Basic scanning

Launching the DiMAGE Scan Utility

Main window and index palette

Scanner Notes

Do not launch the utility with a film holder in the scanner.

Press the Quick Scan button on the scanner to open the launcher. Click the DiMAGE Scan Utility button to open the application. The utility can also be launched from an image-processing application; see the Windows and Macintosh installation section.

The utility can be opened from the programs option of the start menu (Windows) or by double clicking on the icon in the DS Elite 5400 II folder (Macintosh).

Scanning basics

Please read the basic scanning section in its entirety before moving on. Before any scan is made, the film holder must be loaded and inserted into the scanner; an index scan begins auto- matically. Three types of scans can be made singularly or in combination depending on the workflow and degree of processing:

Index scan

To display thumbnails of each image in the film holder.

1.

Film type list box

10.Magnifying tool (p. 30)

2.

Index scan button (p. 28)

11.Grab tool (p. 30)

3.

Prescan button (p. 29)

12.Close button (p. 33)

4.

Scan button (p. 32)

13.Rotate and flip buttons (p. 30)

5.

Auto-crop button (p. 31)

14.Scan-setting window (p. 32, 46)

Prescan

To display a preview of a specific image. A prescan allows an image to be focused, cropped, or corrected using the scanner’s image-processing tools.

6.

Crop prescan button (p. 31)

15.Index thumbnail

7.

Eject button

16.Frame number

8.

Help

17.Reverse-frame-order button (p. 29)

Scan

To save and export an image. Image size, resolution, and file format are specified with this scan.

9. Prescan display

18.Fit-to-window button (p. 29)

The windows can be resized by clicking and dragging the borders.

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Basic scanning

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