfast+Plustek has way more noise then the other. I am not talking a little bit, it's a lot. What can this come from? At the moment I am so happy with the Plustek and the Silverfast in every way except the actual image I am getting out of it, which is the whole point. I just hope there is something I am not understanding that gives me these problems as I hope I can continue using them together.
Many thanks
I hope there are someone who can help me answer a few questions. I have just changed scanner and software from Epson v750 and Epson SCAN to Plustek 120 and Silverfast. So far I like silverfast, it's easy to use and has alot of great tools.
1. Question about PPI. So i can manually put in the PPI in the preset box. For some reason the maximum PPI I can put in, is 1200. I know the scanner itself can do a max of 5300. What I can do is to drag the Res. bar in silverfast up to a higher PPI but when I import the file into photoshop it is the PPi that I put in the box (preset box) that seems to transfer into the data of the image. So is there any way to fix this? or is there something I am not aware of? How can I acutally scan at 5300 PPI and get that information in photoshop as well?
2. I am getting a great deal of digital noise in the images I scan. I understand that scanners will give me some noise, but I am looking at two identical images scanned with the different scanners. 1 scanned with the Epson and the epson software, and then the same image scanned with the plustek and silverfast. The one scanned with silverfast+Plustek has way more noise then the other. I am not talking a little bit, it's a lot. What can this come from? At the moment I am so happy with the Plustek and the Silverfast in every way except the actual image I am getting out of it, which is the whole point. I just hope there is something I am not understanding that gives me these problems as I hope I can continue using them together.
Many thanks