User`s manual

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Table of Contents
Keep Preview Image ..................................................................................... 5-23
Smoked Glass Background ........................................................................... 5-24
How Smoked Glass works with image enhancement.................................5-25
More .............................................................................................................. 5-26
The Help Menu........................................................................................ 5-27
About ............................................................................................................. 5-27
The Tool Buttons ..................................................................................... 5-28
Zoom Preview tool ........................................................................................ 5-29
Scan Frame tool ............................................................................................. 5-30
Magnifying Lens tool .................................................................................... 5-32
Pane tool ........................................................................................................ 5-33
Color Picker tool (Set Shadow / Highlight) .................................................. 5-34
Action buttons ......................................................................................... 5-36
Rulers ...................................................................................................... 5-37
Preview Area ........................................................................................... 5-38
The Settings Window ..................................................................................... 5-39
Elements of the Settings window ............................................................ 5-39
Output Image Parameters ........................................................................ 5-40
Type (Image Type or Scan Mode) ................................................................. 5-40
Halftone Patterns ...................................................................................... 5-41
Resolution ...................................................................................................... 5-42
Unit Selection ............................................................................................ 5-43
Image Dimension controls ...................................................................... 5-44
How to use the Input-Output dimensions ...................................................... 5-45
How to use the Aspect Lock .......................................................................... 5-46
Scaling ........................................................................................................... 5-47
Image Adjustment controls...................................................................... 5-48
Auto (Automatic Contrast Control) ............................................................... 5-48
Color Correction / DCR ................................................................................ 5-50
Image-Enhancement Tools ...................................................................... 5-51
What the Image Enhancement tools are ........................................................ 5-52
Using the Advanced Image Enhancer dialog box ......................................... 5-53
The Action Buttons in the AIE dialog box .................................................... 5-54
Brightness, Contrast and Exposure tool ........................................................5-55
The BCE screen (for grayscale and color) ................................................ 5-56
The BCE screen (for line art) .................................................................... 5-57
How to use the BCE tool ........................................................................... 5-58
Tints tool ........................................................................................................ 5-59
The Tints screen ......................................................................................... 5-60
How to use the Tints tool ........................................................................... 5-61
Shadows and Highlights tool ......................................................................... 5-62
The Shadows and Highlights screen..........................................................5-63
How to read and correct a histogram ........................................................ 5-65
How to use the Shadows and Highlights tool ............................................ 5-66
Curve tool ...................................................................................................... 5-67
How to read the curve ............................................................................... 5-67
Sample images and their curves ................................................................5-68
The Curve screen ....................................................................................... 5-69
Using the curve buttons .............................................................................5-70
How to use the Curve tool ......................................................................... 5-71