VueScan User's Guide

Copyright 2010 Hamrick Software

Contents
Getting started with VueScan........................................................................................................9 Common tasks ..............................................................................................................................14 Scanning many photographs in a batch..................................................................................14 Scanning to a multi-page PDF file...........................................................................................15 Turn VueScan into a 'photocopier' ..........................................................................................17 Saving files ..............................................................................................................................18 Choosing different resolutions.................................................................................................20 Quick settings ...............................................................................................................................22 Hints and tips ................................................................................................................................24 APPENDIX A: Advanced tools and techniques .........................................................................26 Adjusting Color Balance ..........................................................................................................26 Histograms ..............................................................................................................................27 Calculating DPI for negatives ..................................................................................................28 Using Raw Scan Files .............................................................................................................29 Advanced Workflow Suggestions............................................................................................30 Scanner Profiling with IT8 Targets ..........................................................................................31 Printer Profiling with IT8 Targets .............................................................................................32 Film Profiling with IT8 Targets.................................................................................................33 How VueScan Works ..............................................................................................................35 Scanning Color Negative Film.................................................................................................37 Scanning Black/White Negative Film ......................................................................................37 Maximizing Image Quality .......................................................................................................38 File Formats.............................................................................................................................38 Film types ................................................................................................................................39 APPENDIX B: Buttons, menus and options reference .............................................................43 Menus......................................................................................................................................43 File | Save image..............................................................................................................43 File | Last page.................................................................................................................43 File | Page setup ..............................................................................................................43 File | Print image ..............................................................................................................43 File | Load options ............................................................................................................44 File | Save options............................................................................................................44 File | Default options ........................................................................................................44 File | Quit ..........................................................................................................................44

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Edit | Copy image .............................................................................................................44 Edit | Copy OCR text ........................................................................................................44 Scanner | Preview ............................................................................................................45 Scanner | Scan.................................................................................................................45 Scanner | Eject .................................................................................................................45 Scanner | Calibrate ..........................................................................................................45 Scanner | Focus ...............................................................................................................46 Scanner | Exposure..........................................................................................................46 Scanner | Previous ...........................................................................................................46 Scanner | Next..................................................................................................................46 Profile | Profile scanner ....................................................................................................46 Profile | Profile printer.......................................................................................................46 Profile | Profile film ...........................................................................................................46 Image | Refresh................................................................................................................47 Image | Zoom In ...............................................................................................................47 Image | Zoom Out ............................................................................................................47 Image | Rotate left ............................................................................................................47 Image | Rotate right..........................................................................................................47 Image | Flip.......................................................................................................................47 Image | Mirror ...................................................................................................................47 Image | Release memory .................................................................................................48 Image | Graph off .............................................................................................................48 Image | Graph raw ...........................................................................................................48 Image | Graph b/w............................................................................................................48 Image | Graph curve ........................................................................................................48 Image | Graph image .......................................................................................................48 Page | Previous ................................................................................................................48 Page | Next.......................................................................................................................48 Page | First .......................................................................................................................48 Page | Last .......................................................................................................................49 Page | Move front .............................................................................................................49 Page | Move back ............................................................................................................49 Page | Reverse.................................................................................................................49 Page | Interleave ..............................................................................................................49 Page | Separate ...............................................................................................................49 Page | Swap even/odd .....................................................................................................49 Page | Delete....................................................................................................................50 Page | Delete all ...............................................................................................................50 Help | Users Guide ...........................................................................................................50 Help | Usage Tips.............................................................................................................50

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Help | Release Notes .......................................................................................................50 Help | About......................................................................................................................50 Buttons ....................................................................................................................................51 Preview button .................................................................................................................51 Scan button ......................................................................................................................52 Guide me button...............................................................................................................52 Less button.......................................................................................................................52 More button ......................................................................................................................52 Back button ......................................................................................................................53 Next button .......................................................................................................................53 Advanced button ..............................................................................................................53 Abort button......................................................................................................................53 Refresh button..................................................................................................................53 Save button ......................................................................................................................53 Print button .......................................................................................................................53 Rotate L button.................................................................................................................54 Rotate R button ................................................................................................................54 Zoom Out button ..............................................................................................................54 Zoom In button .................................................................................................................54 Previous frame button ......................................................................................................54 Next frame button.............................................................................................................54 Input tab...................................................................................................................................54 Input | Task.......................................................................................................................55 Input | Source ...................................................................................................................55 Input | Files.......................................................................................................................56 Input | Mode .....................................................................................................................56 Input | Media.....................................................................................................................56 Input | Descreen dpi .........................................................................................................57 Input | Microfilm zoom ......................................................................................................57 Input | Media size .............................................................................................................58 Input | Quality ...................................................................................................................58 Input | Bits per pixel..........................................................................................................58 Input | Make gray from .....................................................................................................59 Input | Threshold ..............................................................................................................59 Input | Batch scan ............................................................................................................59 Input | Batch list................................................................................................................60 Input | Multi page..............................................................................................................61 Input | Frame number.......................................................................................................61 Input | Frame offset ..........................................................................................................61 Input | Frame spacing ......................................................................................................62

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Input | Preview resolution.................................................................................................62 Input | Preview dpi............................................................................................................62 Input | Scan resolution .....................................................................................................62 Input | Scan dpi ................................................................................................................63 Input | Rotation .................................................................................................................63 Input | Auto skew..............................................................................................................63 Input | Skew......................................................................................................................63 Input | Mirror .....................................................................................................................64 Input | Auto focus .............................................................................................................64 Input | Focus.....................................................................................................................64 Input | Auto scan ..............................................................................................................64 Input | Auto save ..............................................................................................................64 Input | Auto print ...............................................................................................................65 Input | Auto lamp off .........................................................................................................65 Input | Auto eject ..............................................................................................................65 Input | Number of samples ...............................................................................................66 Input | Number of passes .................................................................................................66 Input | Scan from preview ................................................................................................67 Input | Grain dissolver ......................................................................................................67 Input | Frame alignment ...................................................................................................67 Input | Fine mode .............................................................................................................68 Input | Multi exposure .......................................................................................................68 Input | Lock exposure.......................................................................................................68 Input | RGB/Infrared exposure .........................................................................................69 Input | Red/Green/Blue analog gain.................................................................................69 Input | Lock film base color ..............................................................................................69 Input | Lock image color ...................................................................................................70 Crop tab...................................................................................................................................70 Crop | Crop size ...............................................................................................................71 Crop | X/Y size .................................................................................................................72 Crop | Auto offset .............................................................................................................72 Crop | X/Y offset ...............................................................................................................72 Crop | Multi type ...............................................................................................................72 Crop | Multi crop ...............................................................................................................72 Crop | X/Y images ............................................................................................................73 Crop | X/Y spacing ...........................................................................................................73 Crop | X/Y padding ...........................................................................................................73 Crop | X/Y linked ..............................................................................................................73 Crop | Show multi outline .................................................................................................74 Crop | Auto rotate .............................................................................................................74

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Crop | Crop orientation.....................................................................................................74 Crop | Lock aspect ratio ...................................................................................................74 Crop | Aspect ratio ...........................................................................................................75 Crop | Border (%) .............................................................................................................75 Crop | Buffer (%) ..............................................................................................................75 Crop | Preview area .........................................................................................................75 Crop | Preview X/Y offset/size..........................................................................................76 Crop | Focus X/Y offset ....................................................................................................76 Crop | All frames...............................................................................................................76 Filter tab...................................................................................................................................76 Filter | Infrared clean ........................................................................................................77 Filter | Restore colors .......................................................................................................77 Filter | Restore fading .......................................................................................................78 Filter | Grain reduction......................................................................................................78 Filter | Sharpen.................................................................................................................78 Filter | All frames ..............................................................................................................78 Color tab ..................................................................................................................................78 Color | Color balance .......................................................................................................79 Color | Neutral red/green/blue..........................................................................................81 Color | Black point (%) .....................................................................................................81 Color | Black point red/green/blue....................................................................................81 Color | White point (%) .....................................................................................................81 Color | White point red/green/blue ...................................................................................82 Color | Threshold..............................................................................................................82 Color | Invert.....................................................................................................................82 Color | Curve low/high ......................................................................................................82 Color | Brightness.............................................................................................................82 Color | Brightness red/green/blue ....................................................................................83 Color | Film base color red/green/blue .............................................................................83 Color | Slide/Negative/B/W vendor/brand/type ................................................................83 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/Output/Monitor color space ................................................83 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/File/Monitor ICC profile.......................................................84 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film ICC description ...................................................................84 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film IT8 data...............................................................................84 Color | Show IT8 outline...................................................................................................85 Color | View color .............................................................................................................85 Color | Pixel colors ...........................................................................................................85 Color | Clipped black color ...............................................................................................85 Color | Clipped white color ...............................................................................................85 Color | Out of gamut color ................................................................................................86

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Color | Infrared defect color..............................................................................................86 Color | All frames..............................................................................................................86 Output tab................................................................................................................................86 Output | Default folder ......................................................................................................89 Output | Printed size.........................................................................................................89 Output | Magnification (%)................................................................................................89 Output | Printed dpi ..........................................................................................................89 Output | Printed width.......................................................................................................89 Output | Printed height .....................................................................................................90 Output | Auto file name ....................................................................................................90 Output | TIFF file ..............................................................................................................90 Output | TIFF file name ....................................................................................................90 Output | TIFF size reduction.............................................................................................90 Output | TIFF multi page ..................................................................................................91 Output | TIFF file type ......................................................................................................91 Output | TIFF compression ..............................................................................................91 Output | TIFF DNG format................................................................................................91 Output | TIFF profile .........................................................................................................92 Output | JPEG file.............................................................................................................92 Output | JPEG file name ..................................................................................................92 Output | JPEG size reduction...........................................................................................92 Output | JPEG quality.......................................................................................................92 Output | JPEG black/white ...............................................................................................93 Output | JPEG profile .......................................................................................................93 Output | PDF file...............................................................................................................93 Output | PDF file name.....................................................................................................93 Output | PDF size reduction .............................................................................................94 Output | PDF multi page...................................................................................................94 Output | PDF file type .......................................................................................................94 Output | PDF compression...............................................................................................94 Output | PDF paper size...................................................................................................94 Output | PDF profile .........................................................................................................95 Output | PDF OCR text ....................................................................................................95 Output | OCR text file .......................................................................................................95 Output | OCR text file name .............................................................................................95 Output | OCR text language.............................................................................................96 Output | OCR text multi page ...........................................................................................96 Output | Index file .............................................................................................................96 Output | Index file name ...................................................................................................96 Output | Index frame ........................................................................................................96

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Output | Index width .........................................................................................................97 Output | Index height ........................................................................................................97 Output | Index margin.......................................................................................................97 Output | Index across .......................................................................................................97 Output | Raw file...............................................................................................................97 Output | Raw file name.....................................................................................................98 Output | Raw size reduction .............................................................................................98 Output | Raw file type .......................................................................................................99 Output | Raw output with..................................................................................................99 Output | Raw save film ...................................................................................................100 Output | Raw compression.............................................................................................100 Output | Raw DNG format ..............................................................................................100 Output | Description .......................................................................................................100 Output | Copyright ..........................................................................................................100 Output | Date ..................................................................................................................101 Output | Log file ..............................................................................................................101 Output | Log file max size (MB)......................................................................................101 Prefs tab ................................................................................................................................101 Prefs | Crop units............................................................................................................102 Prefs | Printed units ........................................................................................................102 Prefs | External viewer ...................................................................................................102 Prefs | Viewer .................................................................................................................103 Prefs | External editor.....................................................................................................103 Prefs | Editor...................................................................................................................103 Prefs | Browser...............................................................................................................104 Prefs | Graph type ..........................................................................................................104 Prefs | Button 1/2/3/4 action...........................................................................................104 Prefs | Auto refresh ........................................................................................................104 Prefs | Display raw scan.................................................................................................105 Prefs | Display positive ...................................................................................................105 Prefs | Splash screen .....................................................................................................105 Prefs | Histogram type....................................................................................................105 Prefs | Animate crop box ................................................................................................105 Prefs | Thick crop box ....................................................................................................105 Prefs | Add extensions ...................................................................................................106 Prefs | Substitute date ....................................................................................................106 Prefs | Warn on delete ...................................................................................................106 Prefs | Warn on overwrite...............................................................................................106 Prefs | Warn on not ready ..............................................................................................106 Prefs | Warn on no scanner ...........................................................................................107

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Prefs | Exit when done ...................................................................................................107 Prefs | Beep when done.................................................................................................107 Prefs | Beep when auto eject .........................................................................................107 Prefs | Use temp file name.............................................................................................107 Prefs | Anti alias text ......................................................................................................108 Prefs | Anti alias image ..................................................................................................108 Prefs | Enable density display ........................................................................................108 Prefs | Enable raw from disk ..........................................................................................108 Prefs | Disable scanners ................................................................................................108 Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons.................................................................................108 Prefs | Enable popup tips ...............................................................................................109 Prefs | Startup tip............................................................................................................109 Prefs | Calibration period................................................................................................109 Prefs | Image memory (MB) ...........................................................................................109 Prefs | Window maximized/iconized x/y offset/size........................................................109 Prefs | Font size (pt) .......................................................................................................109 Prefs | Option panel width ..............................................................................................110 Index ............................................................................................................................................112

Getting started with VueScan

VueScan is a powerful scanning tool that's aimed at helping you get the most out of your scanner and producing stunning results from your scanned photos. It's packed with loads of useful and powerful features and currently supports over 1200 scanners and 321 digital camera RAW files. The following tutorial is designed to familiarise you with the software and its user interface, and to help you scan your first photos and slides. You'll find useful hints and tips here on how to carry outcommon tasks (p. 14)such as batch scanning and scanning to PDF files.

Getting to know VueScan

If you've used a scanner before, you've probably encountered something that looks a little similar to VueScan. But it's still worth taking a little time to get used to where everything is before diving in.

The most important area is the Preview panel. This is where your scanned document appears after it is scanned. You use this area to prepare your images before scanning them at full resolution Settings are adjusted using the controls in the left hand panel. This is called the Options panel. It has tabs running along the top. These are used to change the type of settings being adjusted

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The action buttons (p. 51) are at the bottom of the window. Use these to scan, preview and carry out other essential tasks The menus (p. 43) at the top of the window can be used to access more advanced functions. These are described in more detail in appendix B (p. 43)

Using VueScan's Guide Me mode

The easiest way of getting started with VueScan is to use the Guide Me mode. This takes you, step by step, through the basic tasks (described in more detail later in this tutorial) that you need to carry out to perform a document or image scan. Guide me... 1. Click the Guide Me button (p. 52)

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Follow the instructions given in the Options panel (p. 9), choosing the options you require from the dropdown menus as you go

3.

Don't forget to click the Next button (p. 53) between each stage

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4.

Once you've finished scanning, VueScan will launch a save file dialog box so you can name and save your image

Basic Workflow
Now that you're familiar with the interface and basic scanning tasks, it's time to try out some of VueScan's more powerful features. Outside the Guide Me mode, the basic process for scanning one image can be summed up in three simple steps (for an explanation of the more advanced functions, see the appendices in this manual): Load your image 1. 2. Place your photo face down inside the scanner or load your slide/negative into your slide scanner For photos, set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Color Photo"

3.

For slides or negatives, set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Image", "Color Negative" or "B&W negative" Preview and crop

1.

Click the Preview button (p. 51). This produces a quick, low resolution snapshot for you to work on, before carrying out a full resolution scan

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2. 3.

When the preview has finished your image will be displayed in the Preview panel (p. 9) Click and drag the mouse to draw a box around the image. This ensures the scanner does not waste time scanning blank areas

Scan and save 1. Click the Scan button (p. 52)

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Wait for the scan to finish. This varies depending on your scanner, the speed of

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your computer and the resolution you are scanning at 3. Once the scan is complete it is automatically named and saved in the VueScan directory

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Common tasks Scanning many photographs in a batch

If you have a whole pile of prints of the same size that you want to scan, you can reduce the amount of time it takes. All you have to is to follow these simple steps: Load and preview first image 1. 2. Follow steps 1 and 2 in the Basic Workflow section to preview your first photo Place the photo with its long edge against the short, bottom edge of the scanner - this reduces the time it takes to scan each photo

Scan and repeat 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Click the Scan button (p. 52) Remove the photo Place another photo on the scanner in exactly the same position Click the Scan button (p. 52) again Repeat until the job is done

or... Use VueScan's auto repeat facility 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. This automates the batch scanning process completely, so you don't have to keep clicking the Scan button (p. 52) On the Options panel (p. 9) select the Input tab (p. 54) Click the More button Select Auto repeat > 5 sec delay Click the Scan button. Once VueScan has completed the first scan, place the next image in the exactly the same position.

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6. 7.

Wait - VueScan will start the next scan in five seconds Repeat until you're done, then click the Abort button (p. 53)

In each case, VueScan will carry out a full scan of the images, saving each one automatically as it is processed.

Scanning to a multi-page PDF file

Ever wanted to be able to scan in and send a multi-page document to a colleague, or a long magazine article to a friend overseas? Use VueScan's multi-page PDF feature, and you won't have to send them as individual image files any more. Here's how to do it: Adjust output settings 1. 2. Select the Output tab (p. 86) at the top of the Options panel (p. 9) Click the two tick boxes: PDF file and PDF multi page

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Load and preview first page 1. 2. Follow steps 1 and 2 in the Basic Workflow section of the tutorial to preview the first page of your document Click the Scan button (p. 52)

Scan each page in succession 1. 2. 3. 4. Place the next page in the same position and same orientation as the first Click the Scan button (p. 52) Repeat until the document has finished scanning TIP: You can automate this process - just follow the instructions in step 3 of the Scanning many photographs in a batch section

Finishing the job 1. 2. Click the File menu (p. 43) at the top of the window and select File | Last page (p. 43) VueScan automatically names the file and launches the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader for you so you can check it

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3.

You may also take the opportunity to give it a different filename at this stage

Turn VueScan into a 'photocopier'

VueScan can be used to send images and documents directly to your printer, effectively turning it into a photocopier. Here's how to do it: Change input mode 1. 2. Select the Input tab (p. 54) on the Option panel (p. 9) Set Input | Task (p. 55) to "Copy to printer"

Preview, crop and scan 1. Follow steps 1, 2 and 3 of the Basic Workflow part of this tutorial to preview
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and scan your image 2. 3. VueScan will send the resulting image file directly to your printer Click Print to finish the job

or... Use the Print button (p. 53) 1. 2. Follow steps 1, 2 and 3 of the Basic workflow part of this tutorial to preview and scan your image Click the Print button (p. 53) beneath the Preview panel (p. 9)

3.

Click Print to finish the job

Saving files
VueScan automatically saves each image or document you scan automatically and puts

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it in a default folder. You can change this, however, if you want to organize your images differently. It's very easy to set up: Choose folder 1. 2. 3. Select the Output tab (p. 86) on the Options panel (p. 9) Click the @ button next to the Output | Default folder (p. 89) option Use the Browse For Folder window to choose where you want to save your image. Click OK

Name your image 1. 2. 3. In the File name box, delete what's there already and type in a name for the image Add a plus sign on the end of the name - VueScan will then save each subsequent scan, automatically numbering each one in sequence For instance image+ will produce: image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg... and so on

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Choosing different resolutions

Depending on what you want to do with your documents and images, you may need to scan them at different resolutions. The best way to decide on the resolution to scan your images at is to make use of VueScan's presets. These allow you to quickly pick the correct resolution for the task at hand: Select output media 1. 2. Select the Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Decide on the purpose of your scan from the Input | Quality (p. 58) option

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3.

If you want to output the image to a printer go to the next step, otherwise click the Scan button (p. 52) now Select output size

1. 2.

Select the Output tab (p. 86) on the Options panel (p. 9) Choose the size you want to print at from the Output | Printed size (p. 89) option

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Quick settings
Each task so far has been carried out using the basic, default settings. These are fine for scanning photos on a flatbed scanner. If you want to scan documents, magazine articles slides or negatives, however, you need to use different settings. Here's a quick guide to setting up VueScan for different types of media: Color slide 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Transparency" Set Input | Quality (p. 58) to "Print" Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Image"

Black and white business document 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Flatbed" (optional - depends on scanner) Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Text"

Color magazine article 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Flatbed" (optional - depends on scanner) Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Magazine"

Black and white film

Traditional black and white (silver halide)

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Transparency" Set Input | Quality (p. 58) to "Print" Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "B/W negative"

Chromogenic black and white (or C-41 color processed) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Transparency" Set Input | Quality (p. 58) to "Print" Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Color negative"

Black and white reversal film 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Choose File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43) to reset VueScan Select Input tab (p. 54) on the Options panel (p. 9) Set Input | Source (p. 55) to your scanner Set Input | Mode (p. 56) to "Transparency" Set Input | Quality (p. 58) to "Print" Set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Image"

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Hints and tips

Scan images only once If you want to try different ways of processing a negative or slide, you don't need to scan it more than once. The raw scan data for both preview and scan is kept in memory. Just adjust the settings and use theFile | Save image (p. 43) command on the File menu (p. 43) to save the image once more. Be discriminating The best way to save time when scanning in a lot of photos is to first make some hard decisions about what you scan. A good rule of thumb is that you should only scan one out of five pictures from a roll of film. Most people can go through a set of 36 photos or slides and quickly see the 7 or 8 that they would like to scan. Of course, if these are the only existing photos of your parent's wedding, then you probably want to scan them all. Otherwise, be discriminating - nobody needs to scan out of focus pictures of a cousin's friend's back garden from 10 years ago (smile). Use JPEG files Save disk space by scanning all photos and slides using the JPEG file format. Few people will see much difference between JPEG files and file types such as TIFF and BMP, but JPEG files take up only 10 per cent of the disk space of these other file types. With VueScan, set Output | JPEG file (p. 92) to do this. Back up to CD After every day's work, burn every image you've scanned to a CD, label the CD, and then make sure you can read the images from the CD. Burn two sets of CD's, keep one set for yourself, and store a master copy separately. Only use the master copy if your main copy has problems, otherwise don't touch it again. If friends or relatives want a copy, make them a copy from your main copy. CD's can fail, wear out, get scratched, get lost, get eaten by the dog - so always keep two copies! Use default options The default options have been designed to work well with most images and on most systems. If you're having problems scanning, reset all the options to their default values by choosing the File | Default options (p. 44)command from the File menu (p. 43). Now try changing one option at a time and re-doing the scan. It's also a good idea to reset to defaults whenever you start a new job. This means you can start with a clean slate each time. Use TIFF if archiving or editing files from VueScan Each time an image is saved as JPEG, some information about the image is lost, even at the highest quality (and lowest compression) levels. This effect is compounded if you

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save a file, then make some changes and save again. So if you plan on editing or otherwise modifying your images at a later date, JPEG isn't the ideal choice Instead, use TIFF, which stores all of the data of an image without any loss, even when compressed. TIFF is a good choice for archiving files, and for image operations in image editing applications like Photoshop(TM). The downside of TIFF is the file size. Even when compressed the files are much larger than JPEGs. Burn TIFF files to high quality CD-R or DVD disks for permanent archival Reduce Crop | Preview area (p. 75) on flatbed scanners to improve scan times A lot of time involved in scanning is taken up with the movement of the scan head (for flatbed scanners) or the media holder (for film scanners). The following tip will produce quicker scans. Position the media in landscape orientation on the scanner (place the long edge of the photo, for example, against the short, bottom edge of the scanner). This reduces the area that needs to be covered by the scanner head. Scanning text from paper for use with OCR software To get the best results when scanning printed documents, set Input | Media (p. 56)to "Text". This will ensure the result is limited to black and white, which will reduce noise. Typically OCR packages expect TIFF file format; set Output | TIFF file (p. 90). You may also find the Output | TIFF multi page (p. 91) and Output | PDF multi page (p. 94) option useful, as multiple pages will be saved in a single file. Turn off rotation if scanning with limited memory If you save images that are significantly larger than the amount of memory on your computer, set the Input | Rotation (p. 63) to None. This will make the cropping much faster.

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APPENDIX A: Advanced tools and techniques

Most of the common tasks have already been covered in the previous section. The next section explains how to take advantage of some of VueScan's more advanced features.

Adjusting Color Balance

Correct color balance is critical for any image to look convincing. Neutral colors should remain neutral and other colors lifelike. VueScan's default setting for Color | Color balance (p. 79) ("White balance") is able to do this automatically for the vast majority of scans. We say for the vast majority because if you've taken a shot with unusual lighting, it can confuse the white balance algorithm. The light from a sunset, for example, may be adjusted so that the ground appears grey instead of orange and scans of flowers may appear less intense. To solve this: Change Color | Color balance (p. 79) from "White balance" to "Neutral" If you're scanning slides, then make sure you've set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Image"

You can set the value of the neutral color yourself by using the manual setting, but be aware this may seem counter intuitive as decreasing the red neutral color, for example,

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will increase the overall red color of the image. It's easier to use the right mouse button, click on a neutral color (ie shade of gray) to update the color balance (use control key with Mac OS X). You can reset the color balance to White Balance by double-clicking on the image with the right mouse button (use control key with Mac OS X).

Histograms
Histograms are graphs that display the distribution of tones and colors in the scanned image. Dark tones are indicated at the left end of the x-axis of the graph, light tones at the right end, and midtones are in the middle. There are four different histogram graphs available in VueScan and these can be displayed in the Options panel (p. 9) by selecting one of the Image | Graph ... (p. 48) options from the Image menu (p. 43). Here's a description of what each one does: Graph raw: displays the tone and color histogram from before any adjustments have been made

Graph image: displays the tone and color histogram after you have made adjustments using the two graphs below...

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Graph b/w: allows you to set the black point and white point thresholds. This works in a similar way as the levels tool in image editors such as Photoshop(TM). Drag the arrows at the base of the graph to make adjustments

Graph curve: similar to the Curves tool in image editors such as Photoshop, this allows you to fine tune highlights, midtones and shadows. Drag the arrows at the base of the graph to make adjustments

Calculating DPI for negatives

The following shows a basic formula for scaling a negative up to print size. It is important to note that a 35mm frame will correctly scale proportionately to a 4x6in and 8x12in print.** Scaling formula: (final image width X printer DPI)/original size = scanner resolution For example, if you want to print a 4x6in print at 300 dpi on the printer from a 35mm negative, first calculate the width: 4in x 300 printer DPI = 1200, then divide by original 0.9448 inch = 1270 (custom scanner dpi) Then, just to be sure, calculate the height: 6 inch x 300 dpi = 1800, then divide by original 1.417 inch = 1270 (custom scanner dpi) To scale to either 5x7 inch or 8x10 inch you should calculate using the larger dimension

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to avoid having to crop the photo (eg 7 for 5x7 and 10 for 8x10). Use the lower value if you want exactly 5x7 inch or 8x10 inch but plan on cropping in your photo editor. ** A 35mm frame is 24x36 mm. This is approximately equivalent to 0.9448x1.417 inch.

Using Raw Scan Files

If you're scanning several images in one go, scan each image once and save the raw CCD data file. You can then re-process these scans in a variety of ways without having to scan the image again. This minimises film handling and is the fastest way to reprocess all the scans if you want to try different options. For batch scanning: Set the options on the Input tab (p. 54) of the Options panel (p. 9) for the source and media you're using Select File | Default options (p. 44) from the File menu (p. 43), then press the More button (p. 52) to display the advanced options Set Crop | Preview area (p. 75) to "Default", Crop | Crop size (p. 71) to "Maximum" In the Output tab (p. 86) un-check all the options except for Output | Raw file (p. 97)

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scan0002.tif", etc. will be created. You can change the folder and file names by changing the Output | Raw file (p. 97) name option. To re-process these raw files: Set the Input | Source (p. 55) option to "File", and set Input | Files (p. 56)to point to the starting file in the series (eg scan0001.tif) Use the File | Default options (p. 44) command to set all the other options to their default values, then set up the other options as if you were scanning the images Set Input | Batch scan (p. 59) to "All" to scan all files, or set it to "List" and manually set the frame numbers. For instance, if you set this to 1-3,5,7, then scan0001.tif, scan0002.tif, scan0003.tif, scan0005.tif and scan0007.tif will be processed when you press the Scan button.

You may also want to follow the procedure in the Advanced Workflow Suggestions section of this User's Guide for locking the exposure and film base color for the entire roll of film. This will give the best quality scans.

Advanced Workflow Suggestions

If you're scanning several frames from the same roll of film, the following procedure will optimally set the CCD exposure and film base color (i.e. mask color): Press the More button (to display advanced options) 1. Set Input | Media (p. 56)

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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Insert film with a transparent area If Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) is visible, clear Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) Press the Preview button (p. 51) Adjust cropping if necessary If Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) is visible, set Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) Press the Preview button (p. 51) again If Input | Lock film base color (p. 69) is visible, set Input | Lock film base color (p. 69)For step #2 above, use a film frame that has an area that would print as pure black for negative, or pure white for slides.

Regardless of the lighting conditions, shutter speed and aperture of each frame, you should use these fixed values for exposure and film base color for scanning all frames on the roll of film. Once you have the exposure and film base color fixed, you can scan the whole roll of film using these values. If you're using the same lighting for all the frames on the roll (or a subset of the frames), you can lock the color balance by scanning the brightest frame in the series and then setting the Input | Lock image color (p. 70)option. This will lock the black and white points for the scene, and will produce consistent colors for all the frames in the series. This is also useful if you're scanning panoramic scenes that have all been taken with the same lighting, shutter speed, and aperture, or if you're scanning a series of studio shots taken with the same lighting, shutter speed, and aperture. To optimize workflow, scan to raw files and experiment later with color correction. Make sure you first set Input | Lock exposure (p. 68)before scanning a roll of film. If you're saving raw scan files, you can turn off Output | TIFF file (p. 90) and Output | JPEG file (p. 92). You may also want to capture the entire preview area instead of the auto-cropped area by clearingCrop | Auto offset (p. 72) and Crop | Auto rotate (p. 74) and settingCrop | Crop size (p. 71) to "Maximum". For quicker batch scanning, set Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) and clear Crop | Auto offset (p. 72) and Crop | Auto rotate (p. 74). This will stop the Scan button from creating a preview.

Scanner Profiling with IT8 Targets

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Scanner profiling is the process of determining the precise color characteristics of a scanner or digital camera. VueScan uses IT8 targets (also called Q60 targets) to do this. IT8 targets are included with many scanners. You can also obtain IT8 targets from several sources:
Kodak: Wolf Faust: http://www.scarse.org/docs/kodak/Q60-order.pdf http://www.targets.coloraid.de/

To profile your scanner or digital camera with an IT8 target: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Set Input | Task (p. 55) to "Profile scanner" Click the '@' button next to Color | Scanner IT8 data (p. 84) and choose the IT8 description file that came with your IT8 target Press the Preview button (p. 51) If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally Adjust size of the VueScan cropping mask until it matches the IT8 target image You may need to readjust the target on the scanner platten and press the Preview button (p. 51) again if the image is at an angle Choose Profile | Profile scanner (p. 46) from the drop-down menu The ICC profile will be saved to "scanner.icc" in the same folder as "vuescan.ini"If you've previously made an ICC profile for your scanner, you only need to do the following: Set Color | Scanner color space (p. 83) to "ICC profile" Set Color | Scanner ICC profile (p. 84) to file name of ICC file

1. 2.

VueScan normally reads and writes the ICC profile for the scanner using the file scanner.icc. Alternatively, you can type the file name of the ICC profile into Color | Scanner ICC profile (p. 84). Every IT8 target has an associated data file that describes the exact color of each square in the target. You can select this file by clicking on the '@' button next to Color | Scanner IT8 data (p. 84). Both the .icc and .it8 files are normally located in the same folder as vuescan.ini. Note that the settings in the Color tab do not affect the profiling. To see if the profiling works correctly, you should set Color | Color balance (p. 79)to "Neutral".

Printer Profiling with IT8 Targets

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Printer profiling is the process of determining the precise color characteristics of a printer. This profile is unique to each paper type and each change to the printer setup options. To profile your printer with an IT8 target: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Profile your scanner (see above) Set Input | Task (p. 55) to "Make IT8 target" Press the Scan button (p. 52), this will create a print with your printer Insert printout into scanner Set Input | Task (p. 55) to "Profile printer" Press the Preview button (p. 51) If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally Adjust size of the VueScan cropping mask until it matches the IT8 target image You may need to readjust the target on the scanner platten and press the Preview button (p. 51) again if the image is at an angle

10. Choose Profile | Profile printer (p. 46) from the drop-down menu 11. The ICC profile will be written to printer.icc in the VueScan directory If you've previously made an ICC profile for a printer, you only need to do the following: 1. 2. Set Color | Printer color space (p. 83) to "ICC profile" Set Color | Printer ICC profile (p. 84) to the file name of the ICC file

VueScan normally reads and writes the ICC profile for a printer using the file printer.icc. Alternatively, you can type the file name of the ICC profile into Color | Printer ICC profile (p. 84).

Film Profiling with IT8 Targets

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Film profiling is the process of determining the precise color characteristics of color negative film. To do this, you need to take a picture of an IT8 target and scan this frame. Make sure the picture is rectangular on the film. You can obtain an A4-sized camera target from:
Wolf Faust: http://www.targets.coloraid.de/

To profile your film with an IT8 target:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Profile your scanner (see above) Set Input | Task (p. 55) to "Profile film" Copy the IT8 description file that came with your target into the same folder as vuescan.ini, and rename the copy film.it8 Press the Preview button (p. 51) If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally Adjust size of the VueScan cropping mask until it matches the IT8 target image. You may need to readjust the target on the scanner platten and press Preview again if the image is at an angle Choose Profile | Profile film (p. 46) from the drop-down menu The ICC profile will be saved to film.icc in the same folder as vuescan.ini

7. 8.

If you've previously made an ICC profile for a roll of film, you only need to do the following: 1. 2. Set Color | Film color space (p. 83) to "ICC profile" Set Color | Film ICC profile (p. 84) to the file name of the ICC file

VueScan normally reads and writes the ICC profile for film using the file film.icc. Alternatively, you can type the file name of the ICC profile into Color | Film ICC profile (p. 84). Every IT8 target has an associated data file that describes the exact color of each square in the target. You can select this file by clicking on the '@' button next to Color | Film IT8 data (p. 84).

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Both the .icc and .it8 files are normally located in the same folder as vuescan.ini.

How VueScan Works

VueScan does two different things: it scans an image, and then it processes the raw data from the scanner to produce a color-corrected image. These two things are done in steps, and it's useful to understand each of the steps when scanning and processing. The Preview button (p. 51) and Scan button (p. 52) perform both the scanning and processing steps. The Save button (p. 53) starts from the raw CCD data in memory and only performs the processing step. Scanning Scanning an image involves: optionally focusing the scanner, setting up the exposure time for the CCD area to be scanned, number of bits per sample, number of samples per pixel, scan resolution, and then reading the raw CCD data into VueScan's memory buffer. If single-pass multi-scanning is enabled, each line of data from the CCD is read multiple times and combined (averaged) while being stored in the memory buffer. If multi-pass multi-scanning is enabled, the whole scan area is read multiple times and combined (averaged) in the memory buffer. There is no scaling or color correction of the raw CCD data in the scanning step. Some

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scanners either always or sometimes convert 10-bit or 12-bit CCD data to 8 bits before transferring it to VueScan, and then VueScan converts it back to 10-bit or 12-bit CCD data. This is done using the same gamma correction table specified by the sRGB standard. When the Input | Source (p. 55) option is set to "File", the raw CCD data is read from a TIFF or JPEG file and stored in the memory buffer, just as if it had been read directly from a scanner. When the preview image is scanned, the exposure time is fixed at 1.0, the area to be scanned is the full preview area, and the scan resolution is set to a value that produces approximately 1 million pixels. When the full scan is done, the exposure time is either computed from the preview or from the manual setting and the area to be scanned is a subset of the preview area (determined by the cropping). If the scan resolution is Auto, a scan resolution is chosen that produces approximately 4 million pixels. When the preview or scan is performed, the raw data is put into a memory buffer. If the Output | Raw file (p. 97) option is enabled and Output | Raw output with (p. 99) is set to "Preview" or "Scan", the raw data is written to a TIFF file at the same time as it's put into the memory buffer. Processing The processing steps are performed for both the preview and the full scan. The first step uses the infrared data for a first attempt at dust removal (if enabled). This reads the whole image from the memory buffer to characterize the relationship between the color channels and the infrared channel. Then it reads each line once, correcting it for dust spots and passing each line to the subsequent steps for further processing. The next step is applying the cleaning filter. This filter removes dust spots by using the infrared data to identify and remove dust spots and then filling in the spots with image data adjacent to the dust spots. This filter also reduces the appearance of film grain using a sigma filter. Note: infrared data is only available from scanners that have an IR channel. If the channel is not present the infrared cleaning options will be skipped. If saving files, the Output | Raw file (p. 97) option is enabled and Output | Raw output with (p. 99) is set to "Save", the data at this stage is written to a TIFF file. This raw data can subsequently be re-processed by setting the Input | Source (p. 55) option to "File". Note: that the data from the infrared channel, if present, is saved as part of the raw file. Next, the restore colors and restore fading filters are applied (if enabled). This reads the whole image once to detect the original colors of the image and then reads each line once to correct for color shifts and dye fading. The next step is performing corrections for film media. This reads the whole image once to compute the intensity of the film base, and then reads each line, corrects it based on film characteristics, and passes each line to the subsequent steps for further processing.

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At this point sharpening with an unsharp mask is performed if theFilter | Sharpen (p. 78) option is enabled. The last step is color correction. The whole image is read once, and the options from the Color tab are used to convert to the final colors of the saved images. The inputs to this step are 16-bit linear light samples, and the outputs from this step are gamma corrected samples. Once the image data has been corrected, the preview image data is displayed in the Preview tab or the scan image data is optionally displayed in the Scan tab or written to a TIFF file, a JPEG file, a PDF file, an OCR text file and/or an index file.

Scanning Color Negative Film

Color negative film is able to capture a much wider range of intensities than slide film, and this can create a problem when scanning negative film. Slide film maps a density range of 0:2.7 to an intensity range of 1:500, but negative film maps a smaller density range of 0:2.4 to a larger intensity range of 1:4000. Imagine taking a picture of a typical outdoor scene with a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds along with a person standing in the shade under a tree. Further, imagine taking this picture with both slide film and negative film. When taking this picture with slide film, the photographer has to set the exposure to either capture the details of the sky and clouds, or set the exposure to capture the details of the person standing in the shade under the tree. Once the picture is taken of one of the two intensity ranges, there's no way to get back the other intensity range after developing the film. However, when taking this picture with an automatic camera using negative film, the camera will usually set the exposure so that both the details in the clouds and in the shadows are captured. The decision of whether to capture the intensity range of the clouds or the person in the shadows is made by the photographer when using slide film, but it's usually made by a computer in the film minilab when printing the negative. Most minilabs will print this type of scene with details in the shadows and the sky clipped to white without any cloud or sky detail. One way to solve this problem is to manipulate the brightness of the image using the Color | Brightness (p. 82) or Color | White point (%) (p. 81)option to manipulate the negative image so that both the bright and dark parts of the image show detail when scanned.

Scanning Black/White Negative Film

If you're scanning black/white negative film, first check to see if the film looks gray or orange to the naked eye. If it looks gray, set Input | Media (p. 56) to "B/W negative" and

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if it looks orange, set it to "Color negative". Then go to the Color tab (p. 78)and choose a Black/White film type. If you can't find a film type that exactly matches the film you're using, experiment with the Kodak T-Max settings. On most scanners, setting Input | Media (p. 56) to "Color negative" will increase the green exposure time by 2.5x and the blue exposure time by 3.5x. This results in adjusting for the green and blue absorption by the orange mask of the film. If the film doesn't have an orange mask, then using "Color negative" will result in a raw scan file that looks very cyan.

Maximizing Image Quality

After you've decided on the resolution of your finished image (or alternatively the pixel dimensions of your finished image), how do you maximize the image quality? There's one thing you can do which involves longer scanning times, but capturing more raw data for each pixel in the finished image. The basic idea is scanning each pixel more than once and averaging the pixels. Each doubling of the number of pixels increases the effective number of useful bits of data by one. For instance, if you have a 10-bit scanner like the Nikon LS-30 and you read the CCD 4 times at each pixel position, you get effectively 12 bits of useful image data. There are several ways of achieving multiple image samples. The first is single-pass multi-scanning. Some scanners are capable of reading each pixel position multiple times before advancing the scan head to a new position. The second technique is multi-pass multi-scanning, which most scanners are capable of (however, some can't accurately reposition each scan pass, so this may not always work well). Another useful way of getting multiple image samples is to scan at a higher resolution and then average adjacent blocks of pixels. For instance, scanning at 2700 dpi and averaging every 2x2 block of pixels will result in a higher-quality 1350 dpi scan than just scanning at 1350 dpi. In this example Scanning at 1350 dpi throws away every other pixel and every other scan line, while scanning at 2700 dpi and settingOutput | TIFF size reduction (p. 90) to "2" will result in averaging 2x2 blocks of pixels and increasing the number of effective bits of resolution by 2 bits. Note that multi-scanning is the only way to increase the quality at the highest resolution, and that using Output | TIFF size reduction (p. 90)or Output | JPEG size reduction (p. 92) is a better way of producing quality scans at lower resolutions.

File Formats
VueScan reads raw CCD sensor data from scanners and can write this to a raw TIFF file for later reprocessing. The final cropped data can be stored in any combination of TIFF, JPEG, PDF and OCR text files. Index prints are stored as a Windows BMP file. The raw and cropped TIFF files can have six different formats, each with a different

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number of samples per pixel and bits per sample. A grayscale image has one sample per pixel, a normal color image has three (red, green, blue), and scans from a scanner with an infrared channel have four samples per pixel (red, green, blue, infrared). VueScan internally keeps all samples in 16-bit linear format, even when a scanner only supports 10-bit samples, but to minimize the disk usage, various TIFF file formats are supported:
per sample 8 bit Gray 1 byte per pixel 1 sample per pixel 8 bits per sample 16 bit Gray 2 bytes per pixel 1 sample per pixel 16 bits per sample 24 bit RGB 3 bytes per pixel 3 samples per pixel 8 bits per sample 48 bit RGB 6 bytes per pixel 3 samples per pixel 16 bits per sample 64 bit RGBI 8 bytes per pixel 4 samples per pixel 16 bits per sample 16 bit Infrared 2 bytes per pixel 1 sample per pixel 16 bits per sample

If you want to process the full bit depth of an image in Photoshop(TM), use the 48 bit RGB setting for the Crop TIFF file. Note that some other image editing tools cannot process 48 bit TIFF files; in this case use 24 bit which is more widely compatible. Note that the raw scan files are stored in linear format when using more than 8 bits per sample, and stored in gamma 2.2 format when using only 8 bits per sample. The saved TIFF files are always gamma corrected according to theColor | Output color space (p. 83)used (1.8 for Apple RGB, ColorMatch RGB, ProPhoto RGB and ECI RGB and 2.2 for all other color spaces). Note that the raw scan files stored in linear format will look dark when viewed - this is normal. Note that both the raw TIFF file and the crop TIFF file can be compressed. VueScan uses CCITT Group-IV compression for 1-bit files, and LZW compression otherwise. This may be slower to write, but takes around 40% less disk space. The size of JPEG files can be controlled with the Output | JPEG quality (p. 92)option, with useful values ranging from 75 (very compressed, medium quality) to 95 (less compression, high quality).

Film types

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VueScan contains information about the color sensitivity of many different types of film. Use the table below to identify the types of film from the labels and the colors of the stripes over the sprocket holes. If you're using film types that aren't in this table, particularly some of the newer Fuji films, try experimenting with the Kodak Gold and Kodak Advantix settings - these seem to work well. (Films such as Kodak Gold have different types of emulsions indicated by the Generation (Gen) code on the film. You can usually see this on the film itself in the writing on the film near the sprocket holes.)
Vendor -------3M 3M 3M 3M 3M 3M 3M AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA AGFA FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI Brand Name -------------Scotch HR Scotch HR ScotchColor ScotchColor ScotchColor ScotchColor ScotchColor AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR AGFACOLOR NHG NPS Reala Reala Reala SHR Super G Super G Super G Super G Super HG Super HG Film Type ------------------200 Gen 2 400 Gen 2 AT 100 AT 200 ATG-1 200 ATG 400/EXL 400 HR2 400 OPTIMA 125 OPTIMA 200 PORTRAIT 160 Ultra 50 XRG 100 XRG/XRS 200 XRG/XRS 400 XRS 1000 Gen 2 XRS 400 Gen 1 XRS 400 Gen 2 XRS/XRC 100 400 160S (PRO) 100 (JAPAN) 100 Gen 1 100 Gen 2 400 Gen 2 100 200 400 Gen 1 400 Gen 2 100 100 Gen 2 Label on Film/Stripe1Color/Stripe2Color --------------------------------------------3M CP-200/NONE/BLUE DOTS 3M CP-400/BLUE DOTS/NONE 3M CP 100 3 18-7/GREEN DOTS/NONE 3M CP 200 3 18-9/GREEN DOTS/NONE 3M ELP 200 66-5/NONE/NONE 3M F CP400 66-10/RED DOTS/NONE 3M CP 400 18-8/RED DOTS/NONE AGFA OPTIMA 125/GREEN SQUARE/NONE AGFA OPTIMA 200/GRN SQUARES/NONE AGFA PORTRAIT 160/GREEN SQUARE/NONE AGFA ULTRA 50 Triangles/NONE/GREEN AGFA XRG 100/GREEN SQUARE/NONE AFGA XRG 200 Pairs of Squares/GREEN/NONE AFGA XRG/XRS 400 Pairs of Squares/GREEN/NONE AGFA XRS 100 Triplets of Squares/GREEN/NONE XRS 400 Gen 1/MAG SQRS/NONE XRS 400 Gen 2/MAG SQRS/NONE AGFA XRS 100/GREEN SQ/NONE FUJI NHG/NONE/NONE FUJI NPS 160/NONE/NONE FUJI REALA/GREEN/NONE FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI REALA CS-2/BLUE/GREEN 400/NONE/NONE G-100/NONE/GREEN DASHES G-200/GREEN DASHES/GREEN DASHES

FUJI G-400/NONE/GREEN DASHES FUJI HG100 CN-2/GREEN/GREEN HG 100/NONE/GREEN

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FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI FUJI ILFORD KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK

Super HG Super HG Super HG Super HR Super HR Super HR Super HR Super HR Super HR XP2 ADVANTiX ADVANTiX ADVANTiX ADVANTiX ADVANTiX ADVANTiX ADVANTiX Commercial EKTACOLOR EKTACOLOR EKTACOLOR EKTACOLOR EKTACOLOR EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAPRESS EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR EKTAR FUNTIME FUNTIME FUNTIME GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD Internegative Internegative Internegative Internegative KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR

1600 Gen 1 200 400 100 Gen 1 100 Gen 2 1600 Gen 2 200 Gen 1 200 Gen 2 400 Gen 1 400 100-2 100 200-2 200 200 400 Black & White + 400 200 GOLD 160 GPF GOLD 400 Prof EGP-4 GOLD II 400 EGP-4 Gold II 400 Prof PRO GOLD 160 GPX 1600 Gen 1 PPC GOLD 100 Gen 1 PPA GOLD 400 PPB-3 GOLD II 100 Prof GOLD II 1600 Prof GOLD II 400 Prof G5 GOLD II Multspd PJM Multspd Prof PJM-2 PJ100 PJ400 PJ800-2 PJ800 PLUS 100 Prof PJA-1 PLUS 1600 Pro PJC-1 PLUS 200 Prof PLUS 400 Prof PJB-2 100 Gen 1 100 Gen 2 100 Gen 3 CX 100 Gen 3 SY 1000 Gen 1 1000 Gen 2 125 Gen 1 25 25 Professional PHR 100 FA 200 FB 200 FB Gen 2 100 Gen 2 100 Gen 4 100 Gen 6 1600 Gen 1 200 Gen 1 200 Gen 2 200 Gen 4 200 Gen 6 400 Gen 1 400 Gen 2 400 Gen 3 400 Gen 5 400 Gen 6 800 Gen 1 III 100 Gen 4 III 200 Gen 4 III 400 Gen 5 Max 800 Gen 2 Plus 100 Gen 3 Plus 100 Gen 4 Plus 100 Gen 5 Plus 200 Gen 3 Super 200 Gen 4 Super 200 Gen 5 Ultra 400 Gen 4 Ultra 400 Gen 5 +10\% Contrast +20\% Contrast +30\% Contrast +40\% Contrast 100 Print Gen 4 200 Print Gen 4 400 Print Gen 5 CII DA 100 Gen 5 II VR 100 Gen 1 VR 100 Gen 2 VR 1000 Gen 1 VR 1000 Gen 2 VR 200 Gen 4 VR 200 / 5093 VR 200 Gen 1 VR 200 Gen 2

FUJI HG1600 CU1/BLUE/NONE FUJI HG200 CA-1/NONE/GREEN FUJI HG400 CH-1/NONE/GREEN FUJI 100/GREEN/NONE FUJI 100/GREEN/NONE FUJI 1600/NONE/BLUE FUJI 200/GREEN/NONE FUJI 200/NONE/NONE FUJI 400/GREEN/NONE ILFORD XP2/NONE/NONE ADVANTIX 100-2 KODAK 100-2/NONE/ NONE ADVANTiX 100 KODAK 100/NONE/NONE ADVANTIX 200-2 KODAK 200-2/NONE/NONE ADVANTiX 200 KODAK 200/NONE/NONE ADVANTiX 200 KODAK 200/NONE/NONE ADVANTiX 400 KODAK 400/NONE/NONE ADVANTIX BW KODAK BW/NONE/NONE COMMERCIAL 200-2 CO 200-2 KODAK/NONE/NONE KODAK GPF 5124/GREEN/GREEN KODAK 5087 [or] 6087 EGP-4/NONE/NONE KODAK 5087 [or] 6087 EGP-4/NONE/NONE Kodak 5087 EGP/NONE/NONE KODAK GPX KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE KODAK 5030 PPC/NONE/NONE KODAK 5115 PPA/NONE/NONE KODAK 5113 PPB/NONE/NONE KODAK 5115 PJA-1/NONE/NONE KODAK 5030 PJC-1/NONE/NONE KODAK 5113 PJB-2/NONE/NONE KODAK PJM/NONE/NONE KODAK PJM-2/NONE/NONE KODAK PJ100/NONE/NONE KODAK PJ400/NONE/NONE KODAK PJ800-2/NONE/NONE KODAK PJ800/NONE/NONE KODAK 5115 PJA-1/NONE/NONE KODAK 5030 PJC-1/NONE/NONE KODAK 5016 PJZ/NONE/NONE KODAK 5113 PJB-2/NONE/NONE EKTAR 100-1 | KODAK 3101/MAGENTA/2-MAGENTA KODAK CX 100|2 | EKTAR 100-2/2 MAGENTA/MAGENTA EKTAR 100-3 KOD|K CX 100-3/NONE/NONE EKTAR 100-3 KODAK SY 100-3/NONE/NONE KODAK 5110 | EKTAR 1000-1/NONE/2-GREEN EKTAR 1000-2 KODAK 1000-2/NONE/NONE KODAK 5101 | EKTAR 125-1/NONE/2-MAGENTA KODAK 25 EKTAR 25/NONE/2-BLUE KODAK 5327 PHR/NONE/NONE FUNTIME 100 KODAK FA 100/NONE/NONE FUNTIME 200 KODAK FB 200/NONE/NONE KODAK FB 200-2 79-2/NONE/NONE KODAK 5095 | GOLD 100-2/MAGENTA/MAGENTA GOLD 100-4 KODAK 100-4/MAGENTA/GREEN GOLD 100-6 KODAK FILM/MAGENTA/NONE KODAK 5091 | GOLD 1600-1/YELLOW/NONE KODAK GOLD 200-1 5096 | GOLD 200-1/GREEN/GREEN KODAK 5096 | GOLD 200-2/BLUE/GREEN GOLD 200-4 KODAK 200-4/GREEN/GREEN GOLD 200-6 KODAK FILM/GREEN/NONE KODAK GOLD 400-1 5097 | GOLD 400-1/BLUE/BLUE KODAK 5097 | GOLD 400-2/BLUE/NONE KODAK 400-3 | GOLD 400-3/BLUE/2-BLUE KODAK 400-5 GOLD 400-4/BLUE/NONE GOLD 400-6 KODAK FILM/BLUE/BLUE 83-14 GOLD 800 83-14 KODAK 800/NONE/NONE GOLD 100-4 KODAK 100-4/MAGENTA/GREEN GOLD 200-4 KODAK 200-4/GREEN/GREEN KODAK 400-5 GOLD 400-4/BLUE/NONE GOLD 800-2 KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE KODAK 100-3 | GOLD 100-3/GREEN/MAGENTA GOLD 100-4 KODAK 100-4/MAGENTA/GREEN GOLD 100-5 100-5 KODAK/MAGENTA/MAGENTA GOLD 200-3 | KODAK 200-3/GREEN/NONE GOLD 200-4 KODAK GOLD 200-4/GREEN/GREEN GOLD 200-5 200-2 KODAK/NONE/GREEN KODAK 400-4 | GOLD 400-4/NONE/WIDE BLUE KODAK 400-5 GOLD 400-4/BLUE/NONE Increases contrast 10\% Increases contrast 20\% Increases contrast 30\% Increases contrast 40\% GOLD 100-4 KODAK 100-4/MAGENTA/GREEN GOLD 200-4 KODAK GOLD 200-4/GREEN/GREEN KODAK 400-5 GOLD 400-4/BLUE/NONE KODAK SAFETY FILM 5035/NONE/GREEN KODAK DA-5 KODAK FILM/NONE/2 MAGENTA KODAK SAFETY FILM 5075/GREEN/GREEN KODAK CP 100 5094/NONE/NONE 5094/NONE/NONE KODAK CF 1000 5090/NONE/YELLOW KODAK CF 1000 5090 | VR1000 | KODAK 5090/YELLOW/YELLOW VR 200-4 KODAK VR 200-4/NONE/NONE KODAK CL 200 5093/NONE/GREEN VR200-2 | KODAK 5093/NONE/NONE

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KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA POLAROID POLAROID POLAROID POLAROID

KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR KODACOLOR MAX ZOOM PORTRA PORTRA PORTRA PORTRA PORTRA Pro Pro Pro Prof Color Neg ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL ROYAL SUPER GOLD SUPER GOLD SUPER GOLD SUPER GOLD Supra Supra Supra T-MAX T-MAX T-MAX T-MAX TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-100 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 ULTRA Zoom VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR IMPRESSA KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR XG POLAROID POLAROID COLOR POLAROID COLOR POLAROID COLOR

VR 200 Gen 5 VR 400 Gen 1 VR 400 Gen 2 VRG 100 Gen 1 VRG 100 Gen 2 VRG 200 Gen 1 VRG 400 Gen 1 800-3 160NC 160VC 400NC 400VC 800 100 PRN 400 PPF-2 400 MC PMC 100 GOLD 100 GOLD 100 Gen 2 GOLD 1000 GOLD 200 GOLD 200 Gen 2 GOLD 25 RZ GOLD 25 Copystand GOLD 400 GOLD 400 Gen 2 100 Gen 4 1600 GF Gen 2 200 Gen 4 400 Gen 5 100 400 800 100 Professional 3200 Professional 400 Professional T400 CN D-76 CI = .40 D-76 CI = .50 D-76 CI = .55 D-76 CI = .70 D-76 CI = .80 TMAX CI = .40 TMAX CI = .50 TMAX CI = .55 TMAX CI = .70 TMAX CI = .80 D-76 CI = .40 D-76 CI = .50 D-76 CI = .55 D-76 CI = .70 D-76 CI = .80 TMAX CI = .40 TMAX CI = .50 TMAX CI = .55 TMAX CI = .70 TMAX CI = .80 800-3 400 PLUS Prof VPH-2 400 PROF VPH 400 Prof VPH-2 HC 100 Prof VHC-2 HC 4329 VHC HC 6329 VHC III Pro L 4013 VPL L 6013 VPL 50 SR-G 160 SR-G 3200 SUPER SR 400 SUPER SR100 SUPER SR200 GEN 1 SUPER SR200 GEN 2 400 CP 200 HD2 100 HD2 200 HD2 400

KODAK VR 200-5 79-2/NONE/NONE KODAK CM 400 5079/NONE/BLUE 79-4 VR 400 KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE KODAK CA 100 5095/MAGENTA/GREEN KODAK CA 100 5095 | VRG 100 | KODAK 5095/MAGENTA/MAGENTA KODAK CB 200 5096 | VRG 200 | KODAK 5096/GREEN/GREEN KODAK CC400 5097 | VR-G 400 | KODAK 5097/BLUE/BLUE Kodak GT 800-3/NONE/NONE KODAK 160NC/NONE/NONE KODAK 160VC/NONE/NONE KODAK 400NC/NONE/NONE KODAK 400VC/NONE/NONE Kodak Supra 800/NONE/NONE KODAK PRN 6329 or 4329/NONE/NONE KODAK 5080 [or] 6080 PPF-2/NONE/NONE KODAK 5059 [or] 6059 PMC/NONE/NONE /NONE/NONE ROYAL 100 KODAK RA 100/NONE/NONE ROYAL 100-2 RA KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE ROYAL 1000 KODAK RF 1000 KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE ROYAL 200 RB 200 KODAK/NONE/NONE ROYAL 200-2 RB KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE ROYAL 25 KODAK RZ 25 KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE ROYAL 25 KODAK RZ 25 KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE ROYAL 400 KODAK RC 400/NONE/NONE ROYAL 400-2 RC KODAK FILM/NONE/NONE GOLD 100-4 KODAK 100-4/MAGENTA/GREEN GOLD 1600-2 KODAK GF 1600-2/NONE/NONE GOLD 200-4 KODAK 200-4/GREEN/GREEN KODAK 400-5 GOLD 400-4/BLUE/NONE Kodak Supra 100/NONE/NONE KODAK Supra 400/NONE/NONE KODAK Supra 800/NONE/NONE KODAK TMX 5052/NONE/NONE KODAK TMZ 5054/NONE/NONE KODAK TMY 5053/NONE/NONE KODAK T400 CN/NONE/NONE D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .40 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .50 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .55 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .70 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .80 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .40 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .50 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .55 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .70 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .80 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .40 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .50 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .55 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .70 D-76 Developer Contrast Index = .80 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .40 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .50 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .55 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .70 TMAX Developer Contrast Index = .80 Kodak GT. 800-3/NONE/NONE KODAK 3059 [or] 9059 VPH-2/NONE/NONE KODAK 5028 VPH/BLUE/MAGENTA KODAK 5028 [or] 6028 VPH-2/NONE/NONE KODAK VHC-2 3329 [or] 8329/NONE/NONE KODAK VHC 4329 KODAK VHC 6329 KODAK 5026 VPS/NONE/MAGENTA KODAK VPL 4013 KODAK VPL 6013 IMPRESSA/RED & GREEN/NONE KONICA COLOR SR-G 160/NONE/NONE KONICA SR-G 3200 DASHES/GREEN/3 GREEN KONICA COLOR SUPER SR 400/GREEN/GREEN KONICA COLOR SUPER SR100/MAGENTA/MAGENTA KONICA SUPER SR 200 THREE DASHES/NONE/GREEN KONICA SUPER SR 200 DASHES/MAGENTA/3 GREEN KONICA X400/NONE/GRN DIAMONDS POLAROID CP 200/GREEN DOTS/NONE POLAROID COLOR HD2 100/MAGENTA/MAGENTA POLAROID COLOR HD2 200/MAGENTA/GREEN POLAROID COLOR HD2 400/GREEN/GREEN

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APPENDIX B: Buttons, menus and options reference

The following sections describe, in detail, what each and every one of VueScan's controls and options do.

Menus

There are a number of commands that can be chosen from the menus in the menu bar which are described below.

File | Save image

Same as pressing the "Save" button.

File | Last page

When using Output | TIFF multi page (p. 91) or Output | PDF multi page (p. 94), this command tells VueScan that the last page has been scanned and written, and the file can be written to the hard drive. Alternatively, if you're using Input | Multi page (p. 61), this command tells VueScan to save all pages from memory to the hard drive.

File | Page setup

This command lets you control how the scanned image is placed on the printed page.

File | Print image

This command prints the current preview or scan.

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File | Load options

This command lets you load the current options settings from a file.

File | Save options

This command lets you save the current options settings to a file.

File | Default options

This command sets all options for the current scanner and scan mode to their default values.

File | Quit
This command causes VueScan to exit. The current option settings will be saved to vuescan.ini. On Mac OS X, this command is in the VueScan menu.

Edit | Copy image

This command copies the current image to the clipboard. If you've created a preview but not a scan, the section of the preview inside the crop box is used, otherwise the most recent scan is used.

Edit | Copy OCR text

This command is for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the current image and copies the text to the clipboard. You need to set Input | Media (p. 56) to "Text" or "Microfilm" for this to work. If you've created a preview but not a scan, the section of the preview inside the crop box is used, otherwise the most recent scan is used. However, ifInput | Preview resolution (p. 62) is set to "Auto" or something less than 300 dpi, this may not work very well.

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Scanner | Preview
Same as pressing the "Preview" button.

Scanner | Scan
Same as pressing the "Scan" button.

Scanner | Eject
Ejects film from a film scanner or paper from a document feeder.

Scanner | Calibrate
This command causes a scanner calibration on those scanners that support it. Generally, calibration compensates for three things:

Lighting is usually uneven from one side of a scan to another Each CCD element has a slightly different sensitivity to light The dark voltage level of each CCD element is slightly different

When properly calibrated, the scanner should theoretically produce the same values for each pixel, if an image that is a single tone and color were scanned. Sometimes the calibration data gets stored inside the scanner memory, sometimes it's done once for every scan and sometimes VueScan stores the calibration data in a file when the "Scanner | Calibrate" command completes. If you've got one or two narrow streaks appearing in the scan direction, try doing a scan with the scanner turned on its side. This can dislodge particles from the light path.

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Scanner | Focus
This command focuses the scanner. The center of this focus area is displayed on the preview with a small animated box, and can also be changed with the Crop | Focus X offset (p. 76)and Crop | Focus Y offset (p. 76) options (options displayed only when the scanner is capable of this).

Scanner | Exposure
This command computes the optimal values for Input | RGB exposure (p. 69)and Input | Infrared exposure (p. 69). It uses the pixels inside the crop box in the Preview tab to compute these values.

Scanner | Previous
Decreases Input | Frame number (p. 61) by 1.

Scanner | Next
Increases Input | Frame number (p. 61) by 1.

Profile | Profile scanner

See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film.

Profile | Profile printer

See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film.

Profile | Profile film

See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film.

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Image | Refresh
If you've turned off the Prefs | Auto refresh (p. 104) option, then this command updates the current image or histogram to match any option changes that have been made.

Image | Zoom In
Same as pressing the "Zoom In" button

Image | Zoom Out

Same as pressing the "Zoom Out" button

Image | Rotate left

Rotates the image 90 degrees counterclockwise

Image | Rotate right

Rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise

Image | Flip
Rotates the image 180 degrees

Image | Mirror
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Mirrors the image left to right

Image | Release memory

This command releases the memory used by VueScan to store the most recent scans and previews. This can be useful if you need more memory for another program. You can control how much memory VueScan will use by setting thePrefs | Image Memory (MB) (p. 109) option if your system is short on memory.

Image | Graph off

This command turns off any image graph that's being displayed.

Image | Graph raw

This command displays a histogram of the intensities of the raw scan data.

Image | Graph b/w

This command displays a histogram with the black/white points.

Image | Graph curve

This command displays the current correction curve.

Image | Graph image

This command displays the histogram of the current image after correction by the black/white points and the curve.

Page | Previous
This command changes to the previous page. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to aBcdef (current page B).

Page | Next
This command changes to the next page. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to abcDef (current page D).

Page | First
This command changes to the first page. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command

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will change the pages to Abcdef (current page A).

Page | Last
This command changes to the last page. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to abcdeF (current page F).

Page | Move front

This command moves the current page towards the front. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to aCbdef (current page C).

Page | Move back

This command moves the current page towards the back. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to abdCef (current page C).

Page | Reverse
This command reverses the order of the pages. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to fedCba (current page C).

Page | Interleave
This command reorders front/back scans by interleaving front/back pages - i.e. fffbbb gets reordered to fbfbfb. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to afbeCd (current page C). This is useful for scanning the front of each page in a document feeder, and then feeding the papers through the document feeder again.

Page | Separate
This command reorders front/back scans by separating front/back pages - i.e. fbfbfb gets reordered to fffbbb. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to aCebdf (current page C).

Page | Swap even/odd

This command reorders front/back scans by swapping front/back pages - i.e. bfbfbf gets reordered to fbfbfb. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to badCfe (current page C).

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Page | Delete
This command deletes the current page. For instance, if there are six pages abCdef andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 3 (current page C), this command will change the pages to abDef (current page D).

Page | Delete all

This command will delete all pages.

Help | Users Guide

This command displays the VueScan User's Guide, in html format.

Help | Usage Tips

This command displays usage tips for using VueScan.

Help | Release Notes

This command displays the contents of the VueScan Release Notes.

Help | About
This command displays the version number and three boxes for entering your email address, serial number and customer number from the purchase receipt. This command is in the VueScan menu on Mac OS X and is in the Help menu on Windows and Linux. The e-mail address, serial number and customer number are saved in:
Mac OS X: Linux /Users/yourname/.vuescanrc ~/.vuescanrc

Windows XP and earlier: Registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VueScan\license Windows Vista and later: Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VueScan\license

If you're running VueScan as Administrator when you enter the serial number, then the e-mail address, serial number and customer number will be saved to the following location also. This lets all users share the same serial number.

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Mac OS X: writable) Linux

/Users/Shared/.vuescanrc (if

/etc/.vuescanrc (if writable)

Windows Vista and later: Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VueScan\license

On Mac OS X, if you want all users to have the same serial number, you can manually move this file to either of these files:
/Library/Application Support/VueScan/.vuescanrc /Network/Library/Application Support/VueScan/.vuescanrc

Buttons

There are a number of buttons that can be used to initiate or abort scanning.

Preview button
This button does a quick preview scan of the area described byCrop | Preview area (p. 75) and displays it in the Preview tab.

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A preview scan is usually created at a lower resolution and is therefore faster. From the preview you can set your cropping, filtering and color balance options that will be applied to the final scan. Want to preview more than one frame at a time? Then use the Input | Batch scan (p. 59) option. Several previews can be in memory at the same time, and you can change which preview you are viewing by changing the number in Input | Frame number (p. 61). If you're scanning from disk, and specify the starting file in numbered series (e.g. scan0001.tif) you can use the Frame number to select a file. For example, if Input | Files (p. 56) is set to "scan0001.tif" andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 12, VueScan will look for the file "scan0012.tif" when Preview is pressed. Other options for specifying numbering schemes for VueScan files are documented on the Output tab (p. 86) help topics.

Scan button
This button performs the scan, displays the image in the Scan tab and optionally saves to the file type(s) selected in the Output tab (p. 86). If a preview scan is not available, VueScan will perform a preview in order to calculate exposure and crop area. IfInput | Lock exposure (p. 68) is set and Crop | Auto offset (p. 72) andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 74) are not set, no preview will be created. You can scan more than one frame at a time by using the Input | Batch scan (p. 59) option. If you're scanning from disk, and specify the starting file in numbered series (e.g. scan0001.tif) you can use the Frame number to select a file. For example, if Input | Files (p. 56) is set to "scan0001.tif" andInput | Frame number (p. 61) is 12, VueScan will look for the file "scan0012.tif" when Scan is pressed. Other options for specifying numbering schemes for VueScan files are documented on the Output tab (p. 86) help topics.

Guide me button
This button is displayed when in advanced mode, and it changes the display to "Guide me" mode - a step-by-step way of scanning.

Less button
This button is displayed when in advanced mode after the "More" button has been pressed. When you press it, only the most significant options in each tab are displayed.

More button

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This button is displayed when in advanced mode. When you press it, all available options in each tab are displayed.

Back button
This button is displayed when in "Guide me" mode. When you press it, you go back to the previous step.

Next button
This button is displayed when in "Guide me" mode. When you press it, you go to the next step.

Advanced button
This button is displayed when in "Guide me" mode. When you press it, you exit "Guide me" mode and all options are displayed.

Abort button
This button is displayed when a scan is in progress. When you press it, the scan is stopped and batch scanning is stopped.

Refresh button
This button is displayed when the Prefs | Auto refresh (p. 104)option is disabled. When you press it, the image is refreshed to match the values of the options.

Save button
This button causes the most recent preview or scan to be saved as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, OCR text, Index and/or Raw files, as specified on the Output tab (p. 86). If you have just created a preview, the preview will be saved; if you have just done a scan the scan will be saved. The only difference will be the resolution of the output file(s) as specified in Input | Preview resolution (p. 62)and Input | Scan resolution (p. 62) -- Crop, Filter, and Color settings will be applied to both previews and scans. You'll probably just want to save the result of the scan. By setting Input | Auto save (p. 64) to "Scan", files will be saved automatically when you press the Scan button. Want to make some adjustments to your final scan? You can change the crop, filter, or color settings, without having to re-scan. Simply make the adjustments -- VueScan will refresh the scan in memory and the "Save" button will cause a new file(s) to be saved.

Print button

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This button causes the most recent preview or scan to printed.

Rotate L button
Rotates the image left (counter-clockwise).

Rotate R button
Rotates the image right (clockwise).

Zoom Out button

This button zooms out of the image in the Preview tab, or if the Scan tab is displayed it zooms out of the image in the Scan tab. The zoom is a factor of two.

Zoom In button
This button zooms into the image in the Preview tab, or if the Scan tab is displayed it zooms into the image in the Scan tab. The zoom is a factor of two.

Previous frame button

This button goes to the previous frame.

Next frame button

This button goes to the next frame.

Input tab

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This tab contains the options that control the inputs to VueScan from scanners, raw scan files and digital camera files.

Input | Task
Use this option to indicate the task you're performing. Choose from "Scan to file", "Copy to printer", "Profile scanner", "Profile printer", "Profile film" and "Make IT8 target". A brief reminder of how to do each task is displayed in the lower left corner of the window. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Source
If you've got more than one scanner on your system, this lets you specify which scanner you want to use. A special "scan from" source is from a disk file. On the Output tab (p. 86), VueScan provides a special option to save the raw output of a regular scan to a file. This option lets you read that raw file as though you were scanning it. If you set this option to "File", then you'll be able to enter a file name in the Input | Files (p. 56) option. The name can be a TIFF file from a previous scan, a

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JPEG or TIFF file from a digital camera, or a raw file from a digital camera. Basic Option: This option is displayed when there's more than one scanner or, when in Advanced mode, with only one scanner.

Input | Files
Specify the name of an image file that VueScan will read when you set the "Source" option to "File". Usually this is a raw scan file you created with VueScan or a file from a digital camera. Disk files can be scanned just like a normal scanner. TheInput | Preview resolution (p. 62) and Input | Scan resolution (p. 62)options work just as you'd expect, so do the preview and crop options. Disk files can be TIFF, JPEG, or raw files from digital cameras. These files are typically the output of a raw scan, but they can be any valid JPEG, TIFF or raw digital camera file. You can also use the file dialog (press the '@' button) to select multiple files, or you can separate multiple file names with a semicolon. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Input | Source (p. 55) is set to "File".

Input | Mode
Use this option to specify the type of scan you want to make. This is automatically sensed on some scanners, but you may need to set it manually on others. VueScan uses this option for two things: 1) To indirectly indicate whether the scan data comes from reflective media or transmissive media. Input | Media (p. 56) will be automatically set to the most recent setting for the selected mode. 2) To indicate the color space of the scan data (i.e. the color characteristics of the CCD and light that exposed it) Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has more than one mode and the scanner mode can't be sensed by VueScan.

Input | Media
There are two lists of media, depending on whether you're scanning paper (reflective media) or film (transmissive media). Reflective media When scanning paper, Input | Media (p. 56) is used to control whether the final image is color or black/white, continuous tone (photo), halftone (magazine or

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newspaper) or bi-level (line art or text). When Input | Media (p. 56) is set to "Magazine" or "Newspaper", a color (magazine) or black and white (newspaper) descreen filter will be applied. Transmissive media When scanning film, this option indicates whether you're using positive film (i.e. slides), color negative, or black/white negative film. This option causes the default film type to be changed, but also sets up the scanner for scanning orange-colored media (i.e. color negatives) by exposing the green and blue channels more than the red channel. If you choose "Image", no film correction is applied, so the cropped file will be comparable to the image on the film. If you select "Negative film" or "Slide film", the cropped image will be comparable to the original scene that was photographed. When you use either film option, the Color tab then lets you choose the film manufacturer, the brand, and film type to enable VueScan to refine the result further. The difference between "Image" and "Slide film" is subtle. If you take the same picture with Kodachrome and Ektachrome film and then scan them with the "Slide film" setting, VueScan will try to make the resulting scan look the same (i.e. to resemble the original scene). Use the "Image" setting and the resulting scans will look different to reflect the differing color characteristics of Kodachrome and Ektachrome film. If you then took the same picture with Kodak Gold color negative film and scanned it using the "Negative film" setting, the resulting scan should look close to what you would get from using the "Slide film" setting and scanning the Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides (i.e. all three should look like the original scene). VueScan contains sensitometric data for 200 types of negative film and 4 types of slide film. If you've got something different, choose Kodachrome for K14 process slides, and Ektachrome for E6 slides. Basic Option: This option is always displayed except whenInput | Bits per pixel (p. 58) is set to 1.

Input | Descreen dpi

Set this option to the approximate number of dots per inch of the "screen" used when printing the media you're scanning. The default value of 75 works well for most media. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning reflective media and Input | Media (p. 56) is set to "Magazine" or "Newspaper".

Input | Microfilm zoom

This option is displayed when scanning microfilm or microfiche. It indicates how

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much you need to zoom to restore the microfilm/microfiche image to it's original size. Most microfilm uses a zoom value from 8 to 14. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning transparent media and Input | Media (p. 56) is set to "Microfilm".

Input | Media size

This option is used with flatbed scanners to specify the size of the reflective media you're scanning. If set to "Auto", the full size of the flatbed will be previewed and the location and size of the media automatically determined. If a specific size is chosen, no preview is necessary when you press the Scan button. This will save a significant amount of time. Basic Option: This option is displayed when using reflective media (i.e. paper).

Input | Quality
When Input | Scan resolution (p. 62) is set to "Auto", this option is used to determine the appropriate resolution that the scanner should use, as well as the type for the output file. (Note that this does not define the resolution (dpi) of the output file, as that also depends on the Output | Printed size (p. 89)setting.) Quality describes the expected use for the final image, this is what determines the scan resolution and file format. A scanner resolution is chosen that produces a JPEG, TIFF or PDF file with the following approximate number of pixels; higher scanner resolutions result in more pixels and larger file sizes (for a given JPEG quality or TIFF compression setting). If both the preview and scan are performed in a single reflective scan pass, the approximate dpi is shown below:
Option ======= Email Web Print Edit Archive Dimensions =========== 600 x 400 800 x 600 1600 x 1200 2048 x 1536 device max Dpi === 75 150 200 300 300 Type ==== JPEG JPEG JPEG TIFF TIFF Pixels ====== .24M .48M 1.9M 3.1M

When scanning black/white images to OCR text files, VueScan attempts to scan using at least 300 dpi. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Input | Scan resolution (p. 62) is set to "Auto" and not scanning microfilm, line art, text, newspaper or magazine media.

Input | Bits per pixel

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This option specifies how many bits per pixel are read from the scanner. The more bits that are read, the higher quality the image, but the slower the transfer speed at full resolution. If you specify a value that the scanner isn't capable of, the closest valid option is used instead. Scanning at 24-bit resolution can add gaps to the final image histogram (compared to 48-bit resolution), but it can also speed up scanning with some scanners and often the end result is virtually indistinguishable from 48-bit scans. If this option is set to "Auto", the Input | Media (p. 56)option controls the number of bits per pixel and samples per pixel used in a scan. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Make gray from

This option specifies how to make the gray color from the scanner's red, green, blue and infrared sensors. The default, "Auto", either uses the scanner hardware to convert from the color CCD to gray, or converts in VueScan, mostly from the green channel. Otherwise, the gray color is taken from either the red, green, blue or infrared channels. Using the red or infrared channel can be useful when scanning older, degraded black/white negatives that are silver based. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning with 8-bit or 16-bit gray.

Input | Threshold
On some scanners, this option is used to control the threshold between black pixels and white pixels, when scanning text or scanning at 1 bit per pixel. The value of 128 works with most printed text, but if the text is light, you might need to increase this to 200 or more. A value of zero disables 1 bit per pixel scanning and uses 8 bits per pixel instead (with the Color | Threshold (p. 82) option instead, allowing changing this option without re-scanning). Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning with 1 bit per pixel.

Input | Batch scan

If you set this option to "All", pressing either the Preview or Scan button will preview or scan all the frames in the scanner. By setting it to "List", you can specify a list of frames to preview or scan. Note that you can change this to "Off" during a long-running batch scan, this will then stop scanning when the current frame is completed (this is a better way to stop than by pressing the Abort button, as this will leave files half-written).

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Batch scanning also works when scanning from disk files. In this case, the "All" option refers to all disk files named using a series of numbers (e.g. scan0001.tif, scan0002.tif, etc.). If the "scan0001.tif" file in the series is specified as Input | Files (p. 56), the Input | Frame number (p. 61) will cause VueScan to reference the file with the same number. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of batch scanning or when you set Crop | Multi crop (p. 72).

Input | Batch list

You can specify multiple frames by selecting multiple frame numbers, or a range of frames like "1-3", or a combination of both (i.e. "1,3,5-7" causes frames 1,3,5,6,7 to be scanned). You can also add an additional rotation to any frame or range of frames by putting a letter along with each frame number. Use "N" for no rotation, "L" for left, "F" for flip, "R" for right, and "D" for default rotation. The letters may be in upper or lower case. For example, adding "3r" to the batch list means scan frame 3 and rotate it 90 degrees to the right, "2L" says to scan frame 2 and rotate it 90 degrees to the left, "1F,2L,4R" says to scan frame 1 flipped, frame 2 rotated to the left, and frame 4 rotated to the right. If no letter is specified (or if "D" is used), then the last rotation setting in the batch list will apply for all subsequent frames. Using Batch list, you can also preview a group of images in one step, rotate and crop each previewed frame, and then scan all the frames in the batch. The process is:

Specify the batch list. For example, specify "1-6" to specify 6 frames in a film holder.

Preview the batch. All six frames will be previewed.

Change Input | Frame number (p. 61) to view each previewed frame. Adjust rotation and cropping for the frame. When done, move to the next frame.

Scan the batch. VueScan will create a series of cropped files (e.g. "crop0001.tif", "crop0002.tif" ... "crop0006.tif").

Basic Option: This option is displayed when Input | Batch scan (p. 59)is set to "List".

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Input | Multi page

This option is used to let you scan multiple pages on a flatbed scanner, and then re-order these pages using options in thePage menu (p. 48). Each time you preview a page, it is inserted after the current page. The Input | Frame number (p. 61) option is used to change from one page to another. When you choose File | Save image (p. 43) or when you press the Save button (p. 53), all pages are written to either a multi-page TIFF file or a multi-page PDF file.

Input | Frame number

If you have a film scanner that can move the film holder, you can use this option to select which slide or negative frame you want to scan. This option will only be displayed if your scanner supports it. There are several advanced uses of Input | Frame number (p. 61) to consider when setting Input | Source (p. 55) to "File" or using theCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) option. When scanning from disk files, VueScan will consider a number at the end of the Input | Files (p. 56) as the starting point in a series, and Input | Frame number (p. 61) to reference a file relative to that starting point. So if you have scanned a whole roll of film and have raw files "scan0001.tif" through "scan0030.tif" you may specify "scan0001.tif" as Input | Files (p. 56), and then use Frame number to work on different scanned files as though they were frames. Frame number 18 would then use the disk file "scan0018.tif" as the source when you press Preview or Scan. Frame number may also be used if you have set up Crop | Multi crop (p. 72). Frames are counted from top to bottom, then left to right. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has hardware that supports this, or when using Crop | Multi crop (p. 72).

Input | Frame offset

This option sets an offset for the start of the each frame on a film strip on the Nikon LS-30, LS-40, LS-2000, LS-4000, LS-8000, LS-9000 scanners, the Canon FS4000 when the strip film adapter is used, and the SprintScan 120 when the Medium Format adapter is used. Use this option if there is some leader on the film strip, or if you're scanning panoramic frames and need to scan what would otherwise be the gap between 35mm frames. This option can be either a positive or negative number. The units for this option are normally millimeters, but this can be changed with the Prefs | Crop units (p. 102) option. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of frame

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offsets.

Input | Frame spacing

This option sets the spacing between frames for some film scanners that support this in hardware. It is not available for most film scanners or flatbed scanners. This is the distance between the starting positions of two consecutive frames. The units for this option are normally in millimeters, but this can be changed with the Prefs | Crop units (p. 102) option. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of frame spacing.

Input | Preview resolution

Use this option to specify the resolution the scanner will use when performing the preview scan. If set to "Auto", a resolution will be chosen that results in a preview with roughly one million pixels. The exact number of pixels depends on the resolutions your scanner is able to produce. If set to "Custom", the resolution is selected by theInput | Preview dpi (p. 62) option. You can also select a specific preview resolution from the list. Lower resolutions may take less time to scan, and will use less memory. The preview resolution needs only to be enough for you to determine appropriate cropping, filter settings, color settings and so on; the result of the final scan is determined by Scan resolution and other settings, not Preview resolution. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner doesn't use Input | Scan from preview (p. 67) and is capable of scanning the same paper or film twice.

Input | Preview dpi

If Input | Preview resolution (p. 62) is set to "Custom", the scanner will use a hardware-supported resolution that is greater than, or equal to, this value. VueScan will rescale the image to the requested resolution. Note that this uses simple rescaling, so if quality is an issue, you should use an external image editor to rescale the image. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Preview resolution (p. 62) is set to "Custom".

Input | Scan resolution

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Use this option to specify the resolution the scanner will use when performing the final scan. If set to "Auto", a resolution will be chosen based on the setting of Input | Quality (p. 58). The exact number of pixels depends on the resolutions your scanner is able to produce -- the number of pixels is displayed in the status area of the VueScan window. If set to "Custom", the resolution is selected by theInput | Scan dpi (p. 63) option. You can also select a specific scan resolution from the list. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Scan dpi

If Input | Scan resolution (p. 62) is set to "Custom", the scanner will use a hardware-supported resolution that is greater than or equal to this value. VueScan will rescale the image to the requested resolution. Note that this uses simple rescaling, so if quality is an issue, you should use an external image editor to rescale the image. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Scan resolution (p. 62) is set to "Custom".

Input | Rotation
This option describes the orientation of the images in the Preview and Scan tabs and in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, Index and Raw files. This is relative to the unrotated image that comes from the scanner. Don't have much memory on your system? Set this option to "None" and rotate the image later with an image viewer - this will make the cropping faster. Using "Right" rotates 90 degrees clockwise, using "Flip" rotates 180 degrees, and using "Left" rotates 90 degrees counterclockwise. Note that rotation happens after mirroring. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Auto skew

Use this option to automatically compute the skew angle for images that aren't quite straight. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Skew
Use this option to rotate the image by a small angle to correct for images that

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aren't quite straight. The angle is specified in degrees, plus or minus two degrees. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when auto skew isn't enabled.

Input | Mirror
This option mirrors images left/right before rotating. This lets you position your film emulsion side up or down. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Auto focus

Set this option to enable a focus before doing a preview or scan (or both). The scanner will focus on the point specified by Crop | Focus X/Y offset (p. 76). This location is visually represented by an animated cross-hair in the Preview tab after a preview scan is created. Set to "Preview" so that focus will only be done once if the scan is to be created directly after the preview. Otherwise, set to "Always" or to ensure the most accurate focus (as in some cases the heat generated by the preview can cause the media to bend). If you have locked exposure and turned off auto-cropping (see "Advanced Workflow Suggestions") no preview will be performed. In this case, you must focus at scan time, so either "Scan" or "Both" will ensure focusing. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of auto focus.

Input | Focus
Set this option to a value between -1 and 1 to manually change the device focus. The nominal value for most scanners is 0. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of auto focus and when Input | Auto focus (p. 64)is set to "Manual".

Input | Auto scan

If this option is set to "Preview" or "Scan" and if the scanner can sense when an image is inserted, VueScan will simulate pressing either the "Preview" or "Scan" buttons when an image is inserted. This option is reset to "None" if you press the "Abort" button. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner can sense inserted media or when the scanner is capable of addressing frames separately.

Input | Auto save

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If this option is set to "Preview" or "Scan", VueScan will save files after a preview or scan is completed. If set to "None" files will be saved only after pressing the "Save" button. In most cases, this option should be set to "Scan". Advanced Option: This option is displayed when TIFF, JPEG, PDF, OCR Text, Index or Raw files are being saved.

Input | Auto print

If this option is set to "Preview" or "Scan", VueScan will print after a preview or scan is completed. If set to "None" scans will be printed only when you choose the "File | Print image" command. In most cases, this option should be set to "Scan". Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Input | Auto lamp off

This option controls when the lamp in the scanner is turned on and off. It is only displayed when a scanner that is capable of controlling the lamp independently from the scan is selected.
Option ======= None Always 5 minutes Exit Startup ======= no action no action lamp on lamp on Exit ==== no action lamp off lamp off lamp off Auto lamp off ============= none end of scan 5 minutes none

When "None" is selected, the lamp is turned on at the start of a scan and is never turned off. When "Always" is selected, the lamp is turned off at the end of a scan and turned off when VueScan exits. When "5 minutes" is selected, the lamp is turned on when VueScan starts, turned off when VueScan exits, and turned off 5 minutes after the end of a scan. When "Exit" is selected, the lamp is turned on when VueScan starts and turned off when VueScan exits. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner's lamp can be controlled.

Input | Auto eject

This option controls when the media is ejected (assuming the scanner is capable of ejecting media). It can be ejected after a preview, or a scan, or when VueScan exits.

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The media can be ejected manually with the "Scanner | Eject" command. When Input | Batch scan (p. 59) is set, ejection will occur after the batch is complete. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner hardware can eject the media.

Input | Number of samples

This option is available for scanners that support multi-sampling. As the scanner head passes over the media it makes multiple exposures for each location. The results for all samples are averaged. This is a useful feature because any one exposure may be inaccurate, resulting in noise in the output. Noise will appear as one pixel whose color or tone is different than surrounding pixels. By taking multiple samples and averaging the results, the effect of inaccurate exposure is reduced. This option will slow down scanning because the scanner is doing more. You should experiment with your scanner to see which balance of speed and accuracy is appropriate. Number of samples is similar to Number of passes. Multi-sampling is preferable as the scanner head is positioned once, which ensures that the same area will be exposed for each sample. Multi-sampling is available only on a limited number of scanners. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of multi-sampling and when Input | Scan from preview (p. 67)isn't enabled.

Input | Number of passes

This option provides a similar function as the Number of samples option, but does not require the scanner to provide hardware support for multi-sampling. Each pass causes a full scan. After all passes are complete, the results are averaged, and the average is saved. This is a useful feature because any one exposure may be inaccurate, resulting in noise in the output. Noise will appear as one pixel whose color or tone is different than surrounding pixels. By taking multiple passes and averaging the results, the effect of inaccurate exposure is reduced. This option will slow down scanning because the scanner is doing more. You should experiment with your scanner to see which balance of speed and accuracy is appropriate. On multiple passes the scanner head needs to be repositioned precisely at the same location as where it started on the previous pass. Some scanners do not support this operation. Others do, but reposition incorrectly, which will cause a blurred result.

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Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of multi-sampling and when Input | Scan from preview (p. 67)isn't enabled and when not scanning from a file.

Input | Scan from preview

When turned on, VueScan will perform a single preview scan and then crop and write the scan results accordingly. If set to "Auto", this option performs a single higher-resolution preview scan if it's more efficient than doing a preview followed by a scan. You can use this option to scan multiple snapshots on a flatbed - you can do one scan of the whole flatbed, and then repeatedly crop and save each snapshot without having to scan individually. You can also use this option to scan a strip of negatives, also allowing you to repeatedly crop and save each frame without having to scan again. To use this option:

Press the More button (to display advanced options) Set Input | Scan from preview (p. 67) Press Preview button Adjust crop box with mouse Press Save button Repeat these last two steps as necessary

Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner can scan the same media more than once (i.e. when not using a scroll-fed feeder).

Input | Grain dissolver

This option is only displayed when using the Minolta Scan Elite 5400. It causes a translucent material to be inserted in the light path, which makes the light source more diffuse. It can slightly reduce the appearance of film grain at the cost of longer scan times. By default, this option is turned off. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has a grain dissolver.

Input | Frame alignment

This option is only displayed when using a Nikon LS-40, LS-50, LS-4000 or LS5000 with the strip film adapter. It causes VueScan to align the start of the

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frames by scanning the area between the first and second frames on the strip and then finding the initial 2 mm of clear leader. By default, this option is turned on. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has a strip film adapter inserted.

Input | Fine mode

This option is only displayed when using the Nikon LS-5000 or LS-9000. It causes only one CCD line to be used, which makes scans take longer, but sometimes improves the scan quality of very dark media. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is a Nikon LS9000.

Input | Multi exposure

This option provides a way to get additional detail from the darker parts of the scanned image. It is available on scanners that are able to increase the CCD exposure time. A first pass is performed as usual with the normal RGB exposure. This will be an appropriate exposure for the image as a whole. Then a second pass is performed with a longer exposure, which can reveal additional detail in dark areas not captured in the first pass. VueScan then merges the results of the two by choosing from either the first or second exposure pass. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner can control the CCD exposure time and when Input | Scan from preview (p. 67)isn't being used.

Input | Lock exposure

Set this option to lock the CCD exposure values to auto-exposure values computed for the most recent preview or scan, or as adjusted manually with the Input | RGB exposure (p. 69) option. This option can save time when scanning a batch of images with similar characteristics, e.g. a roll of film. If you turn on this option and also clear Crop | Auto offset (p. 72)and Crop | Auto rotate (p. 74), then the "Scan" button will not perform a preview scan. This can save time when batch scanning. Note that locking the CCD exposure values doesn't lock the brightness of the final images - it only locks the brightness of the raw scan files. To lock the brightness of the final images, use the Input | Lock image color (p. 70) option. See the "Advanced workflow suggestions" section of this User's Guide for more information. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner can control the

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CCD exposure time.

Input | RGB/Infrared exposure

On scanners that are able to vary the CCD exposure time, this option lets you multiply the exposure time by a user-specified value. This can be useful when scanning very dark slides with bright highlights and you want to get more detail from the dark areas. There's seldom any reason to increase these values from those computed by the auto exposure. If the CCD is over-exposed when scanning color negative film, then the film base color gets messed up and the dark areas of the image (the bright parts of the negative) will lose detail. Note that these exposure values do not directly control the brightness of the final image - this is controlled by options in the Color tab. These exposure values control the brightness of the raw scan file only. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner can control the CCD exposure time and the Input | Lock exposure (p. 68)option is on. The infrared CCD exposure time is only displayed if the hardware is also capable of infrared scanning.

Input | Red/Green/Blue analog gain

On Nikon scanners, this option multiplies Input | RGB exposure (p. 69)by the per-color analog gain. You can change the analog gain options to change the ratio of the CCD exposure times for the red, green and blue channels. Note that "analog gain" is Nikon's term for CCD exposure time. It doesn't actually vary the analog gain within the scanner. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of separately controlling analog gain.

Input | Lock film base color

This option locks the color of the film substrate to values calculated at the most recent preview or scan. These values are displayed in the "Color | Film base color" fields when this option is set. Negative film has an orange tone that needs to be compensated for to produce the positive image. You can see this orange color by looking at an unexposed (clear) area of developed negative film. For a given film type and roll of film (all of which is developed under the same conditions), this correction will be the same for all frames, so only needs to be set once. This option is only available after Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) is set, and then

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after a preview or scan. This option can save time when scanning a batch of images with similar characteristics, e.g. a roll of film. See the "Advanced workflow suggestions" section of this User's Guide for more information. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when using the Advanced Workflow Procedure in this User's Guide.

Input | Lock image color

This option locks the black and white point used in the most recent preview or scan. This is useful after scanning the first image of a series and you want to make the lighting consistent in future scans (especially when scanning panoramas). This option is only displayed if you first set the Input | Lock exposure (p. 68) option and the Input | Lock film base color (p. 69) option. See the "Advanced workflow suggestions" section of this User's Guide for more information. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when using the Advanced Workflow Procedure in this User's Guide.

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The crop tab lets you specify full automatic cropping, full manual cropping and a range of options between. Note that VueScan also lets you change these values by using the mouse on the preview image. The crop area is displayed as a blinking dashed line (marching ants) that defines the area for subsequent VueScan operations. Position the mouse over the blinking line and drag to reposition any edge. Hold down the shift key and click and drag anywhere within the crop area to reposition the entire crop area (or drag the center of the crop area with the mouse). Click the scan tab for VueScan to display the result of the cropping automatically. The scan tab will use the data from the preview if a full scan has not yet been performed. The area included in the crop is important in two ways. First, this is the area of the scan that will be included in the output files. Second, this area is used to calculate color balance, histogram, and other settings. Be sure not to include the border around the edge of an image as part of the crop as this may cause these settings to be calculated incorrectly.Crop | Buffer (%) (p. 75) can also be used to prevent inadvertent inclusion of data outside of the desired frame in color settings.)

Crop | Crop size

This option specifies the method used to determine the size of the cropped image:

Manual Lets you enter all of the crop sizes manually. This option will also be selected if you have adjusted the crop size or position using the mouse on the preview window.

Auto Analyzes the image and uses built-in rules to find the edges automatically. This setting works well most of the time if you want to capture the whole image.

Maximum Sets the crop size to be the same as the size of Crop | Preview area (p. 75). This is particularly useful when saving the raw scan data to files as it ensures that everything the scanner reads will be saved.

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(specific sizes) Sets the crop area to known dimensions. If a specific size is selected, the Crop | Crop orientation (p. 74) option will be available. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Crop | X/Y size

This is the size of the image area that you are cropping. If set to zero, the entire scanned area will be used. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Crop size (p. 71) is set to "Manual".

Crop | Auto offset

Setting this option will automatically offset the crop box. It will find the best placement for it to capture as much of the image as possible. To save time when batch scanning, clear this option andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 74) and set Input | Lock exposure (p. 68). Then when you press "Scan" it will perform a scan without additionally creating a preview. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when Crop | Crop size (p. 71)is set to anything except "Maximum".

Crop | X/Y offset

This is the offset in the preview area of the start of the image data. These positions are relative to the upper left-hand corner of the preview area. See Crop | Preview area (p. 75). Basic Option: This option is displayed when Crop | Auto offset (p. 72)is displayed and not set.

Crop | Multi type

This option is used with 35mm film scanners to indicate that multiple 35mm film sizes should be used. If turned off, the cropping will search for only 24x36mm sizes, and if turned on, will also look for 10x13mm, 24x18mm, 28x28mm, 28x36mm, and 40x40mm. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning slides with a 35mm film scanner .

Crop | Multi crop

This option is used with some flatbed scanners that have a black plastic mask that holds multiple slides or film strips. It can also be used to scan multiple

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snapshots on a flatbed scanner. If set to Auto, it automatically finds the places in the preview that contain the selected type of image. If set to Custom, you can set up theCrop | X/Y images (p. 73),Crop | X/Y spacing (p. 73),Crop | X/Y padding (p. 73), andCrop | X/Y linked (p. 73) options. If set to another option, it will use a pre-computed grid for many types of black plastic masks for each scanner. If there isn't a built-in grid for your particular scanner, it will try to guess the shape of this grid. Basic Option: This option is displayed if the scan area is large enough to hold more than one image.

Crop | X/Y images

Set these options to set up a grid for scanning separate images. Each image within the grid can be cropped and rotated independently. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) is set to "Custom".

Crop | X/Y spacing

These values can be set when Crop | X/Y images (p. 73) is set to a value greater than 1. See Crop | X/Y images (p. 73). Set the approximate width (X spacing) and height (Y spacing) of each element in the grid defined by Crop | X/Y images (p. 73). For example, 8 4x6 photos on a 12x16 flatbed scanner would have X spacing of 6 inches and Y spacing of 4 inches. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) is set to "Custom".

Crop | X/Y padding

If these values are set to 0, then the grid is centered, otherwise this is an offset to the first box in the grid. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) is set to "Custom".

Crop | X/Y linked

This option indicates that all frames in the horizontal or vertical direction move together when one of the frames is offset. This usually indicates strip film in a horizontal or vertical orientation. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) is set

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to "Custom".

Crop | Show multi outline

Turn this option off if you don't want to see the lines around the multi-crop boxes. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 72) is used.

Crop | Auto rotate

Setting this option will automatically rotate the crop box. It will find the best placement for it to capture as much of the image as possible. This option only functions when the crop box fits inside the preview area both horizonally and vertically. Some slide scanners let you put the slide in landscape or portrait mode, and this option rotates the image to either portrait or landscape orientation to match the image. To save time when batch scanning, clear this option andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 74) and set Input | Lock exposure (p. 68). Then when you press "Scan" it will perform a scan without additionally creating a preview. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Crop | Crop size (p. 71)is set to anything except "Maximum" and when Crop | Multi crop (p. 72)isn't used.

Crop | Crop orientation

Use this option to control whether the size specified in theCrop | Crop size (p. 71) option is oriented in portrait or landscape view. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Crop | Crop size (p. 71) is set to a specific size and not auto rotating, or when Crop | Crop size (p. 71) is set to "Auto" and Crop | Multi crop (p. 72) isn't used.

Crop | Lock aspect ratio

This option forces the crop box to keep a constant aspect ratio while one (or two) edges are being dragged by the mouse. This ratio is always greater than one, and is the ratio of the longest edge to the shortest edge of the crop box. If set to "Off", the aspect ratio isn't locked. If set to "Image size", the aspect ratio is computed using the Output | Printed size (p. 89) option. If set to "Manual", the Crop | Aspect ratio (p. 75) option will appear and you can manually set the aspect ratio of the crop box.

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Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Crop | Aspect ratio

If Crop | Lock aspect ratio (p. 74) is set to "Manual", use this option to manually set the ratio of the longest edge to the shortest edge of the crop box. For instance, if you plan on printing an image on 4x6 paper, the aspect ratio should be 1.5 (6 divided by 4). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Lock aspect ratio (p. 74) is set to "Manual".

Crop | Border (%)

This instructs VueScan to enlarge the image beyond the edge of the crop box. This added border is ignored when computing the color balance of the image. This option is useful for adjusting the size or position of the crop box that may have cut off parts of the image you want to keep. Because border will extend the effective area that is cropped, it will tend to include areas of white (or black) in the resulting image; if these parts of the image were not ignored when computing color balance, they could skew the results. Border is a percentage relative to the dimensions of the cropped area, up to the maximum size of the preview area. Border can also be set as a negative value in order to reduce the size of the image. Compare this option to Crop | Buffer (%) (p. 75). Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Crop | Buffer (%)

This causes VueScan to ignore some image data just inside the edge of the crop box of the image when computing the color balance of the image. Unlike Crop | Border (%) (p. 75), the buffer does not affect the size of the image. This option is useful to account for sizing or positioning errors of the crop box that incorrectly include parts of the image from its outer edges. These white or black areas can significantly skew the calculation of color balance if not ignored. Buffer is a percentage relative to the dimensions of the image area. Because it includes a Crop | Border (%) (p. 75) it should always be set slightly higher than Border. Compare this option to Crop | Border (%) (p. 75). Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Crop | Preview area

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The preview area is the subset of the total scan area that gets scanned to produce a preview. This option can be set manually, set to the same as the last preview, set to the crop box, set to the default or set to the maximum possible. Note: if you set a smaller preview area, the scanner head will move only far enough to cover that area. This can reduce the amount of time needed to scan, especially on flatbed scanners. Because the stepper motor that moves the scan head is often the factor that limits speed, it also makes sense to orient images in landscape (and set the preview area accordingly). Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Crop | Preview X/Y offset/size

These options describe the size of the preview area. They are relative to the upper left-hand corner of the image, negative, or slide. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Preview area (p. 75) isn't set to "Maximum".

Crop | Focus X/Y offset

This option determines where the auto focus is centered. This position is displayed on the preview as a small animated box. Film tends to curl along its length, as well as across its width in which case the focus will be slightly off as the edges of the film will be closer to the lens than the center. To minimize this effect, position the focus point between the center of the film and its edge in both dimensions, or slightly closer to the edge to account for less depth-of-field the closer to the lens. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of focusing.

Crop | All frames

This option makes all frames use the options in this tab, instead of applying the options separately for each frame. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when using multiple frames.

Filter tab

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This tab is used to control the infrared (IR) cleaning, restore colors, grain reduction and sharpening options. Filter options affect the output of cropped TIFF, JPEG and PDF files and the images in an index. They do not affect the data of a raw scan file. The one exception to this is if Output | Raw output with (p. 99) is set to "Save" - in this case, the infrared cleaning and grain reduction is also done before saving the raw scan files. See the Processing section of the topic "How VueScan Works" to understand the details of how these filters are applied.

Filter | Infrared clean

When an infrared channel is available, use this option to remove dust spots and scratches. It only causes image softening in the immediate vicinity of the spots and scratches, except when this option is set to "Heavy". You can control the amount of cleaning of the image by choosing the Light, Medium or Heavy options. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has an infrared lamp.

Filter | Restore colors

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This option is used to restore the red, green, and blue colors by making them more independent. This works best when scanning at high resolution. If you select this option, the film type in the Color tab isn't used. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Filter | Restore fading

This option is used to restore the effects of faded film dyes. Slide film often shifts towards red over time, and color negative film towards cyan. If you select this option, the film type in the Color tab isn't used. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Filter | Grain reduction

Use this option to reduce the graininess of a scan. It can also reduce the effect of electronic noise. You can control the amount of softening of the image by choosing the Light, Medium or Heavy options. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Filter | Sharpen
This option enables an unsharp mask. This is used to sharpen images, the unsharp mask will improve images for printing. If you're planning on editing images after scanning them, then you should leave this option off. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Filter | All frames

This option makes all frames use the options in this tab, instead of applying the options separately for each frame. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when using multiple frames.

Color tab

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This tab is used to control the colors of the preview and scan. It lets you specify film type, film base color, image brightness, color balancing, black and white points and color space.

Color | Color balance

Use this option to set the type of color balance you want for each image. The default setting of White Balance is appropriate for typical lighting conditions. See the topic "Adjusting Color Balance" for general guidance on using Neutral and Auto levels to handle these cases if White Balance is not right.

None The black and white points aren't used at all, and the image is only corrected for the CCD's color response (if the Media option is set to Image) or by the film's color response. This image is gamma corrected.

Manual Both the black and white points are used to stretch the image's intensity range. However, the relative ratios of red, green, and blue are specified

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manually.

Neutral Both the black and white points are used to stretch the image's intensity range. However, the relative ratios of red, green, and blue are kept constant.

Tungsten Both the black and white points are adjusted to compensate for an image lit by tungsten light (i.e. a normal incandescent light bulb). This removes the reddish cast from indoor pictures taken without a flash.

Fluorescent Both the black and white points are adjusted to compensate for an image lit by fluorescent light. This removes the greenish cast from indoor pictures lit by fluorescent lights or lit by flash.

Night Both the black and white points are adjusted to compensate for an image taken at night. The white balance is determined from the darkest 10% of the image, which often produces the best results when images have bright fluorescent or incandescent lights that are greenish or yellowish.

Auto levels This is a simple mapping of the darkest color to 0.00 intensity and the brightest color to 0.95 intensity.

White balance VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors appear more neutral.

Landscape VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors

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appear more neutral, and sky blue and green foliage colors more lifelike.

Portrait VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors appear more neutral and skin tones more lifelike. Basic Option: This option is displayed when whenInput | Lock image color (p. 70) isn't set.

Color | Neutral red/green/blue

This option is normally set by clicking with the right mouse button on a neutral color in the image. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Lock image color (p. 70) isn't set, and when "Color | Color balance" is set to "Manual".

Color | Black point (%)

The black point is used by the color balance algorithm and is computed by using the histogram of each color in the image. Use this option to leave the black point at the minimum intensity (0%), or to choose the black point such that some percentage of the pixels in the image are below the black point. The default black point is 0. Setting a higher value will cause tones close to black to become pure black, which can improve contrast. However, setting the black point too high will cause shadow detail to be lost. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Color balance" is set andInput | Lock image color (p. 70) isn't set.

Color | Black point red/green/blue

This option lets you set the black point manually. Note that these values are in linear space, not gamma corrected space, so the only practical way to use these values is to use the Input | Lock image color (p. 70) option. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Lock image color (p. 70) is set.

Color | White point (%)

The white point is used by the color balance algorithm and is computed by using the histogram of each color in the image. Use this option to leave the white point at the maximum intensity (0%), or to choose the white point such that some percentage of the pixels in the image are above the white point.

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The default white point is 1% (that is, the brightest 1% of pixels are all converted to pure white). Setting a higher value will cause tones close to white to become pure white. This can improve contrast and overall intensity of the image. Setting the white point too high will cause details in areas of highlights (e.g. the gray puffs of a cloud) to be lost, making the image look flat. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Color balance" is set andInput | Lock image color (p. 70) isn't set.

Color | White point red/green/blue

This option lets you set the white point manually. Note that these values are in linear space, not gamma corrected space, so the only practical way to use these values is to use the Input | Lock image color (p. 70) option. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Lock image color (p. 70) is set.

Color | Threshold
Use this option to change the brightness of text or line art scans. Basic Option: This option is displayed when scanning one bit per sample.

Color | Invert
Use this option to invert black and white when scanning text using white letters on a black background. Basic Option: This option is displayed when scanning one bit per sample.

Color | Curve low/high

Use these options to change the shape of the curve that's applied after the black/white point is applied. Decrease the low value to see more detail in the black parts of the image, and increase the high value to see more detail in the white part. You can set Prefs | Graph type (p. 104) to "Curve" to see the curve, and can move the triangles under the curve to change these values. Double-click on the graph of the curve to reset these options to their default values. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Brightness
Use this option to increase or decrease the overall image brightness.

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VueScan's brightness is effectively a multiplier of the gamma of the color space. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Brightness red/green/blue

Use these options to increase or decrease the red/green/blue image brightness. Note that this is a gamma multiplier, where 1.0 is the default setting. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Film base color red/green/blue

This option displays values for the base color of the film, and can be edited. These options, which are usually set automatically, are available ifInput | Lock film base color (p. 69) is selected. This is primarily useful if you're scanning a series of negatives or slides from the same roll of film as its base color will always be the same. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Media (p. 56) set to a film type and whenInput | Lock film base color (p. 69) is set.

Color | Slide/Negative/B/W vendor/brand/type

Use these options to set up the film type for various settings for theInput | Media (p. 56) option. Choose the appropriate vendor, brand and type from the list. Examine the edge of the film around the sprockets to determine the type. If your film is not listed, the generic option is often a good choice. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Media (p. 56) is set to a film type.

Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/Output/Monitor color space

(Professional Edition only) Use these options to set the color space. A color space is a combination of color primaries and white point. For most situations, the default color space is probably best. Color spaces are used to provide a well-known standard that ensures a given color is the same in one medium (e.g. the display monitor) as it is in others (e.g. printed output). If you use specific color spaces, you must ensure that all other software, printing, etc. that operates on that source uses the same color space. Color spaces are an advanced topic -- use them only if you understand and need them. The Scanner color space is the color space used by a scanner, raw scan file or

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raw digital camera file. It is also the name of the ICC file that gets written when "Profile | Profile scanner" is chosen. There are two options for Scanner color space - built-in, which is the color space of a pre-profiled scanner, and "ICC profile", which is an ICC profile produced by the "Profile | Profile scanner" command. The Printer color space is used to control how the colors look when they are sent to your printer. You should normally use the default setting unless you're profiling your printer. The Film color space is an advanced option for adjusting for the color of film stocks. The Output color space is used when writing images to JPEG, TIFF, PDF and Index files. Note that if you use the Apple RGB, ColorMatch RGB, ProPhoto RGB or ECI RGB color space, the image gamma will be 1.8. If you use any other color space, the image gamma will be 2.2. You can change the image gamma by using the "Color | Image brightness" option. This is a multiplier of the gamma of the color space chosen. The Monitor color space is the color space used to display images in the Preview and Scan tabs. The default value is usually correct for most systems. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/File/Monitor ICC profile

(Professional Edition only) If you set this option to "ICC profile", you can specify the name of an ICC profile. The Scanner, Printer and Film ICC profiles are normally read-only, but will also be written when the "Profile | Profile scanner/printer/film" commands are used. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the color space is set to "ICC profile".

Color | Scanner/Printer/Film ICC description

(Professional Edition only) Use this option to add a description to the ICC profile when it's created. This description is used by programs like Photoshop to identify a profile. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the color space is set to "ICC profile".

Color | Scanner/Printer/Film IT8 data

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(Professional Edition only) Every IT8 or Q60 target has an associated data file that describes the measured color at each square in the target. This file is read when the "Profile | Profile scanner" command is used. If you don't have a data file for your target, the default IT8 target colors will be used. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the color space is set to "ICC profile".

Color | Show IT8 outline

(Professional Edition only) When this option is enabled, a grid is overlaid over the crop box showing where the IT8 target locations are. Note that this grid only outlines the grey bar at the bottom of the target and the first 19 columns of the color boxes. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | View color

Use this option to view all three color channels normally ("RGB") or to view the red, green, blue or infrared channel alone. The default value is "RGB". Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Pixel colors

Use this option to enable setting the clipped black and white colors, the out of gamut colors and the infrared defect colors. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Color | Clipped black color

Use this option to show the pixels that have at least one color clipped to zero intensity. These colored pixels are not written to output files, but are displayed in the Preview and Scan tabs. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set.

Color | Clipped white color

Use this option to show the pixels that have at least one color clipped to maximum intensity.

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These colored pixels are not written to output files, but are displayed in the Preview and Scan tabs. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set.

Color | Out of gamut color

Use this option to show the pixels that have at least one color component that is out of gamut. These colored pixels aren't written to output files, but are displayed in the Preview and Scan tabs. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set.

Color | Infrared defect color

Use this option to show the defects found by theFilter | Infrared clean (p. 77) option. These colored pixels aren't written to output files, but are displayed in the Preview and Scan tabs. This option is only useful when Filter | Infrared clean (p. 77)is enabled. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set.

Color | All frames

This option makes all frames use the options in this tab, instead of applying the options separately for each frame. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when using multiple frames.

Output tab

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This tab lets you specify what types of files are written when scanning, and the file names and options for these files. The various measures of the image files produced will be displayed in the status area at the bottom right of the VueScan window. File naming and saving The Output tab has several options to specify the name of the files VueScan produces. You may either type the filename in directly, or click the '@' button to open a visual file and folder navigation window. You may specify a default folder for all file operations, but filenames may also specify the path to a sub-folder of the default (a relative path), or even a completely different location (an absolute path). VueScan can save multiple files at once. For example, you may want to save a highresolution TIFF for archiving purposes or later editing, and lower quality (and size) JPEG files for other purposes. Auto-numbering VueScan provides an auto-numbering feature that allows you to create unique filenames automatically. Depending on the task you are doing, VueScan can either use the next number in a series, or it can use the current frame number (as indicated inInput | Frame number (p. 61)) when creating a new filename. This option is available and works the same for "crop" files (scans that have been

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cropped and processed) in TIFF, JPEG, PDF and OCR text formats or "scan" files that contain the raw, minimally processed output from the scanner. If the "@" symbol is used in the file name, file names in the form "Scan-YYMMDD0001+" are used (where YY is the year, MM is the month, and DD is the day). The last digits are increased until an unused file name is found. Serial numbering with + Insert a plus sign (+) anywhere in the filename in order to instruct VueScan to add a number in that place if needed to create a new unique filename in the folder. If you put one or more digits before the plus sign, VueScan will start counting from that number. VueScan finds the next available number by looking for files matching the pattern specified; one by one it adds one to the digit(s) in the name until it finds an unused filename. So if the pattern is "crop0001+.tif" and the folder is empty, the first file will be "crop0001.tif", the second "crop0002.tif" and so on. You can start at any number (e.g. "crop1001+.tif"). Note that if you delete a file from an existing numbered series, the next file saved will fill the open position. This can be useful if you want to match file numbers with exposure frame numbers or other numerical indexes. Add leading zeros to the starting number in order to "reserve" having filenames of the same length. If more than one plus sign (or equals sign) is specified, VueScan will ignore all but the last. Using same file name as raw files with * Use an asterix (*) for the output file name to cause the raw file name to be used. For instance, when scanning raw files with different names that aren't in numerical order, click the '@' button to the right of the Input | Files (p. 56) option, choose multiple file names, and when you batch scan these, the output files will have the same file names as the input files, albeit in different folders and with different file extensions. Frame numbering with = Insert an equals sign (=) anywhere in the filename to instruct VueScan to insert the current value of Input | Frame number (p. 61)when creating the file. If you save the same frame more than once VueScan will overwrite the previous file (seePrefs | Warn on overwrite (p. 106)). If you specify a starting number, VueScan will add one less than the current frame number to the starting value. For example, if you specify "crop0007=.tif" and the current frame number is 2, the file written will be "crop0008.tif" (7+2-1). This feature allows you to match the exposure number printed on the film edge to the file number of the scan. Keep in mind that Input | Frame number (p. 61) will be relative to what the scanner thinks is a frame. Your film holder frame number might range from 1 to 6, so for each new strip of 6 exposures you scan, you can set the starting number in the filename.

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Output | Default folder

This is the folder where files are read and written by default. All other file names on the Output tab, as well as Input | Files (p. 56)will use this folder, so full paths are not required in those fields. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | Printed size

Use this option to select the target size of the saved images. This is used to compute the resolution of the saved TIFF, JPEG and PDF files. The dpi of the saved files will depend on the dpi produced by the scanner and the image size. Note that "Printed size" does not affect the number of pixels in the image, so this setting does not affect the file size. "Printed size" controls logically how far apart the pixels should be displayed in order to fit within the bounds specified. This also means that "Printed size" does not instruct VueScan to resample the image. Keep in mind that the effects of resolution may not be visible (or may be misrepresented), as a result of the resolution of your monitor or printer. A very high-resolution file cannot be displayed at a resolution higher then the monitor, so just because you see jagged lines does not mean the image will print poorly. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | Magnification (%)

If the "Printed size" is "Scan size", you can increase the printed size of the output file with this option. This option divides the scanned dpi of the image by this value, resulting in an increase in the printed size of the output file. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Printed size (p. 89) is set to "Scan size".

Output | Printed dpi

If "Printed size" is "Fixed dpi", you can specify the dpi of the output file with this option. The printed size will be as large as needed to match the specified resolution and will retain the aspect ratio of the cropped scan. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Printed size (p. 89) is set to "Fixed dpi".

Output | Printed width

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This sets the target width of the saved images when the "Printed size" option is set to "Manual". If set, the height will be calculated to retain the aspect ratio of the cropped scan. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Printed size (p. 89) is set to "Manual".

Output | Printed height

This sets the target height of the saved images when the "Printed size" option is set to "Manual". If set, the width will be calculated to retain the aspect ratio of the cropped scan. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Printed size (p. 89) is set to "Manual".

Output | Auto file name

The "XXXX file name" options below are used to produce the output file name. If this option is turned off, then a Save dialog box lets the user specify the actual file name to be used. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | TIFF file

This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a TIFF file when scanning. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | TIFF file name

This specifies the name of the TIFF file to hold the cropped and processed images. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.tif", which is expanded to "ScanYYMMDD-0001+.tif". Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

Output | TIFF size reduction

You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels.

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This option will reduce the resolution and size of the file produced. These values will be displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling. See Input | Number of samples (p. 66)and Input | Number of passes (p. 66). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

Output | TIFF multi page

If set, this option will cause VueScan to create multi-page TIFF files. Each scan will be added as a new page. This option is useful when you are scanning documents and want all pages stored in a single file. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Output | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

Output | TIFF file type

This option describes the resolution of the cropped TIFF file, in bits per pixel. It should normally be set to 24-bits per pixel, since many image editing programs are unable to read TIFF files with higher bit depth than this. If you select 8 bits or 16 bits, the file will be saved in black/white format. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

Output | TIFF compression

This specifies whether to use compression when writing the TIFF file. TIFF compression will not cause any loss of image data. It will take a little longer to read, and especially write, as the algorithm is computationally intensive, but can reduce total file size by as much as 40%. The default setting is "Auto", which enables compression for files with 12 or fewer bits per sample and disables compression for files more bits per sample. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set and whenOutput | TIFF DNG format (p. 91) isn't set.

Output | TIFF DNG format

This specifies whether to write TIFF files in DNG (Digital Negative) format. This allows VueScan's TIFF files to be read by the Adobe Camera Raw plugin or other programs that read DNG files. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

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Output | TIFF profile

This specifies whether to embed an ICC color profile into the TIFF file. This is primarily useful if you're using Photoshop(TM). You can specify the profile to use by settingColor | Output color space (p. 83). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 90) is set.

Output | JPEG file

This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a JPEG file when scanning. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | JPEG file name

This specifies the name of the JPEG file to hold the cropped and processed images. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.jpg", which is expanded to "ScanYYMMDD-0001+.jpg". Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | JPEG file (p. 92) is set.

Output | JPEG size reduction

You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels. This option will reduce the resolution and size of the file produced. These values will be displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling. See Input | Number of samples (p. 66)and Input | Number of passes (p. 66). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | JPEG file (p. 92) is set.

Output | JPEG quality

This option controls the quality of the JPEG file. Using 100 produces images with few visible JPEG artifacts, and 50 results in images with noticeable

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artifacts, but with much smaller sizes. The default value of 90 produces fairly small images with little visible degradation in image quality. Even at the highest quality, JPEG files are smaller than compressed TIFF files by as much as 60%. This smaller size comes at the cost of loss of image information. If you expect to be editing your scans produced by VueScan (e.g. in Photoshop(TM)), or are digitally archiving your scans, JPEG is not a good choice. However, for web, email, small size or inkjet printing, JPEG is by far more efficient and, at higher quality settings, virtually indistinguishable. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | JPEG file (p. 92) is set.

Output | JPEG black/white

This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a monochrome JPEG file. If you're working with black/white film, this will produce files that are smaller than color files. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | JPEG file (p. 92) is set.

Output | JPEG profile

This specifies whether to embed an ICC color profile into the JPEG file. This is primarily useful if you're using Photoshop(TM). You can specify the profile to use by settingColor | Output color space (p. 83). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | JPEG file (p. 92) is set.

Output | PDF file

This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a PDF file when scanning. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | PDF file name

This specifies the name of the PDF file to hold the cropped and processed images. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.pdf", which is expanded to "ScanYYMMDD-0001+.pdf".

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Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF size reduction

You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels. This option will reduce the resolution and size of the file produced. These values will be displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling. See Input | Number of samples (p. 66)and Input | Number of passes (p. 66). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF multi page

If set, this option will cause VueScan to create multi-page PDF files. Each scan will be added as a new page. This option is useful when you are scanning documents and want all pages stored in a single file. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF file type

This option describes the resolution of the cropped PDF file, in bits per pixel. For PDF files, only 1 bit per sample and 8 bits per sample images are written, and 1 sample per pixel and 3 samples per pixel images are written. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF compression

This specifies whether to use compression when writing the PDF file. PDF compression uses the JPEG format internally when writing PDF files with more than one bit per pixel. If this option is set to 'Maximum', additional JPEG compression is used (level 75) otherwise minimal JPEG compression is used (level 90). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF paper size

This option describes the page size to be used in PDF files. If the image size is larger than the page size, then a larger page size is used, otherwise the image

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is centered on the page. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF profile

This specifies whether to embed an ICC color profile into the PDF file. This is primarily useful if you're using Photoshop(TM). You can specify the profile to use by settingColor | Output color space (p. 83). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 93) is set.

Output | PDF OCR text

This option creates searchable PDF files. VueScan's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature detects where each word is located on the page, and overlays this text on top of the image of the page. You can then use the search capability of any PDF viewer to find the text within the PDF document. This will also let your operating system index your PDF files so you can look for documents based on the text within them. Use the Output | OCR text language (p. 96)option to choose the language of the text. This will improve the quality of non-English OCR. Only characters that are in the windows-1252 character set (basically Western European languages) will be written to the PDF file. Basic Option: This option is always displayed for flatbed scanners and when scanning microfilm.

Output | OCR text file

This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature writes the text from a scanned image to a normal text file that can be edited with any text editor. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | OCR text file name

This specifies the name of the OCR text file to hold the text from the scanned image. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.txt", which is expanded to "ScanYYMMDD-0001+.txt". Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | OCR text file (p. 95) is set.

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Output | OCR text language

This option selects the language of the text that's being scanned. There's builtin support for English, and 32 additional languages can be downloaded from:
http://www.hamrick.com/ocr.html

Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | OCR text file (p. 95) is set.

Output | OCR text multi page

If set, this option will cause VueScan to create multi-page OCR text files. Each scan will be added as a new page. This option is useful when you are scanning documents and want all pages stored in a single file. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | OCR text file (p. 95) is set.

Output | Index file

This enables writing the cropped and processed images to an index file when scanning. An index file contains thumbnail size copies of a set of images, for example a roll of film. Each cropped image is added to the index print from left to right, top to bottom. After saving an image to the index file, the file is closed and opened again if another image is added. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | Index file name

This specifies the name of the file to hold the index images. Index files are always saved as windows bitmap (BMP) files. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Index frame

This option controls the placement of images in the index. If zero, the images are added from left to right, top to bottom; this is the default setting. If set to a number greater than 0, the images are added at that frame position counting left to right, top to bottom. For example, if Index frame is set to 8 and Index across is set to 5, the image would be placed at the second row, third column.

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If Index frame is set to a number greater than 0, it will be increased by 1 after an image is saved to the index. When is it really useful? When you want to replace one or more index images in an existing index file. For example if you want to change the rotation of an image, or if you re-scan one strip of film within a roll. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Index width

This is the width of an index frame, in pixels. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Index height

This is the height of an index frame, in pixels. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Index margin

This is the margin around an index frame, in pixels. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Index across

This is the number of index frames across in an index file. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 96) is set.

Output | Raw file

(Professional Edition only) This enables writing raw data from the scanner to a TIFF file. The raw files are the result of the first of two steps VueScan performs: "scanning". The second step is "processing". These steps are described in the topic "How VueScan Works" in this User's Guide. By providing a mechanism to cleanly separate these two steps, VueScan provides great flexibility and offers options not available in most other scanner software. You can perform the "processing" step later by setting Input | Source (p. 55) to

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"File". This lets you rescan images with different settings, without needing to rescan the media. When the raw file is written depends on the setting ofOutput | Raw output with (p. 99). Raw files are always stored as TIFF files and can therefore be examined in image viewing and editing programs. Note, however that the resolution of raw files (as specified inOutput | Raw file type (p. 99)) may be greater than some programs can read. Little processing is done on raw files so they are a close representation of exactly what the scanner has produced. Raw files will not be filtered nor will color settings be applied. As a result, raw scans may look "wrong". Raw files contain as much data as the scanner was able to produce before any modifications may have been made, and are therefore good for archiving. The image gamma value is 1.0 when there are two bytes (16-bits) per sample, and 2.2 when there is one byte (8-bits) per sample. Raw files saved with gamma 1.0 will look dark, but this is normal. The one exception to this is if Output | Raw output with (p. 99) is set to "Save". In this case, the infrared cleaning and grain reduction is also done before saving the raw scan files. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenPrefs | Enable raw from disk (p. 108) is set or when not scanning from a file.

Output | Raw file name

(Professional Edition only) This specifies the name of the TIFF file used to hold the raw data from the scanner. As well as VueScan writing a specific file name for you, it can also automatically number your files in two ways by placing special characters in the filename. (See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this autonumbering feature.) The default setting of this option is "scan0001+.tif". Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

Output | Raw size reduction

(Professional Edition only) You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels.

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However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling. See Input | Number of samples (p. 66)and Input | Number of passes (p. 66). This option may not be appropriate for use with raw files when your purpose is to archive the scanner's output. For most users leave the value set at the default of 1 (no reduction). If, however, you always scan at a high resolution and then use size TIFF/JPEG reduction when saving the crop file, Raw size reduction may be appropriate because it results in significantly smaller files while still gaining the benefit of scanner noise reduction. If you do use Raw size reduction, you probably will not want to use TIFF/JPEG size reduction later when scanning the raw file from disk. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

Output | Raw file type

(Professional Edition only) This option describes the resolution of the raw file, in bits per pixel. It should normally be set to Auto, which defaults to bits per pixel of the scanner. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

Output | Raw output with

(Professional Edition only) This specifies which operations in VueScan cause the raw scan data to be written to a file. If set to "Scan" (or "Preview"), the raw file is written at the same time as the scan (or preview). In this case, the raw file has not had infrared cleaning or grain reduction applied. Assuming that the preview is used primarily to prepare for the final scan, this option should normally be set to "Scan" so that the highest resolution raw image can be saved. If set to "Save", it is written at the same time as other files are written (i.e. after a scan completes or when the "Save" button is pressed). In this case, the raw file has had infrared cleaning and grain reduction applied. It's much faster to save the raw file at the same time as the scan, since writing the file is overlapped with scanning the data. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

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Output | Raw save film

(Professional Edition only) If this option is set, then the film corrections are done before the raw file is written. The Output | Raw output with (p. 99) is also implicitly set to "Save", which means that the rotation and infrared cleaning are also applied to the raw file. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

Output | Raw compression

(Professional Edition only) This specifies whether to use compression when writing the raw file. Compression of the raw TIFF file will not cause any loss of image data. It will take a little longer to read, and especially write, as the algorithm is computationally intensive, but can reduce total file size by as much as 40%. The default setting is "Auto", which enables compression for files with 12 or fewer bits per sample and disables compression for files using more bits per sample. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set and whenOutput | Raw DNG format (p. 100) isn't set.

Output | Raw DNG format

(Professional Edition only) This specifies whether to write raw files in DNG (Digital Negative) format. This allows VueScan's raw files to be read by the Adobe Camera Raw plugin or other programs that read DNG files. These DNG format raw files can also be read by VueScan when you set Input | Source (p. 55) to "File". Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 97) is set.

Output | Description
This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field and in OCR text files at the top of the page. You can use it to indicate a one-line description of the image being scanned. Basic Option: This option is displayed when at least one of the output files is enabled.

Output | Copyright
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This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field and in OCR text files at the top of the page. You should normally use "Copyright 2010 Your Name". Basic Option: This option is displayed when at least one of the output files is enabled.

Output | Date
This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field indicating the date that the picture was taken originally (not the date that it was scanned). You can be quite flexible in specifying this date - any of the following formats will work: 1995, March 1997, 20030402, 3/23/98, 1998:03:23, etc. If you're in the USA time zone, put the month before the day, otherwise put the day before the month. The best format to use is the ISO format for dates, YYYY:MM:DD. The date is converted to the ISO date format of YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS before putting it in the EXIF field in the TIFF and JPEG files. Basic Option: This option is displayed when at least one of the output files is enabled.

Output | Log file

If enabled, VueScan will log all data sent and received from the scanners to VueScan.log. This is primarily for debugging problems with scanners. You should only use this feature if you want to send it with a bug report when a scanner isn't working properly and you suspect it may be a problem with the way VueScan is controlling the scanner. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Output | Log file max size (MB)

The log file will be written until it grows to this size. You might need to increase this if the log file stops before you're able to reproduce a problem. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs tab

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This tab lets you set preferences that control the behavior of VueScan.

Prefs | Crop units

Use this option to choose the units in the Crop tab. You can choose pixel, mm, cm, inch, pica or point. This setting does not affect the size of output. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Printed units

Use this option to select the units when displaying the printed width and height. You can choose pixel, mm, cm, inch, pica or point. This also affects the units displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | External viewer

If this option is set, cropped and processed images will be displayed using the

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viewer specified in the "Viewer" option. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Viewer
If the "External viewer" option is enabled, the specified program will be started with each cropped image upon completion of a scan. The default value is "default". On Windows, if the viewer name is "default", the file association for this type of file will be used. You can also put command-line options after the name of the viewer (e.g. "vuepro32 /fillwindow" to display images without a window frame with VuePrint). If the name of the viewer has "%1" after it (e.g. vuepro32 "%1"), the file name will be substituted at that point. If you use the %1 argument on the command line, be sure to put double-quotes around it, otherwise file names that have embedded spaces won't work. On Linux, the viewer name can have command-line options after it, and the file name will be appended to the end of the command-line before it's run. On Mac OS X, the files will start in the same application that would start if you double-click on the files. On Mac OS X, you can set up the default viewer for a type of file by clicking on an image, choosing "File | Show info", choosing "Open with application", selecting an application, and then choosing "Change all". Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenPrefs | External viewer (p. 102) is set.

Prefs | External editor

If this option is set, OCR text files will be displayed using the editor specified in the "Editor" option. Basic Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Editor
If the "External editor" option is enabled, the specified program will be started with each OCR text file at the completion of a scan. The default value is "default". On Windows, if the editor name is "default", the file association for this type of file will be used. You can also put command-line options after the name of the editor. If the name of the editor has "%1" after it (e.g. notepad "%1"), the file name will be substituted at that point. If you use the %1 argument on the command line, be sure to put double-quotes around it, otherwise file names that have embedded spaces won't work.

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On Linux, the editor name can have command-line options after it, and the file name will be appended to the end of the command-line before it's run. On Mac OS X, the files will start in the same application that would start if you double-click on the files. On Mac OS X, you can set up the default editor for a type of file by clicking on an image, choosing "File | Show info", choosing "Open with application", selecting an application, and then choosing "Change all". Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenPrefs | External editor (p. 103) is set.

Prefs | Browser
On Linux, this option is used if you want to use a web browser other than mozilla to display html files. Basic Option: This option is always displayed (Linux only).

Prefs | Graph type

This option is used to control the type of graph that's displayed underneath the Options panel (p. 9). If you choose "Raw", a histogram of the raw data from the scanner is displayed, including the infrared channel if available. If you choose "B/W", a histogram of the image prior to applying the black/white points is displayed, and you can change the black/white points with small triangles under the histogram. If you choose "Curve", a curve is displayed that is applied after the black/white points and before the gamma correction (and the "Color | Brightness" option is just a gamma multiplier). You can adjust the curve by moving the small triangles under the histogram. If you choose "Image", a histogram of the displayed image is shown. Note that the graph isn't displayed in guided mode. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Button 1/2/3/4 action

Use these options to control what VueScan does when you press a button on the front of a scanner. The default values of these options disable the buttons. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has buttons that can be read.

Prefs | Auto refresh

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VueScan normally refreshes the display to reflect changed options, such as cropping or other options in the Color tab. You can disable this by turning off this option. To manually refresh the display, use the "Image | Refresh" command or press the "Refresh" button at the bottom of the window. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Display raw scan

Use this option to display the raw scan data during a scan. You might want to turn this option off if you have a slow processor or don't want to see the scan in progress. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Display positive

Use this option to display the raw scan data for negative film in positive format. This isn't an accurate negative to positive conversion, but is intended to give a rough idea of what the image will look like. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning negative film.

Prefs | Splash screen

Use this option to display the splash screen when VueScan starts up. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Histogram type

Use this option to specify whether the Y axis of histograms is the number of samples (linear), the square root of the number of samples, or the logarithm of the number of samples. The default is "Linear". Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Animate crop box

This option controls whether the crop box in the Preview is animated - it's easier to see when animated, but can be distracting. The option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Thick crop box

This option controls whether the crop box in the Preview is drawn with a thick line or a thin line. It's easier to see the thick line, but sometimes easier to get

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fine control with the thin line. The option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Add extensions

This option controls whether the TIFF, JPEG, PDF, Text and Index file names automatically have a ".tif", ".jpg", ".pdf", ".txt" or ".bmp" extension added to the file name. This reduces the amount of typing needed when manually setting the saved file names. No file extension will be added if the file name has a period in it. This option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Substitute date

This option controls whether the TIFF, JPEG, PDF and Text file names can include the scan date and time in the file name. For instance, if the file name is "@.jpg", the resulting file will be "ScanYYMMDD-0001+.jpg" with YY substitured for the current year, MM for the current month and DD for the current day. Additionally, you can use YYYY for the 4-digit year, YY for the two-digit year, MM, DD, HH, II, and SS for the month, day, hour, minute and second when the scan was started. You need to have at least three date/time names for this to work. For instance, a file name of MMDD.tif won't be substituted, but a file name of MMDDHH.tif will be. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Warn on delete

When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message before deleting a page from a multi-page scan. This option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when Input | Multi page (p. 61) is set.

Prefs | Warn on overwrite

When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message before overwriting a TIFF, JPEG, PDF or OCR text file, and allow you to prevent the file from being overwritten. This option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Warn on not ready

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When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message when the scanner isn't ready (or the raw scan file doesn't exist) and you press the Preview or Scan button. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Warn on no scanner

When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message when a scanner is not connected. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Exit when done

Enabling this option causes VueScan to exit when scanning completes. This option is not set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Beep when done

Enabling this option causes a sound to be played on the computer's speakers when scanning completes. This is sometimes useful to alert you at the end of a long- running scan. On Windows, this is the "Default sound" in the "Sounds and Multimedia" control panel. On Linux and Mac OS X, this is a simple beep. This option is not set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Beep when auto eject

Enabling this option causes a sound to be played on the computer's speakers when auto ejecting. This is sometimes useful to alert you at the end of a long- running preview or scan. On Windows, this is the "Default sound" in the "Sounds and Multimedia" control panel. On Linux and Mac OS X, this is a simple beep. This option is not set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Use temp file name

When TIFF, JPEG or PDF files are being written, but haven't yet been closed, this option instructs VueScan to use file names with a .tmp at the end. When the file is closed, the file is renamed to remove the .tmp.

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This allows programs that monitor a directory for files to know when the TIFF, JPEG or PDF files are ready for further processing. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Anti alias text

Controls whether 1-bit images (i.e. text and line art) are displayed with antialiasing. This results in smoother looking displays but also takes a bit more computing power. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Anti alias image

Controls whether gray-scale and color images are displayed with anti-aliasing. This results in smoother looking displays but also takes a bit more computing power. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Enable density display

Enables displaying the image density when the cursor is moved over the image with the control key held down. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Enable raw from disk

Enables the Output | Raw file (p. 97) option when scanning from disk. This is useful if you want to re-scan raw scan files at a lower resolution or bits per pixel and save a raw scan file with these changes. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Disable scanners

Use this option to disable some kinds of (or all) scanners. This option isn't used by default. This is useful if you want to run multiple copies of VueScan at the same time, scanning with one copy and processing raw disk files with another. To use this option, put copies of VueScan in different directories, run VueScan, set this checkbox, then exit and restart VueScan. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons

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You can use this option to remove the slider and spin button controls. This is sometimes useful if you want the Options panel (p. 9) to be quite small to maximize the image display area. This option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Enable popup tips

You can use this option to enable a short description that pops up in a small yellow box when the mouse hovers over options and buttons. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Startup tip

You can use this option to always display the tips dialog when VueScan starts. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Calibration period

You can use this option to set the maximum number of days to use a scanner calibration. A scanner's lamp color and lamp uniformity can shift over time, so it's sometimes useful to re-do the "Scanner | Calibrate" command to compensate for this. This is only used by some types of scanners. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of calibration.

Prefs | Image memory (MB)

Use this option to set the maximum amount of memory that VueScan will use to hold all the previews and scans in memory. If Input | Preview resolution (p. 62) is set to "Auto", then each preview needs about one million pixels, and if Input | Scan resolution (p. 62)is set to "Auto", each scan needs about four million pixels. Each pixel either needs three bytes (24-bit RGB), six bytes (48-bit RGB) or eight bytes (64 bit RGBI) depending on the setting of Input | Bits per pixel (p. 58). Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Window maximized/iconized x/y offset/size

Use these options to set the VueScan window position and size. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Font size (pt)

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Use this option to set the font size used in VueScan. The font size is specified in points, which are basically the same as pixels on most systems. The default value is 8 points. Note that the display will jump when you change this option. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

Prefs | Option panel width

Use this option to set the width in pixels of the panel containing the VueScan options. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.

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A
Abort button, 53 Advanced button, 53

Crop | X/Y linked, 73 Crop | X/Y offset, 72 Crop | X/Y padding, 73 Crop | X/Y size, 72 Crop | X/Y spacing, 73

B
Back button, 53

E
Edit | Copy image, 44 Edit | Copy OCR text, 44

C
Color | All frames, 86 Color | Black point (%), 81 Color | Black point red/green/blue, 81 Color | Brightness, 82 Color | Brightness red/green/blue, 83 Color | Clipped black color, 85 Color | Clipped white color, 85 Color | Color balance, 79 Color | Curve low/high, 82 Color | Film base color red/green/blue, 83 Color | Infrared defect color, 86 Color | Invert, 82 Color | Neutral red/green/blue, 81 Color | Out of gamut color, 86 Color | Pixel colors, 85 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film ICC description, 84 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film IT8 data, 84 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/File/Monitor ICC profile, 84 Color | Scanner/Printer/Film/Output/Monitor color space, 83 Color | Show IT8 outline, 85 Color | Slide/Negative/B/W vendor/brand/type, 83 Color | Threshold, 82 Color | View color, 85 Color | White point (%), 81 Color | White point red/green/blue, 82 Crop | All frames, 76 Crop | Aspect ratio, 75 Crop | Auto offset, 72 Crop | Auto rotate, 74 Crop | Border (%), 75 Crop | Buffer (%), 75 Crop | Crop orientation, 74 Crop | Crop size, 71 Crop | Focus X/Y offset, 76 Crop | Lock aspect ratio, 74 Crop | Multi crop, 72 Crop | Multi type, 72 Crop | Preview area, 75 Crop | Preview X/Y offset/size, 76 Crop | Show multi outline, 74 Crop | X/Y images, 73

F
File | Default options, 44 File | Last page, 43 File | Load options, 44 File | Page setup, 43 File | Print image, 43 File | Quit, 44 File | Save image, 43 File | Save options, 44 Filter | All frames, 78 Filter | Grain reduction, 78 Filter | Infrared clean, 77 Filter | Restore colors, 77 Filter | Restore fading, 78 Filter | Sharpen, 78

G
Guide me button, 52

H
Help | About, 50 Help | Release Notes, 50 Help | Usage Tips, 50 Help | Users Guide, 50

I
Image | Flip, 47 Image | Graph b/w, 48 Image | Graph curve, 48 Image | Graph image, 48 Image | Graph off, 48 Image | Graph raw, 48 Image | Mirror, 47 Image | Refresh, 47 Image | Release memory, 48 Image | Rotate left, 47 Image | Rotate right, 47 Image | Zoom In, 47 Image | Zoom Out, 47 Input | Auto eject, 65

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Input | Auto focus, 64 Input | Auto lamp off, 65 Input | Auto print, 65 Input | Auto save, 64 Input | Auto scan, 64 Input | Auto skew, 63 Input | Batch list, 60 Input | Batch scan, 59 Input | Bits per pixel, 58 Input | Descreen dpi, 57 Input | Files, 56 Input | Fine mode, 68 Input | Focus, 64 Input | Frame alignment, 67 Input | Frame number, 61 Input | Frame offset, 61 Input | Frame spacing, 62 Input | Grain dissolver, 67 Input | Lock exposure, 68 Input | Lock film base color, 69 Input | Lock image color, 70 Input | Make gray from, 59 Input | Media, 56 Input | Media size, 58 Input | Microfilm zoom, 57 Input | Mirror, 64 Input | Mode, 56 Input | Multi exposure, 68 Input | Multi page, 61 Input | Number of passes, 66 Input | Number of samples, 66 Input | Preview dpi, 62 Input | Preview resolution, 62 Input | Quality, 58 Input | Red/Green/Blue analog gain, 69 Input | RGB/Infrared exposure, 69 Input | Rotation, 63 Input | Scan dpi, 63 Input | Scan from preview, 67 Input | Scan resolution, 62 Input | Skew, 63 Input | Source, 55 Input | Task, 55 Input | Threshold, 59

L
Less button, 52

M
More button, 52

Output | Copyright, 100 Output | Date, 101 Output | Default folder, 89 Output | Description, 100 Output | Index across, 97 Output | Index file, 96 Output | Index file name, 96 Output | Index frame, 96 Output | Index height, 97 Output | Index margin, 97 Output | Index width, 97 Output | JPEG black/white, 93 Output | JPEG file, 92 Output | JPEG file name, 92 Output | JPEG profile, 93 Output | JPEG quality, 92 Output | JPEG size reduction, 92 Output | Log file, 101 Output | Log file max size (MB), 101 Output | Magnification (%), 89 Output | OCR text file, 95 Output | OCR text file name, 95 Output | OCR text language, 96 Output | OCR text multi page, 96 Output | PDF compression, 94 Output | PDF file, 93 Output | PDF file name, 93 Output | PDF file type, 94 Output | PDF multi page, 94 Output | PDF OCR text, 95 Output | PDF paper size, 94 Output | PDF profile, 95 Output | PDF size reduction, 94 Output | Printed dpi, 89 Output | Printed height, 90 Output | Printed size, 89 Output | Printed width, 89 Output | Raw compression, 100 Output | Raw DNG format, 100 Output | Raw file, 97 Output | Raw file name, 98 Output | Raw file type, 99 Output | Raw output with, 99 Output | Raw save film, 100 Output | Raw size reduction, 98 Output | TIFF compression, 91 Output | TIFF DNG format, 91 Output | TIFF file, 90 Output | TIFF file name, 90 Output | TIFF file type, 91 Output | TIFF multi page, 91 Output | TIFF profile, 92 Output | TIFF size reduction, 90

N
Next button, 53 Next frame button, 54

P
Page | Delete, 50 Page | Delete all, 50 Page | First, 48 Page | Interleave, 49 Page | Last, 49 Page | Move back, 49

O
Output | Auto file name, 90

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Page | Move front, 49 Page | Next, 48 Page | Previous, 48 Page | Reverse, 49 Page | Separate, 49 Page | Swap even/odd, 49 Prefs | Add extensions, 106 Prefs | Animate crop box, 105 Prefs | Anti alias image, 108 Prefs | Anti alias text, 108 Prefs | Auto refresh, 104 Prefs | Beep when auto eject, 107 Prefs | Beep when done, 107 Prefs | Browser, 104 Prefs | Button 1/2/3/4 action, 104 Prefs | Calibration period, 109 Prefs | Crop units, 102 Prefs | Disable scanners, 108 Prefs | Display positive, 105 Prefs | Display raw scan, 105 Prefs | Editor, 103 Prefs | Enable density display, 108 Prefs | Enable popup tips, 109 Prefs | Enable raw from disk, 108 Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons, 108 Prefs | Exit when done, 107 Prefs | External editor, 103 Prefs | External viewer, 102 Prefs | Font size (pt), 109 Prefs | Graph type, 104 Prefs | Histogram type, 105 Prefs | Image memory (MB), 109 Prefs | Option panel width, 110 Prefs | Printed units, 102 Prefs | Splash screen, 105 Prefs | Startup tip, 109 Prefs | Substitute date, 106 Prefs | Thick crop box, 105 Prefs | Use temp file name, 107

Prefs | Viewer, 103 Prefs | Warn on delete, 106 Prefs | Warn on no scanner, 107 Prefs | Warn on not ready, 106 Prefs | Warn on overwrite, 106 Prefs | Window maximized/iconized x/y offset/size, 109 Preview button, 51 Previous frame button, 54 Print button, 53 Profile | Profile film, 46 Profile | Profile printer, 46 Profile | Profile scanner, 46

R
Refresh button, 53 Rotate L button, 54 Rotate R button, 54

S
Save button, 53 Scan button, 52 Scanner | Calibrate, 45 Scanner | Eject, 45 Scanner | Exposure, 46 Scanner | Focus, 46 Scanner | Next, 46 Scanner | Preview, 45 Scanner | Previous, 46 Scanner | Scan, 45

Z
Zoom In button, 54 Zoom Out button, 54

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