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Increasing the contrast of an image. Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II
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Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II is a high-quality film scanner that offers a wide range of features to help you get the most out of your scans. With its high resolution and color accuracy, the Scan Elite II is perfect for scanning both negatives and slides. It also features a variety of software tools to help you edit and enhance your scans. Whether you're a professional photographer or a hobbyist, the Scan Elite II is a great choice for anyone who wants to get the most out of their film scans.
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Increasing the contrast of an image
The contrast of an image can be changed. The light blue 45° line on the tone curve chart represents the original contrast of the scanned image. Making the angle of the tone curve greater than
45° will increase the contrast of the image. Making the angle less than 45° will reduce the contrast.
With the RGB channel selected, click on the tone curve near the top and bottom to add two nodes.
Slightly move the top node up and the bottom node down. This will increase the angle of the central portion of the tone curve and increase the contrast of the image without making an overall change in image brightness.
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Correcting color with the tone curve
By selecting individual color channels on the tone curve, adjustments to the overall color of an image can be made. This can be used to eliminate unnatural color casts or add warmth to a picture.
If the image is too red, green, or blue, simply drag the corresponding color-channel curve down until the color is appears natural. If the color cast is predominantly one of the secondary colors, cyan, magenta, or yellow, move the curve of the complementary color up. For example, if the image is too yellow, move the blue curve up. For more on secondary and complementary colors, see page 54.
When daylight film is used under fluorescent lighting without a flash, the resulting photograph has a green cast. To correct the image, display the green channel tone curve. Click on the center of the curve and move it down. Use the prescan image to judge the results.
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Key Features
- High resolution scanning (up to 3600 dpi)
- Color accuracy
- Versatile software tools
- Automatic dust and scratch removal
- Slide and negative scanning
- Fast scanning speeds
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How do I use the software to edit my scans?
How do I clean the scanner?
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Table of contents
- 4 BEFORE YOU BEGIN
- 6 FOR PROPER AND SAFE USE
- 8 GETTING STARTED
- 8 CHECKING THE PACKAGE CONTENTS
- 9 INSTALLING THE UTILITY SOFTWARE
- 10 About TWAIN drivers and plug-ins
- 10 Windows 98/98SE/2000 Professional/Me
- 12 Macintosh
- 14 MENTS
- 14 Windows 98/98SE/2000 Professional/Me
- 17 Macintosh
- 19 NAMES OF PARTS
- 19 CONNECTING THE AC ADAPTER
- 20 CONNECTING THE SCANNER CABLE
- 20 IEEE 1394 cable
- 20 USB cable
- 21 Disconnecting the cable with Windows
- 22 EASY SCAN UTILITY
- 22 Windows
- 22 Macintosh
- 23 2. LOADING THE FILM HOLDER
- 23 Loading the 35mm film holder - FH-U
- 24 Loading the slide mount holder - SH-U
- 24 Loading the APS adapter AD-10 (sold separately)
- 25 3. INSERTING THE FILM HOLDER
- 25 Inserting the film holder FH-U1 or SH-U
- 26 Inserting the APS Adapter AD
- 26 4. SPECIFYING THE FILM TYPE
- 27 5. MAKING AN INDEX SCAN
- 27 SCANNED
- 27 SCANNED IMAGE
- 28 CESSING
- 28 10. SCANNING AND SAVING THE IMAGE
- 29 Turning off the scanner
- 30 STANDARD SCAN UTILITY
- 31 UTILITY
- 31 SCAN UTILITY
- 31 Launching the utility with Photoshop Elements
- 31 Launching the utility software
- 32 SCAN UTILITY
- 32 Launching the utility in Photoshop Elements
- 32 Launching the utility software
- 33 2. SETTING UP THE SCANNER
- 33 MAIN WINDOW
- 34 SETTING SCANNER PREFERENCES
- 36 3. LOADING THE FILM HOLDER
- 37 5. INDEX SCAN
- 37 INDEX TAB
- 38 MAKING AN INDEX SCAN
- 38 RESIZING THE UTILITY WINDOW
- 38 SELECTING INDEX THUMBNAILS
- 39 FRAMES
- 40 FIT-TO-WINDOW BUTTON
- 40 REVERSING THE FRAME ORDER
- 40 SAVING THE INDEX THUMBNAILS
- 41 SAVING AN INDEX FILE
- 41 LOADING AN INDEX FILE
- 42 6. MAKING A PRESCAN
- 42 PRESCAN TAB
- 43 MAKING A PRESCAN
- 43 CROPPING THE IMAGE
- 43 Auto cropping
- 44 Manual cropping
- 45 FIT-TO-WINDOW BUTTON
- 46 ROTATING OR FLIPPING THE IMAGE
- 47 ZOOMING
- 47 GRAB BUTTON
- 48 AUTO EXPOSURE
- 48 AE area selection
- 49 AE lock
- 49 POINT AF (AUTOFOCUS)
- 50 MANUAL FOCUS
- 51 CROPPING APS IMAGES
- 51 WINDOW
- 51 Frame number
- 51 RGB display
- 52 7. IMAGE CORRECTION
- 52 IMAGE CORRECTION TAB
- 53 TONE CURVES AND HISTOGRAM
- 54 RGB and CMY
- 54 Complementary color
- 54 CHANNEL
- 55 CHANGING THE TONE CURVES
- 55 FREEHAND
- 56 TIONS
- 56 About the tone curve
- 56 Bringing out detail in the shadows
- 57 Increasing the contrast of an image
- 57 Correcting color with tone curves
- 58 RECTIONS
- 59 Setting the white and black-point values
- 60 HISTOGRAM CORRECTION
- 60 Auto setting
- 60 Manual setting
- 61 Color corrections with the histogram
- 62 RECTIONS
- 62 Auto setting
- 63 TIONS
- 63 Auto setting
- 64 VARIATION CORRECTIONS
- 64 Color-balance variation
- 65 Brightness & Contrast variation
- 65 Saturation variation
- 66 SELECTIVE-COLOR CORRECTIONS
- 66 UNSHARP MASK
- 67 CANCELING IMAGE CORRECTIONS
- 67 Undoing an image correction
- 67 Redoing a canceled image correction
- 67 Resetting all image corrections
- 67 MAKING SNAPSHOT THUMBNAILS
- 68 CORRECTIONS
- 68 Saving an image-correction Job
- 68 Loading an image-correction Job
- 68 IMAGES
- 69 TIONS
- 70 DIGITAL ICE
- 71 DIGITAL ROC
- 72 DIGITAL GEM
- 74 8. SCAN SETTINGS
- 74 SCAN-SETTING DIALOG BOX
- 75 USING JOB FILES
- 76 Job Categories
- 77 MANUALLY
- 78 Resolution and output size
- 78 Example: setting the scanner output by pixels
- 79 put resolution
- 80 SAVING A JOB FILE
- 80 DELETING A JOB FILE
- 81 9. MAKING THE FINAL SCAN
- 81 cation
- 81 When using the utility software only
- 82 File types
- 83 CUSTOM WIZARD
- 85 Quitting the Standard Scan Utility
- 86 APPENDIX
- 86 IEEE 1394 AND USB INTERFACES
- 86 IEEE 1394 AND USB
- 86 AND SCANNER ON
- 86 cable with Windows
- 87 When using the IEEE 1394 cable with Windows Me
- 88 COLOR MATCHING
- 89 OUTPUT COLOR SPACE
- 90 SETTING THE MONITOR ICC PROFILE
- 91 Scanner color profiles
- 92 INSTALLED FILES AND FOLDERS
- 93 JOB FILE LIST
- 93 35mm film
- 95 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- 96 TROUBLESHOOTING
- 97 USER TECHNICAL SUPPORT
- 97 WARRANTY AND PRODUCT REGISTRATION
- 98 INDEX