User manual KONICA MINOLTA SCAN MULTI II SOFTWARE

[. . . ] Software Instruction Man ual Thank you for purchasing the Minolta Dimâge Scan Multi II. The Dimâge Scan Multi II is a multiple format film scanner capable of scanning medium-format, 35mm, 16mm, and sleeved APS film. With the optional APS adapter, advanced photo system film in the cassette can also be scanned. This manual has been designed to help you understand the operation of your scanner. [. . . ] · When the Histogram RGB display button is clicked again, the histogram of each R, G, B channel will disappear. 2 By dragging the Input Highlight slid- er (right) or the Input Shadow slider (left) in each R, G, B channel or inputting the value directly in each text box, the Histogram RGB can be corrected. · The change will be reflected in the prescan image displayed in the Image Correction display area. · The change corrected in each R, G, B channel will be also reflected in each corresponding tone curve. CORRECTING THE HISTOGRAM ­ RESET Click on the Reset button. · All corrections made in the Tone Curves and Histogram dialog box will be reset. The prescan image will also return to the previous image. ­ 55 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION CORRECTING BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST/COLOR BALANCE 1 Click on . · The Brightness, Contrast, Color Balance Correction dialog box will appear. 2 Drag each Brightness, Contrast, Red (R), Green (G) or Blue (B) slider or input each value directly in each text box. ·Values from ­100 to +100 can be input. · The change will be reflected in the prescan image displayed in the Image Correction display area. Brightness correction: By dragging the Brightness slider to the right (or inputting a big plus number in the text box), the brightness of the image is raised. By dragging the Contrast slider to the right (or inputting a big plus number in the text box), bright parts will be made brighter and dark parts will be made darker. By dragging the Colour Balance slider to the right (or inputting a big plus number in the text box), each colour content is increased to emphasize each colour. Contrast correction: RGB color balance correction: ­ 56 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION CORRECTING BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST/COLOR BALANCE ­ AUTO SETTING Click on the Auto Setting button. · The brightness and contrast of the image is corrected automatically according to the lightness information without changing the RGB input colour balance. · The change will be reflected in the prescan image displayed in the Image Correction display area. CORRECTING BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST/COLOR BALANCE ­ RESET Click on the Reset button. · The corrections made in the Brightness, Contrast, Colour Balance Correction dialog box will all be reset. The prescan image will also return to the previous image. ­ 57 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION CORRECTING HUE/SATURATION/LIGHTNESS 1 Click on . · The Hue, Saturation, Lightness Correction dialog box will appear. 2 Drag each Hue, Saturation or Lightness slider or input each value directly in each text box. · Values from ­180 to +180 or ­100 to +100 can be input in the Hue or the Saturation and Lightness respectively. · The change will be reflected in the prescan image displayed in the Image Correction display area. Post-Correction Colour Sample Pre-Correction Colour Sample Hue correction: By dragging the Hue slider, the colour of the image displayed in PreCorrection Colour Sample is changed as shown in Post-Correction Colour Sample. When the Hue slider is dragged to the rightmost or leftmost side, the hue of the image is reversed. By dragging the Saturation slider to the right (or inputting a big plus number in the text box), the colours become more saturated. By dragging the Saturation slider to the left (or inputting a big minus number in the text box), the saturation of the image is reduced. By dragging the Lightness slider to the right (or inputting a big plus number in the text box), the lightness of the image is raised. Saturation correction: Lightness correction: ­ 58 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION CORRECTING HUE/SATURATION/LIGHTNESS ­ AUTO SETTING Click on the Auto Setting button. · The saturation of the image is corrected automatically without changing the hue and lightness information. · The change will be reflected in the prescan image displayed in the Image Correction display area. CORRECTING HUE/SATURATION/LIGHTNESS ­ RESET Click on the Reset button. · The corrections made in the Hue, Saturation, Lightness Correction dialog box will all be reset. The prescan image will also return to the previous image. ­ 59 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION VARIATION CORRECTION The Variation correction allows you to correct the brightness, contrast and saturation while checking the simulated image after correction. 1 Click on . · The Variation correction dialog box will appear. 2 Click on the arrow in the Correction list box to select the correction item. · Colour Balance, Brightness & Contrast and Saturation can be selected from the Correction list box. · Colour Balance and Saturation cannot be selected when B&W is selected in the film type. · A number of frames of variation images corrected according to the selected correction item are displayed. Correction list box ­ 60 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION VARIATION CORRECTION ­ COLOUR BALANCE Variation Amount Control slider Limit indication checkbox In the Colour Balance correction, 6 images that have been corrected by one-step in each red (R), magenta (M), blue (B), cyan (C), green (G) or yellow (Y) direction from the center image are displayed. When the image in the direction to be corrected is clicked, the image is placed in center and new variation images are displayed. By dragging the Variation Amount Control slider, the value of correction can be changed in the range from 1 to 20 (The initial value is 10). When the Limit indication check box is checkmarked and the image is corrected in each red (R), magenta (M), blue (B), cyan (C), green (G) or yellow (Y) direction, any part of the image which has been corrected beyond the range which can be displayed is displayed in reversed colour. ­ 61 ­ IMAGE CORRECTION VARIATION CORRECTION ­ BRIGHTNESS & CONTRAST CORRECTION Variation Amount Control slider Limit indication checkbox In the Brightness & Contrast correction, 8 images that have been corrected from the center image by one-step in the horizontal direction for brightness and in the vertical direction for contrast are displayed. When the image in the direction to be corrected is clicked, the image is placed in the center and new variation images are displayed. By dragging the Variation Amount Control slider, the value of correction can be changed in the range from 1 to 20 (The initial value is 10). [. . . ] 20 sec. 35mm in 2820 dpi (Colour Positive) 6 x 9 in 1128 dpi (Colour Positive) Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM ON 6 x 9 in 2820 dpi (Colour Positive) The preferences in loading time CPU RAM OS Applications Memory allocation to applications Colour matching Driver ASPI version SCSI board : : : : : : : : : Pentium III 700MHz 757MB Winsows®98 Second Edition Adobe Photoshop 5. 5 570MB OFF TWAIN_32 Sources 4. 57 Adaptec AHA-2940AU *The loading time changes according to the preferences you use. *The values described above do not include the transfer time to the PC. ­ 104 ­ LOADING TIME ­ MACINTOSH Operations Film Format Digital ROC/Digital GEM Prescan Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM OFF about 7 sec. 30 sec. Final Scan (after Prescan) about 50 sec. 20 sec. 35mm in 2820 dpi (Colour Positive) 6 x 9 in 1128 dpi (Colour Positive) Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM OFF Digital ROC OFF/Digital GEM ON Digital ROC ON/Digital GEM ON 6 x 9 in 2820 dpi (Colour Positive) The preferences in loading time CPU RAM OS Applications Memory allocation to applications Colour matching Driver Virtual memory SCSI board : : : : : : : : : PowerPC G4 450MHz 768MB Mac OS 9. 0. 4 Adobe Photoshop 5. 5 570MB OFF Dimage Scan Multi Photoshop Plug-in 2. 0 OFF Adaptec PowerDomain 2940UW *The loading time changes according to the preferences you use. [. . . ]