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Context-sensitive cursors

The shape of the pointer indicates the type of activity you can perform in the scanning software.

Selection area cursor

New selection

 

 

 

 

 

Draw a new selection area.

 

 

 

 

 

area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Move selection

 

 

 

 

 

Drag the selection area to a new location in the

area

 

 

 

 

 

preview area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drag the selection area to another program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press OPTION and drag the selection area to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

desktop or a folder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resize selection

 

 

 

 

 

Appears on the sides of the selection area. Drag

area horizontally

 

 

 

 

 

the cursor to resize the width of the selection area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resize selection

 

 

 

 

 

Appears on the top or bottom of the selection area.

area vertically

 

 

 

 

 

Drag the cursor to resize the height of the selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resize selection

 

 

 

 

 

Appears on the corners of the selection area. Drag

area diagonally

 

 

 

 

 

the cursor to resize both the height and width of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

selection area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ready cursor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready for activity

Click a menu item and select a command.

 

 

 

Click a list button to select an option.

 

 

 

Click a button to turn it on or off, or to increase or

 

 

decrease a number.

 

 

 

 

 

Typing cursor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data entry

Click, then type a value.

 

 

accepted

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pixel value cursor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlight

Position this cursor over a light area in the image to

 

eyedropper

see its pixel value in the RGB meter and the

 

 

 

histogram. Click on pixels to set them as the

 

 

 

Highlight value. In the Transparency Exposure

 

 

Adjustment tool, click to set the RGB value.

 

 

 

 

 

Shadow

Position this cursor over a dark area of the image to

 

eyedropper

see its pixel value in the RGB meter and the

 

 

 

histogram. Click on pixels to set them as the

 

 

 

Shadows value.

 

 

 

 

 

Eyedropper and

Indicates this area is an area in which pixel value is

 

the “no” symbol

not available.

 

 

 

 

 

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