With SilverFast 8 scanning software, it is easy to change one specific range of colours in an image. You use the Selective Colour Correction tool. I used this tool to change a book cover’s main colour in less than 10 seconds. Scanning doesn’t always need to be centered around photos or negatives. It can also be used for more creative purposes.

Your digital camera needs to be white balanced — actually, grey balanced would be more accurate. The reason is that the camera’s whites, greys and blacks, should all be calibrated to a known neutral value. From there, the camera’s electronics can figure out how other colors should be rendered. Scanners don’t have that problem.

Scanning services — services that will scan your photos for you — are not as popular as they used to be. We’re all digital these days. Many people still have shoeboxes full of photo prints, slides and negatives. And art photographers who are old enough to have learned about film emulsions usually have a library [...]

Scanners are so “passé”. We all shoot digital, so what should you keep a scanner for anyway? Have you considered throwing out your trusted Epson V700, HP, or whatever photo scanner? You might want to reconsider, because with a good scanner you can “shoot” 3D objects.

SilverFast PrinTao lets you print your images directly from folders, but also from a scanner. It’s a fairly complete layout system that allows you to create your individual layout or templates directly. Integrated colour management ensures true-to-colour printing and with the optional upgrade to SilverFast PhotoProof, it offers to create contract proofs according to international standards.SilverFast PrinTao [...]

Top German current affairs weekly magazine, Der SPIEGEL, found the investment in SilverFast an attractive proposition, particularly because it enables an efficient workflow, by allowing originals to be scanned with a maximum dynamic range and then be saved and archived as "digital originals". Saving data with a depth of 48 bits allows maximum quality and [...]

Vuescan 9.0.55 by Hamrick is SilverFast 8’s main competitor. Vuescan 9.0.55 is a 64-bit scanner application, which delivers more or less the same functionality as SilverFast. However, VueScan 9.0.55 performs poorly with end-results that are too bright when no corrections have been applied, and with a user interface that leaves much guessing as to what certain features will have as a result.