User manual MINOLTA SR-T 102

[. . . ] Familiarity with the mouse and standard operating system menus and commands is necessary before operating the driver software for the DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO. This manual does not give instruction in the: · basic use of personal computers. · use of Windows®98, Windows®2000 Professional, Windows®Me, Windows NT® or Mac OS 8. 6 to 9. 1. The appearance of some screens may differ from the examples when using Windows®Me or the Macintosh OS 9. 1 operating system. [. . . ] · When [Auto Expose for Slides] in the Preferences (see page 29) is not checkmarked, the AE lock function is not available with positive film. Images will be scanned using the AE lock settings until AE lock is cancelled or the scanner is reinitialized. CANCELLING THE AE-LOCK 1. to prescan the image again. 56 AE AREA LOCK Auto exposure can be based on a specified area in the prescanned image. Press the Shift key. · The AE area is indicated by an unbroken line, whereas the cropping area is indicated by a dashed line. 3. While pressing down the Shift key, change the AE area. · The operation is the same as that of changing the cropping area except that the shift key should be used. · For details, see "Cropping" (see page 58). DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO 57 CROPPING THE IMAGE AUTO CROPPING The cropping area is determined automatically so that the holder or slide mount frame in the prescan image is removed. 1. Click on . CROPPING The cropping frame defines how much of the prescan image will be scanned. The dimensions of the cropping frame are displayed in the lower left corner of the Prescan tab. To enlarge or reduce the size of the cropping frame. . . Click on the cropping frame and drag the pointer in or out. · Click on the corners and drag to resize the cropping frame proportionally. · Click on the sides and drag to resize the cropping frame non-proportionally. To move the cropping frame. . . Click inside the cropping frame, then drag the cropping frame to its new location. 58 CROPPING THE IMAGE To define a new cropping frame. . . Click and drag outside the current cropping frame. * You can resize the cropping frame to cover the full prescan image again by pressing the following keys. When the Prescan tab is displayed: Windows: Press the Ctrl key and A key simultaneously. Macintosh: Press the Command key and A key simultaneously. CROPPING THE PRESCAN IMAGE A more precise prescan image can be displayed by prescanning the cropped area again. 1. The tone curves and histogram are linked to each other so that when the tone curve is corrected, the histogram is automatically corrected. Click on in the Image Correction tab. THE TONE CURVES AND HISTOGRAM DIALOG BOX -- NAMES OF PARTS Input Shadow slider Output Shadow slider Histogram RGB display button Tone curves/Smooth Curve button Freehand curve button Black point button Grey point button White point button Apply button Input Highlight slider Input Shadow text box Input Gamma text box Input Highlight text box Output Shadow text box Channel list box Tone curves pallet Tone curves Input Gamma slider Histogram Output Highlight text box Output Highlight slider Reset button Auto Setting button Grey scale DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO 65 TONE CURVES AND HISTOGRAM CORRECTING THE TONE CURVES Changing the shape of a correction curve changes the output level for each corresponding input level. Changing the shape of the red, green, or blue curves affects colour balance of the image. Changes to the RGB curve affect the image contrast and brightness. 1. Click on the arrow next to the channel to display the available channel (RGB, R, G, B). Click and drag the portion of the curve to be changed. · The coordinate value of the cursor is displayed from 0 to 255. · The correction made by changing the tone curves is applied to the prescan image. · You can also change the tone curves by freehand. CHANGING THE TONE CURVES BY FREEHAND This function allows you to draw tone curves by freehand. 1. Select the channel of the colour (R, G, B, RGB) to be corrected from the channel selection menu. 2. Click on . · The cursor changes to the pencil shape. 3. Draw the desired curve by dragging. · To smooth out the curve points, click on . · The change will be reflected in the prescan image. 66 TONE CURVES AND HISTOGRAM SETTING THE WHITE, BLACK OR GREY POINTS White point (highlight point) indicates the section you want to lighten, Black point (shadow point) the section you want to darken, and Grey the section you want to have as neutral tone. [. . . ] High resolution is the term for an image with a lot of pixels in a given area. Low resolution means there are not many pixels in a given area. CONTRAST CROP DPI EMULSION SIDE GAMMA HIGHLIGHTS HISTOGRAM IEEE 1394 INTERPOLATION JPEG MIDTONE NEUTRAL PICT PIXEL RESAMPLE RESOLUTION 124 GLOSSARY RGB Red, Green, and Blue. These are the colors of the three channels that make up the scanned image. Monitors use red, green, and blue phosphors to create the image you see on the screen. [. . . ]