User`s manual

4-2 Microtek User's Guide for Windows
Overview
ScanWizard is the program that acts as a bridge between your scanner and your
image-editing software (such as Adobe Photoshop or Ulead PhotoImpact, etc.)
ScanWizard captures the image placed on your scanner and then delivers the
image when it is scanned to the image-editing application, where the scanned
image can then be saved or edited further.
Here are some things you can do with ScanWizard:
• Select the type of image to be scanned. For example, you can have a color
photo and scan it in the same color mode, or you can scan it in a different
mode such as grayscale or line art.
• Perform a preview or preliminary scan, which allows you to see a
preliminary view of the image before it's actually scanned. Previewing an
image allows you to do further enhancements if necessary, and it also lets
you select the final area to be scanned in case you wish to crop the image.
When the image is ready to be scanned, clicking on the Scan button will
activate the scanning process, and the image is then delivered to your target
application.
• While in preview mode, the image can be adjusted through the image-
enhancement tools. These tools allow you to adjust image features such as
brightness, contrast, and exposure; shadows and highlights; gamma or
midtones (mid-gray levels); hue or saturation; and apply various filters for
special effects.
• Clicking on an image-enhancement tool calls up the Advanced Image
Enhancer (AIE) dialog box. While in the AIE dialog box, you can see
thumbnail displays of the image, make changes and see the effects applied
in real time (see "before" and "after" versions instantly). These functions are
among the most powerful features of ScanWizard.
• Create multiple scan jobs. A scan job is simply a task that you designate the
scanner to process and scan. For example, one scan job may be in grayscale
and another may be in color. The two scan jobs can then be manipulated and
scanned separately, and you can switch between scan jobs easily while
making changes. ScanWizard's ability to process various scan jobs
concurrently adds tremendous flexibility to scanning.
• When changes are made to the image, the changes can be easily verified
through the Information window, which displays changes to RGB values.
Such information can be helpful for those working with color values.