User manual NIKON SCAN 3 REFERENCE MANUAL

[. . . ] Nikon Scan 3 Reference Manual Overview Getting Started Tutorial Reference (pp. 138­152) Overview About This Manual Welcome to Nikon Scan 3!At its most basic, Nikon Scan is a driver that acts as an interface between your scanner and your computer, making it possible to preview the image to be scanned, adjust scanner settings, and scan the image into another application. It also allows you to take advantage of the advanced features of your Nikon film scanner, such as multi-sample scanning and Digital ICE3 photo retouch options. [. . . ] The curves edit display changes with the size of the window, allowing you to enlarge the display to a maximum of 256 × 256 pixels. At this size, each of the 256 points on the curve is represented by a separate pixel, granting maximum precision when editing curves. Reference:The Tool Chest 74 The Curves Settings Menu Clicking the triangle at the top right of the Curves palette displays the Curves settings menu, where you can save or export curve settings and recall them as desired. Item Reset to Default Curve Settings Description Resets all curves to linear. Reset to Restores the user default settings created User Curve with the Set User Settings option in the Settings scan window settings menu (see 88). The Curves settings menu contains the following options: Item Description Saves the current curves under a user-specified name. These settings will be added to the Save Curve end of the Curves settings menu, where they Settings. . . can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name. Displays a dialog where you can select settings saved using the Save Curve Settings. . . Imports settings saved using the Export Curve Settings. . . Exports the current curves to a separate file in the folder of your choice. Reference:The Tool Chest 75 Color Balance The Color Balance palette offers simple controls for adjusting overall brightness, contrast, and color balance for the entire image. Unlike the Curves palette, the Color Balance palette does not allow you to make changes that affect only a portion of the tone range. The controls available in the Color Balance palette are detailed below. Note that when the selected color model is "grayscale, " the Color Balance palette contains only brightness and contrast controls, while when "CMYK" is selected the palette contains a slider for each of the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black channels in addition to brightness and contrast controls. Item Description The brightness slider adjusts brightness for the entire image. Dragging the brightness slider in the + direction brightens all the colors in the image. Dragging the slider in the ­ Brightness direction darkens all the colors in the image. A value for brightness between ­100 and +100 can be entered directly in the text box to the right of the slider. Dragging the contrast slider in the + direction heightens the difference between highlights and shadows in the image, increasing contrast. Dragging the slider in the ­ direction decreases the difference between light and dark portions of the image, lowering contrast. A value for contrast between ­100 and +100 can be entered in the text box to the right of the slider. Contrast Changes to color balance are only apply when the check-box at the top left of the Color Balance palette is checked. When this box is checked, changes will be visible in the image being edited. The box can be checked and unchecked for a quick "beforeand-after" comparison, allowing you to see whether changes to color balance are having the desired effect. Reference:The Tool Chest 76 Item Description While the brightness slider adjusts brightness for the image as a whole, the color-balance sliders (one for each channel in the current color model) allow the user to adjust brightColor ness for each color individually. For example, when the RGB color model is selected, dragbalance (not available ging the red slider in the + direction brightwhen ens the red portions of the image, making the grayscale is image as a whole more red. Dragging it in the ­ direction dims the red elements in the imselected) age, bringing out the remaining colors. Color balance can also be set by entering values directly in the text boxes to the right of the sliders. The Color Balance settings menu contains the following options: Item Description Saves the current color-balance settings under a user-specified name. These settings will be added to the end of the Color Balance settings menu, where they can be recalled by selecting the desired settings by name. Save Color Balance Settings. . . Delete Color Displays a dialog where you can select setBalance tings saved using the Save Color BalSettings. . . [. . . ] folders; open the folder for the language of your choice and double-click the installer icon. 149 Appendix C: Reinstall/Custom Install Windows Step 3--Delete scanner settings Delete all files in the following folders: · Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)/Windows Me Windows\Application Data\Nikon\MaidMods\Settings Windows\Application Data\Nikon\Nikon Scan\3. 0\Cache Windows\Application Data\Nikon\Nikon Scan\3. 0\Settings · Windows 2000 Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nikon\ MaidMods\Settings Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nikon\ Nikon Scan\3. 0\Cache Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nikon\ Nikon Scan\3. 0\Settings Click here to proceed to the next step. Step 3--Uninstall Nikon Scan After you have accepted the license agreement and clicked Continue. . . to close the ReadMe file, the dialog shown at right will be displayed. [. . . ]