LaserSoft Imaging

I am using Ai (I can't afford HDR). I am batch scanning slides (4 at a time on my Epson 2450). After I have set all color correction, resolution, etc. I have to set the parameters for dust and scratch removal. Currently I have to prescan a slide, set the parameters and then move on to the next one. It would be very helpful if I could batch prescan all of them and then set the dust and scratch parameters on cached images.

Another thing that would speed up prescans would be able to define the area to prescan. In my case (Epson 2450) the ideal would be to somehow convey that I am using the slide template which has room for 4 slides at fixed locations. This is probably a tall order, given the number of scanners you support, but it would be neat.

Thanx

Frank

Dear Frank

thanks for providing this information to us.
It is always very interesting and important to know how users actually work with the SilverFast software in order to achieve their goal(s).

Only this way we can find out how to make SilverFast even more powerful and easy to use...

However, I can already foresee the problem that lies in your first suggestion as other users will complain that previews are scanned (and cached) that they don't need, slowing down their work.
This is because some users only check on the first image to set parameters and then copy the settings to the other slides / scan frames.

I can help you with some information, though:

First SilverFast will in some future version cache all previews made in order to quickly change back to a scan frame to adjust settings.

My second suggestion is that you save your frames (e.g. as a Job in the JobManager). This way you can ignore to preview the whole flatbed frame and jump directly to the slide previews.

Third, I did enter a suggestion into our internal features database to support film holders natively with flatbeds to provide the same ease of use that film scanners do.