In a message dated 10/10/2000 8:53:55 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > This is also why SilverFast is obsolete. It was written with a
> > distinct scanner model in mind - download curves to the scanner
> > to map 10-bit or 12-bit data to 8-bit data inside the scanner.
> > Nowdays, good scanners can return the full bit depth to the
> > scanner program, and scanner programs can pass the full
> > bit depth to Photoshop.
>
> OOoooo Ed, you bitch!!! ;)
<smile>
My point wasn't to slam SilverFast, but rather to point out the
fundamental assumption underlying it's design - that the
scanner does the mapping from 12-bits to 8-bits before
transferring the data over the scsi interface.
If a scanner transfers the whole 12-bits of data to the
application, then it makes sense to do as much of the
color processing as possible within Photoshop.
There's a lot of overlap between the functionality of
SilverFast and Photoshop, and with modern scanners
this functionality is only really needed in Photoshop.
Regards,
Ed Hamrick
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