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3-4 ScanWizard Pro TX User’s Guide

How to Scan Images from a Color Negative Flimstrip

1. Place the 35mm color negative filmstrip (6-

frame length maximum) to be scanned on the

filmstrip 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

Negative FilmNegative Film

Negative Film. You will notice the

change in the appearance of the icon if the

submenu was previously set for positive 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 PanelJob 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 actual scan, you

need to do a prescan to zoom-in and see a

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

PreviewPreview

Preview

window. The image is now ready for image

editing.

6. Click the

Scan FrameScan Frame

Scan Frame tool from the

PreviewPreview

Preview

window Toolbar, and adjust the flashing scan

frame (marquee) 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.

• Adjust Film Type (after step 6)

If you need to adjust the film type setting or

create a customized film profile, go to the

FilmFilm

Film

ype ype

ype list box in the

Settings Settings

Settings window and

select a new film type from the list; or click

CustomCustom

Custom (at the bottom of the list) to create a

new customized film profile.

• 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 AIC tools

are 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.