Adjusting Saturation and Color Balance

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Adjusting Saturation and Color Balance

Adjusting Saturation and Color Balance

In ScanGear's Advanced Mode tab, click (Saturation/Color Balance).

Note

Click Defaults to reset all adjustments in the current window.

Saturation

Adjust the image's saturation (vividness). You can brighten colors that have faded with time, etc.

Move (slider) under Saturation to the left to reduce the saturation (darken the image), and to the right to increase the saturation (brighten the image). You can also enter a value (-127 to 127).

Saturation decreased

Original image

Saturation increased

Note

The natural color tone of the original image may be lost if you increase saturation too much.

Color Balance

Adjust images that have a colorcast. Colorcast is a phenomenon where a specific color affects the entire picture due to the weather or ambient strong colors.

Move (slider) under each color pair to the left or right to emphasize the corresponding color. Cyan & Red

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