User manual EPSON EXPRESSION 800

[. . . ] EPSON TWAIN Pro User's Guide ® Copyright Notice All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON scanner. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other scanners. [. . . ] Select Linear, Lighten, Darken, Flat Contrast, High Contrast, or Open Shadow. You can also create your own custom tone correction settings, as described below. Customizing Tone Correction Settings To save a custom tone correction setting, first make the changes on the Tone Correction dialog box. The tone correction setting in the list changes to User Defined. Change the name in the list box to the one you want to use for your custom setting. To delete a setting, select its name in the tone correction list and click Delete. Advanced Scanning Page 44 Using Color Adjustments You can adjust the Gray Balance Intensity and Saturation of colors in a color image using the Color Adjustment tools. The Color Adjustment settings are disabled if you click the Scan button without previewing the image. If the Pixel Depth in the Image Type dialog box is set to 8-bit Gray, 12-bit Gray, or Line Art, you cannot select the Color Adjustment button. Click the Color Adjustment button on the Preview window to display the Color Adjustment dialog box: Advanced Scanning Page 45 Changing the Gray Balance Intensity The Gray Balance Intensity setting adjusts the gray tones in the image to appear more neutral. You may need to adjust this setting if the three colors that are mixed together to form the neutral gray are unbalanced. To change the Gray Balance Intensity, follow these steps: 1 First click the eyedropper button and move the mouse pointer onto your preview image. The mouse pointer changes to an eyedropper icon. 2 Select a color that you want removed from the neutral gray tones in the image in the Preview window. The original and corrected colors appear in the boxes beside the eyedropper button. 3 Adjust the gray level (from 0 to 100) by moving the slider or clicking the left or right arrow. You can also type a value in the field on the right. Changing the Saturation Changing the saturation level of colors increases or decreases the amount of color in each hue. Less saturated colors are more pale, while saturated colors are richer. Adjust the saturation level from ­100 (less saturated) to 100 (more saturated) by moving the slider or clicking the left or right arrow. You can also type a value in the field on the right. Advanced Scanning Page 46 Saving Custom Settings You can save a custom set of all the EPSON TWAIN Pro settings for your scan so you can easily select it when you perform a similar scan later. Click the Settings button in the EPSON TWAIN Pro window to display the Settings dialog box: current settings The currently selected EPSON TWAIN Pro settings are listed on the right. To save these settings, click Save (you can type a new name for the group to replace the name User Defined). When you want to use this settings group again, click Settings, select the group, and click OK. To delete a custom setting group, click its name in the list; then click Delete. Advanced Scanning Page 47 Configuring EPSON TWAIN Pro You can configure EPSON TWAIN Pro's preview and color options so they work the way you want whenever you use the program. [. . . ] Adjust the Sharpness setting to a lower value to unfocus the image. See Customizing Destination Settings for more information. In the Image Type dialog box, make sure the Scanning Mode option is set to Best and the De-screening option is set to On. See Customizing Image Types for details. Troubleshooting Page 61 Glossary bit Short for binary digit. [. . . ]