SLIDE SCANNING SOFTWARE.
The slide scanner has been a wonderful invention especially for those with huge stocks of old 35mm slides and negatives. The market is flooded with various models of these scanners coming from various famous brands like HP, Nikon, Epson, Kodak, Microtek etc and they fall in different price ranges.
When you buy a slide scanner, you also get slide scanning software along with it. Usually, the slide scanning software is of the same brand as the slide scanner that you have purchased. Thus, the first thing that you need to do after buying the scanner is to install the software that comes in a CD-ROM, to your personal computer. The software helps you in scanning the slides and negatives, storing the pictures where you want them to and it also allows you to edit the pictures.
When you are to use the slide scanner to scan the 35mm slides that have your cherished memories, the first thing you have do to after powering on the scanner is to activate the software. Then you need to select the source and follow the software instructions accordingly. After the picture is scanned and gets loaded to your computer, you should not store or save it immediately but preview it at first to verify whether the scanning has been carried out properly. Specifically, look out for the resolution as the quality of the digitally printed photos depend on that. Thus, always select the resolution of your scanning before scanning from the tools section. Setting the resolution at 300 dpi is the usual convention and practice but that is no hard and fast rule and you can always set it according to your choice. The software also helps you to get rid of the dust on the slides.
But, in spite of setting the resolution at the perfect state, the preview may not satisfy you. This is where the edit functions of the software help you in getting the brightness and colour content that satisfies you. Adjust it as you want and for even better result, take help of the advanced settings and just follow the instructions. Make sure to crop the photos and remove the red eyeballs. Read the user manual to utilize the functions effectively.
In the beginning, you might have to rely on the trial and error to get the best quality picture, which may consume more time, but with a little practice you will get quite used to and acquainted with the software. It is not very tough as the company looks into it that the software is user-friendly and it can be said without an iota of doubt that they succeeded to a large extent. It is advisable to store your photos n TIFF format.
LinoColor Elite and SilverFast were known to be the two best scanning software but the LinoColor is no longer available. Thus, the choice is quite easy — SilverFast.