Microtek ScanMaker i900 User Guide

Microtek ScanWizard Pro

User’s Guide

For Mac OS X

Copyright © 2002 by Microtek International, Inc.

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Contents

Introduction............................................................................ 5

What is ScanWizard Pro..................................................................................... 5

The ScanWizard Pro Interface............................................................................ 6

System Requirements ......................................................................................... 8

About this Manual .............................................................................................. 8

Getting Started....................................................................... 9

Launching ScanWizard Pro ................................................................................ 9

Exiting ScanWizard Pro ..................................................................................... 9

Color Matching ................................................................................................ 10

Basic Scenarios ...................................................................13

How to Scan a Color Photographic Print ......................................................... 14

How to Scan a Color Positive Transparency.................................................... 16

How to Scan a Color Negative ......................................................................... 18

How to Scan a Line Art Image ......................................................................... 20

How to Scan a Newspaper or Magazine Image ............................................... 22

Using the Advanced Image Correction Tools ...................25

The LCH Color Model ..................................................................................... 26

Selecting LCH or Native Color Space ............................................................. 27

Workflow for Optimizing Images .................................................................... 28

How to Use Custom Settings ........................................................................... 29

How to Choose the Correct Image Category ................................................... 30

Using the Dynamic Range Tool ....................................................................... 32

Using the White & Black Points Tool .............................................................. 34

Using the Gradation Tool ................................................................................. 36

Using the Color Cast Tool ................................................................................ 38

Using the Saturation Curve Tool ...................................................................... 40

Using the Selective Color Tool ........................................................................ 42

Using the Tone Curve Tool............................................................................... 44

Using the Filter Tool......................................................................................... 46

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Special Features & Advanced Scenarios .......................... 49

How to Edit Multiple Scan Jobs ....................................................................... 50

How to Scan Multiple Jobs .............................................................................. 52

How to Use ScanWizard Pro Contexts............................................................. 54

How to Use the SnapTrans Templates.............................................................. 56

How to Use the Magic Diamonds .................................................................... 58

How to Customize Negative Film .................................................................... 60

How to Scan and Display an Image on a 640 x 480 Monitor .......................... 62

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1 Introduction

What is ScanWizard Pro?

ScanWizard Pro is an advanced scanner controller program that provides many
powerful, professional-level features for scanning.

One important feature of ScanWizard Pro is that it lets you work in the LCH color
space, which is based on the LCH (Lightness, Chroma, Hue) model of colors. The
LCH model is a more intuitive way of editing and working with colors because it
defines colors the way we understand them — based on the properties of brightness
(how light or dark a color is), saturation (how rich or dull a color is), and hue (“red”
as opposed to “blue”).

ScanWizard Pro is also ColorSync™-savvy, allowing you to use standard ICC color
profiles for accurate color matching when outputting your images.

A Powerful New Software

With ScanWizard Pro, you can achieve a new level of efficiency in scanning. The
many powerful tools of the program work together to help you obtain the superior
color images you need, as well as provide you with the flexibility to adjust or
improve the images as needed.

As you become increasingly familiar with the program, you will also see how
ScanWizard Pro can open up a whole new vista for organizing your workflow and
boosting your scanning productivity in as many ways as your creative imagination
will allow.

Now Works with the New Mac OS X

ScanWizard Pro now works with the Mac OS
X, employing an interface consistent with the
specifications of Apple’s new operating
system. Enjoy the new ScanWizard Pro for
Mac OS X, and rediscover the wonders of
power scanning in an amazing new interface.

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Settings window

The ScanWizard Pro Interface

Shows the current scan job
Scanner ICC Input profile

Image Type of current scan job

Resolution settings

Scan Frame, Scaling, Output
controls, Locks, Unit of
Measurement, Transform

Image category

Selected scan job

(highlighted job)

Check: Indicates

job will be

scanned when

you press the

Scan button

Current scan job (indicated by

green dot in front)

Advanced Image
Correction controls
for adjusting and
enhancing image
quality

Scan Job Queue window

Thumbnail showing
prescan image

Information
window

Function buttons for
manipulating scan jobs

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The ScanWizard Pro Interface

Prescan button: Displays
a detailed image of the
area selected by the
scan frame

Scan Material

pop-up menu:
Selects the type
of scan material

Preview window

Unit of measurement

Ruler

Pixel Locator:
Shows x, y position
of pixel on the
current overview /
prescan image

Color Meter Display:
Displays input and output
pixel values of the selected
area in the overview /
prescan image

Overview button:
Previews the
entire scan bed

Scan button: Starts the
scanning process

Toolbar: Scan Frame
tool, Zoom tool, Move
tool, Tag Windows tool

Overview
image

Scan Frame
around overview
image. Drag on
corner to resize

Color Meter Options:
Provides further options
for the Sample Display
Area of the Information
window below)

Sample Display area:
Shows pixelized display of
area in the overview /
prescan image where
mouse cursor rests

Auxiliary
information

Handy buttons for Zoom
in, Zoom out, and
Flashers for Low & High
Value Markers

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Status bar gives
useful tips
relating to the
selected tool in
the Toolbar

System Requirements

•Power Mac G3, G4; later-generations iMacs

• Mac OS X 10.1 or later

• 128 MB RAM required; 256 MB or more suggested for better performance

• Free hard disk space as required by the size of your scanned images and for
additional working files

• CD-ROM drive (internal or external)

• “Thousands of color” display or better

• Microtek and ArtixScan scanners that support ScanWizard Pro

About this Manual

This manual provides basic information on the program and sketches out a variety of
scenarios that illustrate ScanWizard Pro’s versatility and how best to use the program
for specific scanning tasks.

For a more detailed listing of individual features, please refer to the companion
Reference Guide included in your documentation package.

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2 Getting Started

Launching ScanWizard Pro

Start ScanWizard Pro from the Application folder in your Mac OS X system. The
first time you launch ScanWizard Pro, you will be prompted to set up Color
Matching for your scanner. See the Color Matching section for more details.

You will also see the ScanWizard Pro menu at the top left portion of your desktop.
Here, you will see commands for specifying your preferences in ScanWizard Pro,
hiding ScanWizard Pro, quitting, etc.

Exiting ScanWizard Pro

To exit ScanWizard Pro, go to the Preview window, and from the File menu, choose
the Quit command, or press the Apple+Q combination keys on your keyboard. You
can also quit ScanWizard Pro by going to the ScanWizard Pro menu and choosing
the Quit ScanWizard Pro command.

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Color Matching

The first time you launch ScanWizard Pro, you will be prompted to perform color
matching for your monitor and printer.

Color Matching is an important feature of ScanWizard Pro that ensures color
consistency — from the initial input phase when an image is captured by the scanner,
to the final output process when the image is output to your monitor or printer. Color
Matching allows you to gain the assurance that the colors captured by the scanner are
the same when they are displayed on your monitor and will be reproduced as closely
as possible when they are printed.

To use Color Matching:
As mentioned previously, you will be prompted to select color matching settings

immediately after you launch ScanWizard Pro the first time.
At any point in the future, you may also select color matching settings to change your

color profile. To do this, go to the Preferences menu in the Preview window, and
choose the Color Matching Setup command.

Monitor selection

shown here is set

in System

Preferences/

Displays

See the Appendix
section of the manual
for more details

Immediately updates

the Preview window

image when a new

setting is selected. This

will reflect colors

consistent with the

newly selected profile

For more information on color matching, please refer to section of the manual titled

More Color Matching Information in the Appendix and the Appendix C: Kodak
Color Management System in the References.

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RGB Destination

This feature lets you select the correct profile for outputting images to the RGB
color space. The RGB Destination profile usually pertains to a monitor (since all
monitors are RGB devices), but an RGB printer profile may also be used as a
selection if the RGB color space in which you choose to work is an RGB printer.

To specify the RGB Destination profile: Choose from the profiles provided by
ScanWizard Pro, or choose your own profile if you have others stored on your
system.

CMYK Destination

This feature lets you select the correct profile for outputting images to the CMYK
color space.

To specify the CMYK Destination profile: Choose from the profiles provided by
ScanWizard Pro, or choose your own profile if you have others stored on your
system.

For additional CMYK profiles, please run the ICC Profile Installer from your
ScanWizard Pro CD.

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3 Basic Scenarios

This section of the manual sets out a few scenarios on how to do some basic scans,
including a color photograph, a positive, and negative film. The steps are laid out on
the left-hand side of the page, and supplementary information for each scenario can
be found in a sidebar next to the procedures. Information on how to enhance or
adjust images, as well as more advanced scanning scenarios, is provided in the later
chapters of the manual.

Basic Scenarios:

• How to Scan a Color Photographic Print

• How to Scan a Color Positive Transparency

• How to Scan a Color Negative

• How to Scan a Line Art Image

• How to Scan a Newspaper or Magazine Image

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How to Scan a Color Photographic Print

1. Place the photograph to be scanned on your scanner.

2. In the Preview window, click the Scan Material pop­up menu, and select Reflective.

3. Click the Overview button. A draft preview of the
image will appear.

4. Select the Scan Frame tool from the Toolbar, and
choose the area to be scanned by dragging a
rectangle around it. You will see a flashing frame
(marquee) around the selected area.

5. If you like what you see in the Preview window,
click the Scan button to start scanning.

If you want to....

Before the Final Scan

• Select output image type (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and from the
Type box, choose the appropriate image
type for the image to be scanned.

• Specify output dimensions (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and enter the
desired output dimensions (width and
height) in the output dimension edit
boxes. The scan frame may change
slightly, and you may want to go back to
the Preview window to move the scan
frame and enclose the area you want.

• Change output image resolution (before
step 5)

Go to the Settings window, and enter the
resolution value in the Resolution edit
box.

• See a more detailed preview image
(after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, highlight the
scan job you wish to see in detail, and
click the Prescan button. Then switch to
the Prescan view in the View menu.

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• Fine-tune the preview image with
image processing options (after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, and select
the desired image-processing option
from the Correction menu. Alternatively,
you can go to the Settings window and
click an image processing button; the
Advanced Image Correction dialog box
will then appear.

Scanning a Color Photographic Print

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4

Advanced Image Correction
screen for fine-tuning images

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How to Scan a Color Positive Transparency

1. For dual bed-scanners that make use of the
SnapTrans™ templates (such as the ScanMaker

8700), place the film to be scanned on the
appropriate template, and insert the film and
template into your scanner’s lower bed. For flatbed
scanners, use a Transparent Media Adapter.

2. In the Preview window, click the Scan Material
pop-up menu, then select Positive.

3. Click the Overview button. A draft preview of the
image will appear.

4. Select the Scan Frame tool from the Toolbar, and
choose the area to be scanned by dragging a
rectangle around it. You will see a flashing frame
(marquee) around the selected area.

5. If you like what you see in the Preview window,
click the Scan button to start scanning.

If you want to....

Before the Final Scan

• Select output image type (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and from the
Type box, choose the appropriate image
type for the image to be scanned.

• Specify output dimensions (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and enter the
desired output dimensions (width and
height) in the output dimension edit
boxes. The scan frame may change
slightly, and you may want to go back to
the Preview window to move the scan
frame and enclose the area you want.

• Change output image resolution (before
step 5)

Go to the Settings window, and enter the
resolution value in the Resolution edit
box.

• See a more detailed preview image
(after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, highlight the
scan job you wish to see in detail, and
click the Prescan button. Then switch to
the Prescan view in the View menu.

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• Fine-tune the preview image with image
processing options (after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, and select
the desired image-processing option
from the Correction menu. Alternatively,
you can go to the Settings window and
click an image processing button; the
Advanced Image Correction dialog box
will then appear.

Scanning a Color Positive Transparency

2 54 3

Advanced Image Correction screen for fine­tuning images

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How to Scan a Color Negative

1. For dual bed-scanners that make use of the
SnapTrans™ templates (such as the ScanMaker

8700), place the film to be scanned on the
appropriate template, and insert the film and
template into your scanner’s lower bed. For flatbed
scanners, use a Transparent Media Adapter.

2. In the Preview window, click the Scan Material
pop-up menu, and select Negative.

3. Click the Overview button. A draft preview of the
image will appear.

4. Select the Scan Frame tool from the Toolbar, and
choose the area to be scanned by dragging a
rectangle around it. You will see a flashing frame
(marquee) around the selected area.

5. Go to the Film Type menu in the Settings window,
and select the film type you are using.

6. If you like what you see in the Preview window,
click the Scan button to start scanning.

If you want to....

Before the Final Scan

• Select output image type (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and from the
Type box, choose the appropriate image
type for the image to be scanned.

• Specify output dimensions (after step 2)

Go to the Settings window, and enter the
desired output dimensions (width and
height) in the output dimension edit
boxes. The scan frame may change
slightly, and you may want to go back to
the Preview window to move the scan
frame and enclose the area you want.

• See a more detailed preview image
(after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, highlight the
scan job you wish to see in detail, and
click the Prescan button. Then switch to
the Prescan view in the View menu.

• Fine-tune the preview image with image
processing options (after step 4)

Go to the Preview window, and select
the desired image-processing option
from the Correction menu. Alternatively,
you can go to the Settings window and
click an image processing button; the
Advanced Image Correction dialog box
will then appear.

• Customize film type (after step 5)

If your film type is not included in the
menu, you can select Generic or create a
customized film profile. For more
details, see the Advanced Scenarios
section of the manual and the How to
Customize Negative Film scenario.

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Scanning a Color Negative

5

6 432

Advanced Image
Correction screen for
fine-tuning images

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