LaserSoft Imaging

I'm scanning slides on my Epson 1640xl which has trays that can hold 30 slides at once. I've worked out my desired auto settings and I've created 30 frames that are aligned with my trays. Each time a put another set of slides onto the scanner bed, I would like to have Silverfast perform a fresh auto-adjust on each frame without having to manually click on each frame.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to accomplish this. Is there a key sequence that tells Silverfast to auto-adjust all frames (like ctr-alt-2 does for a single frame)?

I've got about thousands of slides to scan, so this is an important issue for me.

Thanks for your help.

- Brad

sorry brad, there is no key-combination that will do an automatic correction for all frames.
The only approach in this direction would be the use of the SilverFast JobManager, however, an automatic correction will take effect as late as in the final scan - NOT in the prescan as you would want it.
This is worth to be considered by LSI development.

I tried to use Job Manager to get an automatic image adjustment for all 30 frames of a new set of slides without having to address each new slide individually, but it looked to me like it was retaining the frame settings from the initial set of 30 slides, rather than performing an auto image adjustment on the new set of slides. The manual shows the auto-adjust icon on the job manager entry with a caption that says the image will be auto-adjusted prior to scanning, but I couldn't find a way using the edit function to get that icon to appear in the job manager entries. When I did the edit on each initial frame and clicked on the auto-adjust icon, the Job Manager entry would show the gradation icon, which according to the manual implies the previous settings will be retained. Why can't I get the auto-adjust icon to appear in the Job Manager frame entries as shown in the manual?

Perhaps I didn't follow through with enough testing. Maybe the Job Manager really was performing an auto adjust on the second set of images without my having to manually process each frame, even though the indications looked like it would not?

The other reason I stopped trying to use the Job Manager was that it was not advancing the sequence numbers for the saved files in the same way that the batch file scans did. When I started a second job, it overwrote the files from the previous job instead of starting with the next number in the sequence, even though the "reset for each batch scan" checkbox on the batch file scan dialog was not checked. I need the numbers to advance automatically. Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

Thanks.

- Brad

After thinking about it for a while, here's my enhancement request... please add functionality that makes holding down the "Shift" key while clicking on the auto-adjust icon perform an immediate auto-adjust for all frames in the preview window.

What do you think?

- Brad

"but I couldn't find a way using the edit function to get that icon to appear in the job manager entries. When I did the edit on each initial frame and clicked on the auto-adjust icon, the Job Manager entry would show the gradation icon, which according to the manual implies the previous settings will be retained. Why can't I get the auto-adjust icon to appear in the Job Manager frame entries as shown in the manual?"

This is exactly the problem that's been driving me nuts. The manual shows this icon. It even has a picture (on page 342) of the JobManager window showing the "Execute Auto-Adjust Before Sca" [sic] icon beside each scan job. But there's not way to get it there! I don't want the solution proposed by BradF, although it would be a step In the right direction. I want Silverfast to be able to do exactly what it says it does: auto-adjust each frame on batch scans. It drives me nuts that, currently, I have to just sit around clicking the exact same buttons over and over again whenever I have a lot of slides or negatives to scan.

I don't always want to fiddle endlessly with each frame, I just want the software to the best it can with auto settings, on it's own, so when I have hundreds of slides or negatives to scan, I can just load them up and tell it to scan, without clicking on each frame individually and hitting the "Auto-Adjust" button, then clearing out the old jobs and adding all the new frames to the job manager.

It seems like this is the default behavior anyone with hundreds of things to scan would want. I can't believe it won't do this. I contacted tech support twice, and the first time they answered a different question I didn't ask, and I haven't gotten any response to the second contact, although it's been almost a month.