Highlights and Features
SilverFast 6.6 has many new functions and improvements.
Major ones are covered here
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Other enhancements:
Real-Time Exposure control in histogram (Agfa, Microtek, Polaroid, Nikon), Grey ICC-profiles support, more NegaFix® profiles for negative film conversion, JobManager, RGB/CMYK Channel combination display, Balloon help for OS-X and WIN, Auto-Registration and Auto-Update check from within SilverFast.

 
GUI
Multiple Densitometer
The ability to display up to 4 densitometers is possible with SilverFast. This allows 4 unique measurements of the image to be displayed simultaneously.
 
Correction
SRD®
Highly adjustable tool for recognition and removal of scratches or unwanted particles on the image.

AACO
Enhances shadow details in high contrast images without affecting the overall brightness.

GANE®
Removes different kind of film grain from the image.

GCC
Global Color Correction

MidPip4
Helps to remove color casts in different neutral tones. Up to four different color casts can be removed. Each color cast removal can even be manually fine-adjusted.

Realtime-Processing
With SilverFast, all image manipulations such as gradation, global and selective color corrections are applied by a slider control. This control updates the image in real time as the user drags the mouse. This is of particular advantage in color processing and gradational correction.

SC2G®
Allows to distinguish different contrast levels when converting colored images into grayscale images.

The Clone Tool
Simple tool for cloning of pixels.

ACR® / ACR® (SE)
(Adaptive color restoration) - Enhances faded or blurred colors

SCC® / SCC® (SE)
Manipulates and change individual colors while leaving other colors unaffected.
enhanced in Version 6.5
New presets for SilverFast SE, SilverFast SE Plus and SilverFast DC SE.
 
Color Management
SF Ai-HDR Gamma Optimization
Adopt gamma settings

ColorSync 3 (Mac) / ICM (Win 98, 2000, XP) compatible!
Using ICC-Profiles for the scanner, monitor and printer, and the capability to embed color profiles into your final scans, SilverFast enables professional color accuracy using the latest OS technologies. Rendering intent is another option, giving you control on how your profiles are applied to the image. This can be further enhanced using the IT-8 calibration option mentioned below.
 
Productivity
ColorServer
A new way of batch processing

PDF Export
From scan to PDF

IPTC
Add image information according to the "International Press and Telecommunication Council".

Plug&Play-CMYK Preview
A pioneer development from LaserSoft Imaging enables the scanner preview in SilverFast to correspond 1:1 with the CMYK-preview in Photoshop - that's sensational - making production of perfect color-printing as easy as ever! With this break-through, LaserSoft Imaging enables color reproduction through Plug&Play CMYK for everyone!

RAW
SilverFast allows a quick conversion of RAW-Data files in the background.

Renaming
Import and rename your data in a single step.
 
Other highlights
JPEG 2000
The support of the JPEG 2000 format enables SilverFast's strongest compression to process such data 3 to 7 times faster than Photoshop.

LAB-Format
By scanning into the CIE-LAB-format, SilverFast already aims at the future - device independent color - with PostScript Level 3 CIE-LAB, data will be automatically separated inside the RIP.

New File Formats
SilverFast now supports a total of 4 file output formats: TIFF, EPSF, DCS, and JPEG. You have the choice of either scanning or batch scanning directly into these file formats. The studio versions have JPEG2000 support with lossy or lossless 16 bit compression added.

Predictable color with Photoshop
SilverFast allows the preview image to match the final image in Photoshop. There is no color drift thanks to the color management system of SilverFast. You can simply set SilverFast to keep its working space identical to Photoshop's. You can even embed the working color space profile into files.
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HiRePP Demo (English)
IT8 Demo (English)
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Densitometer Demo (English)
JobManager Demo (English)

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