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Page 1: Table Of Contents
3.3 Basic Scanning 4. Scanning Conditions Scanner Plug-in Software 4.1 Choosing the Scanner 4.2 Setting the Application Gamma Nikon Scan Macintosh 4.3 Positioning Media 4.4 Ejecting Film (film scanners only) 4.5 Choosing the Media Type 4.6 Crop/Preview Area Buttons 4.7 Cropping 4.8 Crop Size Control... - Page 2 Features Specific to the LS-20 and LS-1000 A.1 Software Interpolation Appendix B: Features Specific to the LS-4500AF B.1 Film Format B.2 Preview Quality B.3 Final Scan Quality B.4 Make Shading B.5 Sharpening Appendix C: Features Specific to the AX-110 and AX-210 C.1 Main Dialog Box...
- Page 3 Notice concerning prohibition of copying or • Cautions on certain copies and reproductions reproduction The government has issued cautions on copies or Note that simply being in possession of material which has been reproductions of securities issued by private companies copied or reproduced by means of a scanner may be (shares, bills, checks, gift certificates, etc.), commuter passes, punishable by law.
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Page 4: Overview
LS- • Scanners supported by Nikon Scan can also be operated by 1000. Depending on the scanner selected, the items displayed in launching the Nikon Scan plug-in software from the acquire Nikon Scan’s Main dialog box and its associated menus may differ... -
Page 5: Before You Begin
Scan Macintosh plug-in and the Nikon Control Macintosh application. To run Nikon Scan Macintosh, the following minimum hardware To begin using the Nikon Scan plug-in, you must first install and software is required: Nikon Scan, as described in the Installation... -
Page 6: Basic Operations
Macintosh. If you are using a Nikon film scanner, be sure to always remove the strip film holder from the film slot before turning the scanner on. - Page 7 You must first select the Nikon Scan plug-in before you can The Preferences dialog box appears. begin scanning. To do so, choose Preferences… from the File menu. - 7 -...
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Page 8: Main Dialog Box
Control palette. Aquire button The Nikon Scan Main dialog box appears. Select the required plug-in from this dialog box, and click the Select button. The selected plug-in is displayed after “Selected plug-in:” in the Preferences dialog box. -
Page 9: Main Dialog Box
Quitting 3.2 Main Dialog Box Clicking the Cancel button in the Nikon Scan Main dialog box Nikon Scan will automatically detect which scanners are will return you to Nikon Control or to your current imaging connected and will display the Main dialog items and menus application. - Page 10 Main Dialog Box Place the cursor over a control (button, menu, or window) for a brief description of its function. Clicking a control will open this manual to the section in which its function is explained in greater detail. To clear this explanation from the screen, click the Close button below.
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Page 11: Interactive Help
Interactive Help Changing the Size of the Main Dialog Box Clicking the Help button at the bottom left of the dialog box The size of the Main dialog box can be enlarged to fill your activates the Interactive Help function. Passing the cursor over entire display by clicking the fit-to-screen box at the upper right a dialog item automatically displays appropriate Help text in the corner. -
Page 12: Basic Scanning
Main dialog box. Only Media Type scanners supported by Nikon Scan will be visible in this pop-up Choose the media type to be scanned. menu. - Page 13 Preview In this case you can carry out the prescan operation after the preview is completed by choosing Autoexposure from the Clicking the Preview button starts a preview operation. Special Capabilities menu. Before the preview process begins, a prescan operation will be carried out if the Prescan check box is turned on.
- Page 14 Cropping Setting Size, Resolution, and Image Adjustment Using the mouse, click and drag a bounding box to specify a You can change settings such as the resolution, scale, contrast, rectangular crop area in the preview image display area. gamma curve, and other parameters, as required. Using the five buttons shown below, the image displayed in the preview area by the preview operation can be rotated 90˚...
- Page 15 Scanning When the Scan button is clicked, scanning is carried out in accordance with the settings made, and the acquired image is passed to the imaging application, or to Nikon Control. - 15 -...
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Page 16: Scanning Conditions
Main dialog box. Only scanners supported by Nikon Scan will be visible in this pop-up menu. Note: Depending on what devices are actually connected to your computer, the options which will appear in the pop-up menu above may differ from those shown here. -
Page 17: Setting The Application Gamma
When Gamma Correction… is chosen from the menu, the 4.2 Setting the Application Gamma Manual Gamma Correction dialog box appears. You can set an application gamma value and decide whether you want to use the application gamma correction function. Choose Gamma Correction… from the pop-up menu at the top left corner of the Main dialog box. -
Page 18: Ejecting Film (Film Scanners Only
Choose one of the following from the upper part of the Media Type menu. After the film eject button has been clicked, a prescan operation B&W Line Art: To scan black and white binary images will be carried out automatically. Grayscale:... -
Page 19: Filter Selection
Filter Selection With some images good results can be obtained by using a different color filter from the default filter in grayscale scanning, and a filter selection function is provided for this purpose. This function can only be used to produce grayscale scans, and is useful for ‘dropping out’... -
Page 20: Crop/Preview Area Buttons
Orientation 4.6 Crop/Preview Area Buttons The preview image acquired after clicking the Preview button is Clicking this button changes the entire preview area displayed in the crop/preview area. display (including any existing crop marquis) from portrait to landscape orientation. The illustration on the button changes according to the display orientation. - Page 21 Flip Clicking this button changes the entire preview area display (including any existing crop marquis) from The entire preview area display (including any existing landscape to portrait orientation. The illustration on crop marquis) is flipped horizontally by clicking this the button changes according to the display button.
- Page 22 Zoom When the original image is flipped horizontally or vertically, the corresponding Flip button appears to have been pressed, and When the Zoom-in button is clicked, the crop area fills will remain in a depressed position, as shown below. Clicking the entire Preview area.
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Page 23: Establishing A New Crop
Note: For reasons involving the compression and display of the 4.7 Cropping preview image, there may be a slight difference between the crop You can use your cursor in the crop/preview area, to set up a area specified on the screen and the area that is actually scanned. new crop, or to move or change the size of the current crop When cropping an image, allow sufficient safety margin to ensure area. - Page 24 Moving the Crop Area Changing the Size of the Crop Area To change the position of the crop rectangle, simply locate the To change the size of the crop area, drag a side or corner of cursor so that it is inside the frame and then drag the frame to the crop frame.
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Page 25: Crop Size Control
Dimensions 4.8 Crop Size Control The scanned output size can be specified by entering width and These controls let you set the output size, output resolution, height values. If an unacceptable value is entered, it will be and scale. displayed in red. When the size is changed by cropping the Preview, the numbers displayed in the size value edit boxes will also change at the same time. -
Page 26: Output Resolution
The location of the current crop is given by the absolute If an unacceptable value is entered, it will be shown in red. -
Page 27: File Size And Disk Space
Note: You should check the File Size and Disk Space available before starting a final scan. If the required space for a scan exceeds the available space, the file size needed will be displayed in highlighted text. It is unnecessary to cancel the plug-in to delete unwanted files from your disk. -
Page 28: Autofocus (Film Scanners Only
You can cancel the focus position cursor by clicking the Return 4.9 Autofocus (film scanners only) to crop button. The focus of the image can be adjusted by clicking the Autofocus button shown below (this button is not displayed when an AX-110 or AX-210 flatbed scanner is selected). You can choose a location in the image as the focus position by clicking this button while simultaneously holding down the option key. -
Page 29: Adjust Focus (Film Scanners Only
When Adjust Focus… is chosen from the Special Capabilities 4.10 Adjust Focus (film scanners only) submenu, the following dialog box appears. This function allows you to adjust focus to compensate for warping of the film or for differences in the thickness of slide mounts. -
Page 30: Autoexposure
4.11 Autoexposure The Autoexposure function can be used to perform a prescan after a preview operation has been completed. If you click the Preview button when the Prescan check box is turned off or while holding down the option key, the prescan operation will be skipped. -
Page 31: Contrast
All these image. settings are made using buttons or text edit boxes. The results of compensation can be checked with a preview scan. The appearance of the Main dialog box depends on the Media Type setting, as shown below. -
Page 32: Color Balance
You can adjust overall color balance by emphasizing or de- gradation subtlety. When dragged in the minus direction, the emphasizing each of the three primary colors of the scan. black output values will be raised and the white point output... -
Page 33: Level Display
5.4 Level display RGB values or CMY percentages at the cursor position are displayed while the cursor is over the crop/preview area. The values can be switched between absolute RGB pixel values (in 8-bit level equivalent) and CMY percentages, by clicking within the boundary surrounding the density display area. -
Page 34: Viewing The Gamma Curves
6.1 Viewing the Gamma Curves 6. Gamma Curves When the Media Type is ‘Color’, four gamma curves are Selective gamma curve editing is essential for the highest-quality displayed. scanning. In many cases, the factory default gamma curves will yield excellent results. These default gamma curves are well suited to the widest variety of original media. - Page 35 When the Media Type is ‘Grayscale’, only one gamma curve is When the Media Type is set to ‘Color’, you can edit one master displayed. curve and three primary curves, i.e., for Red, Green, and Blue. When the Media Type is set to ‘Grayscale’, you can edit a grayscale curve only.
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Page 36: Viewing The Histogram
The histogram’s horizontal axis represents the pixel intensity or 6.2 Viewing the Histogram brightness, the darker values appearing on the left and the lighter values on the right. The vertical axis is a statistical At times it may be useful to view the histogram of the preview representation of the number of occurrences of each pixel image. -
Page 37: Modifying The Gamma Curves
Specifying the Gamma Curve 6.3 Modifying the Gamma Curves To the right of the graph are four buttons—from top to Modifying the gamma curves is relatively easy, but modifying bottom, the Master Curve button, and the Red, Green, and them correctly is not. While the effects of altering the master Blue Curve buttons. - Page 38 Graphically Altering the Gamma Curves Forcing the Gamma Curves to Linear The individual gamma curves in the gamma curve window can To reset curves to a linear state, clicking the Linear button be manually altered by clicking the mouse at points on the shown below ‘forces’...
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Page 39: Setting The Black Point
Setting the Black Point After the Black Point button is clicked, position the mouse cursor over the image in the preview window and select a pixel The Black Point represents the darkest point in the image. value to be used as the darkest point in the image. Watch the Since the density range of the original media might exceed the Pixel Value display closely as you move the cursor across the dynamic range of the scanner, the scanner’s tonal range needs... -
Page 40: Setting The White Point
When you decide on the pixel you want to use as the Black Setting the White Point Point of the image, clicking the mouse forces the gamma curves The White Point represents the lightest point in the image, thus to use this value as the minimum value in the preview window. providing a function opposite to that of the Black Point. - Page 41 After the White Point button is clicked, position the mouse When you decide on the pixel you want to use as the White cursor over the image in the preview window and select a pixel Point of the image, clicking the mouse forces the gamma curves value to be used as the lightest point in the image.
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Page 42: Automatic Contrast Adjustment
Automatic Contrast Adjustment If you prefer, the Nikon Scan plug-in is capable of selecting optimal neutral Black and White Points for you. The Automatic Contrast Adjustment control in the plug-in will usually produce excellent results. Simply click the Contrast Adjust button. - Page 43 Settings include the following items: 7. Saving and Loading Settings • Scanner selection, media type, width and height units, width Using the Settings pop-up menu, you can save the settings you value, height value have made, or load previously saved settings. This may be •...
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Page 44: Saving Settings
If settings have previously been saved using the entered name, 7.1 Saving Settings the following dialog box will appear when you click the OK You can save the current Main dialog box in the Nikon Scan button. Preferences folder using the Save Settings… function. -
Page 45: Deleting Settings
Factory Defaults settings are made when the product is shipped, and cannot be changed or deleted. Last Session settings are saved automatically when you exit the plug-in by clicking the Scan button. Last Session settings cannot be deleted. You can recall Factory Default settings, Last Session settings, or settings saved using the Save Settings…... -
Page 46: Exporting Settings
Export Settings… function. Unlike the Save Settings… function, which saves settings within the plug-in ‘system’ folder (the Nikon MAID folder contained in the Preferences folder within the System folder), the Export Settings function saves them to a file that can be located anywhere you can navigate to using the standard file dialog box. -
Page 47: Importing Settings
7.5 Importing Settings 7.6 Reset Color Settings Using the Import Settings… function, you can read the You can reset the modified gamma curves and image contents of a file saved with the Export Settings… function into compensation. the Main dialog box. To read the contents of a settings file, choose Import Settings…... - Page 48 A.1 Software Interpolation Appendix A: Features Specific to the Software Interpolation is used to provide precise image scaling LS-20 and LS-1000 and resolution. The pop-up menu at the top left corner of the Main dialog box Except that the LS-20 does not support the optional SF-100 includes the Special Capabilities sub-menu.
- Page 49 Choose any one of the following items from the film format Appendix B: Features Specific to submenu. the LS-4500AF LoRes: Uses the low resolution (1000 x 2000 dpi) optical system The following sections describe features specific to the LS- HiRes: Uses the high resolution (3000 x 3000 dpi) 4500AF.
- Page 50 B.3 Final Scan Quality Setting preview quality allows you to chose whether preview Setting final scan quality allows you to choose whether scanning operations are to be performed in high speed mode or in high takes place in high speed mode or in high quality mode.
- Page 51 B.4 Make Shading B.5 Sharpening After replacing the lamp, you must perform lamp calibration It is often necessary to sharpen images prior to reproduction using the Make Shading function before you can operate the since there are usually losses in definition when going to press. scanner (to replace the lamp, follow the directions given in the To enhance edge contrast, choose Sharpening from the Special LS-4500AF hardware manual).
- Page 52 C.1 Main Dialog Box Appendix C: Features Specific to The Main dialog box for the AX-110 and AX-210 is shown the AX-110 and AX-210 below. The following sections describe features specific to the AX-110 and AX-210 flatbed scanners. The operating procedures for the two models are identical.
- Page 53 Choose one of the following from the lower part of the Media Type menu. Transparency: To scan transparency images Reflective: To scan reflective images Note: When scanning transparencies with the Media Type set to Negative, the prescan operation will be optimized for the currently selected crop.
- Page 54 3 or above or EasyPhoto 1.5. Continuous scanning can be bottom of the Media Type menu. initiated by clicking the Scan button in the Main Dialog Box while holding down the Option key. Choose any one of the following from the ADF submenu.
- Page 55 C.3 Software Interpolation C.4 Sharpening Software interpolation is used to provide precise image scaling It is often necessary to sharpen images prior to reproduction and resolution. since there are often losses in definition when going to press. To enhance edge contrast, choose Sharpening from the Special The pop-up menu at the top left corner of the Main dialog box Capabilities submenu.
- Page 56 Main Dialog Box 11 Filter Selection 19 Linear button 38 4, 5, 54 Choosing the Film Type 18 Final Scan Quality 50 Lores 49 Auto Slide Feeder Choosing the Scanner 12, 16 Flip 21 LS-1000 4, 5, 12, 18, 48...
- Page 57 Positioning Media 12, 18 Save Settings command 44 Threshold 31 Positive 18 Saving and Loading Settings Transparency Adapter 53 Preferences command 7 Preferences dialog box 7 Saving Settings 44 Use Application Gamma 17 Prescan 13 Scale 27 Prescan check box 13 Scanning 15 Preview 13 Scanning Conditions 16...