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3-2 ScanWizard Pro TX User’s Guide

1. Place the color slide to be scanned on the slide

holder, and insert the holder into the scanner.

2. Go to the

PreviewPreview

Preview window and click the

ScanScan

Scan

Material Material

Material icon. From the submenu that appears,

choose

Positive FilmPositive Film

Positive Film. You will notice the change in

the appearance of the icon if the submenu was

previously set for negative film.

3. Click the

OverviewOverview

Overview button to start a thumbnail

overview of your original.

NOTE

: If you do not need to overview the original, skip

Steps 3 & 4 and directly prescan the original after selecting

its frame position in the

Job Panel Job Panel

Job Panel window.

4. Select the image you want to scan by clicking on its

thumbnail in the

Job PanelJob Panel

Job Panel window (at the same time,

making sure the corresponding checkbox is

checked). The selected image is highlighted. Before

you perform the actual scan, you need to do a

prescan to see the zoom-in and clearer view of the

image.

5. Click the

PrPr

escanescan

escan button in the

PrPr

eview eview

eview window. At

the end of the prescanning process, the zoom-in

image will appear in the

PrPr

evieweview

eview window. The image

is now ready for image editing.

6. Click the

Scan FrameScan Frame

Scan Frame tool from the

Preview Preview

Preview window

Toolbar, and adjust the flashing scan frame (mar-

quee) around the selected area of the image that you

wish to scan. Alternatively, you can click and hold

pointer inside the frame and drag the frame to the

selected area.

7. If you like what you see in the Preview window, click

the

ScanScan

Scan button to start scanning.

If you want to....

Before the Final Scan

• Select an output image type (after step 2)

Go to the

SettingsSettings

Settings window, and from the

ypeype

ype box, choose the appropriate output

type for the image to be scanned.

• Specify output dimensions (after step 2)

Go to the

SettingsSettings

Settings window, and enter

the desired output dimensions (width

and height) in the output dimension edit

boxes. The scan frame may change

slightly, and you may want to go back to

the

PreviewPreview

Preview window to readjust the scan

frame for the selected area.

• Change output image resolution

(after step 6)

Go to the

SettingsSettings

Settings window, and enter

the resolution value in the

ResolutionResolution

Resolution

edit box.

• Fine-tune preview image with Advanced

Image Correction (AIC) tools (after step 6)

Go to the

PrPr

eview eview

eview window, and select

the desired image-processing option

from the

Correction Correction

Correction menu, or click an

appropriate AIC tool from the

SettingsSettings

Settings

window. The dialog box for the

corresponding AIC tool will then

appear. Details on usage for each tool is

discussed in the next chapter, Using the

Advanced Image Correction Tools.

• See a preview image of the selected/fine

tuned image in scan frame (after step 6)

Go to the

PreviewPreview

Preview window and click the

Frame Option Frame Option

Frame Option (arrow located at right

end of

PrescanPrescan

Prescan button) and select the

“Scan Frame” option from the resulting

menu. Then click the

PrescanPrescan

Prescan button

again.

How to Scan a Color Positive Slide