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5-12 ScanWizard Pro for Windows User’s Guide
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How to Customize Negative Film
With ScanWizard Pro, you can create a customized film profile for your negative film, based on an
existing negative film profile. This lets you create film profiles at will or as the need arises, and allows
you to use the profiles for subsequent scans as well.
1. Place the negative film (preferably with blank or unexposed frame) to be customized in the proper
film holder and insert into your scanner.
2. Go to the Preview window and click the Scan Material icon. From the submenu that appears,
choose Negative Film.
3. Go to the Settings window, and click the Film Type button. Select Custom at the bottom of the
menu.
4. When the Customized Negative Film Type dialog box appears, follow the steps outlined. First, click
the Overview (Step 2) option in the dialog box. When the overview image appears in the dialog box
window, plot a scan frame on the blank area of the film or on the blank space between two exposed
frames.
5. Click the Prescan (Step 4) option. When the prescan image appears, fine-tune the selection area
you made in step #4 to make sure that the film blank area is properly selected.
6. Choose the base film type on which the custom negative film profile will be based for Step 6 of the
dialog box. In general, select an existing film profile closest to your new film type. Kodak Gold 100-
6 in this example.
7. Click the Customize (Step 7) option in the dialog box.
8. When the customization process is completed, you will be promted by the Save Custom Film Type
dialog box to enter a file name for the new negative film profile. A description is provided but may be
changed if you want to. Take note that the new film will later appear in the Settings Window Film
Type menu by description, not by file name.
9. Click the Save button. The saved profile will now appear in the Film Type menu in the Settings
window.
10. Click the Close button in the Customize Negative Film Type dialog box to return to the Preview
window.
11. Select the newly created customized profile from the Film Type menu to scan your customized film
type. In this example, it is Kodak Gold 100 New.