onlooker Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 <p>I just upgraded my Silverfast 6.6 to Silverfast 8, hoping the documentation and interface would be better. While I can manage to use Silverfast, the reality is that I don't use many of its tools and can't get it to do what I want half the time.<br> Silverfast seems to me to try to mask its interface deficiencies with it's automated workflow that seems to limit what you can do. For instance, it does not appear you can apply the workflow to multiple negative frames. The workflows seem to generate one big file. And it also appears that if you want to modify the workflow with multiscan or dust removal, you can't.<br> On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I don't understand it, or it's just a really poorly designed interface with even worse documentation.<br> While Silverast does create excellent scans, the documentation seems to me to be so pathetic that I would never ever recommend this software to anyone. (Hamrick's is fare more user friendly.)<br> But, now that I just spent $150 (upgrade discount) on this crap, I'd like to figure out how to use it. Basically, I have quite a few 35mm negatives I want to scan and have a number of old photos as well.<br> Any suggestions?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 <p>Well, I'm a dedicated and committed (or should be) user of ViewScan, but there are a lot of people out there who swear by Silverfast. I would guess that there must be more there than you are finding or they would all be saying that it was Silver-half-assed.</p> <p>All I can suggest it that you give it a chance and try to figure it out. Even Hamrick's documentation ain't all that great.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 <p>VueScan...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Cavan Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 <p>+1 for VueScan</p> Dave Cavan https://davecavanphotographics.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamchuttonjr Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 Yes, SF is as lousy as you think. I use Vuescan exclusively too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknowles Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 <p>I'm running SF 8 with two scanners, Epson V750 and Nikon 5000ED (have used version 6 for a few years now) and wouldn't trade it for Vuescan. I'll agree it's not easy to learn and sometimes use, but I like the efficiency of scanning (being specialized for each brand/model) and workflow.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanKlein Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 <p>Have you tried to use the software that came with your scanner? I use the Epson software than came with my V600 and it seems to do fine. I then touch up the results with Photoshop Elements.</p> Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des adams Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 <p>No, it's good. <br> I've just had to switch to Vuescan because Silverfast doesn't support my Minolta Elite 5400 scanner in Windows 7 and my laptop running Windows xp has just now died. With either of these programs it's possible to get good scans.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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