The Preferences Menu; Scan Material - Microtek ScanMaker IIG User Manual

The Preferences Menu

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The Preferences menu lets you:
• Choose the correct scan material
• Create effects like invert and mirror
• Create cursor lines to help you with alignment
• Control the size of your preview window
• Keep the preview image even after exiting
ScanWizard
• Create a smoked glass background to help distin-
guish the current scan frame
• Set other options, such as specify a working directory
for files

Scan Material

This command allows you to select the correct scan
material. Scan materials can be classified into three
types:
• Reflectives, such as photographs or prints.
• Positives, such as slides.
• Negatives, such as the negative film you use for your
camera.
The default scan material depends upon the scanner
you're using, and the choices available to you in the
Scan Material submenu will also depend on your
equipment.
For instance, the positive option appears only if you're
using a Transparent Media Adapter (TMA) with your
scanner. The negative option appears only if you have
DCR installed and are using the TMA to scan a
negative.
If you are scanning negatives or positives, make sure
you specify the correct scan material, or you will get
inaccurate scanning results.
Note
The Scan Material function is also related to the Tints tool,
an image-enhancement function in the Settings window.
Refer to that section for more details.