Roland Metaza MPX-80, User Manual

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4-3 Adjusting Brightness and Contrast
Chapter 4 More Advanced Operations 57
Adjusting an Image in the Preview Window
Brightness
This adjusts the overall brightness. Mak-
ing the value too large can destroy the
balance, so it may be a good idea to ad-
just it to the absolute minimum necessary.
Contrast
This mainly adjusts highlights (the bright-
est areas) and shadows (the darkest areas).
Using this can be effective when you want
to achieve a sense of tension with a good
balance of light and dark.
Gamma
This mainly adjusts the brightness of tones
of intermediate brightness between bright
and dark areas. Using it is effective in ad-
justing the overall brightness.
The dark and bright areas are printed as shown in the figure.
Dark-color areas are not struck, and light-color areas are struck forcefully.
Also, the printing results before and after adjustment are as shown below.
Before adjusting After adjusting
Gamma adjusted to 0.4.
The brightness of the face is
reduced, making the expression
clearly defined.
Preview window
Bright area
Dark area