Microtek ScanWizard Pro Reference Manual For Mac OS X Copyright © 2005 by Microtek International, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Microtek®, AritxTM, and ScanWizardTM Pro are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microtek International Inc. Adobe® and Acrobat® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Macintosh® and Apple® are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other products or name brands are trademarks of their respective holders. Important Documents that you scan may be protected under copyright law. The unauthorized use of such documents could be a violation of the rights of the copyright holder. Microtek bears no responsibility for the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials. To obtain optimal results from the Microtek scanning software and user's manual, you should be familiar with such Windows concepts as pointing, clicking, dragging, and selecting from menus and dialog boxed. 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August 2005 Microtek Lab, Inc. 16941 Keegan Avenue, Carson, CA 90746 Main: 310-687-5800, Fax: 310-687-5950, http://www.microtekusa.com Microtek International, Inc. 6, Industry East Road 3, Science Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan Tel: 886-3-5772155, Fax: 886-3-5772598, http://www.microtek.com ii Contents Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 ScanWizard Pro for Mac OS X: The Interface ............................................................2 Launching ScanWizard Pro .........................................................................................3 Exiting ScanWizard Pro ...............................................................................................3 The Preview Window ............................................................................... 4 Elements of the Preview window ................................................................................4 The File Menu ..............................................................................................................6 The Context Concept ............................................................................................7 New ScanWizard Context .....................................................................................8 Load ScanWizard Context ....................................................................................8 Save ScanWizard Context As ...............................................................................8 SnapTrans Templates ............................................................................................9 Show Current Context Path ................................................................................10 Quit .....................................................................................................................10 The Scanner Menu ..................................................................................................... 11 Scanner Model .................................................................................................... 12 Current Scanner Info ........................................................................................... 12 Scanner Probe ..................................................................................................... 12 Scanner Driver Manager ..................................................................................... 13 Scanner Controls ................................................................................................. 15 The View Menu .......................................................................................................... 16 Overview Image and Prescan Image .................................................................. 17 Resize Window to Fit .......................................................................................... 19 Bring Settings Window to Front ......................................................................... 20 Show / Hide ... Window commands ................................................................... 20 Show / Hide Low & High Value Markers .......................................................... 20 About .................................................................................................................. 20 The Preferences Menu ............................................................................................... 21 Scan Material ...................................................................................................... 22 Color Matching Setup ......................................................................................... 23 White/Black Points Setup ................................................................................... 26 Auto Clipping 26 Output Levels 27 High and Low Value Markers 27 Cursor Auxiliary Lines .......................................................................................28 Overview Setup ..................................................................................................29 Prescan Setup ...................................................................................................... 32 iii Invert ...................................................................................................................34 Retain Scan Module after Scan ...........................................................................35 More... ................................................................................................................. 36 Smoked Glass Background 37 Working Color Space 38 Scan Quality 38 Interpolation Mode 38 Scratch Directory 39 The Correction Menu .................................................................................................40 The Help Menu .......................................................................................................... 40 The Toolbar ................................................................................................................41 Scan Frame tool ..................................................................................................42 Zoom tool............................................................................................................ 43 Move tool ............................................................................................................ 44 Tag Windows tool ............................................................................................... 45 Overview, Prescan, and Scan .....................................................................................50 Rulers, Unit of Measurement .....................................................................................51 Preview Area ..............................................................................................................52 Auxiliary information and Handy buttons ................................................................. 53 The Settings Window ............................................................................. 54 Elements of the Settings window ...............................................................................54 Scan Job .....................................................................................................................56 Scanner Profile ........................................................................................................... 57 Type ............................................................................................................................ 58 RGB ....................................................................................................................58 Grayscale ............................................................................................................ 58 CMYK ................................................................................................................58 Lab Color ............................................................................................................ 58 Web / Internet Colors .......................................................................................... 58 256 Colors (Default) / 256 Colors (Custom) ...................................................... 59 Line Art ...............................................................................................................59 Black-and-White Diffusion ................................................................................59 Resolution settings ..................................................................................................... 60 Resolution box 60 Resolution list box 60 Resolution unit 61 Scan Frame and related settings .................................................................................62 Scan Frame settings ............................................................................................63 Output settings .................................................................................................... 64 Scaling ................................................................................................................65 Image size ........................................................................................................... 65 Unit of Measurement .......................................................................................... 65 iv Locks ..........................................................................................................................66 Scan Frame lock ................................................................................................. 66 Output lock .........................................................................................................66 Keep Proportion lock .......................................................................................... 66 Transform ................................................................................................................... 67 Image Category .......................................................................................................... 68 The Advanced Image Correction Tools .....................................................................70 The LCH Color Model ............................................................................................... 71 AIC Tools in LCH vs. Native Color Mode ................................................................ 72 AIC Tools and your Image Type ................................................................................73 Workflow for Optimizing Images .............................................................................. 74 Accessing the AIC Tools ............................................................................................76 Elements of the Advanced Image Corrrection screen ................................................ 77 The Action Buttons .................................................................................................... 78 Default button ..................................................................................................... 78 Revert button ...................................................................................................... 78 Cancel button ...................................................................................................... 78 OK button ........................................................................................................... 78 Custom Settings .........................................................................................................79 The Default Button .................................................................................................... 81 Dynamic Range tool ..................................................................................................82 White & Black Points tool ......................................................................................... 84 The W&B Points dialog box in Native color mode ............................................86 Gradation tool ............................................................................................................ 87 How to read the curve ......................................................................................... 87 Color Cast tool ........................................................................................................... 91 Saturation tool ............................................................................................................ 93 Selective Color tool ...................................................................................................94 Tone Curve tool ..................................................................................... ...