User manual

3 • Basic scanning procedures

ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro

Drawing a crop frame

For each scan you want to make, use the mouse to draw a crop frame on the image in the Pre-

view window and to place the frame where desired.

• Each time you draw a new crop frame, a new entry will automatically appear in the J

obs win-

dow.

• If you can’t draw the frame as desired, check that the lock symbol is unlocked (when it is

locked, the height-to-width ratio of the crop cannot be changed – see

Cropping an image to

scale below).

• To change a frame, drag its corners.

• To move a frame, place the mouse in the center of the crop and drag.

• Macintosh: For preview sizes of 10MB or larger, the Preview window is automatically reduced

to half resolution. This is done in order to give you a better overview for image cropping. The

full number of pixels is still available in the feedback window as a basis for color evaluation.

You can zoom in or out on the preview and feedback windows by holding down the “Com-

mand” (Apple) key and pressing “+” or “-”.

Copying and pasting crops

Once a crop frame has been drawn, you can use your computer’s standard commands to cut,

copy or paste it (the pasted frame will land in the same position as the original frame – it can

then be moved to the desired position). This makes it easy to define more than one crop of the

exact same size and orientation in the same preview scan. Any information in the crop’s Corr

ec-

tion History (but not the image data) is copied along with the crop frame, which means that you

can also use this method for transferring image modifications to additional crops (the other

crops can then be resized, if necessary).

ropping an image to scale

When you start to scan an image, you may already know what the final height and width need to

be. In this case, ColorQuartet lets you draw a crop frame with the correct proportions and lock

it, so you can scale the crop up and down without changing the height-to-width ratio:

• In the Size & Resolution section of the Sc

an Setup window, check that the lock symbol is

unlocked (if it is not, click on it).

• Type in the desired Output Size (height and width) and press the tab key to confirm.

• Click on the lock symbol so it is locked.

• You can now scale and/or move the crop frame as desired. The height-to-width ratio will stay

the same.