Nikon SCAN User Manual

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Nikon Scan 4 Reference Manual

Read This First ........................................................................................2–11

Introduction ............................................................................................. 2–5

Scanning Basics.............................................................................................6

Getting Started .......................................................................................7–10

Elements of Nikon Scan...............................................................................11

The Scan Window ................................................................................. 12–29

The Tool Chest ..................................................................................... 30–76

Preferences......................................................................................... 77–105

Image Windows................................................................................106–126

Nikon View ...............................................................................................127

Scan Index ........................................................................................ 128–131

Appendices....................................................................................... 131–139

Introduction

About This Manual

Trademark Information

About This Manual

Welcome to Nikon Scan! Nikon Scan is used to control Nikon scanners from a computer. It can be used to preview images and adjust scanner settings before scanning, giving the user control over advanced features supported by Nikon ﬁ lm scanners, including:

• The Scan Image Enhancer automatically adjusts hue to produce images with clear contrast (9000 ED, 5000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED only)

• Digital ICE detects, analyzes, and automatically compensates for scratches and dust

• Digital ROC digitally restores faded colors in old ﬁ lm

• Digital GEM automatically corrects for ﬁ lm grain, smoothing pictures taken with high-speed ﬁ lm

• Digital DEE reveals details in shadows of backlit and underexposed shots and increases contrast in “washed-out” areas of highlights to produce natural-looking exposure (9000 ED, 5000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED only)

Nikon Scan also supports batch scanning and can be used to scan images directly into third-party applications such as Adobe Photoshop.

This manual has been written to guide the user through the process of scanning and enhancing images. For information on how to perform speciﬁ c tasks, see the “Scanning Guide.” For information on speciﬁ c elements of the Nikon Scan interface, see “The Scan Window,” “The Tool Chest,” “Preferences,” and “Image Windows.” For troubleshooting information and a glossary of imaging terminology, see the appendices.

Tra de mark Information

Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Digital ICE4 AdvancedTM is Digital ICETM, Digital ROCTM, Digital GEMTM and Digital DEETM. Digital ICE4 AdvancedTM are technologies developed by Applied Science Fiction. Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Radius, ColorMatch, and PressView are registered trademarks of miro displays, inc. All other trade names mentioned in this manual or the other documentation provided with your Nikon product are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Background Knowledge

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Illustrations

Save where otherwise noted, the illustrations in this manual show the menus and dialogs displayed when the SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED is used under Windows XP. Illustrations from Mac OS X are included where operations for Windows and Macintosh versions differ.

Background Knowledge

This manual assumes familiarity with operations common to the Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Refer to the documentation provided with the operating system if in doubt concerning the meaning of any of the terms used here.

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Life-Long Learning

As part of Nikon’s “Life-Long Learning” commitment to ongoing prod uct sup port and ed u ca tion, con tin u al ly-updated information is avail able on- line at the following sites:

• For users in the U.S.A.: http://www.nikonusa.com/

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• For users in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa: http://www.nikon-asia.com/ Visit these sites to keep up-to-date with the latest product in for ma tion, tips, an swers to fre quent ly-asked ques tions (FAQs), and gen er al advice on digital imaging and pho tog ra phy. Ad di tion al information may be available from the Nikon rep re sen ta tive in your area. See the URL below for contact in for ma tion: http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/

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System Requirements

Nikon Scan must be installed before the scanner can be used to scan images. See the documentation provided with the scanner for complete installation instructions. Before installing Nikon Scan, make sure that the computer satisﬁ es the following system requirements:

Windows

CPU 300 MHz Pentium or better

OS Preinstalled versions of Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Me, Windows 98 SE

RAM

Hard- disk space

Video resolution 800 × 600 pixels or more with 16 -bit color (High Color) or more.

Interface Built-in USB 1.1/USB 2.0 ports

Miscellaneous CD-ROM drive required for installation.

* More memory may be required depending on ﬁ lm type, scan size, resolution, bit depth, the number of scans performed in each session, the

ﬁ lm holder or adapter used, and on whether Digital ROC, Digital GEM or Digital DEE is used. A system with more than the minimum amount of memory is recommended.

† More free disk space may be required depending on the ﬁ lm type and number of frames. Nikon recommends having as much free disk space as

possible when running Nikon Scan.

‡ Depending on the type of interface installed, USB will operate at high speed (USB 2.0 only; maximum transfer rate 480 Mbps) or full speed (USB

1.1/ USB 2.0 ; maximum transfer rate 12 Mbps). Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional computers with a USB 2.0 interface support highspeed USB. For more information, consult the manufacturer.

128 MB or mor e (512 MB or more recommended)

A minimum of 40 MB required for installation (200 MB recommended), with an additional 200 MB of free disk space avail-

†

able while Nikon Scan is running.

‡

USB

OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394 interface required.IEEE 1394

Additional information technical and support information may be available at the Nikon web sites listed in this manual ( 3).

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Macintosh

CPU Power PC G3 or later (G4 or later recommended)

†

RAM

Hard- disk space

Video resolution 800 × 600 pixels or more with 16 -bit color (thousands of colors) or more.

Interface Built-in USB 1.1 ports, USB 2.0.

Miscellaneous CD-ROM drive required for installation.

* For the latest information on supported versions of Mac OS, see the Nikon web sites listed in this manual ( 3). † More memory may be required depending on ﬁ lm type, scan size, resolution, bit depth, the number of scans performed in each session, the

ﬁ lm holder or adapter used, and on whether Digital ROC, Digital GEM or Digital DEE is used. A system with more than the minimum amount of memory is recommended.

‡ More free disk space may be required depending on the ﬁ lm type and number of frames. Nikon recommends having as much free disk space as

possible when running Nikon Scan.

** Depending on the type of interface installed, USB will operate at high speed (USB 2.0 only; maximum transfer rate 480 Mbps) or full speed (USB

1.1/ USB 2.0 ; maximum transfer rate 12 Mbps). Mac OS X computers with a USB 2.0 interface support high-speed USB. For more information, consult the manufacturer. Users of Mac OS X whose computer is not equipped with USB 2.0 can install a RATOC PCIU3U USB 2.0 interface board (for more information, visit Ratoc Systems English-language web-site at http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/index.html).

††

The computer may fail to recover from sleep mode when a 5000 ED, COOLSCAN V, or COOLSCAN IV is connected via USB 2.0. To prevent the computer from entering sleep mode, select System Preferences… from the Apple menu, open the “Energy Saver” pane (in Mac OS 9, select

Energy Saver from the Control Panels sub-menu in the Apple menu), and set the Put system to sleep whenever it is inactive for slider to Never.

Mac OS 9 (9.1 or later), Mac OS X (10.1.5 or later)

• Mac OS 9: 64 MB or more (256 MB or more recommended)

• Mac OS X: 128 MB or more (512 MB or more recommended)

A minimum of 70 MB required for installation (200 MB recommended), with an additional 200 MB (Mac OS 9) or 550 MB

‡

(Mac OS X) of free disk space available while Nikon Scan is running.

USB

††

Only built-in Firewire ports supported.Firewire

Additional technical and support information may be available at the Nikon web sites listed in this manual ( 3).

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Scanning Basics

Scanning Images with Nikon Scan

Required

Hardware

Nikon ﬁ lm scanner

Film

Adapter and/or

ﬁ lm holder

After installing Nikon Scan and Nikon View, connect the scanner and ready the ﬁ lm and adapter or ﬁ lm holder. See the scanner User’s Manual for more information.

Nikon Scan

1 Open the scan window

To use Nikon Scan as a “stand-alone” application, select Nikon Scan from

the Start menu (Windows) or double-click the Nikon Scan icon.

To use Nikon Scan to scan images into third-party applications such as

Adobe Photoshop, select Nikon Scan from the application’s list of acquire or import sources.

2 Insert ﬁ lm See the scanner User’s Manual for details.

3 Preview

Preview

Click the Preview button to preview images in the scan window.

4 Adjust settings

Scan window

Tool Ch est

Use the tools in the scan window and Tool Chest to adjust settings and enhance pictures before scanning.

5 Scan

Scan

Click the Scan button to scan the images. The images will be opened in windows in the host application.

6 Save

Save the pictures using the Save or Save As… command in the host application.

Nikon View

Use Nikon View to organize saved pictures.

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Getting Started

Before Scanning

Supported Scanners and Film

Nikon Scan 4 supports the following scanners:

• SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED (9000 ED)

• SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED (5000 ED)

• COOLSCAN V ED

The following types of ﬁ lm can be scanned:

• SUPER COOLSCAN 8000 ED (8000 ED)

• SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED (4000 ED)

• COOLSCAN IV ED

Before Scanning

Scanner

9000 ED 8000 ED

5000 ED 4000 ED

COO LSCAN V ED

COO LSCAN IV ED

5000 ED 4000 ED

Film holder/adapter

FH-835M

FH-835S

FH-869S

FH-869G

FH-896GR

FH-869M

FH-816

FH-8G1

MA-21/MA-20 (S)

SA-21

FH-3

IA-20 (S)

FH-G1

SA-30

SF-210/SF-200 (S)

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Medium-format (120/220, 2¼ or Brownie) ﬁ lm, electron microscope ﬁ lm, 35-mm panorama ﬁ lm

35-mm ﬁ lm (in strips of 1–6 frames; batch scans and thumbnail preview not supported)

Film

35-mm slides

35-mm ﬁ lm

Medium-format (120/220, 2¼ or Brownie) ﬁ lm, electron microscope ﬁ lm

Medium-format (120/220, 2¼ or Brownie) slides

16 - mm ﬁ lm

Glass microscope slides

35-mm slides (batch scans and thumbnail preview not supported)

35-mm ﬁ lm (in strips of 2–6 frames)

APS (IX-240) ﬁ lm cartridges

Glass microscope slides (batch scans and thumbnail preview not supported)

35-mm ﬁ lm (in strips of 2–40 frames)

35-mm slides (up to 50 slides 1.5 mm thick; thumbnail preview not supported)

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Starting Nikon Scan

Starting Nikon Scan as a “Stand-Alone” Application (Windows)

Starting Nikon Scan as a “Stand-Alone” Application (Macintosh)

Calibration (9000 ED, 8000 ED)

Before scanning, complete the following steps (see the scanner documentation for details):

• Install Nikon Scan

• Connect the power and interface cables

• Turn the scanner on and insert the adapter, and/or place ﬁ lm in the ﬁ lm holder

Nikon Scan can be used as a “stand-alone” application to scan, process, print, and save images, or it can be used to scan images into a third-party application such as Adobe Photoshop, where the images can then be processed, printed, or saved. The application in which images are displayed after scanning is known as the “host application.”

Operation Nikon Scan used as “stand-alone” application Third-party host application

Opening the

scan window

Scanning

Processing Images are processed in Nikon Scan. Images are processed in the third-party application.

Open the Start menu and select Nikon Scan 4 from the pro- gram list (Windows only) or double-click the Nikon Scan icon in the install destination folder.

Images are previewed in the Nikon Scan scan window and modiﬁ ed using the tools in the Tool Chest. Scan settings are adjusted in the scan window and “Preferences” dialog. When preview is complete, click the Scan button to scan the images into image windows in the host application.

Images are saved from Nikon Scan. Images are saved from the third-party application.Saving images

Select Nikon Scan from the application’s list of “Acquire” or “Import” sources. For more information, see the documentation provided with the application.

Starting Nikon Scan as a “Stand-Alone” Application (Windows)

If a shortcut was created during installation, Nikon Scan can be started by double-clicking the Nikon Scan icon on the desktop.

Starting Nikon Scan as a “Stand-Alone” Application (Macintosh)

If Nikon Scan was added to the Dock or an alias was created during installation, Nikon Scan can be started by clicking the Nikon Scan icon in the Dock (Mac OS X) or by double-clicking the alias on the desktop (Mac OS 9).

Calibration (9000 ED, 8000 ED)

When the 9000 ED is turned on, the status LED will blink for one to two minutes while the scanner is calibrated. Do not start Nikon Scan until the status LED has stopped blinking. In the case of the 8000 ED, calibration is not performed until Nikon Scan is started. Do not use the controls in the scan window or Tool Chest until the status LED has stopped blinking.

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Starting Nikon Scan as a “Stand-Alone” Application

The scan window opens on the desktop and menus for the Nikon Scan application appear in the Nikon Scan application window (Windows) or menu bar (Macintosh). The Tool Chest will also be displayed the ﬁ rst time Nikon Scan is used.

Starting Nikon Scan from a Third-Party Application

Selecting Nikon Scan from the application’s list of acquire or import sources opens the scan window. If this is the ﬁ rst time Nikon Scan is used, the Tool Chest will also be displayed.

Tool Chest

Scan window

Nikon Scan application window (Windows only)

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Tool Chest

Scan window

Third-party application (illustration shows Adobe Photoshop)

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Opening the Scan Window from Nikon Scan

When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, the scan window can be opened by selecting the scan window from the Nikon Scan Tools menu. Use this option if the scan window has been closed after scanning.

Windows

• Select the scan window from the Tools menu.

• Select Open Twain Source from the File menu.

• Click the

icon in the toolbar.

Macintosh

• Select the scan window from the Tools menu.

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Elements of Nikon Scan

Getting to Know Nikon Scan

The Nikon Scan interface includes the windows identiﬁ ed below. Click the links for more information.

Progress window ( 22)

Shows the status of current tasks and lists operations that have been or are about to be performed.

Image windows ( 106)

Images are opened in image windows after scanning, where they can be enhanced, printed, and saved.

Scan window ( 12)

This is where images are previewed and modiﬁ ed before scanning.

Tool Chest ( 30)

The Tool Chest contains tools for scanning and enhancing images.

Preferences ( 77)

The “Preferences” dialog controls scan window settings.

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The Scan Window

The Scanner-Computer Interface

The parts of the scan window are identiﬁ ed below. Click the links for more information.

Thumbnail drawer tab ( 23)

Click to display the thumbnail area, where multiple frames can be selected for preview or scanning.

Control area ( 13)

Contains frequently used scanning and preview controls.

Information panel ( 25)

Lists information on current settings.

Preview button ( 26)

Click to view selected frames in the preview area.

Title bar

Shows the scanner currently connected.

Preview area ( 27)

Preview images before scanning.

Interactive help

(Windows only)

Displays a brief tip about the control under the cursor.

Scan button ( 28)

Click to scan the selected frames.

The Scan Window

Interactive help text and tool

tip for the Preview button

The Control Area

Scan Window Controls

The scan window control area contains frequently-used preview and scan controls. Click the links below for more information about the buttons and menus in the control area.

Name Control Description

Eject button ( 14) Eject the ﬁ lm or holder.

Autofocus button ( 15)

Autoexposure button ( 16) Optimize exposure automatically.

Zoom buttons ( 16)

Settings menu ( 17) Save, reset, and load scan window settings.

Film type menu ( 19 ) Specify the type of ﬁ lm to be scanned.

Color model menu ( 20) Choose to scan images in color or grayscale.

Frame size menu ( 20)

(9000 ED/8000 ED only)

Preferences button ( 21) Open the “Preferences” dialog.

Help button ( 21) View help.

Tools button ( 22) Display the Tool Chest or progress window.

Focus the scanner on the point selected with the focus tool.

Zoom the crop selected in the preview area in or out.

Specify the ﬁ lm frame size.

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The Eject Button

MA-21/MA-20 (S)

The (eject) button ejects ﬁ lm holders or ejects or rewinds ﬁ lm as described below.

9000 ED/8000 ED

Clicking the

button ejects ﬁ lm holders from the scanner.

5000 ED/4000 ED/COOLSCAN V ED/COOLSCAN IV ED

The operation performed by the

button varies depending

on the adapter used.

Adapter Description

MA-21/MA-20 (S) Eject button not available.

SA-21 Ejects ﬁ lm from adapter.

IA-20 (S) (available separately) Rewinds ﬁ lm.

SA-30 (available separately for

5000 ED and 4000 ED)

SF-210/SF-200 (S)

(available separately for 5000 ED

and 4000 ED)

Ejects ﬁ lm from adapter.

Ejects current slide and feeds a new one. To eject current slide without feeding a new slide, press Ctrl (Windows) or option (Macintosh) while clicking eject button.

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MA-21/MA-20 (S)

When the MA-21/MA-20 (S) is inserted in the scanner, the button is grayed out and unavailable. Use the eject button on the adapter.

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The Autofocus Button

Autofocus Preferences

The Focus Tool

Clicking the (autofocus) button focuses the scanner on a selected point (if no focus point has been selected, the scanner will focus on the center of the frame).

To select a new focus point, click the button while pressing the Ctrl (Windows) or option (Macintosh) key. The cursor will take the shape of a set of cross hairs ( cursor over the point in the preview image that will be used as the new focus point and click to focus the scanner on the selected point.

). Move the

Autofocus Preferences

Depending on the options selected in the “Preferences” dialog, an autofocus operation may be performed automatically when the focus point is moved or an image is previewed or scanned:

• If Perform autofocus when focus point is moved is selected in the “Auto matic Actions” category of the “Preferences” dialog, the scanner will automatically refocus when a new focus point is selected using the Focus Tool.

• If Auto focus is selected for “Before scan” in the “Single Scan” category of the “Preferences” dialog, an autofocus operation will automatically be performed when the Scan button is clicked to scan a single image.

• If a batch scan is performed when Auto focus is selected for “Before each image” in the “Batch Scan” category of the “Preferences” dialog, the scanner will automatically perform an autofocus operation before each scanning each image.

• If Auto focus is selected for “Settings to be applied to preview” in the “Preview Settings” category of the “Preferences” dialog, an autofocus operation will automatically be performed when a frame is previewed.

The Focus Tool

The focus point can be moved using the Focus Tool in the “Layout Tools” palette. Click the button in the “Layout Tools” palette to select the Focus Tool, then click in the preview image to select a focus point.

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The Autoexposure Button

Preview Image Quality

The Zoom Buttons

At default settings, the scanner automatically adjusts exposure as necessary before displaying images in the preview area. The

(autoexposure) button is only required if autoexposure has been turned off by removing the check from the Auto exposure for positive ﬁ lm or Auto exposure for negative ﬁ lm options in the “Single Scan,” “Batch Scan,” or “Preview Settings” categories of the “Preferences” dialog. In these cases, click the

button before performing the selected operation (single scan, batch scan, or preview) on ﬁ lm of the affected type (positive or negative).

Click the button to zoom in on the current crop, enlarging it to ﬁ ll the preview area. If a smaller selection is made within the original crop, clicking the

button will zoom the new selection in to ﬁ ll the preview area. To zoom out to the previous view, click the button.

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Preview Image Quality

The image in the preview area may seem rough and uneven at high zoom ratios. This can be cured by clicking the Preview button to preview the image at the new zoom ratio.

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The Settings Menu

Tool Palette Settings Menus

“Save Settings…” / “Export Settings…”

The settings menu can be used to save and export the following settings and recall them as desired:

• the current scanner, ﬁ lm type, color model, and the location and dimensions of the current crop

• all settings in effect in the Tool Chest, including image orientation, curves, color balance, LCH Editor, Unsharp Mask, and Digital ICE

Advanced settings

Tool Palette Settings Menus

The settings for the “Crop,” “Curves,” “Color Balance,” “LCH Editor,” “Unsharp Mask,” and “Digital ICE and recalled separately using the palette settings menu.

“Save Settings…” / “ E x p o r t S e t t i n g s…”

To s ave set tings for the current image, use the Save Settings… or Ex- port Settings… options before previewing another image.

Advanced” palettes can be saved

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The settings menu contains the following options:

Settings for Other Adapters or Scanners

Option Description

Save

Settings…

Set User

Settings

Export

Settings…

Import

Settings…

Delete

Settings…

Clear User

Settings

Restore Factory

Defaults

Reset User

Settings

Saves current settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. Saved settings will be added to the end of the settings menu.

Saves current settings as user default settings, which can be recalled by selecting “reset to user settings” options in the scan window or tool palette settings menus. Settings created with the SA-21, IA-20 (S), or SA-30 can be used with any of these adapters, while settings created with the 9000 ED/8000 ED apply to all ﬁ lm holders.

Exports current settings to a user-speciﬁ ed location. Settings ﬁ les have the extension “.set”.

Imports settings created with the Export Settings… option.

Displays dialog where settings created with Save Set- tings… can be selected for deletion.

Deletes user defaults created with the Set User Set- tings option.

Restores the settings in effect at installation.

Restores user default settings created with Set User Settings. Settings created with the SA-21, IA-20 (S), or SA-30 can be used with any of these adapters, while settings created with the 9000 ED/8000 ED apply to all ﬁ lm holders.

Option Description

Last Saved

Settings

Restores the most recent settings created with Save Settings…, Set User Settings, or Export Settings….

To apply saved settings to selected thumbnails or to the

Saved

settings list

Settings for Other Adapters or Scanners

image in the preview window, select the desired settings from the list at the end of the settings menu.

The maximum crop size and other settings differ depending on the adapter and scanner used. When settings for a different scanner or adapter are selected from the settings menu, only those options that apply to the current adapter are affected.

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The Film Type Menu

9000 ED/8000 ED

Glass Microscope Slides

Choose the type of ﬁ lm to be scanned from the options in the ﬁ lm type menu.

Option Description

Use with most makes of positive slides and reversal

Positive

Neg (Color)

Neg (Mono) Use with black-and-white negatives.

Kodachrome

ﬁ lm. These ﬁ lms have a black ﬁ lm base, and the image in each frame appears in its actual colors.

Use with color ﬁ lm negatives. Color negatives can be identiﬁ ed by their orange-tinted ﬁ lm base and by the fact that the colors in the images are reversed.

Use with Kodachrome positives. Kodachrome ﬁ lm is manufactured by Eastman Kodak and is usually mounted in cardboard or plastic slide mounts embossed or printed with the label “Kodachrome.”

9000 ED/8000 ED

The ﬁ lm type menu is only available when a ﬁ lm holder is inserted in the scanner.

Glass Microscope Slides

Select Positive when scanning glass microscope slides with the optional FH-G1 or FH-8G1 ﬁ lm holder.

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The Color Model Menu

Nikon Color Management

Calibrated RGB/RGB

The Frame Size Menu (9000 ED/8000 ED Only)

Choose whether to scan images in color or monochrome (grayscale). The options available depend on whether the Nikon Color Management System (CMS) in on (the default

The color-model

menu (CMS on)

setting) or off.

Option Description

Grayscale

Calibrated RGB

(CMS on)

RGB

(CMS off)

Nikon Color Management

Color management systems using ICC proﬁ les ensure consistent color reproduction among devices such as scanners, monitors, and printers. The Nikon Color Management System is one such ICC proﬁ le system, and functions to ensure that colors from the scanner are reproduced accurately on the monitor. See the “Nikon Color Management System”

( 78) for details.

Choose when scanning images that will be printed or displayed in monochrome.

Choose when scanning images that will be printed in color or edited or displayed on a computer monitor.

Use to edit raw RGB data from the scanner.

When scanning medium-format (120/ 220, 2¼ or Brownie) ﬁ lm using the FH869S or optional FH-869G ﬁ lm holder, select the frame size from the options below (with other holders, the appro priate frame size is selected automatically). The maximum length of the ﬁ lm strip that can be scanned in these holders depends on the frame size.

Frame size Maximum length

6 × 4.5 (cm) Four frames

6 × 6 (cm ) Three frames

6 × 7 (cm )

6 × 8 (cm )

6 × 9 (cm )

Two frame s

Calibrated RGB/RGB

Calibrated RGB is available when Use Nikon Color Management

is selected in the “Color Management” category of the “Preferences” dialog, RGB when it is not.

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The Preferences Button

Using Nikon Scan as a Stand-Alone Application

The Help Button

Clicking the Prefs (preferences) button displays the “Preferences”

dialog ( 77).

“Preferences” dialog

Clicking the Help button displays the Nikon Scan help dialog.

“Nikon Scan Help” dialog

Using Nikon Scan as a Stand-Alone Application

The “Preferences” dialog can also be opened by selecting Preferences… from the Edit menu (Windows, Mac OS 9) or the Nikon Scan

application menu (Mac OS X).

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The Tools Button

Clicking the Tools button displays a menu that can be used to open the Tool Chest or progress window.

The Tool Chest

Select Tool Palette 1 to open the Tool Chest (

30).

The Progress Window

Selecting Progress Window opens the progress window. The progress of the current task (acquiring thumbnails, preview, or scanning) is shown at the top of the window. To cancel the current task, click Stop.

Clicking the triangle under the progress meter displays the “Queue” and “Log” tabs. The “Queue” tab lists the tasks that have yet to be performed. To cancel a task, select it in the list and click the

button. The “Log” tab lists the tasks that have been completed.

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Film Holders and Adapters That Do Not Support Thumbnail Previews

Batch Scans

The Thumbnail Drawer Tab

Selecting Frames

If the current adapter or ﬁ lm holder supports thumbnail previews, the frames to be scanned can be selected from the thumbnail drawer. Click the thumbnail drawer tab to open the

Click to display thumbnails

Frame

numbers

thumbnail drawer. By default, frames are listed by number; to display the frames as small “thumbnail” previews, click the button. Frames can be selected for preview or scanning by clicking the associated frame number or thumbnail. To select multiple frames for a “batch” scan, click each frame while pressing the Ctrl (Windows) or command (Macintosh) key, or press the shift key and click two images to select these images and all frames between them.

Film Holders and Adapters That Do Not Support Thumbnail Previews

The following ﬁ lm holders and adapters do not support thumbnail previews: MA-21 / MA-20 (S) (5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED), SF-210 / SF-200 (S) (available separately for the 5000 ED and 4000 ED), and FH-869GR (available separately for the 9000 ED and 8000 ED). The thumbnail drawer tab is not displayed when these adapters and holders are inserted in the scanner.

Thumbnail

drawer tab

Thumbnail drawer

Click to hide thumbnails

Selected thumbnail

Click to close

thumbnail

drawer

Drag to resize

thumbnail

drawer

Batch Scans

Batch scans are supported with the following ﬁ lm holders and adapters:

9000 ED/8000 ED

FH-835M FH-835S

FH-869S FH-869G (available separately)

FH -869M ( available separately) FH-816 (available separately)

FH-8G1 (available separately)

The Scan Window — The Thumbnail Drawer Tab

5000 ED/4000 ED/COOLSCAN V ED/COOLSCAN IV ED

SA-21 IA-20 (S) (available separately)

SA-30 (available separately for 5000 ED and 4000 ED)

SF -210 / SF-200 ( S)

(available separately for 5000 ED and 4000 ED)

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High-Contrast Images

Film Offset

Frame Count

The Thumbnail Display

Thumbnails may have unusual coloration if the associated image is very high contrast. The preview image and ﬁ nal scan are unaffected.

Film Offset

Thumbnails generated with the FH- 869S, FH-869G, SA-21, or SA-30 may be slightly out of position. Use the Strip Film Offset control in the “Scanner Extras” palette to adjust thumbnail position.

Frame Count

The frame number display for the SA-21 (supplied with the 5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, and COOLSCAN IV ED) always contains six frames regardless of the actual number of frames in the ﬁ lm strip, while the frame number display for the SA-30 (available separately for the 5000 ED and 4000 ED) always contains forty frames. The correct number of frames will be displayed when the

button is clicked to create thumbnail previews. Both the frame number and thumbnail displays for the 9000 ED and 8000 ED contain as many frames as there are apertures in the holder, even if some apertures are empty.

The Thumbnail Display

The thumbnail display is stored in memory until new ﬁ lm is inserted in the scanner.

The Scan Window — The Thumbnail Drawer Tab

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The Information Panel

Image Information

The information panel provides information about the image in the preview area.

Area Description See also

Orientation

Dimensions/File size

Shows the orientation of the preview image, reﬂ ecting any ﬂ ips or rotations that have been performed. If the image has been ﬂ ipped, the letter “R” will be shown in red.

Gives the height and width of the current crop in pixels, and the size of the ﬁ le that will result if the crop is scanned at the current output size and resolution.

Image Information

• Layout Tools ( 33)

• Crop ( 36)

Image enhancement

Shows the status of analog gain, Digital ICE4 Advanced, and the Scan Image Enhancer. A warning icon will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to these settings.

Scanner extras

Indicates the current bit depth (which determines the number of colors in the image) and whether multisample scanning (9000 ED, 8000 ED, 5000 ED, and 4000 ED only) is in effect.

Color values

Lists the color values for the point under the cursor. If changes are made to the settings listed at right, the colors in the “Natural” tab will be listed in the top row, the colors in the “Processed” tab in the bottom row.

The Scan Window — The Information Panel

• Analog Gain ( 69)

• Digital ICE4 Advanced ( 61)

• Scan Image Enhancer ( 70)

• Scanner Extras ( 71)

• Curves ( 41)

• Color Balance ( 51)

• LCH Editor ( 56)

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The Preview Button

Previewing Images

Updating Previews

Previewing Images

Click the Preview button to view the image to be scanned in the preview area. If multiple frames are selected in the thumbnail drawer, a preview will be performed for each frame. Click the selected thumbnails in the thumbnail drawer to switch back and forth between previews.

Preview

button

Updating Previews

Be sure to click the Preview button to update the image after selecting a new frame size (9000 ED/8000 ED only) or ﬁ lm type, or after making changes to Digital ICE settings in the “Digital ICE4 Advanced” palette or to the Strip Film Offset option in the “Scanner Extras” palette.

The Scan Window — The Preview Button

Preview area

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The Preview Area

Previewing the Effects of Changes to Settings

Switching Between the “Natural” and “Processed” Panels

“Analog Gain” / “Scan Image Enhancer”

Previewing the Effects of Changes to Settings

The preview image created when the Preview button is clicked is displayed in the preview area. The preview area contains two panels: a “Natural” panel showing the unprocessed image and a “Processed” panel that shows the effects of any changes to settings. Click the “Natural” and “Processed” tabs for a quick “before-and-after” comparison that helps determine whether changes to settings are having the desired effect.

“Processed” (shows changes to settings) “Natural” (unprocessed image)

Switching Between the “Natural” and “Processed” Panels

When Nikon Scan is used as a stand-alone application, the Show Natural Pane/Show Processed Pane options in the Scanner menu and the Ctrl-T (Windows) /command-T (Macintosh) shortcuts can be used to switch back and forth between the “Natural” and “Processed” tabs.

“Analog Gain” / “Scan Image Enhancer”

Changes to analog gain and the Scan Image Enhancer are reﬂ ected in both the “Natural” and “Processed” panes.

The Scan Window — The Preview Area

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The Scan Button

Scanning Images

“Host Application”

Scanning Images

Click the Scan button to scan begin scanning (if multiple images are selected in the thumbnail drawer, all the selected images will be scanned). When scanning is complete, the images will be opened in image windows in the host application.

Image

window

Scan button

“Host Application”

The “host application” is the application in which images are displayed after scanning. When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, scanned images will be opened in Nikon Scan. If Nikon Scan is used as a TWAIN source or acquire plug-in for a third-party application such as Adobe Photoshop, images will be opened in image windows in the third-party application.

The Scan Window — The Sca n Bu tto n

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Batch Scans

Batch Scan Settings

Slide Feeder Adapters

“Preferences” > “Batch Scan”

“Batch” scans allow a “batch” of multiple frames to be scanned with a single click of the Scan button.

Using the Thumbnail Drawer

Batch scans can be performed with ﬁ lm holders and adapters

that support thumbnail previews ( 23): all frames selected

in the thumbnail drawer are scanned when the Scan button is clicked. The images can be scanned at the same settings, or settings can be adjusted separately for each frame.

Multiple Frames, Same Settings

1. Select one frame in the thumbnail drawer.

2. Preview the image and adjust settings as desired.

3. Save changes to settings in the scan window settings

menu ( 17) .

4. Select all the frames to be scanned in the thumbnail drawer.

5. Select the saved settings from the settings menu (if this

step is omitted, the settings in the scan window and Tool Chest will apply only to the ﬁ rst frame; the remaining frames will be scanned at default settings).

6. Click the Scan button to scan the selected frames.

Multiple Frames, Different Settings

1. Select the frames to be scanned in the thumbnail drawer.

2. Preview the frames and adjust settings separately for each im-

age (use the thumbnail drawer to switch between frames).

3. Click the Scan button to scan the selected frames.

SF-210/SF-200 (S) Slide- Feeder Adapters

The slide feeder adapters available separately for the 5000 ED and 4000 ED also support batch scans, allowing a series of slides to be scanned automatically at the same settings.

1. Preview the ﬁ rst slide and adjust settings as desired.

2. Select the number slides to be scanned in the “Scanner

Extras” palette ( 76).

3. Click the Scan button to scan the slides at current set-

tings.

Batch Scan Settings

Settings in the scan window and Tool Chest will be reset to default values if the ﬁ lm or holder is ejected before the Scan button is clicked.

Slide Feeder Adapters

Because slide feeder adapters do not support thumbnail previews, images can not be selected in the thumbnail drawer, nor can settings be adjusted separately for each slide in a batch scan. To scan a series of slides at different settings, preview and scan each slide separately.

“Preferences” > “Batch Scan”

The “Batch Scan” category ( 96) in the “Preferences” dialog contains a variety of batch scan options.

The Scan Window — The Sca n Bu tto n

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The Scan Window and Image Windows

The Tool Chest

Setting up Scans and Enhancing Images

The tools in the Tool Chest can be used before scanning to select the area to be scanned, rotate and ﬂ ip images, specify size and resolution, adjust color, brightness, and contrast, improve sharpness, and mitigate the effects of dust, scratches, and fading. When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, some tools can also be used to edit images opened in image windows after scanning. Click the links below for more information.

Using the Tool Chest ( 31)

Layout Tools ( 33)

Information ( 35)

Crop ( 36)

Curves ( 41)

Color Balance ( 51)

Unsharp Mask ( 53)

LCH Editor ( 56)

Digital ICE4 Advanced ( 61)

Analog Gain ( 69)

Scan Image Enhancer ( 70)

Scanner Extras ( 71)

The Scan Window and Image Windows

The “Crop,” “Digital ICE4 Advanced,” “Analog Gain,” “Scan Image Enhancer,” and “Scanner Extras” palettes are available only in the scan window. When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, the other palettes can be used both before scanning (in the scan window) and after scanning (in image windows).

The Tool Chest

Using the Tool Chest

Tool Chest Operations

Opening the Tool Chest

To display the default Tool Chest, click the Tools button in the scan window control area and select Tool Palette 1 from the menu that appears.

Tool Chest Operations

Displaying the Contents of a Tool Palette

To display or hide the contents of a tool palette, click the triangle to the left of the palette title.

Title bar

The Tool Chest — Using the Tool Chest

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Changing the Order of Palettes in the Tool Chest

To change the order of palettes in the Tool Chest, click a tool palette title bar and drag it into a new position.

Moving the “Layout Tools” pale tte to a position following the “Crop” palette

Opening a Tool Palette in a Separate Window

Tool palettes can be opened in a separate window by clicking the palette title and dragging it outside the current window to create a new Tool Chest con tain ing only the selected palette.

The Tool Chest — Using the Tool Chest

Tools can be added to the new window by drag ging ad di tion al palettes into the window. The new window will be added to the tools menu in the scan window. If you close the new window by click ing the win dow close box, you can open it again by se lect ing the desired Tool Chest from the tools menu.

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Layout Tools

Setting up Scans and Orienting Images

The “Layout Tools” palette contains tools for making selections and adjusting focus in the scan window. It can also be used to ﬂ ip and rotate images both before and after scanning and to navigate images displayed in image windows.

The tools available in the “Layout Tools” palette differ depending on whether the active window is the scan window or an image window.

Tool Image windowScan window

Hand Cursor — Crop Cursor Zoom Cursor

Rotate Flip

✔ ✔

—

✔

✔ ✔

✔

—Focus Tool

Setting up Scans and Orienting Images

The Hand Cursor (Image Windows Only)

When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, the Hand Cursor tool can be used to scroll images that have been opened in image windows after scanning. It can not be used in the scan window or a third-party host application.

The Crop Cursor

The Crop Cursor tool is used to make a selection, or “crop.” In the scan window, the crop is the area selected for scanning. In image windows, the crop is the source of the histogram.

To make a selection, drag the mouse over the image in the active window. The size of the crop can be changed by dragging its borders, its location by placing the cursor anywhere inside the crop and dragging it to a new position. To cancel the crop, double click anywhere outside the selected area.

The Tool Chest — Layout Tools

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The Zoom Cursor (Image Windows Only)

/ Rotate Buttons

When Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, the Zoom Cursor tool is used to zoom the images in the active image window in or out. It can not be used in the scan window or a third-party host application.

Select the Zoom Cursor tool and click anywhere within the image window to zoom in on the selected point. To zoom out, click the image while pressing Alt (Windows) or option (Macintosh).

The Zoom Cursor tool can also be activated by selecting

Zoom Cursor from the Nikon Scan View menu.

The Focus Tool (Scan Window Only)

The Focus Tool is used to select the focus point in the scan window. It is only available when the scan window is active. See “The Autofocus Button” (

15) for more information.

Clicking these buttons rotates the image in the active window. Any rotations are reﬂ ected in the orientation of the letter “R” in the “Layout Tools” palette.

Button Description

Rotates image 90 ° counterclockwise.

Button Description

Rotates image 90 ° clockwise.

ABC

/ Flip Buttons

Clicking these buttons ﬂ ips the image in the active window. The letter “R” in the “Layout Tools” palette turns red when the image is ﬂ ipped.

Button Description

Flips image horizontally.

ABC

Flips image vertically.

ABC

The Tool Chest — Layout Tools

Show Grid

When this option is checked, a layout grid is displayed in the active window. The “Grid Settings” category in the “Prefer-

ences” dialog ( 105) controls grid spacing and color.

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Information

Pixel and Crop Information

The “Information” Palette

The “Information” palette provides information about the size and location of the current crop, the position of the cursor within the active image, and the color of the point under the cursor.

Calibrated RGB/RGB Grayscale

Pixel and Crop Information

Item Description

X:Y:Horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) distance of cursor from top left

corner of image. Color values for point under cursor. If selected color model

is grayscale, only one channel (Luminosity, or brightness) is shown. If selected color is model RGB, separate values are

L: R:

shown for Red, Green, and Blue channels. If image has been modiﬁ ed, two values will be shown for each channel, giving

color before and after processing. Size of area sampled to de-

termine color value can be changed using Sample point size option in “Ad van ced Color ” ca teg ory of the “Preferences”

dialog ( 102).

Coordinates of Top Left corner of crop.

Height and Width of crop.

The “Information” Palette

The “Information” palette is automatically updated to reﬂ ect changes to the crop in the “Crop” palette. All measurements are in pixels.

The “Information” palette can be used in both the scan window and in image windows.

The Tool Chest — Information

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Crop

Output Size and Resolution

The “Crop” Palette

The “Crop” palette is used to specify the dimensions and resolution at which the current crop will be scanned.

Output Size and Resolution

Three options are available for choosing output size and resolution. Select an option according to how the image will be used.

Crop

(input) size

(size of area

scanned)

File size

Output

resolution

Output size

Scale

Custom…

button

Keep this Crop

( 38)

Adjust output dimensions, ﬁ le size, and resolution without changing the crop selected in the preview area.

Keep this Output Size

( 38)

Adjust ﬁ le size, resolution, and the selection in the preview area without changing the chosen output size.

Keep this File Size

( 39)

Adjust output size, resolution, and the selection in the preview area without affecting the chosen ﬁ le size.

The “Crop” Palette

The “Crop” palette is only available when the scan window is active.

The Tool Chest — Crop

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The “Crop” palette contains the following items:

Choosing an Output Resolution

Item Description

Crop

(input)

size

Output

size

File size

Scale

Output

resolution

Gives the dimensions of the current crop. The units for input size can be chosen from the menu to the right of the display; the units chosen are reﬂ ected in the rulers in the preview area.

Gives the output dimensions of the current crop (i.e., the size of the crop after scanning). The units for output size can be chosen from the menu to the right of the display. If a new value is entered for Width or Height when Keep this crop is selected, the other value will change automatically to maintain the current crop. If Keep this ﬁ le size is selected when Pixels is chosen in the output units menu, the other value will automatically change to maintain the speciﬁ ed ﬁ le size. This change will be reﬂ ected in the dimensions of the current crop.

States the size of the ﬁ le that will result if the crop is scanned at current settings, before JPEG compression (if applicable) and not including ﬁ le headers (which typically increase ﬁ le size by about 10 KB).

Scale (output size relative to the size of the image on ﬁ lm) can be set by direct entry or using the Scale slider.

Enter a value for output resolution (minimum 90 ppi). The units for resolution can be chosen from the menu to the right of the text box.

Item Description

Select from the following menu of custom resolutions:

Add Resolution .................. Add custom resolution

Delete Resolution .............. Delete custom resolution

Custom…

Inkjet Printer ...................... Set resolution to 360 dpi

Dye Sublimation Printer.... Set resolution to 300 dpi

400 dpi Printer .................... Set resolution to 400 dpi

Choosing an Output Resolution

• Inkjet printers

Most inkjet printers require three or four dots of different colors to reproduce a single pixel (simulated halftone). The target output reso lution for an inkjet printer (in pixels per inch, or ppi) is therefore less than the printer’s catalogue resolution (in dots in per inch, or dpi). In general, a resolution of 360 ppi will produce acceptable results.

• Dye sublimation printers

Printers that use photographic or dye-sublimation processes reproduce each pixel with a single dot (continuous halftone). The target output resolution for these devices is therefore the same as the printer resolution.

• Commercial printing

Commercial printing processes typically use from 150 to 300 lines per inch (lpi). As a rule of thumb, assume an output resolution (in ppi) of about double the number of lines per inch when scanning for output on a commercial printer.

• Monitors

Computer monitors are usually considered to have resolutions of from 72 ppi (Macintosh) to 96 ppi (Windows).

The Tool Chest — Crop

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Follow the instructions below to choose an output size and

“Keep This Output Size”

resolution.

Keep this Crop

When Keep this Crop is selected, the size and location of the crop will not change when new values are entered for output size and resolution. This option is the best choice for general-purpose scanning.

1. Select Keep this Crop.

2. Drag the mouse in the preview area of the scan window to

select a crop. If no crop is selected, the entire image will be scanned.

3. Choose an option from the output units menu and enter the desired value for Width or Height. The remaining di- mension will change automatically to maintain the current crop. The output size can also be chosen using the Scale slider.

4. Choose an option from the resolution units menu and enter the desired value for resolution, or select a resolution for a speciﬁ c output device from the Custom… button menu.

Keep this Output Size

When Keep this Output Size is selected, the values entered for output Width and Height will not change when the crop is resized or a new value is entered for ﬁ le size. Choose this option when scanning images that must display or print at a speciﬁ ed size.

1. Select Keep this Output Size.

2. Choose an option other than pixels from the output units

menu and enter the desired value for Width and Height.

3. Choose an option from the resolution units menu and enter the desired value for resolution, or select a resolution for a speciﬁ c output device from the Custom… button menu.

4. Adjust the size and location of the crop. The crop will be maintained at the height-width ratio speciﬁ ed in Step 2, and the value for scale will automatically be adjusted according to the size of the crop.

The Tool Chest — Crop

“Keep This Output Size”

Keep this Output size ﬁ xes the physical dimensions of the image when

output on a printer on monitor. When Pixels is selected in the output units menu, adjusting resolution will cause the values shown in the output size text boxes to change. The physical dimensions of the image when output on a printer on monitor will however remain constant.

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Keep this File Size

File Size

When Keep this File Size is selected, the ﬁ le size will not change when the crop is resized or new values are entered for output size or resolution. Choose this option to specify the exact ﬁ le size of the ﬁ nal image or to keep ﬁ le sizes to a minimum for storage or electronic distribution.

1. Select Keep this File Size.

2. Choose an option from the ﬁ le size units menu and enter

the desired value for File size.

3. Drag the mouse in the preview area of the scan window to select the crop. Output size, scale, and resolution will be adjusted automatically.

File Size

The ﬁ le size listed in the “Crop” palette does not reﬂ ect ﬁ le headers (which typically increase ﬁ le size by about 10 KB) or JPEG compression.

The Tool Chest — Crop

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The Crop Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “Crop” palette displays the crop settings menu.

Option Description

Copy Crop Settings to

Clipboard

(Macintosh only)

Save Crop Settings…

Delete Crop Settings…

Import Crop Settings…

Export Crop Settings…

Reset to Default Crop Settings

Reset to User Crop Settings

The Tool Chest — Crop

Windows

Copy current crop settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the “Crop” palette by selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current crop settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the crop settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save Crop Settings… option. A dialog will be displayed where the set- tings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Import settings created using the Export Crop Settings… option.

Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. Crop settings ﬁ les have the extension “.ncc”.

Cancel the current crop and reset resolution and scale to default values.

Restore the default crop settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan window settings

menu ( 17).

Macintosh

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The Curve Edit Display

Curves

Fine-Tuning Color, Contrast, and Brightness

The “Curves” Palette

The “Curves” palette is used to adjust brightness, contrast, and color in speciﬁ c por tions of the tone range (highlights, mid-tones, and shadows). The main editing tool in the “Curves” palette is the curve edit display, which contains a curve showing the relationship between input (the tones in the original image) and output (how the tones in the input will be represented in the ﬁ nal image). Separate curves control the re la tion ship between input and output for the image as a whole (the “master curve”) and for each of the com po nent colors, or “channels,” in the current color model (red, green, and blue in the case of the RGB color model). The default curve in each case is linear, meaning that tones will be output exactly as they are input.

Current channel

Fine-Tuning Color, Contrast, and Brightness

Input is plotted along the horizontal axis, with shadows (the dark areas of the image) to the left, high lights (the bright areas of the image) to the right, and mid-tones in between. The left end of the axis marks the minimum possible value for colors in the selected channel (zero, or no color), the right end the maximum value. In the case of the master curve, the minimum value represents areas of the input image that are a true black; the maximum value represents areas that are a true white. Output is plotted along the vertical axis, with the minimum possible output value (again, zero, or no color) at the bottom and the maximum output value at the top.

Output

Curve edit display

The “Curves” Palette

The “Curves” palette can be used in both the scan window and in image windows.

The Tool Chest — Curves

Shadows

The Curve Edit Display

Although values for input and output in the “Curves” palette range from zero to 255 (eight-bit pre ci sion, familiar to users of other image editing software), the results of any changes to curves are calculated at a precision of sixteen bits. This allows images scanned at twelve and fourteen bits to be modiﬁ ed without lowering the quality of the output.

Mid-tones

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Highlights

Input

When the cursor is moved over the curve edit display, the

The “Apply” Button

Sixteen-Bit Images

input and output values for the point under the cursor are shown in the input/output display.

Apply button

Input/output display

Step 1—Viewing the Histogram

The ﬁ rst step in adjusting tone levels and color balance in the “Curves” palette is to view the histogram displayed in the background of the curve edit display. The histogram provides information on what tones are present in the original image and in what amounts, information that is used when setting the black point and white point and editing curves.

The histogram takes the form of a bar graph. The horizontal axis shows the tone level (pixel brightness), with shadows to the left and highlights to the right. The vertical axis gives the number of pixels of each tone level found in the current crop, scaled to ﬁ t in the curve edit display (note that the histogram does not show the position of pixels within the crop).

To view the distribution of tones in the ﬁ nal, output image after changes to curves, click the ton again to view the input tone distribution.

button. Click the but-

The “Apply” Button

Changes to curves only apply when the button at the top left corner of the “Curves” palette is checked. When this button is checked, changes to curves will be reﬂ ected in the image in the active window. The box can be checked and unchecked for a quick “before-and-after” comparison to determine whether changes to settings are having the desired effect.

The Tool Chest — Curves

Sixteen-Bit Images

The histogram uses eight-bit precision, with the result that spikes may be visible in the histogram when previewing images at a bit-depth of sixteen bits. Sixteen-bit precision is however used when the image is scanned.

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Channel Selection Shortcuts

Step 2—Channel Selection

Step 3—Setting White and Black Points

The channel menu is used to select components of the current color model for editing. Select the master curve to modify tones for all channels in the image. In the RGB color model, the red, green, and blue curves can be modiﬁ ed separately. The histogram shows tone levels for the selected chan nel only.

When the master curve is selected, the auto-contrast but ton and white-point and black-point eye drop per tools apply simultaneously to all of the red, green, and blue curves (the master curve is un af fect ed). When one of the red, green, and blue curves is selected, these controls can be used to edit only the se lect ed curve.

Channel Selection Shortcuts

The current channel can also be selected using the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl ~ (Windows)/ ~ (Macintosh)

Master channel (RGB)

• Ctrl 1 (Windows)/ 1 (Macintosh)

Red channel (RGB)

• Ctrl 2 (Windows)/ 2 (Macintosh)

Green channel (RGB)

• Ctrl 3 (Windows)/ 3 (Macintosh)

Blue channel (RGB)

The endpoints of the curve are referred to as the “white point” and the “black point.” The black point for a given channel represents the darkest shade (minimum value) for that color, the white point, the brightest shade (maximum value). By default, the input and output values for the black point are zero. The darkest shade in the input image may however be greater than zero, with the result that a portion of the curve is dedicated to reproducing tones not actually present in the image. Increasing the input value for the black point until it matches the darkest shade in the image will steepen the curve, en hanc ing overall contrast without causing a corresponding loss of detail in shadows. Similarly, if the original image does not actually contain shades corresponding to the maximum value, the white point can be lowered to match the brightest shade in the image.

There are two steps to selecting a white point and black point for the ﬁ nal image: choosing the white-point and black-point input levels, and selecting out put levels.

The Tool Chest — Curves

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White-Point and Black-Point Input Levels

Input levels for the white point and black point can be set using any of the following three methods:

• automatic contrast adjustment

• white-point and black-point sliders

• direct sampling using the white-point and black-point eyedropper tools

Automatic Contrast Adjustment

In automatic contrast adjustment, Nikon Scan automatically selects white and black points that exclude a certain percentage of the brightest and darkest pixels in the image, steepening curves for enhanced contrast (the exact percentage of pixels excluded can be speciﬁ ed in the “Preferences” dialog). By default, 0.5% of the brightest and darkest pixels are excluded, producing a curve that makes optimal use of the output tone range while preserving details in shadows and highlights.

To perform an auto contrast operation, click the

button. The white and black points for each of the red, green, and blue channels will be modiﬁ ed simultaneously and the master curve will be displayed in the “Curves” palette (the master curve itself is unaffected by this operation). Clicking the

button with the Ctrl (Win dows) or option (Macintosh) key held down adjusts contrast only for the channel cur rent ly se lect ed in the channel menu.

To modify brightness and contrast without affecting color balance, select the master channel and click the

button

while pressing Ctrl (Win dows) or option (Macintosh).

The Tool Chest — Curves

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White-Point and Black-Point Sliders

The white-point and black-point sliders can be used to match the white and black points to the his to gram displayed in the curve edit display. While these sliders can be used to edit curves for any channel, the best results are usually obtained when they are used to modify the master curve.

Black-point

slider

White-point slider

To edit the white point or black point, click the corresponding slider once to activate it, then drag it to the right or left (a value can also be entered directly in the text box underneath the slider). Matching the black-point slider with the lowest input value displayed in the histogram will set the minimum output value for the selected channel to the darkest pixel actually present in the image, steepening the curve and enhancing contrast without sacriﬁ cing detail in shad ows. Similarly, matching the white-point slider with the highest input value displayed in the histogram will set the maximum output value for the selected channel to the brightest pixel present in the image, enhancing contrast without loss of detail in highlights. Any changes are applied instantly to the active image.

Black-point input value

The Tool Chest — Curves

White-point

input value

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Sampling the Image for White Point or Black Point

Setting the White or Black Point for the Current Channel

The white point or black point can be set by directly sampling the image, allowing the user to choose the pixels that will be used to set the maximum (white point) or minimum (black point) output value. This makes it possible to set the black point by matching it to a pixel in the darkest part of the image containing detail you want to preserve, eliminating details in darker areas that are not important to the ﬁ nal image. Similarly, you can match the white point to a pixel in the brightest area of the image containing details important to the ﬁ nal image. While direct sampling can be used with any channel, it is most effective when used with the master curve. When the master curve is selected, sampling will set the white or black point for red, green, and blue curves simultaneously; the master curve itself is unaffected.

To sample the white point, click the button. When the cursor is moved over the active image, it will take the shape of an eyedropper. Move the cursor over the image to ﬁ nd the pixel that you want to use to set the white point, keeping an eye on pixel level display in the “Information” palette to identify pixels with high input values. With the cursor over the target pixel, click the mouse button. The input value for the selected pixel will be used as the input value for the white point. The image will automatically be altered to reﬂ ect the new value for white point and the master curve will be displayed in the “Curves” palette.

To sample the image for the black point, click the

button and move the eye drop per cursor over the image until you ﬁ nd the point that you want to use to set the min i mum input value, then click the mouse button to select the black point.

Setting the White or Black Point for the Current Channel

By default, sampling sets the white point or black point for all channels and displays the master curve. To set the white point or black point for the current channel only, press the Ctrl key (Win dows) or option key (Macintosh) while clicking the or button. To modify brightness and contrast without affecting color balance, select the master channel and press Ctrl (Win dows) or option (Macintosh) while clicking the or button.

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White Point and Black Point Output Levels

Output Levels

Default Output Values

Once the input levels for the black and white points have been determined, output levels can be altered to reﬂ ect the actual shade of the darkest and brightest pixels in the image. If the darkest shade in the image represents a true black, for example, the output level for the black point can be left at zero. If, however, darkest shade present in the image is a lighter color, the output level for the black point can be raised to achieve more natural coloration.

The output levels for the white point and black point are set using the white-point and black-point output sliders on the left side of the curve edit display.

White-point

output slider

Black-point

output slider

To set the output level, click the slider once to activate it, then drag it up or down until you have found the desired output level (the output level can also be set by entering a value directly in the text box to the left of the slider). The effects of the change will be reﬂ ected in the active image.

Output Levels

In some cases, it is best if the darkest and lightest points of the image are not printed or displayed as saturated black or white, even when the colors in the original represent a true black or true white. For example:

• Making blacks less saturated can reduce the amount of ink consumed

• Making whites less saturated can prevent undesirable lines from ap-

pearing when a true white is printed in ink (for example, when white is printed on a colored background)

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Default Output Values

The default output levels for white point and black point can be set in the “Advanced Col or” category of the “Preferences” dialog ( 101).

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Gamma

Step 4—Setting the Gray Point

The point midway between the maximum and minimum input values is known as the “gray point” (or “midpoint”). This point represents a neutral shade corresponding to an output level of 128. The gray point is controlled by a slider at the bottom of the curve edit display. Moving the midpoint slider to the left increases the brightness of mid-tones without “washing out” high lights. Moving the slider to the right darkens mid-tones without obliterating detail in shad ows.

The midpoint can be set using the gray-point slider or by directly sampling the image using the gray-point eyedropper tool.

Gamma

Gamma (also written “γ”) is a fundamental property of video systems which determines the in ten si ty of the output signal relative to the input. When calculating gamma, the maximum possible input intensity is assigned a value of one, and the minimum possible intensity (no input) is assigned a value of zero. Output is calculated by raising input to a power that is the inverse of the gamma value (output = input practical terms, raising the gamma value has the same effect as moving the midpoint slider to the left, raising mid-tone output values and brightening the image while leaving the maximum and minimum values untouched. Lowering the gamma value has the same effect as moving the midpoint slider to the right, lowering mid-tone output values and darkening the image. The de fault value for gamma is one, which produces a linear curve in which input and output values are the same. Gamma can be set to any value between 0.45 and 3.00.

(1/γ )

). In

The Gray- Point Slider

The gray-point slider is located at the bottom of the curve edit display.

Gray-point slider

Gamma value

Move the slider to the left to increase the brightness of mid-tones in the selected channel, or move it to the right to decrease brightness. Al ter na tive ly, you can enter a value for gamma directly in the text box under the slider. The effects of changes to the gray point can be seen in the active image.

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Sampling the Image for Gray Point

Resizing the Curve Edit Display

The gray point can also be set by direct sampling. Regardless of the channel currently selected in the channel menu, sampling simultaneously deﬁ nes the gray point for each of the red, green, and blue chan nels while leaving the gray point for the master curve unchanged. Grayscale images can not be sampled for gray point.

To sample the gray point, click the

button. When the cursor is moved over the active image, it will take the shape of an eyedropper. Move the cursor over the image to ﬁ nd a pixel to use to set the gray point, keeping an eye on the pixel level display in the “Information” palette to identify pixels with a neutral input value (look for pixels that should be a neutral gray color in the ﬁ nal image). With the cursor over the target pixel, click the mouse button. The gray point for each of the component channels will be adjusted to alter color balance without altering the brightness of the sampled pixel (the weight assigned to each channel can be selected using the “Gray point target” options in the “Advanced Color” catego-

ry of the “Preferences” dialog; 101). The image will au-

to mat i cal ly be altered to reﬂ ect the new value for gray point.

Resizing the Curve Edit Display

The Tool Chest can be resized by dragging its borders (Windows) or by dragging the handle at its lower right corner (Macintosh). The size of the curves edit display changes with the size of the palette. For increased precision, enlarge the palette when editing curves.

Step 5—Editing Curves Directly

Curves can be reshaped to make adjustments to brightness and contrast in speciﬁ c portions of the tone range.

Adding New Points to the Curve

Move the cursor to the desired location in the curve edit display and click. A new point will be added at this position and the curve will automatically be adjusted to pass through this point. Points can be repositioned by dragging them to new locations in the curve edit display. Steepening a section of the curve will enhance contrast in that portion of the tone range, while changing the curve to map input to higher or lower output levels will brighten or darken tones in the affected portion of the tone range. The image in the active window will automatically be adjusted to reﬂ ect changes to the curve.

Removing Points from the Curve

Points can be removed from the curve by dragging them out of the curve window.

Resetting the Curves to Linear

The default linear curve for the current channel can be restored by clicking the reset all curves to linear, click the

button in the “Curves” palette. To

button.

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The Curves Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “Curves” palette displays the curves settings menu.

Option Description

Copy to Clipboard

Save Curve Settings…

Delete Curve Settings…

Import Curve Settings… Import settings created using the Export Curve Settings… option. Export Curve Settings… Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. Curves settings ﬁ les have the extension “.ncv”.

Reset to Default Curve Settings Reset all curves to linear.

Reset to User Curve Settings

Copy current curve settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the “Curves” palette for another window by activating the window and selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current curves settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the curves settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save Curve Settings… option. A dialog will be displayed where the set- tings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Restore the default curves settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan window settings

menu ( 17).

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Color Balance

Adjusting Overall Color, Contrast, and Brightness

The “Color Balance” Palette

The “Apply” Button

The “Color Balance” palette offers simple controls for adjusting brightness, contrast, and color balance for the entire image. Unlike the controls in the Curves palette, however, the “Color Balance” palette does not allow changes that affect only a portion of the tone range.

The controls in the “Color Balance” palette are described opposite. Note that when “grayscale” is selected for the color model, the “Color Balance” palette contains only brightness and contrast sliders.

Apply button

Sliders

The “Color Balance” Palette

The “Color Balance” palette can be used in both the scan window and in image windows.

The “Apply” Button

Changes to color balance only apply when the button at the top left corner of the “Color Balance” palette is checked. When this button is checked, changes to color balance will be reﬂ ected in the image in the active window. The box can be checked and unchecked for a quick “before-and-after” comparison to determine whether changes to settings are having the desired effect.

Adjusting Overall Color, Contrast, and Brightness

Item Description

The brightness slider adjusts brightness for the entire image. Dragging the brightness slider in the “+” direction

Brightness

Contrast

Color

balance

(Red,

Green,

Blue)

brightens the image, while dragging the slider in the “–” direction darkens the image. A value for brightness between –100 and +100 can be entered directly in the text box to the right of the slider.

Dragging the contrast slider in the “+” direction heightens the difference between high lights and shadows in the image, increasing contrast. Dragging the slider in the “–” di rec tion decreases the difference be tween light and dark portions of the image, lowering contrast. A value for contrast between –100 and +100 can be entered in the text box to the right of the slider.

While the brightness slider adjusts brightness for the image as a whole, the three color-balance controls allow the user to adjust brightness for each color individually. For ex am ple, dragging the red slider in the “+” direction brightens the red portions of the image, making the image as a whole more red. Dragging it in the “–” direction dims the red elements in the image, bringing out the remaining colors. Color balance can also be set by entering values between –100 and +100 directly in the text boxes to the right of the sliders.

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The Color Balance Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “Color Balance” palette displays the color balance settings menu.

Option Description

Copy current color balance settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the

Copy to Clipboard

Save Color Balance Settings…

Delete Color Balance Settings…

Import Color Balance Settings… Import settings created using the Export Color Balance Settings… option.

Export Color Balance Settings…

Reset to Default Color Balance Settings Reset all sliders to ±0.

Reset to User Color Balance Settings

“Color Balance” palette for another window by activating the window and selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current color balance settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the color balance settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save Color Balance Settings… option. A dialog will be displayed where the settings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. Color balance settings ﬁ les have the extension “.nca”.

Restore the default color balance settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan

window settings menu ( 17).

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Unsharp Mask

Increasing Sharpness

The “Unsharp Mask” Palette

The “Apply” Button

Unsharp Mask

Image Size and Resolution

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Using Unsharp Mask, the user can increase the sharpness of images by making edges more dis tinct. Unsharp Mask works by increasing the contrast of edges in the image while leaving other areas untouched. The amount of sharpness is determined by three factors: in ten si ty, halo width, and threshold.

Apply button

Intensity

Halo width

Threshold

The “Unsharp Mask” Palette

The “Unsharp Mask” palette can be used in both the scan window and in image windows.

The “Apply” Button

Changes to Unsharp Mask only apply when the button at the top left corner of the “Unsharp Mask” palette is checked. When this button is checked, changes to settings will be reﬂ ected in the image in the active window. The box can be checked and unchecked for a quick “beforeand-after” comparison to determine whether changes to settings are having the desired effect.

Increasing Sharpness

Unsharp Mask can be applied to all the colors in the image or selectively to areas of the image in which red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, or yellow predominate, as determined by the color values for each pixel. The brightness (luminosity) of the affected pixels is adjusted to sharpen edges without affecting color balance. The controls in the Unsharp Mask palette can be used to create multiple masks, one for each color or for all colors.

Unsharp Mask

Unsharp Mask sharpens edges without affecting color balance by adjusting only luminosity (brightness). The effect is the same as performing Unsharp Mask with the Luminosity channel selected in the Adobe Photoshop Lab color model.

Image Size and Resolution

The amount of Unsharp Mask required depends on the size and resolution of the ﬁ nal image. The more pixels in the image, the greater the amount of Unsharp Mask required to achieve the same degree of apparent sharpness. Before applying a mask, scale the image to the desired size and resolution.

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Unsharp Mask is only available when the Nikon Color Management System (CMS) is on. If Nikon CMS is off, the tools in the “Unsharp Mask” palette will be disabled.

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Creating Unsharp Masks

Step 1—Select a Color

Select a color from the color menu. Masks apply only to edges where the selected color predominates. To create a mask that applies to all colors, select All.

Step 2—Set Intensity, Halo Width, and Threshold

Use the sliders or enter values directly in the text boxes to their right.

Intensity The amount the contrast of edges will be increased.

The size of the area that will be affected. The greater

Halo

Width

Threshold

the halo width, the wider edges will appear. Too large a value for halo width will produce a “halo” along edges in the image.

The limit at which sharpening will be applied. If the threshold is zero, sharpening will apply to all pixels in the image. Increasing the threshold increases the amount of contrast that must be present between pixels before the mask will be applied, with the result that only more distinctly contrasting edges will be affected.

Step 3—Check the Results

To compare the effects of the Unsharp Mask with the unmodiﬁ ed image, click the “Apply” button at the top left corner of the “Unsharp Mask” palette to turn the effects of Unsharp Mask on or off.

Step 4—Create Additional Masks

Repeat steps 1–3 to create additional masks for different colors. New masks will be added to the end of the Unsharp Mask list. Masks apply in the order listed. To change the order, select a mask in the Unsharp Mask list and click to move it up in the list or mask, select it and click the

to move it down. To delete a

button.

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The Unsharp Mask Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “Unsharp Mask” palette displays the Unsharp Mask settings menu.

Option Description

Copy current Unsharp Mask settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the

Copy to Clipboard

Save Unsharp Mask Settings…

Delete Unsharp Mask Settings…

Import Unsharp Mask Settings… Import settings created using the Export Unsharp Mask Settings… option.

Export Unsharp Mask Settings…

Reset to Default Unsharp Mask Settings Delete all masks in the Unsharp Mask list.

Reset to User Unsharp Mask Settings

“Unsharp Mask” palette for another window by activating the window and selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current Unsharp Mask settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the Unsharp Mask settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save Unsharp Mask Settings… option. A dialog will be dis- played where the settings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. Unsharp Mask settings ﬁ les have the extension “.num”.

Restore the default Unsharp Mask settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan

window settings menu ( 17).

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The LCH Editor

Editing Colors

The “LCH Editor” Palette

The “Apply” Button

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The LCH Editor models color using three components: Light- ness (brightness), Chroma (color saturation, or vividness), and Hue. Each component has its own edit display. Luminosity and chroma are represented by curves, which can be edited in much the same way as the tone curves in the “Curves” palette. Steepening the luminosity curve increases the difference between bright and dark portions of the image, increasing contrast. Steepening the chroma curve increases color saturation, making colors more vivid. Both editors feature histograms, auto contrast, and white, black, and gray-point sliders. Output sliders are also available to edit the maximum and minimum values for output.

The “LCH Editor” Palette

The “LCH Editor” palette can be used in both the scan window and in image windows.

Editing Colors

The hue editor features unique controls for unparalleled ﬂ exibility when editing colors. Using this tool, a speciﬁ c range of input colors can be mapped to another range of output colors. This allows all the reds in the image, for example, to be made more orange, or even green or blue.

The desired editor is selected from the menu at the top of the “LCH Editor” palette.

Apply button

Editor menu

The “Apply” Button

Changes to the LCH Editor only apply when the button at the top left corner of the “LCH Editor” palette is checked. When this button is checked, changes to settings will be reﬂ ected in the image in the active window. The box can be checked and unchecked for a quick “beforeand-after” comparison to determine whether changes to settings are having the desired effect.

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The LCH Editor is only available when the Nikon Color Management System (CMS) is on. If Nikon CMS is off, the tools in the “LCH Editor” palette will be disabled. To use the LCH Editor with a color space that has the same gamut as uncalibrated RGB data obtained directly from the scanner, turn CMS on and select the Scanner RGB color-space proﬁ le.

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The Lightness Editor

Editor Selection Shortcuts

Although it affects brightness rather than color, editing luminosity has a similar effect to editing the master curve in the “Curves” palette. Steepening the curve increases the difference between light and dark areas of the image, increasing contrast. Moving the gray point alters the brightness of midtones while preserving detail in highlights and shadows.

Output level

sliders

Histogram

Gray-point slider

Item Description

Shows the distribution of pixels of different luminosi-

Histogram

Output

level sliders

Black-point

slider

Gray- point

slider

White-point

slider

Input/output

levels

ties in the input. The horizontal axis corresponds to luminosity (in the range 0–255), the vertical axis to the number of pixels.

Choose the maximum and minimum values for output.

Choose the minimum input level.

Set the gray point (gamma value).

Choose the maximum input level.

Input and output levels for the point under the cursor in the curve edit display.

Click to view the luminosity distribution for the ﬁ nal image. Click again to view the input luminosity distribution.

Black-point slider

Editor Selection Shortcuts

The editor can also be selected using the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl Shift 1 (Windows)/ option 1 (Macintosh)

Luminosity editor

• Ctrl Shift 2 (Windows)/ option 2 (Macintosh)

Chroma editor

• Ctrl Shift 3 (Windows)/ option 3 (Macintosh)

Hue editor

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Input/output

levels

White-point slider

Restore the luminosity curve to linear.

Restore all curves in the LCH Editor to linear.

Set maximum and minimum input levels to exclude values for 0.5% of the brightest and darkest pixels in the crop. The percentage of pixels excluded can be adjusted in the “Ad vanced Col or” category of the “Prefer-

ences” dialog ( 101).

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The Chroma Editor

The chroma editor is a useful tool for adjusting color saturation. Steepening the curve increases saturation in the affected range, making colors more vivid. Flattening the curve results in ﬂ atter, less vivid colors. Moving the gray point to the left makes the image as a whole more vivid, while moving it to the right “averages out” differences between colors, making the image grayer. One effective way to make full use of the scanner’s dynamic range is to steepen the curve in the portions of the histogram that contain the greatest number of pixels, while leaving colors corresponding to a neutral gray unaffected.

Item Description

Shows the distribution of pixels of different chromas in

Histogram

Output

level sliders Black-point

slider

Gray-point

slider

White-point

slider

Input/output

levels

the input. The horizontal axis shows chroma, the vertical axis the number of pixels.

Choose the maximum and minimum values for output.

Choose the minimum input level.

Set the gray point (gamma value).

Choose the maximum input level.

Input and output levels for the point under the cursor in the curve edit display.

Click to view the chroma distribution for the ﬁ nal image. Click again to view the input chroma distribution.

Output level

sliders

Black-point slider

Histogram

Input/output

levels

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White-point slider

Gray-point slider

Restore the chroma curve to linear.

Restore all curves in the LCH Editor to linear.

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The Hue Editor

The controls for editing hue are unique, consisting of a rainbow-colored background bisected by a horizontal line which represents the hues (colors) in the original image (input colors). Superimposed on this line is another horizontal line representing the colors in the image after editing (output colors). Before editing, the input line is the same as the output line, so that reds in the input are reproduced as reds in the ﬁ nal image. By changing the shape of hue curve, the user can map input colors to different output colors over a selected portion of the color range.

To edit the hue curve, click once in the edit window to activate the hue editor, then click the point on the curve over the hue you want to edit. Drag this point up or down until it intersects with the desired output color.

To determine the hue of a speciﬁ c pixel, move the cursor over the image. The point corresponding to the hue of the pixel under the cursor will be highlighted on the input line.

Item Description

Adjust the width of the curve that passes through the

Width slider

Scale button

Output slider Map all input colors to different output colors.

selected point, increasing or decreasing the range of adjacent hues affected by the change.

Click to change the vertical scale from 60 ° through 120 ° t o 1 80 ° and back again (the degrees in this scale refer to a 360 ° color wheel). Increasing the scale increases the range of hues visible in the display, while decreasing the scale increases precision.

Restore the hue curve to linear.

Restore all curves in the LCH Editor to linear.

Width slider

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Output slider

Scale button

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The LCH Editor Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “LCH Editor” palette displays the LCH Editor settings menu.

Option Description

Copy to Clipboard

Save LCH Curve Settings…

Delete LCH Curve Settings…

Import LCH Curve Settings… Import settings created using the Export LCH Curve Settings… option.

Export LCH Curve Settings…

Reset to Default LCH Curve Settings Reset all curves in the LCH Editor to linear.

Reset to User LCH Curve Settings

Copy current LCH Editor settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the “LCH Editor” palette for another window by activating the window and selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current LCH Editor settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the LCH Editor settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save LCH Curve Settings… option. A dialog will be displayed where the settings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. LCH Editor settings ﬁ les have the extension “.nlv”.

Restore the default LCH Editor settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan window

settings menu ( 17 ).

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Digital ICE

Advanced (Digital ICE quad Advanced)

Digital ICE, Digital ROC, Digital GEM, Digital DEE

The “Digital ICE

Advanced” Palette

Scanning Glass Microscope Slides

Digital ICE

The “Digital ICE

Advanced (Digital ICE quad Advanced)

Advanced” palette controls the Digital DEE (9000 ED, 5000 ED, and COOLSCAN V ED only), Digital ICE, Digital ROC, and Digital GEM functions built into Nikon scanners to reduce the effects of scratches, dust, fading, ﬁ lm grain, and under- or over-exposure.

Digital ICE

Digital ROC

Digital GEM

Digital DEE

Redraw

button

Digital ICE, Digital ROC, Digital GEM, Digital DEE

The following functions are available:

Function Description

Digital ICE

Digital ROC

Digital GEM

Digital DEE

Reduces the effect of dust and scratches when the image is scanned.

Processes images digitally to restore colors lost through fading.

Processes images digitally to reduce the effects of ﬁ lm grain.

Enhances detail in underexposed or overexposed areas of the image (9000 ED, 5000 ED, and COOLSCAN V only).

The “Digital ICE

The “Digital ICE4 Advanced” palette is only available when the scan window is active.

Advanced” Palette

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Scanning Glass Microscope Slides

Tur n Digital ICE4 Advanced off when scanning glass microscope slides in the FH-G1 or FH-8G1 medical holders (available separately). Digital ICE4 Advanced may fail to produce the desired results with glass microscope slides.

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Digital ICE—Correcting for Scratches and Dust

Scanning Time

The Information Panel

Film Negatives

Monochrome Film

Kodachrome Film

Digital ICE (Image Correction and Enhancement) reduces the effects of dust and scratches when images are scanned. To use Digital ICE, select Enable Digital ICE and choose

On(Normal) or On(Fine) from the Digital ICE menu.

Enable Digital

ICE check box

Option Description

On(Normal)

On(Fine)

Scanning Time

Scanning times will increase when Digital ICE is enabled. Turn Digital ICE off to reduce scanning times.

The Information Panel

When Digital ICE is enabled, the option selected in the Digital ICE menu is displayed in the scan window information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to Digital ICE settings.

The image is processed digitally to remove the effects of scratches and dust.

Use this setting to remove very thin scratches or dust that is barely visible. Note that the overall sharpness of the image may be reduced.

To view the effects any changes to Digital ICE settings, click the Preview button in the scan window (the preview image can not be updated using the Redraw button, which can only be used with Digital ROC, Digital GEM, and Digital DEE). The effects of Digital ICE are reﬂ ected in both the “Natural” and “Processed” panels.

Film Negatives

Noise may appear if Digital ICE is used to process overexposed images or images that have acquired very vivid colors through the developing process. The best results will be obtained in correctly exposed images that have been developed normally.

Monochrome Film

Digital ICE can not be used with monochrome ﬁ lm unless the ﬁ lm has been developed in color.

Kodachrome Film

Digital ICE is not recommended when scanning Kodachrome ﬁ lm with the 8000 ED, 4000 ED, or COOLSCAN IV ED. When scanning Kodachrome ﬁ lm with the 9000 ED, 5000 ED, or COOLSCAN V ED, select Kodachrome in the ﬁ lm type menu. Depending on the frame scanned, blurring or localized loss of detail may occasionally result when Kodachrome ﬁ lm is scanned with the 5000 ED or COOLSCAN V ED.

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Digital ROC—Restoring Faded Colors

Scanning and Preview Times

Monochrome Film/Grayscale Images

Digital ROC

Digital ROC (Reconstruction of Color) digitally restores colors lost through fading of the original ﬁ lm. To use Digital ROC, select Enable Post Processing and choose a value for color reconstruction using the Digital ROC slider or by entering a value between 0 (Digital ROC off) and 10 (maximum effect) in the text box to its right. The default setting is 5.

Enable Post

Processing

check box

Digital ROC

slider and text box

To preview the image at the new settings, click the Redraw button. If the desired results are not achieved, adjust settings and click the Redraw button again.

Scanning and Preview Times

Scanning and preview times will increase when Digital ROC is enabled. To reduce scanning and preview times, remove the check from the En-

able Post Processing check box.

Monochrome Film/Grayscale Images

Digital ROC may add color to monochrome images or images scanned in grayscale.

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Advanced

Digital ROC

The status of Digital ROC is shown in the scan window information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to Digital ROC settings. Digital ROC is not available when the FH- 816 or FH-8G1 is used with the 9000 ED or 8000 ED, or when the FH -G1 is used with the 5000 ED, 4000 ED, COO LSCAN V ED, or COOLSCAN IV ED.

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Digital GEM—Reducing Film Grain

Scanning and Preview Times

Digital GEM

Digital GEM (Grain Equalization Management) digitally processes images to reduce the effects of ﬁ lm grain. To use Digital GEM, select Enable Post Processing and choose a value for grain equalization using the Digital GEM slider or by entering a value between 0 (Digital GEM off) and 4 (maximum effect) in the text box to its right. The default setting is 3.

Enable Post

Processing

check box

Digital GEM

slider and text box

To preview the image at the new settings, click the Redraw button. If the desired results are not achieved, adjust settings and click the Redraw button again.

Scanning and Preview Times

Scanning and preview times will increase when Digital GEM is enabled. To reduce scanning and preview times, remove the check from the En- able Post Processing check box.

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Advanced

Digital GEM

The status of Digital GEM is shown in the scan window information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to Digital GEM settings. Digital GEM is not available when the FH-816 or FH -8G1 is used with the 9000 ED or 8000 ED, or when the FH -G1 is used with the 5000 ED, 4000 ED, COO LSCAN V ED, or COOLSCAN IV ED.

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Digital DEE—Enhancing Detail in Shadows and Highlights

Digital DEE

Scanning and Preview Times

Medium-Format Film (9000 ED Only)

Selecting a Crop

Monotone Shadows

Digital DEE (Dynamic Exposure Extender) reveals details in shadows and highlights, correcting for underexposure in back-lit subjects or shaded areas and for overexposure in brightly lit areas. Digital DEE is only available with 9000 ED, 5000 ED, and COOLSCAN V ED ﬁ lm scanners.

Enhancing Details in Shadows

To enhance details in shadows, select Enable Digital DEE and adjust shadow brightness using the Shadow Adjust- ment slider or by entering a value between 1 and 100 in the text box to its right. The larger the value, the brighter shadows in the image will be. The default setting is 50.

Enable Digital

DEE check box

Redraw

button

Selecting a Crop

When using Digital DEE, select a crop that excludes the frame borders and other unexposed areas of the ﬁ lm.

Monotone Shadows

Digital DEE has no effect if details in shadows have been totally obliterated, leaving shadows a single, uniform color.

Shadow Adjustment

slider and text box

To preview the image at the new settings, click the Redraw button. If the desired results are not achieved, adjust settings and click the Redraw button again.

After processingBefore processing

Digital DEE

The status of Digital DEE is shown in the scan window information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to Digital DEE settings. Digital DEE is not available when the FH -816 or FH-8G1 is used with the 9000 ED, or when the FH-G1 is used with the 5000 ED or COOLSCAN V ED.

Scanning and Preview Times

Scanning and preview times will increase when Digital DEE is enabled. To reduce scanning and preview times, remove the check from the En-

able Digital DEE check box.

Medium-Format Film (9000 ED Only)

When using Digital DEE to scan medium-format ﬁ lm under Windows, adjust “Crop” palette settings so that ﬁ le size is 169 MB or less. A ﬁ le of 169 MB is equivalent to a full frame of 6 × 9 ﬁ lm (crop size 6588 × 4482 pixels) scaled to 100% at 2000 dpi.

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Enhancing Details in Highlights

Monotone Highlights

Digital DEE can also be used to reveal details in highlights where the background is much brighter than the subject or the subject much brighter than the background. To enhance details in highlights, select Enable Digital DEE and click

More.

More button

Highlight Adjustment

slider and text box

Redraw

button

Adjust highlights using the Highlight Adjustment slider or by entering a value between 1 and 100 in the text box to its right. Increasing highlight adjustment increases contrast in highlights, while decreasing highlight adjustment has the opposite effect. The default value is 1.

To preview the image at the new settings, click the Redraw button. If the desired results are not achieved, adjust settings and click Redraw again.

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Monotone Highlights

Digital DEE has no effect if details in highlights have been totally obliterated, leaving highlights a single, uniform color.

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Deﬁ ning “Shadows” and “Highlights”

Threshold

The Threshold slider in the detailed view of the “Digital DEE” panel determines the border between shadows and highlights.

Moving the slider is to the left or entering a lower value in the Threshold text box increases the range of tones affected by the Highlight Adjustment slider and reduces the range of tones affected by the Shadow Adjustment slider.

Threshold

slider and text box

Moving the slider to the right or entering a higher value in the Threshold text box increases the range of tones affected by the Shadow Adjustment slider and reduces the range of tones affected by the Highlight Adjustment slider.

Tone rang e affec ted by

Shadow Adjustment

Shadows

Tone rang e affec ted by

Highlight Adjustment

Highlights

Threshold

Try increasing the threshold value if shadow brightness fails to brighten shadows in the desired tone range, or if highlight adjustment is affecting too great an area.

Tone rang e affec ted by

Shadow Adjustment

Shadows

Threshold

Tone rang e affec ted by

Highlight Adjustment

Highlights

Try decreasing the threshold value if highlight adjustment fails to increase contrast in the desired tone range, or if shadow brightness is affecting too great an area.

Threshold

Ideally, the threshold for shadow adjustment should be twenty to forty greater than the highest of the R and G values in the brightest shadows. The threshold for highlight adjustment should be twenty to forty less than lowest of the R and G values in the darkest highlights. To choose a threshold that can be used for both shadows and highlights, enter the average of the highest value (R or G) in the brightest shadows and the lowest value (R or G) in the darkest highlights. Color values can be determined by moving the cursor over the image and observing the R and G values in the scan window information panel.

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The Digital ICE4 Advanced Settings Menu

Clicking the triangle in the top right corner of the “Digital ICE4 Advanced” palette displays the Digital ICE4 Advanced settings menu.

Option Description

Copy Digital ICE4 Advanced

Settings to Clipboard

(Macintosh only)

Save Digital ICE4 Advanced

Settings…

Delete Digital ICE4 Advanced

Settings…

Import Digital ICE4 Advanced

Settings…

Export Digital ICE4 Advanced

Settings…

Reset to Default Digital ICE

Advanced Settings

Reset to User Digital ICE

Advanced Settings

Windows

Copy current Digital ICE4 Advanced settings to the clipboard. These settings can then be pasted into the “Digital ICE4 Advanced” palette by selecting Paste from the Edit menu.

Save current Digital ICE4 Advanced settings under a user-speciﬁ ed name. These settings will be added to the end of the Digital ICE4 Advanced settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name.

Delete settings created using the Save Digital ICE4 Advanced Settings… option. A dialog will be displayed where the settings to be deleted can be selected by name.

Import settings created using the Export Digital ICE4 Settings… option.

Export current settings to a ﬁ le in a location of your choice. Digital ICE4 Advanced settings ﬁ les have the extension “.nla”.

Tur n off all Digital ICE4 Advanced functions and restore all sliders to default settings.

Restore the default Digital ICE4 Advanced settings created with the Set User Settings option in the scan

window settings menu ( 17).

Macintosh

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Analog Gain

Controlling the Scanner’s Light Source

The “Analog Gain” Palette

Exposure Values

Smear

Analog Gain

The “Analog Gain” palette is used to adjust color by modifying exposure for the colored elements in the scanner’s light source. Gain is measured in Exposure Values (EVs), the same unit used for measuring exposure compensation on many cameras.

Analog gain sliders and text boxes

Controlling the Scanner’s Light Source

The “Analog Gain” palette contains the following items:

Item Description

Adjust exposure for all elements by dragging the slider

Master

Red, Green,

Blue

Redraw

Reset Reset all analog gain sliders to ±0.

or by entering a value between –2.00 and +2.00 in the text box to its right.

Adjust exposure for the red, green, and blue elements by dragging the sliders or by entering values between –2.00 and +2.00 in the text boxes to their right.

Update the preview image to reﬂ ect changes to analog gain.

Redraw

button

The “Analog Gain” Palette

The “Analog Gain” palette is only available when the scan window is active.

Exposure Values

Exposure Values are a measure of the quantity of light that falls on the scanning element (Charge- Coupled Device, or CCD). At +1 EV, the CCD is exposed to twice the normal amount of light, while at –1 EV, the amount of light is halved. EVs are sometimes referred to as “steps.”

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Reset

button

Smear

Choosing too high a value for exposure may produce “smear” or other defects in the scanned image.

Analog Gain

The status of analog gain is shown in the scan window information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to analog gain.

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Scan Image Enhancer (9000 ED, 5000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED Only)

Automatic Color, Brightness, and Contrast Adjustment

The “Scan Image Enhancer” Palette

Scan Image Enhancer

Scanning Time

Dark Images

Automatic Color, Brightness, and Contrast Adjustment

The Scan Image Enhancer automatically adjusts brightness and color saturation during scanning to produce an image

To preview the effects of the Scan Image Enhancer, click

Redraw. with optimal contrast. It is only available with 9000 ED, 5000 ED, and COOLSCAN V ED ﬁ lm scanners.

To use the Scan Image Enhancer, select Enable Scan Image

Enhancer in the “Scan Image Enhancer” palette.

Enable Scan

Image

Enhancer

check box

Redraw

button

Scan Image Enhancer

The status of the Scan Image Enhancer is shown in the scan window

information panel. A warning icon ( ) will be displayed if the preview

image has not been updated to reﬂ ect changes to the Scan Image En-

hancer.

The “Scan Image Enhancer” Palette

The “Scan Image Enhancer” palette is only available when the scan window is active.

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Scanning Time

Scanning times may increase slightly when the Scan Image Enhancer is

enabled.

Dark Images

If the image is dark, the Scan Image Enhancer may have no effect or

may make the scanned image darker. Turn the Scan Image Enhancer off

if it fails to produce the desired results.

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Scanner Extras

Controlling Scanner Settings

The “Scanner Extras” Palette

Controlling Scanner Settings

The options available in the “Scanner Extras” palette vary with the model of scanner connected and the ﬁ lm holder or adapter in use.

“Scanner Extras” palette for 9000 ED

with FH-835S ﬁ lm holder

The “Scanner Extras” Palette

The “Scanner Extras” palette is only available when the scan window is active.

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“Scanner Extras” palette for 5000 ED

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The “Scanner Extras” palette contains the following options:

Item DescriptionScanner

All (SA-21, SA-30,

FH-869S, FH-869G only)

All

5000 ED, 4000 ED,

COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED

(IA-20 (S) only)

9000 ED, 8000 ED,

5000 ED, 4000 ED

(SF-210/SF-200 (S) only)

Manual focus

adjustment

Perform

autofocus when

ﬁ lm is inserted

Multi- sample

scanning

Reposition ﬁ lm to match the scan position.Strip ﬁ lm offset

Focus scanner manually using slider or by direct text entry.

Perform autofocus when slide is inserted in MA-21/MA-20 (S) (5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED). When holder is inserted in 9000 ED or 8000 ED, perform autofocus on ﬁ rst frame (FH- 869S, FH-869G, FH-869GR excluded).

Recalibrate scanner when ﬁ lm has been left in device for extended periods.Calibration Control amount of color information acquired for each pixel (scan bit depth).Pixel data size

Choose crop settings to match different APS (IX-240) aperture settings.Crop choices

Increase accuracy by increasing the number of passes the scanner makes over the image.

Select Super Fine Scan to perform a single-line scan instead of the normal three-line scan.CCD scan mode9000 ED, 8000 ED

Choose the number of slides scanned each time the Scan button is clicked.Slide feeder scan

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Strip Film Offset

This is option is used to position the ﬁ lm in the scan aperture. It is only available with the SA-21, FH-869S, and the optional SA-30 and FH-869G.

To use this option, the thumbnail drawer must be open with thumbnails displayed. Select the desired thumbnail and adjust its position using the Boundary Offset slider or by entering a value in the text box to its right. If the right edge of the thumbnail is cut off, move the slider to the right or enter a larger value to bring it into position; if the left edge is cut off, move the slider to the left or enter a smaller value. Note that the direction of adjustment changes when thumbnails are ﬂ ipped or rotated.

To view the effects of changes to the boundary offset, click the Reload Thumbnail button and check the results in the thumbnail drawer. The changes will not be reﬂ ected in the preview area until the Preview button is clicked.

Manual Focus Adjustment

Use manual focus adjustment

when the desired results can

not be achieved using auto-

focus. Adjust focus using the

Position slider or by entering a value in the text box to its

right, then click the Preview button in the scan window to

refocus the scanner. The new focus position will be used un-

til the next time ﬁ lm is inserted or Nikon Scan is restarted. To

focus the scanner automatically, click the autofocus button in

the scan window control area.

Strip Film Offset

Numerical boundary offset ranges are shown below.

5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED

First frame Subsequent frames

0–144 -144 – 144

Medium-format ﬁ lm (9000 ED, 8000 ED)

Frame size

6 × 4.5

6 × 6 6 × 7 6 × 8 6 × 9

First frame

0–69

0–93 0–114 0–127 0–137

Subsequent frames

-69 – 69

-93 – 93

-114 – 114

-127 – 127

-137 – 137

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* Small negative values may be possible with the ﬁ rst frame of medium-

format ﬁ lm.

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Perform Autofocus When Film Is Inserted

The Status LED

If this option is selected when the MA-21/MA-20 (S) slide-mount adapter is inserted in the 5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOL SCAN V ED, or COOLSCAN IV ED, an autofocus operation will automatically be performed when a slide is inserted.

If this option is selected when the 9000 ED or 8000 ED is connected, an autofocus operation will be performed on the ﬁ rst frame when a ﬁ lm holder is inserted (an autofocus operation will not be performed when the FH-869S, FH- 869G, or FH-869GR is inserted).

Calibration

If the scanner is left on for an extended period, the temperature inside the scanner will rise and the scanner may need to be recalibrated. Click Calibrate to recalibrate the scanner.

If the MA-21 or MA-20 (S) is inserted, remove any slides from the adapter before recalibrating. Users of the IA-20 (S) will be prompted to rewind the ﬁ lm before calibration begins. Film will automatically be ejected from the SA-21, SA-30, 9000 ED, or 8000 ED before calibration begins, and will automatically be reloaded when calibration is complete.

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The Status LED

The scanner status LED will blink while the scanner is being recalibrated. Do not perform any additional operations in Nikon Scan until the status LED has stopped blinking.

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Pixel Data Size

Bit Depth, Color, and File Size

The option selected in the Scan Bit Depth menu determines the num-

ber of bits acquired per color channel for each pixel in the image. The options available depend on the scanner used:

• 9000 ED, 5000 ED: 16 bits, 8 bits

• COOLSCAN V ED, 8000 ED, 4000 ED: 14 bits, 8 bits

• COOLSCAN IV ED: 12 bits, 8 bits

Bit Depth, Color, and File Size

Scanning at a bit depth of eight bits yields 256 shades per pixel for each component channel of the current color model (if the image is threecolor RGB, the result is 24 -bit color, which can express roughly 16.7 million different color values). The maximum bit depth depends on the scanner connected:

• 9000 ED, 5000 ED: 16 bits (65,536 shades per channel)

• COOLSCAN V ED, 8000 ED, 4000 ED: 14 bits (16,348 shades per chan-

nel)

• COOLSCAN IV ED: 12 bits (4,096 shades per channel) Scanning at the maximum bit depth results in larger ﬁ les but increases accuracy.

Images scanned at fourteen and twelve bits are converted to sixteen

bits when opened in the host application.

IX240 Crop Choices

The following crop choices are available when the optional IA-20 (S) APS (IX-240) ﬁ lm adapter is inserted in the 5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, or COOLSCAN IV ED:

Crop choice Description

The size of the initial crop is adjusted for the “classic”

Classic

Wide

Panorama

APS setting, with a width-height ratio the same as 35mm ﬁ lm (3 : 2).

The size of the initial crop is adjusted for the “wide” APS setting, with a width-height ratio of 16 : 9.

The size of the initial crop is adjusted for the “panorama” APS setting, with a width-height ratio of 3 : 1.

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Multi-Sample Scanning

Scanning Time

In multi-sample scanning (available only with the 9000 ED, 8000 ED, 5000 ED, and 4000 ED), the scanner makes multiple passes over the image and averages the results to reduce the effects of electronic “noise,” producing more accurate reproductions with smoother changes in tone.

To use multi- sample scanning, select the desired setting from the Mode menu:

Mode DescriptionNo. of passes

Normal (1×) Multi-sample scanning off.1

Good (2×)

Fine (4×)

More Fine (8×)

Super Fine (16×)

Precision increased by equivalent of one bit per channel.

Precision increased by equivalent of two bits per channel.

Precision increased by equivalent of three bits per channel.

Precision increased by equivalent of four bits per channel.

CCD Scan Mode

This option is available only with 9000 ED and 8000 ED ﬁ lm scanners. To speed scanning, these scanners use a three-line CCD. Although the scanner automatically compensates for slight differences in output between each line, the very small differences that do remain could cause a drop in image quality when, for example, the image is processed by sharply steepening curves to increase contrast. This can be prevented by selecting Super Fine Scan to scan the image with a single line (note that scanning times will triple). Super Fine Scan produces no noticeable improvement when scanning images with a standard tone curve.

Slide Feeder Scan

This option is available when an optional SF-210 or SF-200 (S) slide adapter is used with the 5000 ED or 4000 ED. Enter the number of slides to be scanned in the Feed Images text box. This is the number of slides that will be scanned in sequence when the Scan button is clicked. To scan all the slides in the feeder, enter a large value (the maximum value is 99).

Scanning Time

Scanning time increases in proportion to the number of passes.

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Nikon Scan Menus

Preferences

Fine-Tuning Nikon Scan

The settings in the “Preferences” dialog are used to ﬁ ne-tune the controls in the scan window. To view the “Preferences” dialog, click the Prefs button in the control area of the scan window.

The settings in the “Preferences” dialog are divided into the categories shown below. Click the links for more information.

Nikon Color Management ( 78)

Gamma ( 82)

Color Management ( 84)

File Locations ( 94)

Single Scan ( 95)

Batch Scan ( 96)

File Saving ( 99)

Automatic Actions ( 100)

Advanced Color ( 101)

Prefs

button

* Read “Nikon Color Management” before reading

the “Gamma” and “Color Management” sections.

Nikon Color Management

Keeping Colors True

Turning Nikon CMS Off

CMYK

The Nikon Color Management System, or Nikon CMS, en sures that image data from Nikon scanners are re pro duced consistently and accurately on monitors or print ers. With this pow er ful tool, colors can be manipulated in a cal i brat ed RGB color model before the data are passed to the host application. Proﬁ les detailing the color char ac ter is tics of the chosen color model and the output de vice (mon i tor or print er) ensure that colors will be reproduced ac cu rate ly in al most any operating environment.

Keeping Colors True

Nikon CMS involves two categories of preferences, one (“Gamma”) for use when Nikon CMS is off and the other (“Color Man age ment”) for use when Nikon CMS is on. “Gamma” speciﬁ es how data from the scanner will be mod i ﬁ ed for display on the monitor. Because monitor proﬁ les can not be used when Nikon CMS is off, this adjustment must be made manually. “Color Management” is used to turn Nikon CMS on and off and select the proﬁ les for use with the monitor and with the CMYK and calibrated RGB color models when Nikon CMS is on.

Tur ning Nikon CMS Off

In general, much better results can be achieved with Nikon CMS on. It may however be necessary to turn color management off to:

CMYK

Images can not be scanned in CMYK. If CMYK data are required, convert images to CMYK before saving them to disk. Note that images can only be saved in CMYK if Nikon CMS is on (Nikon CMS is on by default).

Preferences— Nikon Color Management

• Speed processing

If the computer has a slow CPU, the processing required for color management may result in longer scan times. Try turning color management off for reduced scan times.

• Edit data from the scanner directly

Advanced users may want to turn Nikon CMS off to edit uncalibrated RGB data from the scanner.

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How Nikon CMS Works

Creating Monitor Proﬁ les

When image data are passed from an input device, such as a scanner, to an output device, such as a monitor or printer, color management ensures that the image displayed on the output device “looks the same” as the original. To accomplish this task, the color management system must have information about the color characteristics of both the input and output devices, as well as the color space used for editing. The ﬁ les containing this in for ma tion are called “ICC proﬁ les.” Nikon Scan uses the fol low ing three types of proﬁ le:

Input Proﬁ les

Input proﬁ les provide information on the input device, i.e., the Nikon scanner. Fixed pro ﬁ les de tail ing the color char ac ter is tics of sup port ed Nikon scanners are provided with Nikon Scan. An input proﬁ le is se lect ed au to mat i cal ly based on the model of scan ner used and the type of media (pos i tive or negative) being scanned.

Color-Space Proﬁ les

Separate proﬁ les are avail able for the RGB and CMYK color models. Nikon Scan comes with a selection of proﬁ les for the RGB color model, while CMYK proﬁ les for color print ers are usually pro vid ed by the man u fac tur er. Color-space pro ﬁ les are used when editing images in the scan win dow and when making the ﬁ nal scan.

Monitor Proﬁ les

Monitor proﬁ les are usually provided by the manufacturer, although proﬁ les for some common monitor types may be included with the computer operating system. Monitor proﬁ les apply when images are displayed on a monitor, for example when an image is displayed in the preview area or an image win dow.

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Creating Monitor Proﬁ les

If desired, Adobe Photoshop can be used to create a monitor proﬁ le for a speciﬁ c environment. This proﬁ le can then be used in Nikon Scan. For information on creating monitor proﬁ les, see the doc u men ta tion provided with Adobe Photoshop. This option is not avail able in Adobe Photoshop LE.

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The Scanning Process

The illustration below shows the role Nikon CMS plays in the scanning process. CMS proﬁ les are shown in blue, user op er a tions in red.

When Nikon CMS is on, uncalibrated RGB image data from the scan ner are converted to grayscale or calibrated RGB, de pend ing on the color model selected in the scan window. RGB data are processed according to the proﬁ le selected for the calibrated RGB color space. These data are stored in mem o ry so that the color model can be changed with out per form ing an oth er pre view. Any changes made using the color enhancement and Unsharp Mask tools also ap ply to these data. When the im age is dis played in the pre view win dow, the mon i tor pro ﬁ le is used to ensure that the preview image is as true as pos si ble to the data in mem o ry.

When the Scan button is clicked to perform the ﬁ nal scan, the scan data are processed according to the selected colorspace proﬁ le and any changes that were made using the color en hance ment and Unsharp Mask tools in the scan win dow. The data are then trans ferred to the host ap pli ca tion. Where pos si ble, the color-space pro ﬁ le is trans ferred to the host ap pli ca tion to geth er with the im age data. The TWAIN in ter face used in Windows, how ev er, does not al low proﬁ les to be passed to an oth er ap pli ca tion, with the result that under Win dows the pro ﬁ le is only transferred to the host when Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application (note that proﬁ le information is lost when the image is saved in a format such as BMP that does not allow the proﬁ le to be recorded). When im ag es are dis played in im age win dows in Nikon Scan, the monitor proﬁ le en sures that the image on the screen reﬂ ects the orig i nal as close ly as pos si ble.

Before preview

Scanner Extras

Digital ICE4 Advanced

Scan Image Enhancer

Analog Gain

Film type selection

Color model and proﬁ le

selection

Preferences— Nikon Color Management

Preview

Scanner

input proﬁ le

Color- space

proﬁ le

New color-

space proﬁ le

Changes to color

model or color-

space proﬁ le

Image processing

Curves

Color Balance

LCH Editor

Unsharp Mask

Monitor

proﬁ le

Monitor

proﬁ le

Processed tab

Natural tab

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Scan

Host application

Scanning with Nikon CMS Off

If Use Nikon Color Management System is not selected in the “Color Management” category, proﬁ les can not be used to ensure that the data from the scanner are reproduced ac cu rate ly when passed to another application or displayed in the mon i tor. Be cause the color proﬁ les required for a cal i brat ed RGB color space are not available when Nikon CMS is off, images can only be scanned as uncalibrated RGB or grayscale. Similarly, the absence of a monitor proﬁ le means that gamma adjustment must be used to correct the image for dis play on the monitor or for editing in another application. These ad just ments to gamma are made in the “Gamma” category of the “Pref er enc es” dialog.

The illustration below shows how scanning proceeds when Nikon CMS is off. The image shown in the preview window is ad just ed for display in the monitor ac cord ing to the value cho sen for preview gamma in the “Gam ma” category. When the Scan but ton is clicked, the main scan gamma and any changes to curves and color balance are passed to the scan ner, where they are ap plied to scan data be fore the image is trans ferred to the host ap pli ca tion (if Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” ap pli ca tion, the value for preview gam ma is passed to the scan ner instead of main scan gamma). The LCH Editor and Unsharp Mask tools can not be used when Nikon CMS is off.

Scanner Extras

Digital ICE4 Advanced

Scan Image Enhancer

Analog Gain

Gamma adjustment

Preferences— Nikon Color Management

PreviewBefore preview

Preview

Image processing

Curves

Color Balance

Preview

gamma

Preview

gamma

Processed tab

Natural tab

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Scan

Main

scan

gamma

Host application

Gamma

When the Use Nikon Color Management System option in the “Color Management” category (

84) is off, the con-

trols in the “Gamma” category are used to adjust data from the scanner so that they display correctly when previewed on the monitor or opened in an oth er application.

Preview gamma

Preview gamma applies to the image displayed in the pre view area of the scan window. In general, preview gamma is solely for display in the preview area and does not apply to the image data that are passed to the host application when the Scan button is clicked. There are two exceptions to this rule, how ev er. The ﬁ rst is when Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, the second when Use preview gam ma is se lect ed as the main scan gamma option. In these cases pre view gam ma is ap plied to im age data passed to the host ap pli ca tion.

Preview gam ma de faults to a val ue of 1.8 on the Macintosh,

2.2 on Win dows com put ers. To choose a set ting suited to the current monitor, adjust the value so that the pat terns of gray lines and dots above the slider match in density. Gam ma can be set by en ter ing a value directly into the text box or by moving the slider. When mak ing this ad just ment, set the res o lu tion on the monitor to a low value such as 640 × 480 and sit as far away from the monitor as possible. To restore the default setting for your platform, click Reset.

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Main scan gamma

Main scan gamma options are only visible when Nikon Scan is being used as a TWAIN source or acquire plug-in for an oth er program (when Nikon Scan is used as a “standalone” application, preview gamma automatically applies both to the preview image and to the ﬁ nal scan). Image data passed to the host application are modiﬁ ed according to the option chosen here. Three op tions are available:

Use preview gamma

The gamma value chosen for preview gamma is applied be fore the data are passed to the host application. Use this setting when the host application does not support in de pen dent gam ma settings and you want the ﬁ nal image to be modiﬁ ed for display on your monitor.

Use application gamma

In some environments, a value for gamma can be chosen in the host application and passed to the Nikon Scan plugin. When Use application gamma is selected, this value is applied to the main scan data before they are passed to the host application.

Two conditions must be fulﬁ lled if this option is to be ef fec tive. First, the in ter face be tween the ap pli ca tion and Nikon Scan must allow the gamma value to be passed to the Nikon Scan plug-in. The TWAIN in ter face used under Windows does not, however, allow the gamma value to be passed to the TWAIN source (i.e., to Nikon Scan). Con se quent ly, in the Windows ver sion of Nikon Scan a default val ue of 2.2 is used for main scan gamma when ev er Use ap pli ca tion gam ma is se lect ed. Second, the ap pli ca tion must sup port gamma transfer. If Use ap pli ca tion gam ma is se lect ed with a Macintosh ap pli ca tion that does not sup port this fea ture, Macintosh system gamma (1.8) will be used.

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Use custom gamma

When this option is selected, a value for main scan gam ma can be en tered in the text box.

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Color Management

The proﬁ les used by the Nikon Color Management System are speciﬁ ed in the “Color Man age ment” category.

Use Nikon Color Management System

This option turns the Nikon Color Management System on and off. Changes to this setting only take effect after Nikon Scan has been quit and restarted.

When Nikon CMS Is On…

…images are processed to ensure consistent color re pro duc tion, as described in “How Nikon CMS Works” (

79).

Because color management proﬁ les typically contain their own settings for gamma, the controls in the Gamma tab are dimmed and inactive.

When Nikon CMS Is Off…

…monitor and color-space proﬁ les are not used, and the con trols in the Color Management tab are dimmed and in ac tive. The only tool available for ensuring that colors from the scan ner will be displayed accurately on the monitor is the “Gamma” category (

82). The only adjustments made

to the image be fore it is passed to the host application are gam ma ad just ment and changes to curves and color balance made in the scan win dow.

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The “Monitor” Tab

The “Monitor” tab speciﬁ es the proﬁ le that will be used when images are displayed on your monitor, either in the scan window preview area or a Nikon Scan image window. Monitor proﬁ les contain information about the color and gam ma characteristics of the monitor, allowing images to be ad just ed for more accurate color reproduction.

Use factory default monitor proﬁ le (default)

Nikon Scan is supplied with default monitor proﬁ les for use when no other proﬁ le is available (see below). To use the default pro ﬁ le for your plat form, select Use factory default mon i tor pro ﬁ le.

Default Windows Monitor Proﬁ le (Gamma 2.2)

The default Windows monitor proﬁ le (“NkMonitor_Win.icm”) is identical to the sRGB proﬁ le.

Default Macintosh Monitor Proﬁ le (Gamma 1.8)

The default Macintosh monitor proﬁ le (“NkMonitor_ Mac.icm”) is iden ti cal to the proﬁ le used for Apple 17˝ monitors with a D

white point.

Use custom monitor proﬁ le

Use this option to select a proﬁ le supplied by the company that manufactured the monitor. When this option is se lect ed, the Choose Custom Proﬁ le… button will be ac tive. Click ing this but ton dis plays a standard “open ﬁ le” di a log; nav i gate to the disk and folder containing the man u fac tur er’s pro ﬁ le. The path to the selected proﬁ le will appear in the text box below the Use custom mon i tor proﬁ le radio but- ton.

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The “RGB” Tab

The “RGB” tab is used to select a color-space proﬁ le for the cal i brat ed RGB color model. The proﬁ le used can be se lect ed from the Color space menu.

Each of the pro ﬁ les listed may be classiﬁ ed according to its gam ma value and gamut. Gamma is a fundamental char ac ter is tic of im ag ing systems which determines the intensity of the output sig nal relative to the input; in human terms, gamma controls the subjective brightness of images through al ter ations to the out put level for mid-tones. Win dows and Macintosh systems pro cess video signals dif fer ent ly, and these differences are re ﬂ ect ed in the difference in the standard gam ma values for these plat forms. The default system gamma for Macintosh computers is 1.8, the de facto standard for Win dows systems, 2.2. Nikon CMS includes eight RGB pro ﬁ les with a Windows gamma of 2.2 (sRGB, Bruce RGB, NTSC [1953], Adobe RGB [1988], CIE RGB, Wide Gamut RGB, compensated Wide Gamut RGB, and Scanner RGB), and three proﬁ les with a gam ma val ue of 1.8 (Apple RGB, ColorMatch RGB, and compensated Apple RGB), for use on the Macintosh. When scan ning im ag es, choose a proﬁ le with a gam ma value suited to the sys tem on which the image will be edited.

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The “CMYK” Tab

CMYK

The CMYK sheet is used to select a proﬁ le for use with the CMYK color model.

Use factory default CMYK proﬁ le (default)

Nikon Scan is supplied with a default CMYK proﬁ le (the SWOP color library) for use when no other proﬁ le is avail able. This proﬁ le is used when Use factory default CMYK proﬁ le is se lect ed.

Use custom proﬁ le

Use this option to select a proﬁ le supplied by the company that manufactured your printer. When this option is se lect ed, the Choose Custom Proﬁ le… button will be active. Click- ing this but ton displays a standard open-ﬁ le dialog; nav i gate to the disk and folder con tain ing the man u fac tur er’s pro ﬁ le. The path to the se lect ed proﬁ le will appear in the text box below the Use custom CMYK proﬁ le ra dio but ton.

CMYK

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RGB Proﬁ les Provided with Nikon Scan

Windows Proﬁ les (Gamma 2.2)

sRGB

This RGB proﬁ le is used in the majority of Windows mon i tors. It closely re sem bles the RGB commonly used in color tele vi sion, and is also used in the digital tele vi sion broadcasting sys tem that is on its way to becoming the industry standard in the United States of Amer i ca. Soft ware and hardware man u fac tur ers use it as a default color proﬁ le and guarantee operation when it used. It is also on its way to be com ing the standard for images on the web. This proﬁ le is suited to users who plan to use their digital images “as is,” without editing or printing them. It however suffers from the draw back of a narrow gamut with a limited area available for re pro duc ing blues. The cor re spond ing RGB setting in Photoshop 5.0 is “sRGB.”

Bruce RGB

This color proﬁ le attempts to expand on the ColorMatch RGB gamut by de ﬁ n ing the chromaticity for G as lying between the values for G in the Adobe RGB and ColorMatch color-space pro ﬁ les. It was pro posed by Bruce Fraser, who claims that it in cludes most of the colors in the SWOP CMYK gamut. It is not provided in the standard install of Photoshop

5.0, but can be selected as the RGB color-space proﬁ le for Photoshop by im port ing the proﬁ le “NkBruce.icm”.

NTSC (1953)

This is the color space for video deﬁ ned by the National Tele vi sion Standards Committee (NTSC) in 1953 and used in early color televisions. This color space is also used in some Far-East newspaper and printing organizations. The cor re spond ing RGB set ting in Photoshop 5.0 is “NTSC (1953).”

Adobe RGB (1988)

A color-space proﬁ le deﬁ ned in Photoshop 5.0. It has a wider gamut than sRGB and includes the colors found in most CMYK gam uts, making it suitable for users involved in desktop pub lish ing. The corresponding RGB setting in Pho toshop 5.0 is “A do be RGB (1988).”

CIE RGB

A video color-space proﬁ le established by the CIE. While it boasts a fairly wide gamut, it suffers from the drawback that the area de vot ed to the re pro duc tion of cyan is relatively small. The cor re spond ing RGB setting in Photoshop 5.0 is “CIE RGB.”

Wide Gamut RGB

This color-space proﬁ le, designed by Adobe, in cor po rates most of the visible colors. This however has the con se quence that most of the colors it can express can not be reproduced on standard mon i tors and print ers. The corresponding RGB set ting in Photoshop 5.0 is “Wide Gamut RGB.”

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Wide Gamut RGB (compensated)

Nikon scanners can scan some colors that cannot be ex pressed using the Wide Gamut RGB color-space proﬁ le. The com pen sat ed Wide Gamut RGB proﬁ le redeﬁ nes Wide Gamut RGB to include all the colors that can be output from the scanner. Be cause many of the colors that can not be expressed in Wide Gamut RGB occur in the blue por tion of the gamut, the level of detail in the blue area has been greatly increased (be cause the gamut has been expanded in a non lin ear fash ion to in cor po rate just those colors that could not otherwise be ex pressed, it can not be rep re sent ed in chro ma tic i ty di a grams using a stan dard RGB triangle). As is the case with Wide Gam ut RGB, most of the colors deﬁ ned in this proﬁ le can not be re pro duced on mon i tors and printers. It is output to the host ap pli ca tion as Wide Gamut RGB. When scanning images into Photoshop 5.0 using this proﬁ le, set the Photoshop RGB proﬁ le to “Wide Gamut RGB.”

Scanner RGB

This proﬁ le replicates the color space achieved when scan ning with Nikon CMS off. Its main purpose is to allow the LCH ed i tor and Unsharp Mask tools, which are not available when Nikon CMS is off, to be used to edit the colors produced by the scan ner. In order to pro duce the effect achieved by turning Nikon CMS off, the mon i tor proﬁ le is not used, nor is an ICC proﬁ le included with the image when it is opened in the host ap pli ca tion.

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Macintosh Proﬁ les (Gamma 1.8)

Apple RGB

This proﬁ le is used in desk-top publishing applications and in Adobe Photoshop ver sions 4.0 or earlier, and is the typical RGB proﬁ le for Macintosh monitors. The corresponding RGB set ting in Photoshop 5.0 is “Apple RGB.” This proﬁ le is suit able for work ing with images dis played on the Macintosh.

ColorMatch RGB

The ColorMatch proﬁ le is native to Radius PressView mon i tors. It has a wider gamut than Apple RGB, with a par tic u lar ly wide area devoted to the reproduction of blues. The cor re spond ing RGB setting in Photoshop 5.0 is “Color Match RGB.”

Apple RGB (compensated)

This proﬁ le deﬁ nes tristimulus (red, green, and blue) chro ma tic i ty as the intersection of the curve that marks the limits of the visible gamut with lines drawn from the Apple RGB white point and pass ing through the points that deﬁ ne tri stimulus chro ma tic i ty in the Apple RGB color-space proﬁ le. This proﬁ le is unique in that it preserves the characteristics of Apple RGB while al low ing more sat u rat ed colors. It is not pro vid ed in the stan dard install of Photoshop 5.0, but can be selected as the RGB color-space proﬁ le for Photoshop by im port ing the proﬁ le “NKApple_CPS.icm”.

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“Gamut”

In addition to gamma, proﬁ les can be classiﬁ ed according to their gamut, or the range of colors that can be ex pressed us- ing the proﬁ le. Gamut is conventionally expressed by means of chromaticity, a measure of color developed by the Com- mission Internationale de l’Éclairage (CIE). The CIE system, which is modeled on hu man color perception, maps the physical wave lengths of light to three coordinates (known as CIE X, Y, and Z) that give unique nu mer i cal ex pres sion to the full range of color differences that can be per ceived by hu mans. Chro ma tic i ty is a mea sure of col or from which con sid er ations of bright ness have been fac tored out, giving a two-co or di nate system.

In the chromaticity diagram at right, the complete gamut of col ors visible to hu mans is in the area en closed by the green line. The curved portion of the line gives the chro ma tic i ty of “pure,” un mixed colors with wavelengths in the visible spec trum of 380–780 nm. The blue end of the spectrum (380 nm) is at the bot tom left corner, the red end of the spectrum (780 nm) at the bot tom right corner. The straight diagonal line con nect ing these two points rep re sents the dif fer ent shades of purple cre at ed by combining red and blue light. The colors inside the area en closed by these lines are created by mixing light of dif fer ent wave lengths.

No color proﬁ le is capable of expressing the full range of colors visible to the human eye. The diagram below com pares the gam ut of col ors vis i ble to the eye with the colors that can be ex pressed in each of the RGB proﬁ les pro vid ed with Nikon CMS. The gamut for each proﬁ le is con tained in the triangle deﬁ ned by the three points that mark the ex tremes of red, green, and blue for that proﬁ le (red is at the bot tom right corner, green at the top of the triangle, and blue at the bottom left corner). The white point for each proﬁ le is shown by the symbol in the cen ter of the triangle.

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

Apple RGB

Color Match RGB

sRGB

NTSC (1953)

Bruce RGB

Adobe RGB (1988)

CIE RGB

Wide Gamut RGB

Human

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The following table shows the gamma values for the proﬁ les included with Nikon CMS, together with the chro ma tic i ty values for the white point and for red, green, and blue.

sRGB

NTSC (1953)

Bruce RGB

Adobe RGB (1988)

CIE RGB

Wide Gamut RGB

Apple RGB

ColorMatch RGB

Apple RGB (Com pen sat ed)

Default Windows Monitor

Default Macintosh Monitor

White Point

Name Value Name

6500K (D65)

Std Illuminant C

6500K (D65)

Std Illuminant E

5000K (D50)

6500K (D65)

5000K (D50)

6500K (D65)

5000K (D50)

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.3101

0.3162

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.3333333

0.3457029

0.3585386

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.3457029

0.3585386

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.3127159

0.3290015

0.34570291

0.3585386

Gam ma

Value

2.2

1.8

2.2

1.8

HDTV (CCIR 709)

NTSC (1953)

Bruce RGB

Adobe RGB

(1988)

CIE RGB

700/525/450nm

Trinitron

P22-EBU

Custom

HDTV (CCIR 709)

Trinitron

Chromaticity (x, y)

R G BProﬁ le

0.64

0.33

0.67

0.33

0.64

0.33

0.64

0.33

0.735

0.265

0.7347

0.2653

0.625

0.34

y x 0.63

0.34

0.65

0.341

0.64

0.33

0.625

0.34

x y x y x y x y x y x

y x y x x y x y

0.3

0.6

0.21

0.71

0.28

0.65

0.21

0.71

0.274

0.717

0.1152

0.8264

0.28

0.595

0.295 0.155

0.605

0.265

0.717

0.3

0.6

0.28

0.595

x y x y x y x y x y x

y x y

0.15

0.06

0.14

0.08

0.15

0.06

0.15

0.06

0.167

0.009

0.1566

0.0177

0.155

0.07

0.077

0.14

0.0454

0.15

0.06

0.155

0.07

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Keeping Colors True in Other Applications

When an image is scanned in the Nikon Scan TWAIN source or ac quire plug-in and opened in another application, or when an image saved using Nikon Scan is opened in another application, the image will be pro cessed ac cord ing to the col or-space and monitor proﬁ les se lect ed in the application before being displayed on the monitor. If the pro ﬁ les used in the ap pli ca tion do not match those used in Nikon Scan, col ors may not be the same as those in the original image.

RGB Color Model

Choose a monitor pro ﬁ le that match es that cho sen in the “Monitor” tab and a color-space pro ﬁ le that match es that se lect ed in the “RGB” tab (the Photoshop pro ﬁ les cor re spond ing to those used in Nikon Scan are list ed on the preceding pag es). If no match ing RGB proﬁ le exists, you can use the Nikon Scan proﬁ les in the path Pro gram Files\Common Files\Nikon\Proﬁ les (Win dows) or Sys tem Folder : Pref er enc es : Nikon MAID : Proﬁ les (Macintosh). The ﬁ les containing the proﬁ les listed in the RGB sheet are given below.

Proﬁ le File name

sRGB NKsRGB.icm Bruce RGB NKBruce.icm NTSC (1953) NKNTSC.icm Adobe RGB (1998) NKAdobe.icm CIE RGB NKCIE.icm Wide Gamut RGB NKWide.icm Apple RGB NKApple.icm Color Match RGB NKMatch.icm Apple RGB (compensated) NKApple_CPS.icm

When Nikon Scan is used as an acquire plug-in to the Macintosh version of Adobe Photoshop 5 or later (full ver sion), the RGB proﬁ le will automatically be passed to Photoshop when the image is scanned. Be sure that the monitor proﬁ le matches that used in Photoshop by selecting the Photoshop monitor proﬁ le in the monitor sheet of the Nikon Scan color management tab.

CMYK Color Model

Choose a monitor pro ﬁ le that match es that cho sen in the monitor sheet and a color-space pro ﬁ le that match es that se lect ed in the CMYK sheet. When Nikon Scan is used as an acquire plug-in to the Macintosh version of Adobe Photoshop 5 or later (full ver sion), the CMYK proﬁ le will automatically be passed to Photoshop when the image is scanned.

* Do not use the “Scanner RGB” proﬁ le when scanning images for use

in a third-party application.

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File Locations/Scratch Disks

Choosing a Location for Temporary Storage

Changes to “File Locations”/”Scratch Disks” Settings

The “File Locations” (Windows) or “Scratch Disks” (Macintosh) category is used to choose the folder or volume (disk) that will be used for tem po rary stor age, or “vir tu al mem o ry,” while Nikon Scan is in op er a tion. It is rec om mend ed that only disks with a high data trans fer rate, such as hard disks, be selected for tem po rary stor age.

Windows

The folder currently selected for temporary storage is shown under Folder for Temporary Data. To choose a different location, click Change Location… and nav i gate to the desired drive and folder.

Choosing a Location for Temporary Storage

Macintosh

The volume used for temporary storage can be chosen from the Scratch disk menu. The amount of space avail able on the selected disk is shown under the menu.

Preferences— File Locations/Scratch Disks

Changes to “File Locations”/”Scratch Disks” Settings

Changes to “File Locations” and “Scratch Disks” settings only take ef fect af ter you have quit and restarted Nikon Scan.

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Single Scan

Scan Settings for Single Scans

“Before Scan”

The “Single Scan” category is used to specify the tasks performed au to mat i cal ly before and after single scans.

Before scan

Option Description

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an auto-

Auto focus

Auto ex po sure

for pos i tive

ﬁ lm

Auto ex po sure

for negative

ﬁ lm

focus operation will be per formed as necessary before making a scan.

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an autoexposure operation will be per formed as necessary before scanning ﬁ lm pos i tives.

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an autoexposure operation will be per formed as necessary before scanning ﬁ lm negatives.

Scan Settings for Single Scans

After scan

Option Description

If this item is checked when Nikon Scan is used as a standalone application, the im age created when the Scan but- ton is clicked will be saved to disk instead of being opened

Save to

disk

window

and eject

ﬁ lm

“Before Scan”

If Perform auto focus when ﬁ lm is inserted is selected in the “Scanner Extras” palette, an autofocus operation will au to mat i cal ly be per formed when a slide is inserted in a slide-mount adapter (5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED) or when a holder other than the FH- 869S or FH-869G is inserted in the 9000 ED or 8000 ED. As a result, an autofocus operation will not au to mat i cal ly be performed before the image is scanned, even if Auto focus is selected for “Before scan.” In the case of the 9000 ED and 8000 ED, this applies only to the ﬁ rst frame in the holder; an autofocus operation will automatically be performed prior to scanning for all subsequent frames.

in an image window. When the Scan button is clicked, a “Save” di a log will ap pear; spec i fy a name, lo ca tion, and ﬁ le type for the image. This op tion has no effect when Nikon Scan is be ing used as a plug-in or TWAIN source for another ap pli ca tion. The de fault setting is off.

When this item is checked, the scan window automatically closes after scanning. Holders are automatically ejected from the 9000 ED/8000 ED, and ﬁ lm is automatically eject ed from the SA-21, IA-20 (S), SA-30 (5000 ED/4000 ED), and SF-210/SF -200 (S) (5000 ED/4000 ED). The de fault setting is off.

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Batch Scan

Scan Settings for Batch Scans

“Before Each Image”

The “Batch Scan” category is used to specify the tasks performed au to mat i cal ly before, during, and after batch scans.

“Before Each Image”

If Perform auto focus when ﬁ lm is inserted is selected in the “Scanner Extras” palette, an autofocus operation will au to mat i cal ly be per formed when a slide is inserted in a slide-mount adapter (5000 ED, 4000 ED, COOLSCAN V ED, COOLSCAN IV ED) or when a holder other than the FH- 869S or FH-869G is inserted in the 9000 ED or 8000 ED. As a result, an autofocus operation will not au to mat i cal ly be performed before the image is scanned, even if Auto focus is selected for “Before each image.” In the case of the 9000 ED and 8000 ED, this applies only to the ﬁ rst frame in the holder; an autofocus operation will automatically be performed prior to scanning for all subsequent frames.

Scan Settings for Batch Scans

Before batch scan

Option Description

Prompt for this

information

Create scan

log

If this item is checked (the default setting), a dialog containing the same options as appear in the “Batch Scan” category will be dis played at the start of a batch scan.

If this item is checked (the default setting), a log showing the operations performed and errors that occurred during the batch scan will be displayed in the “Log” tab of the progress window. If Save to disk is select- ed for “After each image”, the log will be saved to the same folder as the scanned images.

Before each image

Option Description

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an auto-

Auto focus

Auto ex po sure

for pos i tive

ﬁ lm

Auto ex po sure

for negative

ﬁ lm

focus operation will be per formed as necessary be fore each scan.

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an autoexposure operation will be per formed as necessary before scanning ﬁ lm pos i tives.

If this item is checked (the default set ting), an autoexposure operation will be per formed as necessary before scanning ﬁ lm negatives.

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After each image

Option Description

If this item is checked (the default setting) when Nikon Scan is used as a “stand-alone” application, scanned images will be saved to disk in stead of being opened in im-

Save to

disk

Stop on

errors

age windows. When the Scan button is clicked, a dialog will appear where the user can specify a location and ﬁ le type and choose how the ﬁ les will be named. This op tion has no effect when Nikon Scan is be ing used as a plug-in or TWAIN source for another ap pli ca tion.

If this item is checked (the default setting), scanning will stop when minor errors are encountered. If it is not checked, scanning will only stop when all the selected images have been scanned, ﬁ lm jams in the scanner, or a hardware error occurs.

After batch scan

Option Description

When this item is checked, the scan window automati-

window

and eject

ﬁ lm

cally closes after scanning. Holders are automatically ejected from the 9000 ED/8000 ED, and ﬁ lm is automatically eject ed from the SA-21, IA-20 (S), SA-30 (5000 ED/ 4000 ED), and SF-210/SF-200 (S) (5000 ED/4000 ED). The de fault setting is off.

The “File Saving Options” Dialog

If Save to disk is selected in the “Batch Scan” category when Nikon Scan is used as a stand-alone application, a “File Saving Options” dialog will ap pear at the start of a batch scan.

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The “File Saving Options” dialog contains the following:

File-Naming Conventions

File Saving

File Naming

Files saved during a batch scan are assigned names con sist ing of a preﬁ x, a ﬁ le number of from one to six digits assigned in as cend ing or der from a user-speciﬁ ed starting point, and a sufﬁ x. The options in the “File Naming” area control the preﬁ x, ﬁ le num ber, and sufﬁ x.

Option Description

Preﬁ x Enter a preﬁ x of up to 65 characters. Sufﬁ x Enter a sufﬁ x of up to 65 characters.

Number

of Digits

Starting

Index

Sample Shows a sample of the ﬁ le names that will be assigned.

Specify the number of digits in the ﬁ le number.

File numbers are assigned in ascending order starting from this number.

Option Description

…

File Format

Compression

Level

File-Naming Conventions

Windows

Where long ﬁ le names are supported, the maximum length is 255 characters. File names may not contain quotes or any of the following characters: “\\” “/” “:” “,” “;” “*” “<“ “>” and “|”.

To choose a destination folder for the images, click this button and navigate to the desired folder.

Select a format from NEF, TIFF, TIFF (CMYK), JPEG, BMP (Windows only), and PICT (Macintosh only).

If the selected ﬁ le format supports compression, the amount of compression can be selected from this menu.

Preferences— Batch Scan

In environments that do not support long ﬁ le names, the maximum length is eight characters; ﬁ le names may not contain spaces, quotes, or any of the following characters: “\\” “/” “:” “,” “;” “*” “?” “<“ “>” and “|”.

Macintosh

The maximum length for Macintosh ﬁ le names is thir ty-one characters. Colons (“:”) are not allowed.

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File Saving

Choosing a Default File Format and Creator

The “File Saving” category is used to choose the default ﬁ le type for images saved when Nikon Scan is used as a “stand - alone” ap pli ca tion. The Macintosh version also has an option for choosing the “creator” application, i.e., the application that will start when ﬁ les saved from Nikon Scan are double-clicked.

Windows

Macintosh

Choosing a Default File Format and Creator

Option Description

Select the default ﬁ le format from NEF, TIFF, TIFF

Default ﬁ le

format

Compression

level

Use alternate

creator code

(Macintosh

only)

(CMYK), JPEG, BMP (Windows only), and PICT (Ma cintosh only). Select Last used to choose the for- mat most re cent ly used to save im ag es when Nikon Scan was used as a “stand-alone” ap pli ca tion.

If the selected ﬁ le format supports compression, the amount of compression can be selected from this menu.

If this option is selected, a new creator application can be chosen by clicking the Choose Applica- tion… but ton and navigating to the desired ap pli ca tion. This option is not avail able in the Windows version of Nikon Scan.

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Automatic Actions

Preview Area Options

The “Automatic Actions” category controls the actions performed when media are inserted in the scanner or the focus point is adjusted using the focus tool in the “Layout Tools” palette.

Option Description

If Single image adaptor is selected, the scan ner will au to mat i cal ly perform a pre view when a slide is inserted in the MA-21/MA-20 (S) slide-mount adapt-

Preview

when ﬁ lm is

inserted

Thumbnail

when ﬁ lm is

inserted

Perform auto

focus when

focus point is

moved

er or the op tion al SF-210/SF-200 (S) slide feeder. If Multiple image adap tor is checked, the scanner will au to mat i cal ly perform a preview using user default set tings when ﬁ lm is inserted in a multi-frame adapter (if no user de faults are de ﬁ ned, fac to ry defaults will be used). This option is not available when the 9000 ED or 8000 ED is connected.

If Ten or fewer thumbnails is selected, the scan ner will au to mat i cal ly generate thumbnails when APS or strip ﬁ lm with ten or fewer frames is inserted in a multi-frame adapter. If More than ten thumb nails is checked, the scan ner will au to mat i cal ly generate thumbnails when ﬁ lm is inserted in the SA-30 or IA20 (S). This option is not available when the 9000 ED or 8000 ED is connected.

If this option is select, the scanner will automatically perform an autofocus op er a tion when the focus point is changed us ing the focus tool in the “Layout Tools” pal ette. If it is not checked, autofocus will only be per formed when the but ton is clicked in the scan window control area.

Preview Area Options

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Nikon SCAN User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Introduction

Scanning Basics

Getting Started

Elements of Nikon Scan

The Scan Window

The Control Area

The Thumbnail Drawer Tab

The Information Panel

The Preview Button

The Preview Area

The Scan Button

The Tool Chest

Using the Tool Chest

Layout Tools

Information

Crop

Curves

Color Balance

Unsharp Mask

The LCH Editor

Analog Gain

Scan Image Enhancer

Scanner Extras

Preferences

Nikon Color Management

File Locations/Scratch Disks

Single Scan

Batch Scan

File Saving

Automatic Actions