Scanning Workflows With SilverFast 8

May 25, 2012 ·

Mark Segal

SilverFast has been one of the premiere applications for scanning film and prints since LaserSoft Imaging A.G. released Version 1.0 in 1995. The application grew and matured over the years, being used by very large numbers of people all over the world. In September 2011 the company released Version 8.0. This version is fully up-to-date with contemporary Macintosh and Microsoft computer operating systems and provides 64-bit compatible drivers for a number of scanners – the Nikon line, for example, that are no longer manufactured. The application’s code and user interface have changed fundamentally, and for the better.

Over the last year of its redevelopment, Mark Segal , a regular contributor on The Luminous Landscape, author of several articles on scanning with SilverFast as well as seminar leader and instructor on the use of SilverFast, assisted LaserSoft Imaging as one of its foremost external beta testers. At the same time, Mark identified the need for a compreh...

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Mark Segal

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.