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SilverFast Archive Suite

Scanning • Archiving • Optimizing

The SilverFast Archive Suite is the unique solution for quickly and easily archiving large amounts of photographic material. Scanner software SilverFast Ai Studio and image processing software SilverFast HDR Studio are a perfect match combined in single package.

You want to build up a digital archive of your analog originals? You still have shoeboxes full of photos in your cellar or you have thousands of slides slumbering in the attic? If that’s true, the SilverFast Archive Suite is exactly the right solution for you! Whether slides, negatives, Kodachromes, medium format originals, or reflective originals like photos, the SilverFast Archive Suite contains numerous image automatics, which will do much of the work of your scan project.

SilverFast Ai Studio + SilverFast HDR Studio = SilverFast Archive Suite

The WorkflowPilot is a digital assistance tool integrated into the Archive Suite. It will guide you through all necessary steps of your scanning process. You have the choice of optimizing your image data during the scan or of storing it as 64bit/48bit RAW data, which is the ideal basis for a non-destructive workflow. These RAW data images can be processed any time later using SilverFast HDR Studio. The image files contain all the information from the analog image originals that your scanner was able to capture. This includes the data of your scanner’s infrared channel. For this reason, SilverFast RAW data is perfect for further processing and optimization. The Archive Suite with an integrated color management system is ideal for professional use.

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Archiving Software Edition

Our PREMIUM software package for scanning, archiving and processing.

SilverFast Archive Suite

PREMIUM
  • HDRi RAW data Workflow
  • Virtual Light Table
  • One-Click-Optimization
  • Scan and Processing Assistant
  • IT8 Color Calibration
  • Expert Mode for Fine Tuning
  • Create and manage Film and Color Profiles
  • Comprehensive Image Retouching Package

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Powerful Features for Brilliant Images

The Archive Suite is the complete solution. It provides a unique concept for efficiently digitizing and processing your images. Proven and innovative tools. SilverFast is the world-wide leading software.

Precise Preview before Scanning

Frame Detection with IFF+Engine

NegaFix – Numerous Negative Film Profiles
Integrated Auto IT8 Calibration
Workflowpilot – Powerful Assistant
Non-destructive Image Optimization
16bit Histogram – Full Control
SRDx – Efficient Dust and Scratch Removal
Tools for Automatic and Manual Optimization

Exclusively in our Archive Suite

When using a flatbed scanner, the quickest way to create SilverFast RAW data is with the SilverFast ExpressScan, which has a European patent pending and is exclusively included in the Archive Suite. Using the ExpressScan you realize time savings of 50% to 75%.

Starting your scan processes is particularly easy and done with just a few clicks using our SilverFast Single Archive Command SAC, which is also exclusively included in the Archive Suite. We have prepared presets for many slide and 35mm film holders to enable a really easy way of RAW data archiving.

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Scanning and Optimizing Images

The non-destructive HDRiRAW feature is part of every SilverFast HDR and Archive Suite edition. The 64bit HDRiRAW color files (or 32-bit HDRiRAW grayscale files) used contain all the readable image information, including information from the infrared channel, whose data can be used for image optimization, e.g. for dust and scratch removal.

Thus, the HDRiRAW data is the perfect starting material for all subsequent processing steps.

Consistent colors and color management have been and are still in many areas a certain mystery for professionals and even more so for consumers. For some time achieving color consistent scans has been a field dedicated to professional color consultants and operators only. The new SilverFast version assists professionals and enables consumers to benefit from consistent colors without the need to bother with the sophisticated process behind it. With SilverFast, users of all experience levels can achieve color consistent scans by initially calibrating their scanners. Just two mouse clicks, nothing more is needed to calibrate your scanner with the latest SilverFast. The high-quality IT8 targets – transmissive as well as reflective – are manufactured in LaserSoft Imaging’s own production, where small batches and accuracy ensure the upmost precision. You can order your targets from our Online-Shop.

Using the intelligent frame-finding option and the fast saving of originals into lossless HDRiRAW file formats (64bit/ 48bit RAW data) enables you to quickly digitize whole image collections. This way, you can effectively prevent your pictures from being destroyed or getting lost.

The combination of SilverFast’s Multi-Exposure® and patented Auto IT8 Calibration provides the best quality and safety possible. Since calibration data gets embedded into the files, you don’t need to calibrate again when opening and processing them with SilverFast HDR Studio afterwards. A permanent gamma value synchronization of the 64bit/ 48bit data secures predictable and consistent brightness and color reproduction between SilverFast Ai Studio and SilverFast HDR Studio.

Beyond that, SilverFast saves scanner related information along with the image data. This allows an advanced automatic Unsharp Masking for the later post processing with SilverFast HDR, which takes the specific scanner details into account and is therefore able to produce brilliant, pin sharp images.

After scanning with SilverFast Ai Studio, you can convert the RAW files with SilverFast HDR Studio. The conversion process uses the HiRePP® function. HiRePP allows amazingly fast opening of huge files in realtime and the ability to work with them almost instantly. The SilverFast Archive Suite will enable you to perform all the necessary steps for the professional and lossless digital backup of your treasured collections (which may have taken years or even decades to establish) on your own, without having to give them up to someone else.

Process these files immediately or at any other time, at any place. Only one single scan is needed; once the data is captured, it can be used in a variety of different ways. May it be a fine-art print, a presentation, a postcard or a web gallery. Everything can be created quickly and effectively ​of the existing RAW data using SilverFast HDR Studio.

Feature Highlights

ExpressScan

More than 100% faster scans – patented in the EU and USA. The SilverFast ExpressScan automatically recognizes the arrangement of all images in a filmholder or on a flatbed and minimizes the number of scan passes.

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Auto IT8 Calibration

Calibrating the scanner is the starting point for brilliant and consistent colors. The SilverFast IT8 Calibration is easy to use and fully automatic. Using one of our new Advanced IT8 Calibration Targets, the calibration process is even more precise.

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WorkflowPilot

The SilverFast WorkflowPilot, which has been inspired by aviation preflight routines, is one of SilverFast‘s main elements. It is a kind of assistant guiding the user in the correct order through all processing steps.

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16bit Histogram

Professional Exposure Compensation

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I have over a 40 year career film archive that I am in the process of digitizing myself. I recently purchased an Epson v850 Pro scanner that came with SilverFast software. I immediately upgraded to SilverFast Archive Suite including SilverFast HDR and began my film archive scanning journey.

[…] I am 100% satisfied with the quality and ease in maximum quality scanning! In my opinion – scanning this traditional way is far superior than all of the current camera film copying systems being marketed!

Jeff Katz – JeffKatzPhotography

With the optionally available Archive Suite (a combination of SilverFast Ai Studio and SilverFast HDR Studio) it is also possible to make RAW scans, in order to do the processing later in the HDR software. With the option to scan films in the HDRi format you have the possibility, to use the information of the infrared channel in an optimal way in the postprocessing. For the professional use it is recommended by all means to use the Archive Suite.

ScanDig, www.filmscanner.info

Whether your desire is to scan photographic prints, pictures printed in magazines, negatives or slides, SilverFast Archive Suite 8 is worth a closer look.

Photolife, Magazine

The SilverFast Archive Suite offers all necessary steps for a professional and lossless backup of all the images that you’ve collected over the years and thus preserves your precious originals.

.psd PHOTOSHOP, Magazine

The unusual beauty of this Archive Suite is its very efficient batch scan capability that includes the infrared iSRD data in a 64bit raw scanner file.

David Brooks, Photographer

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Individually adjusted to each scanner model, SilverFast brings out the maximum quality from any device and clearly exceeds the results of the manufacturers’ software.

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SilverFast HDR is an image processing software that includes numerous color reproduction tools. It is a real alternative to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

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LaserSoft Imaging is also known as flexible software engineer for tailor-made business solutions. SilverFast is a valuable part in many specialized business applications.

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