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| Introduction | |
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| Analog and Digital Workflow | |
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| Analog Workflow for Negative Film | |
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| Analog Workflow for Slide Film | |
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| Hybrid Workflow: Shooting Analog, Scanning, Digital Processing | |
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| Digital Workflow: Digital Shooting and Digital Editing | |
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| Alternatives to the Film Scanner | |
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| Megapixel (MP) in Comparison: DSLR, Film Scanner, 35mm Film | |
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| Digital Single Lens Reflex Cameras | |
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| Flatbed Scanners with Transparency Adapter | |
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| Scanning Prints | |
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| Shooting a Projected Slide with a Digital Camera | |
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| Duplicating Slides with DSLR and Slide Copy Attachment | |
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| Film Processing with Photo CD | |
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| Photo CDs from Kodak | |
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| Fujicolor CD | |
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| Comparison: Photo CDs vs. Manual Scan | |
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| Professional Scanning Services | |
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| Performance Characteristics of Film Scanners | |
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| Key Specifications of a Film Scanner | |
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| Nominal Resolution | |
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| PPI, SPI, and DPI: Units for Resolution | |
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| Determining the Actual Resolution with USAF-1951 Test Chart | |
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| Color Depth of Scanner | |
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| Color Depth in Image Processing: 8-Bit or 16-Bit? | |
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| Density Range | |
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| Scanning Speed | |
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| Implemented Image Corrections | |
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| Supported Film Formats and Bulk Scanning | |
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| Scanner Light Sources | |
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| It's All in the Lens | |
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| Scanhancer | |
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| Scanhancer with Black and White Negatives | |
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| Scanhancer with Color Slides | |
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| Scanhancer with Kodachrome Slides | |
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| Scanhancer and Color Calibration | |
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| Interfaces: Connection between Scanner and Computer | |
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| Life after the Purchase | |
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| Learning Curve | |
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| Which PC Is Suitable? | |
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| Noise | |
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| Customer Support | |
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| Firmware Updates | |
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| Software Support | |
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| Wish List for Future Film Scanners | |
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| Depth of Field | |
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| Ergonomics | |
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| Scanning Film | |
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| Handling Film | |
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| Curled, Wavy Film | |
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| Physically Removing Dust | |
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| Inserting Film Correctly | |
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| Finding the Emulsion Side | |
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| Handling Film Strips | |
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| Destroy Originals after Scan? | |
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| Film Types | |
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| Color Negatives | |
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| Color Slides | |
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| Kodachrome Slides | |
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| Black and White Negatives | |
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| The Ideal Film for Scanning | |
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| Slide Mounts: Glass and Glassless | |
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| Glass Mounts | |
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| Glassless Mounts | |
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| File Formats | |
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| Digital Negative | |
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| Differences between Digital Cameras and Film Scanners | |
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| Working with Digital Negatives | |
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| Conventional Image Editors | |
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| Image Processing at Raw Level | |
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| Color Depth in Image File Formats | |
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| Important Image File Formats in the World of Scanning | |
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| JPEG - Compact, but Lossy | |
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| JPEG 2000 - Lossless Compression | |
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| TIFF - Lossless Compression | |
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| CMYK - TIFF | |
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| BMP (Windows) and PICT (Macintosh) | |
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| Raw: Proprietary Image File Formats | |
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| Raw Files in Detail: Nikon's NEF Format | |
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| The Right Image Size and Resolution | |
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| Absolute Resolution, Relative Resolution, and Output Size | |
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| Film Scanner Resolution and Maximum Print Size | |
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| Color Management in Theory and Practice | |
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| Why Color Management? | |
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| Basics | |
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| The Relative Definition of Colors | |
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| Gamut | |
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| Gamma | |
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| Scanning, Viewing, Editing, and Printing | |
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| Color Models | |
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| Additive Color Model RGB | |
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| Subtractive Color Model CMY(K) | |
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| Lab | |
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| Color Spaces | |
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| Considerations for Selecting a Color Space | |
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| sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.: Color Spaces for Gamma 2.2 | |
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| Apple RGB, etc.: Color Spaces for Gamma 1.8 | |
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| Conversion between Color Spaces | |
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| ICC Profiles | |
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| Purpose of ICC Profiles | |
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| Definition of Calibration and Profiling | |
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| Input Profiles | |
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| Output Profiles | |
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| Display Profiles | |
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| Color Management Modules in Operating System and Application | |
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| Download ICC Profiles or DIY? | |
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| Monitor Calibration in Practice | |
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| Software Calibration vs. Hardware Calibration | |
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| Monitor Calibration via Software | |
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| Monitor Calibration via Hardware with ColorVision Spyder 2 | |
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| Limits of Monitor Calibration | |
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| Generating ICC Scanner Profiles | |
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| Scanner Calibration with SilverFast | |
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| Scanning Methods | |
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| Thumbnail Index-Filmstrip Offset and Presorting | |
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| Preview-Corrections before the Scan | |
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| Cropping the Image | |
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| Image Corrections before the Scan | |
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| Difference between Scanning Program and Image Editor | |
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| Scan - Create the Image File | |
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| Single and Batch Scan | |
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| Multi-Sampling | |
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| Scanning Correction Filters in Detail | |
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| Dust and Scratch Removal in Software | |
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| SilverFast SRD | |
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| SilverFast iSRD | |
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| Dust and Scratch Removal in Hardware | |
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| Digital Ice | |
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| Ice and Fare for Kodachrome Slides | |
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| Ice and Fare for Black and White Negatives | |
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| Infrared Clean - Scratch Removal in VueScan | |
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| Restoring Faded Colors | |
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| Nikon Scan: Digital ROC | |
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| VueScan: Restore Fading | |
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| Grain Equalization | |
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| Digital GEM | |
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| VueScan Grain Reduction | |
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| SilverFast GANE | |
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| Highlight and Shadow Recovery | |
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| Digital DEE - Correction for Highlights and Shadows | |
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| SilverFast AACO - Auto Adaptive Contrast Optimization | |
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| Configuring the Scanning Software | |
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| Image Orientation | |
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| Rotating and Mirroring the Image | |
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| Cropping | |
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| Setting Your Own Focus Point | |
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| Filmstrip Offset | |
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| Image Properties | |
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| Color Balance | |
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| Unsharp Masking | |
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| Curves | |
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| Working with Histograms | |
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| Before/After Histogram Button and Auto Contrast | |
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| Black Point and White Point | |
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| Setting the Gray Point | |
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| LCH Editor | |
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| Analog Gain | |
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| Nikon Scan | |
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| Installation | |
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| Look and Feel | |
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| Layout of the Scan Window | |
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| Saving Configurations | |
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| The "Settings" Menu | |
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| Preferences | |
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| Color Management | |
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| Input Profiles/Scanner Profiles | |
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| Monitor Profiles | |
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| Color Space Profiles | |
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| Film Profiles | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| VueScan | |
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| Purchase and Installation | |
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| Look and Feel | |
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| Input | |
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| Crop | |
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| Filter | |
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| Color Settings | |
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| Output Parameters | |
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| Prefs | |
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| Raw Data | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| SilverFast | |
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| SilverFast SE, Ai, Ai Studio, and HDR | |
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| Installing the Scanning Programs | |
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| Look and Feel | |
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| SilverFast Main Window | |
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| Prescan | |
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| Overview | |
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| NegaFix | |
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| Densitometer | |
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| Picture Settings | |
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| JobManager for Batch Scans | |
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| Set Basic Configuration with Options | |
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| "General" Tab | |
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| "Auto" Tab | |
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| "CMS" Tab | |
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| "Special" Tab | |
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| Speeding up Scans | |
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| Image Processing | |
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| Raw Processing with SilverFast HDR | |
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| Creating RAW Files | |
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| Preselection on the Virtual Light Table (VLT) | |
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| Scans from Disk with HDR | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Scan Workflows | |
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| Vital Corrections before Scanning | |
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| Level Adjustment: Before or after the Scan? | |
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| Nikon Scan Workflow | |
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| Scanning Slides Individually and with a Slide Feeder | |
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| Nikon Scan: Batch Scanning of Negatives with Filmstrip Adapter | |
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| SilverFast Workflow | |
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| Digitizing Black and White Negatives | |
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| VueScan Workflow | |
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| Scanning Single Slides | |
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| VueScan: Scanning Negative Strips with the Filmstrip Adapter | |
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| Nikon Capture Editor | |
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| Raw Processing in Capture | |
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| Differences from Photoshop | |
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| Upgrade to New Features in Capture with Updates | |
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| Enter Registration Code before Update | |
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| Lossless Rotation of JPEGs | |
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| The User Interface | |
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| Multi Image Light Box | |
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| Palettes | |
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| Quick Tools | |
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| Features of Capture | |
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| Cropping | |
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| Straighten | |
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| Lost Highlights and Shadows | |
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| Markers | |
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| Histogram | |
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| Noise Reduction | |
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| LCH Editor - Color Lightness | |
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| D-Lighting: Successor to Digital DEE | |
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| Red Eye Correction Now Also Possible in RAW | |
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| Color Booster | |
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| Photo Effects | |
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| Capture NX | |
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| Control Points instead of Layer Masks: Color Manipulation at RAW Level | |
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| Grain and Noise: Sharpening and Selection | |
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| Correcting with Photoshop and Photoshop Plug-ins | |
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| Dust and Scratch Removal | |
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| Removing Scratches with the Clone Stamp | |
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| Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush | |
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| Dust and Scratch Removal Plug-In from Polaroid | |
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| Image Corrections | |
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| Correcting Perspective Distortion | |
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| Selectively Correcting Shadows and Highlights | |
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| Straightening Horizon | |
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| Photoshop Plug-ins from Applied Science Fiction | |
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| Grain Removal with Digital GEM | |
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| Digital Fill-Flash with SHO | |
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| Restoring Colors with Digital ROC | |
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| Removing Color-Casts | |
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| Match Color | |
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| Noise Reduction with Noise Ninja | |
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| Noise Reduction with Neat Image | |
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| Backup | |
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| Saved Does Not Automatically Mean Safe | |
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| Backup to Hard Disk | |
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| Backup to the Same Partition | |
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| Backup to an Additional Hard Disk | |
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| Archiving on Removable Media | |
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| Optical Media: CD and DVD | |
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| Image Tape | |
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| Image Management | |
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| Setting Up an Image Database - Folder and File Structures | |
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| Cataloging with IPTC Data | |
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| Organizing Images with ThumbsPlus | |
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| Batch Renaming Files: LupasRename | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |
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| Thanks | |
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| This DVD contains | |