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2-2 PowerColor User Guide
Overview of the Scanning Process
Preparing scans with PowerColor is a simple process with many tools for an effi-
cient and organized workflow. Summarized below are the basic steps in the
PowerColor process:
1. Generate an overview scan of the entire scanning bed:
2. Define regions as desired and add them to the Queue Manager.
3. Select an image from the Queue Manager and perform the desired image
corrections while verifying the results visually and numerically on-screen.
4. Scan the final images to disk using the desired output and file formats.
Launching PowerColor
To launch the application, double-click on the PowerColor icon in the
PowerColor folder, or, if using Windows, click on your Windows Start menu, then
choose PowerColor from withn the UMAX program group. When the application
opens, the menu bar, blank Overview window, Queue Manager, Control Bar and
Toolbar are displayed (see Figure 2–1). These are the tools with which you can
access all of PowerColor’s commands and functions.
Figure 2–1
PowerColor menus:
Toolbar, Control Bar
and Queue Manager