[Macfury]

I've recently started with Epson Scan 2. I found that the cursor became a cropping tool, a small plus sign, straight off when I hovered over the preview scan pane. Functions identically to the old Epson Scan in that regard.

 

[Macfury]

As long as the checkbox is checked next to "Thumbnail", you will have the non-typical behaviour. Uncheck it and things will return to what you're familiar with.

 

[Macfury]

Just a promo bundle. My biggest beef is still the loss of TWAIN functionality. Does SilverFast offer that?

 

[Macfury]

Weirdly, even using the current software, TWAIN has kicked in from time to time—but I have no idea how!

 

[Macfury]

I never take the lossy hit of saving to JPG. TIFF is best.

Although I use Brother, not Epson, I've been doing a lot of scanning recently.

Saving as hi-res JPG or PDFs did weirdness to their size. Scanning to TIF seems to have fixed that.

 

[Macfury]

I always save to TIFF or PSD for the raw scan. If you save to jpg first, any change—even cropping it—begins to degrade the image.