User manual XEROX DOCUMATE 510

[. . . ] scanner DocuMate 510 installation guide Copyright © 2003 Visioneer, Inc. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. Xerox ®, the digital X ® are registered trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries and are used under license. DocuMate is a trademark of Xerox Corporation used under license. [. . . ] To maintain the same width to length ratio, click the Lock Scaling icon next to the dimension. With the Lock Scaling locked, when you type a new width or length, the other setting changes so the relative size of the scan area remains constant. Reversing the Image The Scan Manager has an Invert button and a Mirror button for reversing the scanned image. Invert Mirror Invert reverses the black and whites or the colors of an image. Mirroring flips the image 180 degrees. 26 DocuMate 510 Scanner Installation Guide Scanning Items · Click the Invert or Mirror button to see the image you want. Original Image Inverted Image Mirrored Image Adjusting Color and Gray Images The Scan Manager has three buttons--Descreen, Sharpen, and Auto Level--for adjusting color and gray images. These buttons are available when the 24-Bit Color or 8-bit Gray Image types are selected. Descreen Sharpen Auto Level Descreen Image Select this option when scanning a picture from a newspaper or magazine article, sales catalog, or other source that contains images with patterns or dots. Scans of patterns or dots sometimes have a distorted or wavy appearance. The scanner scans the item DocuMate 510 Scanner Installation Guide 27 Scanning Items to compensate for the patterns and dots, and produces a clearer image. The scanning may slow down a bit when this option is selected. You don't need to select this option when scanning photographs. Original Image Descreened Image To descreen an image: 1. Choose the appropriate option from the list. Watch the preview image as you select various options to see which one is best for your final scanned image. Sharpen Image Sharpness determines the amount of blur in an image. Your scanner can sharpen an original blurred image by adjusting the blurry edges in sections of the image. To sharpen an image: 1. Click the Sharpen button. 28 DocuMate 510 Scanner Installation Guide Scanning Items 2. Choose the appropriate option from the list. Original Image Sharpened Image Auto Level Your scanner can analyze a color image to automatically determine the best settings to match the colors of the original image. Click this button to let the scanner automatically adjust the color settings. Original Image Auto Level Adjusted DocuMate 510 Scanner Installation Guide 29 Scanning Items Adjusting Color Settings The buttons for manually adjusting a preview image's color settings offer several advanced color options. The availability of each option is dependent upon the selected Image Type for the image. Highlight/Shadow Levels Curves Color Balance Hue/Saturation/Lightness Color Drop-out Highlight/Shadow Levels Images have light and dark areas. The highlight is the lightest spot on an image; shadow is the darkest spot. The range of colors between the highlight and shadow determines the range of colors of the image. Using the Highlight/Shadow Levels features, however, you can extend the original range of colors between the highlight and shadow to reveal more details in the midrange colors. 30 DocuMate 510 Scanner Installation Guide Scanning Items To adjust the highlight and shadow levels: 1. The dialog box that opens shows a histogram of the saturation, gamma, and hue (S, G, H) of the range of colors for the highlight and shadow. Saturation is the strength or purity of a color, gamma controls the brightness of the midtones of the color, and hue is the color your eyes see as reflected from the image. The gamma setting in this dialog box is in conjunction with the hue and saturation but you can also set gamma by itself for an image. See the section "Curves, " below for more information 2. From the Channel drop-down list, choose RGB to adjust all the channels together, or choose a single channel if available. Enter new settings in the boxes for the three levels, or drag the small triangles at the bottom of the histogram. 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