This is the Halftone card. The position of the white crossbar represents a brightness-and-contrast setting. HyperScan makes an initial guess about a good brightness-and-contrast setting for the scan.
For most scans, this default setting produces great results—save the image and you’re done!
• When you are finished reading,
click OK.
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You can refine the brightness-and-contrast setting as follows:
• Click in a new location (or drag the
white crossbar to a new place).
Moving the crossbar to the left decreases the contrast; moving it right increases the contrast. Moving the crossbar up increases the brightness; moving it down decreases the brightness.
• When you are finished making
adjustments, click OK.
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You also may want to apply halftone effects to the image, either to enhance it or to get special effects.
• Click the Effects icon to go the
Effects card.
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At this point, you could continue to adjust the brightness-and-contrast setting or to apply halftone effects.
In general, the Diffusion effect produces the best results, even for line art and other high-contrast originals.
• Click Diffusion to reapply the
Diffusion effect before going on
(otherwise, you’ll keep your version).• Click OK to continue.
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When you are satisfied with the results, you can save the image.
You can’t change a saved image, but you can copy it to other stacks, print it, or touch it up with the Paint tools.
(You can always return to this card to make more changes.)
• Click Save now to append a new
card with a copy of the image to
the end of the stack.
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That’s it! You now know how to use HyperScan. Your saved image is at the end of this stack. In general, follow these steps to do a scan:
1. Click either the Portrait icon or Landscape icon
on the first card to get started.
2. Click the Question Mark icon on any card for
information on how to proceed.
The on-line help also documents HyperScan’s shortcuts and advanced commands.
