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16 • MOUSEFREE • PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
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16•MouseFree • Practical examples
MouseFree Tutorial 1 • Auto-scanning a single template
In its most basic application, MouseFree mode acts as a scanning “robot” – you set up a dummy
image, and MouseFree automatically applies the same parameters to every image in the tem-
plate.
Here’s how to get a quick demonstration of automatic scanning with ColorQuartet MouseFree,
assuming that:
• you have a basic knowledge of ColorQuartet.
• the standard crop layouts supplied with ColorQuartet have not been changed.
• no Preferred Scan Setup has been specified for the crop layout you use in this exercise.
Do the following:
1 • From ColorQuartet’s ScanFlow menu, choose ScanFlow Control. In the window that
appears, set the ScanFlow menu to Off.
2 • Mount a few images in the standard 24 x 36 mm template and place the template in the
scanner. Make a preview scan of the whole template.
3 • Crop one of the images and set the scanning parameters as desired, using the Sc
an Setup
window.
4 • Open the Highlight/Shadow tool, open the Auto Setup dialogue, and set the parameters as
desired. If you want the highlight for each image in the template to be set automatically, set
the Auto mode in the Highlight/Shadow window to Open, Auto and Close. Close the High-
light/Shadow window.
5 • If desired, you can also activate the Auto Setup functions for Gradation, Saturation and/or
Gray Balance in the same way as Highlight/Shadow.
6 • In the Scan Setup window, click on Ready to Scan. ColorQuartet MouseFree is now “pro-
grammed” and is ready to scan in the way you have defined until another setup is created.
7 • Close the Preview window – a dialogue will appear to warn you that there are jobs in the
queue. Click on Cancel Jobs!
8 • In the ScanFlow Control window, set the ScanFlow menu to MouseFree.
9 • Open the lid of the scanner and close it again. All the images in the template will now auto-
matically be cropped, set up and scanned.
If another batch of images is placed in the scanner, they will automatically be previewed,
cropped, set up and scanned, using the same scan setup you defined above.
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