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1. Extensis PhotoBars gt SUE Aa Intellihance Pro 4 0 Mask Pro gt PhotoAnimator Quick Enhance PhotoBevel 3 0 PhotoButton 3 0 gt Bright Enhance PhotoCastShadow 3 0 gt Clean Up PhotoEmboss 3 0 gt Dark Image Enhance PhotoGlow 3 0 gt Darken PhotoGroove 3 0 gt Deep Enhance PhotoTexture 3 0 Despeckle Digital Camera Digital Camera Flash Dirt Reduction Drum Scanner Dust Reduction Edge Enhance Flatbed Scanner Focus Halftone Enhance Heavy Cast Removal Last Applied Photo CD Quick Enhance Scratch Reduction Smooth Soft Enhance Vector Enhance Vivid Enhance About Extensis 10 Overview of Modes Before your image can be enhanced the proper enhancement set tings must be determined Intellihance Pro offers several different ways to do this from completely automated to completely user controlled Which method you choose will depend on how much of the work you want Intellihance Pro to do The following options are listed in order from most automated to most user controlled From Photoshop Quick Enhance By selecting Quick Enhance from the Intellihance Pro menu Extensis gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Quick Enhance you can have Intellihance Pro determine and apply the settings that will best enhance the selected image without ever opening the Intellihance Pro plug in This is the easiest and most automated way to use Intellihance Pro Other Prese
2. Intellihance Pro 4 0 62 5 Settings Brightness Visual Adiustment 25 g Visual Adiustment 25 a wz Fine Coarse Fine BERT Typical settings options in PowerVariations Mode Brightness shown 54 Mode PowerVariations Settings Brightness Adjustment 10 Layout 1x5 Visual Adiustment 10 g Fine Coarse How It Works PowerVariations mode displays settings values in multi pane view that are both higher than and lower than the settings in the active pane The variations are based on the current settings of the active pane PowerVariations are always displayed in relation to the settings of the active centermost pane Example Suppose you have switched to Fine Tune mode to make adjustments to the Brightness settings As you tweak these settings you decide that you would like to see how different val ues of Brightness would look on your image To do this you would switch to PowerVariations mode PowerVariations starts with the Brightness setting and displays variations of Brightness percentages both higher than and lower than the value defined by the Brightness value in the centermost active pane The amount of variation is set using the Visual Adjustment slider settings In the example below the Visual Adjustment is set to 10 and the layout is 1x5 five vertical panes Based on these settings PowerVariations displays our active pan
3. wna Intelligent Settings es iq Descreen orf Ej Bb Contrast Noma JUA Brightness fBalancedTone gt PA Saturation MedumLow gt Sharpness Medium Sharpness gt Despeckle Off j Dust amp Off Scratches Tools w Histogram Info Dld 86 Information Cancel and Apply Tabs 21 22 Tools Arrow Tool The Arrow tool allows you to select which pane you want to work with to move Presets from one pane to another and to move the active pane to another location in the matrix You make a pane active by clicking it with the Arrow tool In Power Variations mode clicking on a non active pane with the Arrow tool will apply those settings to the active pane see page 56 To select the Arrow tool Click its button or press the V key Hand Tool The Hand tool allows you to reposition pan the image in the Preview area To select the Hand tool Click its button or press the H key Zoom Tool The Zoom tool allows you to enlarge zoom in or reduce zoom out the image in the Preview area To select the Zoom tool Click its button or press the Z key For more information on how to select panes pan and zoom as well as additional keyboard shortcuts see pages 29 through 31 The Preview The Preview displays the image along with a pop up menu listing all of the available Presets When a Preset is selected from the pop up those settings are immedi
4. 0 0000005 11 Overview of Toolse stase Ponu eee eee eee 14 Steps to Image Enhancement 0 16 Using Quick Enhance 00 0 0 002 eee eee 17 The Intellihance Pro Environment 18 How Intellihance Pro Works 020 e eee 18 he Presets ote seb aie ort BA ee eee Be al el ee 18 Entering Intellihance Pro 000000 19 Applying the Current Settings to an Image 20 Exiting Without Making Changes 20 The Intellihance Pro Workspace 000 eee 21 TOOS fais sf acb twats naw Shale widens Runa E ash eae eet 22 THE PREVIEW ov isos 2h oe ane Sade Se AA Rae E 23 Histogram Tab 0 cee ee eee 24 Into Tabs eee het et on AE EERE Bue 24 Chipping Tabana ia a ek ath ee Sp E 24 Settings Modes 255 4 s jew eee beats Meee Aenea eel ee 4 25 Menubar Commands 0 00 eee ee eee eee 26 Cancel and Apply 0 0 0 eee eee eee 26 Preferences zi nu nnee pes eb aia hat we aie ed 27 THA CHV Pane 2th Sein eh oe oe Ate ee RBG ty Bie Sees 29 Layout Views oc oot Ato g becca ee eit ies See 2 29 Zooming and Panning 0 20 cee eee eee 31 Single Image View Repeating Image View 32 Presets and Image Views 0 0020 e eee eee 33 Automatic Reordering 0 000000 000s 34 Manual Reordering 0 0 0 eee ee eee 35 Using Presets 00 000 eee 36 Selecting and Applyin
5. Intellihance Pro Intellihance Pro is a powerful easy to use plug in for Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint that will help you get your images looking their best Intellihance Pro 4 0 takes the tedium out of image enhancement automating tasks like color correction sharpening and contrast allowing you more time to be creative System and Software Requirements To install and use Intellihance Pro you will need the following Macintosh e Apple Power Macintosh or PowerPC compatible e Mac OS System 7 5 5 or later e 32M application RAM minimum 64M recommended e 8M free hard disk space large capacity hard drive recommended e CD ROM drive e 24 bit display recommended e Adobe Photoshop 4 0 or 5 0 Windows Intel Pentium Processor or faster Microsoft Windows 95 Windows 98 or Windows NT 4 0 32M RAM minimum 64M recommended 8M free hard disk space large capacity hard drive recommended CD ROM drive 256 color display minimum 24 bit display recommended Adobe Photoshop 4 0 or 5 0 or Corel Photo Paint 8 0 Tip We can also be reached by Fax 503 274 0530 E mail support extensis com Internet http www extensis com support Installation You can find instructions for quick and easy installation on the CD ROM that is included with your product or if you down loaded an Extensis product installer from our web site running the installer will place an informational Read Me on
6. Making Fine Tune Adjustments The controls available from the pop up menu in the Fine Tune Settings are designed to be used to adjust the settings of individ ual images they are not generally applied to groups of images as the Intelligent Adjustments are However any adjustments that have been made using the Fine Tune controls are saved when the Preset is saved creating a Fine Tune preset For a description of each of the Fine Tune controls see page 49 To change enhancement settings using Fine Tune controls 1 Select activate the pane that contains the Fine Tune Preset you would like to modify 0r Select the desired Preset from the pop up list in any pane This automatically activates the pane making the Preset in that pane the Active Preset Choose Fine Tune from the Mode menu or press Command F Ctrl F Select the appropriate Fine Tune control panel from the Settings pop up list Adjust the controls as necessary to achieve the results that you want The image in the active pane is updated dynamically as you change the settings The Fine Tune controls and options are described on the following pages To save Fine Tune settings as a Preset 1 2 Adjust the active Preset using the appropriate Fine Tune controls as described in steps 1 through 4 above Save the Preset by choosing either Save or Save As from the File menu or by pressing either Command S
7. No Effect Off Color Photo CD Pop Reduce Saturation Remove Cast smooth smooth saturation Vector Art Typical Presets List ana Tut ppt SEES n aa e Smera F Dern rema r bart g Fisted Soarnor Halftone y Heavy Cast Remova v No Effect ort Cotor x Remove Cast Preset Assignment Order 33 mnie SS ee es ETE e a m e ares eee e Automatic Reordering You can change the order of all the panes using the following commands from the View menu Flip Layout Horizontally Vertically and Shuffle Layout Forward Backward All shifting is done in circular fashion allowing the last pane to fill the space vacated by the first pane Refer to the examples for a visual rep resentation of the new positions Flip Layout Horizontally Vertically Positions the panes in a horizontal or vertical mirror image of the original Invoking the command again returns the panes to their original positions Shuffle Layout Forward Backward Shifts the panes to the right forward or to the left backward one position each time the command is invoked Shifting the first pane backward will cause it to assume the last position in the matrix Shifting the
8. ferent name Original Image When you select the Original Image Preset the image in the selected pane is not enhanced at all all enhancement settings are removed This allows you to compare other enhancement settings against the original image Quick Enhance When you select the Quick Enhance Preset Intellihance Pro intelligently enhances the image to the best of its ability Using Quick Enhance is the fastest and most automated way to use Intellihance Pro Last Applied When you select the Last Applied Preset Intellihance Pro applies the settings from the active pane the last time an image was enhanced with Intellihance Pro There is noth ing you need to do to save the Last Applied settings Intellihance Pro saves these settings automatically The Last Applied settings are resaved each time an image is enhanced with Intellihance even when the image has been enhanced from the host application using Quick Enhance or another Preset from the Intellihance Pro menu Note If you like the Last Applied settings and want to keep them we suggest that you save these settings to another name before applying different settings to an image Note Presets are either Intelligent or Fine Tune Presets saved while in PowerVariations mode will be saved as Intelligent Presets and any Fine Tune settings for that Preset will be discarded Modifying Resetting and Copying Presets You can modify the selected Preset for any pane using th
9. 1 Open an image from Adobe Photoshop 2 Choose Adjust gt Levels from the Image menu The Levels dialog box is displayed showing the distribu tion of pixel values in your image Checking Your Scanner s White Point You can improve scans by properly setting your scanner s white point that is the reflective value the scanner sees as white or 0 If your picture is overly bright and the scanner s white point is low you may be flattening your highlight data This is especially noticeable when scanning a calibration strip or an image with a broad tonal range Refer to the documentation provided with your scanner to set the white point Sometimes the brightness control can be used to set the white point of the scanner If you can t seem to adjust the white point properly you may have a scanner that doesn t allow you to set the white point these scanners typically perform white point manipulation in software Determining the Scan Resolution The capability of your output device determines the correct reso lution for a scan As a general rule to produce a high quality halftone image the image resolution measured in pixels per inch or ppi should be 1 5 2 times the lines per inch lpi value of the 63 64 halftone screen used to print the image For example to print a high quality image using a 133 lpi screen you would need an image resolution between 200 and 266 ppi 133 x 1 5 to 2 0 In some cases however dep
10. Ctrl S or Command Shift S Ctrl Shift S as described in the section Saving Presets on page 40 All of the settings for the active Preset whether they were set using selections from the Intelligent Adjustment menus or were adjusted using Fine Tune controls will be saved Settings Descreen Amount Radius 35 Fine Tune Controls Clear The Clear button below each setting in Fine Tune mode clears the adjustments for that setting disabling the effect To clear all of the settings at once hold down the Option Alt key this changes Clear to Clear All and click the Clear All button Reset The Reset button below each setting in Fine Tune mode resets the enhancement adjustment level for that setting to the state it was in when the Preset was last saved Any unsaved changes in the setting are discarded To reset all of the settings at once hold down the Option Alt key this changes Reset to Reset All and click the Reset All button Manual controls for the following settings can be selected from the Fine Tune Settings pop up menu when Fine Tune mode is selected Settings Fine Tune Descreen Dust amp Scratches Brightness Contrast Saturation Cast Sharpness Despeckle Paper amp Ink and Summary See below and the following pages Descreen Descreen helps remove traces of the dots used during printing that appear in scanned images This is accomplished by blending a blurred ima
11. Lisa McCormack Cori Taratoot Engineering Dave Pfeiffer Robert Craig Woldberg Eric Hayes Brad Bauer Quality Assurance Floyd Mann Carrie Anderson Beta Coordinator Russ Hayes Documentation Karen Sutton Special thanks to All our beta testers Glossary bitmapped An image formed by a rectangular grid of pixels The computer assigns a value to each pixel from one bit of informa tion black or white to as much as 24 bits per pixel for full color images calibration Setting equipment to a standard measure to produce reliable results from input to output See also monitor calibration CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Black The subtractive primaries or process colors used in color printing Black K is usually added to enhance contrast and to print a true black color correction The process of adjusting an image to compen sate for scanner deficiencies or for the characteristics of the out put device or the original film contrast The relationship between the lightest and darkest areas of an image dpi dots per inch Acommon measurement for describing the resolution of input and output devices See also ppi gamma Measures the contrast that affects the midlevel grays midtones of an image Adjusting the gamma lets you change the brightness values of the middle range of gray tones without dra matically altering the shadows and highlights grayscale The depiction of gray tones between black and white halftone
12. enhance 2 Select Quick Enhance page 17 Last Used Default or one of the other preconfigured enhancement Presets from the Extensis Intellihance Pro menu This applies the selected enhancement to image without open ing Intellihance Pro or 1 In Photoshop open the image that you want to improve or enhance 2 Open Intellihance Pro by selecting it from the Extensis menu Extensis gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 The image will be displayed using whatever layout and settings were applied last 3 Examine the image to see if you like the changes that were made to the image 4 If the image looks good as it is click the Apply button to apply the enhancement to the image If the image requires further adjustment use the tools available to change the settings The tools and options are summarized on pages 14 and 15 and described in detail in other sections of this User Guide When you are satisfied with the results click the Apply button to apply the enhancement to the image Extensis Mask Pro PhotoAnimator PhotoBars PhotoBevel 3 0 PhotoButton 3 0 PhotoCastShadow 3 0 PhotoEmboss 3 0 PhotoGlow 3 0 PhotoGroove 3 0 PhotoT exture Intellihance Pro 4 0 Intellihance Pro 4 0 About Extensis Quick Enhance Clean Up Bright Enhance Dark Image Enhance Dartken Deep Enhance Despeckle Digital Camera Digital Camera Flash Dirt Reductio
13. image in the Preview area Single Image view or pane Repeating Image view If the image does not completely fill the pane the remaining background will be filled with gray You can also Fit Window by pressing Command 0 Ctrl 0 Fill Selecting this option from the View menu completely fills the Preview area Single Image view or pane Repeating Image view with the image If the pane is too small to accomodate the entire image the image edges may be discarded You can also select the Fill command by pressing Command Option 1 Ctrl Alt 1 Qe Tip The Zoom and Hand tools work like they do in Photoshop Tip To fit the image to the window double click the Hand tool To view the image at 100 double click the Zoom tool Zooming and Panning The Preview area is completely resizeable and zoomable The Intellihance Pro workspace window can be stretched to fill your monitor or reduced to the default size You can zoom in on any portion of the image and pan around to see different parts or to place a particular section of the image in the viewing area of a pane To activate the Zoom tool e Click its icon or press the Z key To Zoom In e Activate the Zoom tool then click the area of the image that you want to magnify or e Press Command Ctrl or e Select the Zoom tool then drag a rectangle around the area that you wish to magnify Note In Repeating Image view dra
14. This allows you to view up to 25 dif ferent enhancement settings side by side Think of image panes as a clear glass window that you slide the image behind applying enhancement settings would be like applying filters over the glass To change the image layout Choose the desired layout from the Layout menu Selecting a Pane Layout Preset selected Active Pane indicated by colored border Layout 1x1 2x1 3x1 4x1 5x1 1x2 2x2 3x2 4x2 5x2 1x3 2x3 3x3 4x3 5x3 1x4 2x4 3x4 4x4 5x4 bee 2x5 3x5 4x5 5x5 Layout 1x5 selected Layout 1x5 displayed Panes S r hze ri poog Original Image v wW Lite Bright Digital Camera flash x Si sa ae p i j Off Color 28 Tip To toggle any pane between the current multi pane view and single pane view double click the desired pane with the Arrow tool View v Single Image Ctr R Repeating Image Ctr R Single Preset Ctrl N Multiple Presets Ctrl M Flip Layout Horizontally Ctri H Flip Layout Vertically Ctrl Shuffle Layout Forward Ctrl Shuffle Layout Backward Ctrl Zoom In Ctrl Zoom Out Ctrl Fit Ctri 0 Actual Pixels Ctrl AlteO Fill Ctrl Alt The Active Pane When you click any pane with the Arrow tool that pane becomes the active pane The Active Pane is indicated by a Red border this color can be changed in File gt Preferences All settings that are displayed in the Settings area and all
15. a 1x5 matrix Arrow Hand and Zoom Tools The Arrow tool allows you to select which pane you want to work with You select a pane make it the active pane by clicking it with the Arrow tool The active pane is surrounded by a colored border the default color is red but this color can be changed in File gt Preferences In Power Variations Mode clicking with the Arrow tool in a non active pane will apply those settings to the active pane The Zoom tool allows you to magnify or reduce the image in the Preview area The Hand tool allows you to reposition the image in the Preview area Histogram Info and Clipping Tabs These tabs located in the bottom right corner of the workspace provide additional information about the image displayed in the active pane The Histogram tab shows a graphical representation of the color value differences between the original image and the enhanced image The Info tab displays individual pixel values in a chart allowing you to pinpoint a specific pixel to compare the before and after values The Clipping tab allows you to view which pixels are being clipped in different parts of the image Shadows Highlights or Saturation The Intellihance Pro Workspace Settings Modes Tools and Information Tabs Fine Tune Mode settings typical Settings Brightness Contrast z Amount fio f 274 A 4 2 Intelligent Adjustment Mode settings typical Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3
16. action and record enhancement commands by selecting one or more Presets from the Intellihance Pro menu Once the action is created you can use the Batch command to play the action on a folder of images or to import and process multiple images from your digital camera or scanner Note Only settings that have been saved as a Preset no beside the Preset name in the pop up menu will be recorded in actions Adjustment s made to an unsaved Preset when an action is created will not be saved as part of the action To enhance images using the Photoshop Batch command 1 Determine which Preset s you want to use for your images Actions can only be created from saved Presets You can use any of the pre configured Presets including Quick Enhance or open Intellihance and create Presets of your own see page 40 2 Create an action using the Photoshop Actions Palette Record desired enhancements by selecting Presets from the Intellihance Pro menu Use the Actions Palette to create an action then record Intellihance Pro enhancements by selecting one or more Presets from the Intellihance Pro menu Extensis gt Intellihance Pro m Ea Default Actions 7 5 Intellihance Pro 4 0 eeror cast VY Intellihance Pro 4 0 Settings Name Heavy Cast Removal 61 Batch Tip You can create actions with more than one preset to achieve various special effects For instance you c
17. scratches move both sliders to the far right 254 and 255 Both To best remove both dust and scratches pinch both sliders to the middle about 130 for the left slider and 131 for the right Brightness Contrast The Brightness Contrast controls allow you to adjust both the Brightness and the Contrast settings from the same Fine Tune control panel Using the controls on this panel you can adjust the output tone of the shadows midtones and highlights of an image To set the black point midtones and or white point of the image you can use the sliders enter values in the Amount field boxes or click an area of the image using the eyedroppers As you change these settings the curve will be updated to show you the overall range that has been set Black Point Adjust The Black left most slider lets you deter mine the black point of an image dragging it to the right makes more of the image black and darkens the image overall Midtone Adjust The Gray middle slider changes the midtone 50 mark of the image Dragging the slider to the left lightens the image while dragging to the right darkens the image White Point Adjust The White right most slider determines the white point of an image Dragging this slider to the left increases the white area of an image and lightens the rest of the image Eyedroppers Instead of using the sliders or entering absolute values you can use the Black Gray and White eyedroppers to set th
18. settings from the currently active pane will be applied to your image and you will exit Intellihance Pro Step by step instructions for using Intellihance Pro to enhance your images are given on pages 16 and 17 Exiting without Making Changes If you do not want to apply any enhancement settings click the Cancel button or press Command Q period Ctrl Q to close Intellihance Pro without making changes to your image Changes can always be undone from within the parent application by choosing undo from the Edit menu Edit Undo or press ing Command Z Ctrl Z The Intellihance Pro Workspace After you open your image in the host application and open Intellihance Pro you can preview the different enhancement set tings inside the Intellihance Pro workspace before applying any enhancements to your image The workspace provides the following functional areas as shown in the figure below Preview including image panes and Preset pop ups Settings Tools Information Tabs Cancel and Apply buttons and the Intellihance Pro Menubar Each of these areas will be described in detail in this User Guide For a quick over view of the Intellihance Pro Workspace see pages 11 through 13 The Intellihance Pro Workspace Functional Areas File Mode View Layout Help Intellihance Pro Menubar Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3 File Mode View Layout Preset pop up Pane Preview Settings
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20. to zero disabling the effect on the active pane Reset The Reset button below each setting in PowerVariations mode resets the adjustments for that setting This sets the active panesetting to the last saved value of the active Preset You can select any of the following settings for viewing with PowerVariations when this mode is enabled Settings gt PowerVariations Brightness Contrast Saturation Cast Sharpness Balance Brightness Contrast Saturation Sharpen The Brightness Contrast Saturation and Sharpen settings can be displayed using PowerVariations by selecting them from the Settings pop up menu when PowerVariations mode is selected Settings PowerVariations You can adjust the percentage of variation using Visual Adjustment slider Changes to the Visual Adjustment slider affect all the PowerVariation filters Cast Red Cyan Cast Variations display values of Red above and or to the left of the active pane and values of Cyan below the active pane Green Magenta Cast Variations display values of Green above and or to the left of the active pane and values of Magenta below the active pane Blue Yellow Cast Variations display values of Blue above and or to the left of the active pane and values of Yellow below the active pane You can adjust the percentage of variation using Visual Adjustment slider Changes to the Visual Adjustment slider affect all the PowerVariation filters 57 Color B
21. your hard drive Registration It is important to register your copy of Intellihance Pro so we can provide you with the best possible service Registered users of Intellihance Pro are eligible for technical support information regarding new versions and products discounts and special offers on new products Your registration number is located on the back cover of this manual or was sent to you via email if you purchased through our website You will need to enter that number to personalize your copy of Intellihance Pro If you choose not to personalize your copy Intellihance Pro will run in a demonstration mode that allows you to use the product for 30 days You can purchase additional registration numbers in the US at 1 800 796 9798 or 1 503 274 2020 In Europe call 31 0 30 247 50 50 Technical Support For questions regarding Intellihance Pro please first refer to this manual which describes the features and basic operations We invite you to visit our Intellihance Pro page on the Extensis web site www extensis com for frequently asked questions and trou ble shooting tips If you have a question which is not addressed in this manual or on the Extensis website Technical Support is available by phone at 503 274 7030 Monday through Friday 8 00 a m to 5 00 p m Pacific time When calling for technical support please be at your computer and have the following information avail able your Intellihance Pro registration
22. File Mode View Layout LO x Buick Enhance Intelligent Settings Descreen Off Contrast Snappy Brightness Shadow Emphasis Saturation Meim Medium Sharpness z Overal z Dust amp Scratches z Sharpness q Despeckle Dust amp Scratches PowerVariations Mode settings typical Settings Contrast Visual Adiustment 25 a Fine Coarse Settings Options are mode dependent Arrow Hand and Zoom PX Histogram Jinfo clip E Master z Tools Histogram Info and Clipping Tabs None Shadows Highlights Saturation 15 Extensis PhotoBars Intellihance Pro 4 0 Mask Pro PhotoAnimator PhotoBevel 3 0 PhotoButton 3 0 PhotoCastShadow 3 0 PhotoEmboss 3 0 PhotoGlow 3 0 PhotoGroove 3 0 PhotoTexture 3 0 gt _Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Quick Enhance gt Bright Enhance gt Clean Up gt Dark Image Enhance gt Darken gt Deep Enhance Despeckle About Extensis 16 Digital Camera Digital Camera Flash Dirt Reduction Drum Scanner Dust Reduction Edge Enhance Flatbed Scanner Focus Halftone Enhance Heavy Cast Removal Last Applied Photo CD Quick Enhance Scratch Reduction Smooth Soft Enhance Yector Enhance Vivid Enhance Steps to Image Enhancement 1 In Photoshop open the image that you want to improve or
23. INTELLIHANCE se ser Guide Version 4 0 for Macintoshe and Windowse 1998 Extensis Corporation This manual and the software described in it are copy righted with all rights reserved Under the copyright laws neither this manual nor the software may be copied in whole or part without the written consent of Extensis Corporation except in the normal use of the software or to make a backup copy of the software This exception does not allow copies to be made for others Extensis the Extensis logo and Extensis Library are trademarks of Extensis Corporation Intellihance Pro is a registered trademark of DPA Software Inc Intellihance contains trade secrets of DPA Software Adobe and Adobe Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc which may be registered in certain jurisdictions Corel is a registered trademark and Photo Paint is a trademark of Corel Corporation Apple Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Microsoft and Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Extensis warrants the disks on which the software is recorded to be free from defects in materials and faulty workmanship under normal use for a period of ninety 90 days from the original date of purchase If a defect occurs during the 90 day period you may return the disks to Extensis Corporation for a fre
24. Tones Off Dust Edge Enhance Off Hard Balanced Medium Off Hard Overall Off Off Flatbed Scanner Off Normal Midtone Med High Remove Medium Off Off Off Emphasis Focus Off Off Off Off Off Hard Off Off Off Halftone Enhance Auto Snappy Balanced Medium Remove Medium Overall Off Off Heavy Cast Removal Off Off Off Off Aggressive Off Off Off Off Photo CD Off Snappy Balanced MedLow Aggressive Medium Overall Off Off Scratch Reduction Off Off Off Off Off Off Light Tones Off Scratches Smooth Fine Art Off Off Off Off Off Overall Off Off Soft Enhance Fine Art Normal Balanced MedLow Remove Medium Off Off Off Vector Enhance Off Hard Shadow Med High Remove Hard Off Off Off Emphasis Vivid Enhance Off Snappy Balanced High Remove Medium Off Off Off 71 Index A Actions 61 Active pane 13 23 26 27 29 56 activating how to 29 color changing 27 defined 13 Apply command 20 26 Apply test strip command 27 Preference changing 27 Arrow tool 14 22 29 Automatic Reordering of panes 34 Batch processing 61 62 Balance Color in PowerVariations 58 Brightness Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 45 Fine Tune settings 50 PowerVariations settings 57 Bump sharpen weak channels 27 c Cancel command 26 Cast Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 46 Fine Tune settings 51 PowerVariations settings 57 Clear command 49 57 in Fine Tune mode 49 in PowerVariations mode 57 Clipping tab 14 15 24 Clipped Pixel color changing 27 Col
25. alance 3x3 The Color Balance setting is always displayed in a 3x3 layout This allows PowerVariations to display all of the settings that Green affect color balance Green Cyan Blue Yellow Red and Magenta casts as well as Contrast lightness and darkness The active pane which is displayed in the center of the layout dis Active plays the currently applied values Pane As with all the PowerVariation settings you can use the Clear and Reset buttons to change the baseline to Original Image or to restore the values of the Preset the last time it was saved Magenta Using checkboxes on the Color Balance control panel you can view color balance for Shadows Midtones Highlights or any combination of the three Intellihance Pro 4 0 53 6 olx Eile Mode View Layout Power Variations Settings Color Balance 3 x 3 z V Shadows T Midtones Highlights Visual Adjustment 25 nd Fine Coarse EELE Green F ER Lager tA Vady Clear Reset A Histogram imio cip Sw nT Seer Tip Choosing Shuffle Forward View menu places the pane settings clockwise around the middle Shuffle Backwards places the pane settings counter clockwise 58 Test Strip Output a gt eee a Transparency You can output any layout of image panes to the host application as a test strip This allows you to test the different enhancement settings on a printer or other ou
26. ately applied to the image and displayed in the image pane The individual adjustment settings associated with that Preset are displayed in the Settings area Intellihance Pro 4 0 42 1 The image may be displayed as a single image in a single pane as a single image broken up across multiple panes or as a repeat ing image displayed in multiple panes as shown above When multiple panes are being displayed the pane surrounded by a red border unless this color has been changed in File gt Prefer ences is the Active Pane All of the settings in the Settings area apply to the Active Pane To make a pane active click it with the Arrow tool A pane is automatically activated when a Preset is selected from its pop up menu When only one pane is being dis played it is by default the active pane 23 Info Histogram 24 Histogram Info Histogram Clip None Shadows Highlights Saturation Histogram Tab The Histogram tab is a graphical representation of the current pixel value differences between the original image and the enhanced image The enhanced image values are from the image being displayed in the Active Pane Pixels from the original image are shown in Black while pixels from the enhanced image are shown in Red unless this color is changed in File Preferences The Histogram can displa
27. be changed to reflect the majority of images not modified for each individual image To modify individual images select Fine Tune mode see page 48 For a description of each Intelligent Adjustment filter and a list of the options available for each one see below To change Intelligent Adjustment Settings options 1 Select activate the pane that contains the Intelligent Adjustment Preset you would like to alter 0r 1 Select the desired Preset from the pop up list in any pane This automatically activates the pane making the Preset in that pane the Active Preset 2 Select a new Settings option from the pop up menu for the desired filter The image in the active pane will be updated immediately with the new setting For example if you change Saturation to High the undersaturated image in the Active Pane will be adjusted to reflect the new Saturation setting Intelligent Adjustment Settings Descreen Images that have already been printed using a halftone screening process require special attention when re used by scan ning them The dots that make up the printed image are often par tially or wholly visible creating an undesirable pattern and possibly a moire when viewed on screen or printed again The Descreen option gently blurs the halftone dots blending the indi vidual colors used in printing Contrast The Contrast settings are used to increase the contrast of images Even the lowest se
28. d with the results you can undo the enhancement press Command Z Ctrl Z then open the Intellihance Pro plug in and fine tune the adjustment manually To Preview a Preset and apply it to an image in Intellihance Pro 1 Choose the desired Preset from the pop up menu in the desired pane then click the Apply button Intellihance Pro will enhance the image as it appears in the active pane using the settings from the selected Preset 37 38 Default Presets Intellihance Pro ships with 25 Presets Some of the Presets allow you to enhance images of different types and from a variety of sources such Flatbed Scanners and Digital Cameras Others allow you to apply common enhancement settings such as Remove Dust and Scratches and Darken Images We suggest you experiment with these Presets on different images and see if they are helpful in your environment You can use the Presets as is or modify them as necessary then save the new settings to the same or dif ferent Preset names You can even delete any or all of them except the three permanent Presets if you prefer to use your own Presets instead The three Presets that are permanently installed are Original Image Quick Enhance and Last Applied These Presets are dis played on the pop up menu in italic indicating that they cannot be changed re saved or deleted You can however select any of these presets change the settings and save those settings to a dif
29. dius 1 0 Tone BlackPoint 12 MidPoint 125 Gamma 1 02 WhitePoint 229 Saturation Factor 115 Cast RedBP 7 RedMP 124 Redw l GmBP 2 GmMP 128 GmiwP BluBP 0 BluMP 128 BluwP 2 Sharpness Alpha 99 Radius 1 0 PE Clear Reset Viewing the Preset Value Summary You can examine a listing of all the settings in effect for the Active Preset the Preset currently selected in the Active Pane by selecting this option from the pop up list in the Fine Tune Settings To display a Summary of values for the Active Preset 1 Select activate the pane that contains the Preset for which you would like to display settings values 0r 1 Select the desired Preset from the pop up list in any pane 2 Activate Fine Tune mode by selecting Fine Tune from the Mode menu or press Command F Ctrl F 3 From the Fine Tune Settings pop up menu select Summary A summary of the settings values for the active Preset will be displayed 41 Intelligent Adjustment Mode Tip To switch to Intelligent Adjustment mode press Command l Ctrl Intelligent Adjustment mode is the default Settings mode in Intellihance Pro In this mode Intellihance Pro provides access to standard settings values that are commonly used to enhance images There are nine different types of enhancement that can be set from Intelligent Adjustment mode each with several preconfig ured settings The preconfigured settings fo
30. duction D Dust Reduction J Paper amp Ink _Off bd n Feir bust Flatbed Scanner i ATTAR Focus Halftone Enhance Heavy Cast Removal Photo CD Quick Enhance Scratch Reduction Smooth Soft Enhance Vector Enhance Vivid Enhance Presets are stored on the user s computer and are available from the pop up menu in every pane in the image matrix each time Intellihance Pro is opened Presets are also available from the Intellihance Pro menu Extensis gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 in the host application allowing you to apply enhancement settings to images without ever opening Intellihance Pro see Quick Enhance on page 17 36 Tip To activate a different pane use the arrow keys gt Y to locate and select it Selecting and Applying Presets Note Intellihance Pro can automatically preview the installed Presets on the panes in order up to 25 or preview the same Preset in all the panes if you select either of these options from the View menu see pages 29 and 30 To apply a Preset without opening Intellihance Pro 1 In Photoshop open an image that you would like to improve or enhance Note Presets will also work on a selection 2 Choose the desired Preset from the Intellihance Pro menu Extensis Intellihance Pro 4 0 or Filter gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 Intellihance Pro will enhance the image or selection using the settings in the selected Preset If you are not satisfie
31. e Settings controls in the top right corner of the Intellihance Pro workspace The type of controls available will depend on which enhancement mode is selected Intelligent Adjustment Fine Tune or PowerVariations Modifications to the enhancement Settings affect the active Preset The Active Preset is the Preset that is selected in the Active Pane To Modify a Preset 1 Select the desired Preset from the Preset pop up menu in the pane that you want to work with The current Preset settings will be applied to the image in the selected pane 2 Using the Settings controls to make whatever changes you want to make When you make changes to an existing Preset a plus sign is displayed beside the Preset name in the pop up You can then resave the Preset to the current Preset name save the settings to a new Preset or simply examine the results of the new settings without saving them To Reset a Preset 1 Select the desired Preset from the Preset pop up menu or 1 Press Option Alt while clicking on the desired pane This resets the Preset to the saved settings Any changes to the Preset since it was last saved will be discarded To Copy Settings 1 Select the pane that you want to work with and make any desired adjustments You do not need to save settings in order to copy them 2 Press the Option Alt key while dragging and dropping the Active Pane over another pane This duplicates the
32. e Enhance Darken Deep Enhance Despeckle Presets and Image Views When a multi pane view is selected Intellihance Pro automatical ly chooses a Preset pop up menu for each pane The Preset that is selected is set automatically according to the setting of the Single Preset Multiple Presets option on the View menu page 32 If Single Preset is selected the same Preset will appear in each pane If Multiple Presets is selected a different Preset will appear in each pane In Multiple Preset mode Presets are applied to panes in the order in which they appear on the Preset pop up menu They are applied to the panes from left to right top to bottom see figure below Since Original Image is the first Preset on the list the first image pane will always be set to Original Image a non enhanced view The rest of the Presets will be applied in order as described If there are more panes than Presets the QuickEnhance Preset will be applied to the remaining panes If only one pane is being displayed the Preset is set to Quick Enhance For more information on Presets see page 36 How Multiple Presets are Assigned Quick Enhance Original Image Last Applied Quick Enhance cleaned up darkened Deep Enhance Despeckle Everything Digital Camera Digital Camera flash Drum Scanner Dust amp Scratch removal Fix Dark Images Fix Focus fix green Flatbed Scanner Halftone Heavy Cast Removal Lite Bright
33. e and apply the settings that will best enhance most images without having to open the Intellihance Pro plug in This is the easiest and most automated way to use Intellihance Pro See page 17 Original Image You can view the unenhanced image or restore the image to its original unenhanced condition by selecting the Original Image Preset Last Used and Other Presets The Last Used Preset applies the enhancement settings that were last applied The other 22 Presets supplied with Intellihance Pro will enhance a wide range of different image types such as digital camera and scanned images The preconfigured Presets and their respective settings are listed in Appendix A page 71 Tip To display the image at 100 1 1 tap the Z key twice or double click the Zoom tool Important Descreen Despeckle Sharpness and Dust amp Scratches are best previewed at 100 Entering Intellihance Pro If you want to work with the enhancement settings available in Intellihance Pro you will first need to open your image in the host application Photoshop Photo Paint then open Intellihance Pro To Open Intellihance Pro 1 In Photoshop or other host application open an image that you would like to improve or enhance Note Intellihance Pro will work on the entire image or on a Selection 2 Choose Intellihance Pro from the Extensis menu Extensis Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 In
34. e black point midpoint and white point of the image by click ing with those eyedroppers in an appropriate place on the image Settings Saturation Amount 115 Settings Cast Red a 124 255 Green Note Most users increase the contrast when an image doesn t look right However always remember that an increase in con trast results in a loss of detail in many cases the Sharpen setting should be changed instead of the Contrast setting Intelligent Light Meter The Intelligent Light Meter allows you to identify the picture s foreground elements and configure Intellihance Pro to use that area as a measurement area much like a photometer helps photographers set their exposure properly Saturation Saturation controls the amount of color within the selected area of the image The further the slider is dragged to the right the more color intensity is added to the image Dragging the slider to the left will result in an unsaturated image that is basically a grayscale image This setting will not work on grayscale images Cast You can fine tune cast removal by adjusting the amount of red green and blue RGB images cyan magenta and yellow CMYK and a and b channels Lab color that are contained within shadows midtones and highlights by manipulating the sliders in the Cast control panel The Cast option is not available for grayscale images Eyedroppers The Cast eyedroppers
35. e enhancement envi ronment All of the image enhancement functions in the host application Photoshop Photo Paint are available and combined into common settings groups Presets that you can adjust at will and you can view the effects of different adjustments side by side Within the Intellihance Pro workspace you select a layout from a single pane to a 5x5 matrix then select an enhancement Preset from the pop up menu in each pane This allows you to compare different effects You can then make adjustments to one or more Presets to achieve just the right effect You can refine or fine tune specific settings if necessary and you can save any number of Presets for future use When you find a setting you like select that pane then click Apply to apply the enhancement to the image The Intellihance Pro Workspace 1x5 Image Matrix Single Image Preview Area Intellihance Pro 1x5 matrix Single Menubar Image shown Settings Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3 File Mode View Layout Preset i i it S Pop up Intelligent Settings Menu Descreen Off tsd Contrast Normal z Brightness Balanced Tone Saturation Medium Low z Cast Remove Cast Sharpness Medium Sharpness z Despeckle Off z Ne x Dust amp Off ane A Scratches Active s Pane F Histogram Info cip Border Old A 31 20 14 11 X 11 Preview Area Image Matrix Using Intellihance Pro s preview ar
36. e in the middle of the Preview window and displays Brightness values of 10 and 20 darker in the two panes above the active pane and Brightness values of 10 and 20 lighter in the two panes below the active pane 20 Darker X Active Pane Brightness 20 Darker Active Pane Brightness 10 Dark D Active Pane Brightness 10 Lighter X Active Pane Brightness 10 Light rogir y Lighter A Active Pane Brightness 20 Lighter 55 Changing the Value of the Active Pane You can instantly change the setting of the active pane in order to Tip view variations above and below a new value You do this by A clicking the Arrow tool on whichever pane contains the variation You can swap the increase de h h Th crease positions by choosing the that you want to set as the new active pane The active pane now appropriate flip option from the takes on the value of the variation pane that was clicked All the View menu other panes are updated accordingly For example Continuing with the example we started on page 55 assume that you have examined the Brightness variations and have decided that you would like to see how your image will look when all the variations are lightened up a bit To do this you would select the Arrow tool then click the pane containing one of the increased Brightness variations We chose the Brightness 10 variation Clicking this pane with the Arrow tool causes PowerVariation
37. e replacement provided that you have previously registered your product with Extensis Corporation This warranty is limited to replacement and shall not encompass any other damages including but not limited to loss of profit and special incidental or other similar claims This software is provided on an as is basis Except for the express warranty set forth above Extensis Corpora tion makes no other warranties either express or implied regarding the enclosed soft ware s quality performance merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Extensis Europe Zonnebaan 34 3606 CB Maarssen The Netherlands Telephone 31 0 30 247 50 50 Fax 31 0 30 241 20 39 E mail extensis euronet nl Extensis Corporation 1800 SW First Avenue Suite 500 Portland OR 97201 Telephone 503 274 2020 Fax 503 274 0530 Technical Support 503 274 7030 E mail support extensis com http www extensis com Contents Introducing Intellihance Pro 0200002 nna aD System and Software Requirements 5 Installation 2 0 8 hse bene shape ware 6 RGSIStralION 3 aed ose oe SEY E N seats oath oe ee bie 6 Technical Support 0 0 0 0 eee ee eee 6 Using this Manual 0 0 0 e eee eee eee 7 What s New in Intellihance Pro 4 0 0 7 Getting Started with Intellihance Pro 9 Overview of Modes 0 eee eee eee 10 Overview of the Workspace
38. ea you can view one group of enhancement settings called a Preset on your image or simultaneously view the effects from as many as 25 different Presets at one time This allows you to com pare different settings side by side You can view different sec tions of a single image in each pane Single Image view or have the same image area repeated in each of the panes Repeating Image view Presets Presets allow you to apply different enhancement settings to your image as a group You can create and save any number of groups of settings and save each group as a preset Intellihance Pro ships with 25 pre configured Presets which you can use as is or modify to meet your needs You can create additional presets as required Available presets can be selected The Intellihance Pro Workspace 3x3 Image Matrix Repeating Image Preview Area 3x3 Repeating Image shown Settings Intellihance Pro 4 0 42 1 Preset Pop up Lg Pm il Active Pane Active Histogram 12 v Single Image 8R Repeating Image R Single Preset Multiple Presets Filp Layout Horizontally 38H Flip Layout Vertically Vv Shuffle Layout Forward Shuffle Layout Backward Zoom In B Zoom Out B Fit 0 Actual Pixels lt 0 Fill from the Preset pop up menu in each image pane in Intellihance Pro and from the Extensis gt Intellihance Pro menu i
39. ea in Green unless a different color is specified in File Preferences Settings Modes Important The Settings area displays the current settings for the image in the Descreen Despeckle Sharpen Active Pane The Settings options that are available are deter and Dust amp Scratches should be previewed at 100 mined by which of the three enhancement modes is currently active Intelligent Adjustment Fine Tune or PowerVariations Settings Settings Visual Adiustment 25 a Fine Coarse Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3 _ jo x File Mode View Layout Intelligent Settings Fine Tune Mode Descreen Off x Contrast Snappy z y ettinn s Bri htness Contrast z Brightness Shadow Emphasis z 2 Saturation Medium z Cast Remove Cast z Sharpness Medium Sharpness z art Despeckle Overal z r lt Duti a Dust amp Scratches z P A A Intelligent Adjustment Mode PowerVariations Mode To change the Settings mode 1 Choose the appropriate Settings mode Intelligent Adjustment Fine Tune or PowerVariations from the Mode menu v Intelligent djustment 31 Fine Tune F Power Yariations P These modes are discussed in detail on pages 42 through 57 You can use the Settings area to view the settings for the Active Pane and to change those settings Any changes that you make in the Settings area affect the image in the Active Pane When a pre set i
40. ending on the image and the output device ratios of as low as 1 25 produce excellent results The size of the final image compared to the original image is also a consideration in setting scan resolution If the final output size is not known then overscan by a larger factor For more informa tion about determining the final output size refer to your scan ner s manual If you see excessive noise in your scans your scan ner may be taking short cuts Even though you want a scan at 225 ppi many scanners will scan the picture at 300 ppi and remove pixels electronically In the case of high resolution scans it is common for a scanner to scan at 600 ppi and add pixels to get 1200 ppi This may result in speckle artifacts or blurring If you see excessive scanner noise try scanning at 300 or 600 dpi and then scale the image in Adobe Photoshop Remember the scale factor affects the scan ppi For more information about determining the scan resolution refer to Scanning Importing and Exporting Images in the Adobe Photoshop manual Determining When to Use the Despeckle Filter You can view speckles or noise to determine whether to use the Intellihance Pro Despeckle filter Noise can be previewed directly by turning up or increasing the contrast in the tones to an extreme If the speckles are severe set the Despeckle filter menu to Dark Tones Only Intelligent Adjustment Settings area This will suppress shadow noise If you are processi
41. ent Settings Options Filter Option Description when enabled Descreen Auto Descreen Automatically detects a screen in an image and removes it Newspaper Select this option when the scanned in image is of low quality and low line screen such as the 85 line screens used in newspapers Magazine Select this option when the scanned in image is of medium quality taken from a magazine newsletter or publication with a line screen of 133 150 Ipi Fine Art Select this option if the line screen of the printed art was 175 or higher or if the image was printed from an ink jet printer Conirast Soft Results in pictures with lower contrast Normal Results in a normal increase in contrast Darker shadows brighter highlights and enhanced midtones result from this setting Snappy Differentiates the light and dark areas Lines can appear between similarly bright areas and shadows and highlights appear solid without much detail solid blacks and solid whites Hard Hard contrast is just this side of posterization The detail that remains is only Flatten Shadows Flatten Highlights between areas of very distinguishable brightness levels Makes the dark areas lose their detail Removes excess noise from bright to very bright areas This setting is only recommended when printing on darker than bright white stock such as newspaper Brightness Deeper Shadows Shadow Emphasis Balanced Tone Midtone Emphasis Highlight Em
42. et Paper amp Ink Intelligent settings to automatically adjust images for output to specific device types Use Fine Tune controls to manually adjust individual Ink Limit Dot Gain and total Ink Limit Getting Started with Intellihance Pro Intellihance Pro gives you ultimate control of image enhance ment providing you with a range of options from completely automated allowing Intellihance Pro to intelligently determine the best filter settings to enhance the image to completely manual With Intellihance Pro you have complete control over each enhancement setting and visual feedback is provided via multiple image panes and numeric values so you can easily per fect any image This section will give you an overview of the tools and options available and the different ways you can use Intellihance Pro so you can determine the best way to put the power of Intellihance Pro to work for you Intellihance Pro 4 0 87 5 besre od Contrast Corm Brightness Saturation cast Remove stv Sharpness Despeckle Paper amp Ink Dust amp _Off Scratches Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3 1 Eile Mode View Layout olx Intelligent Settings Descreen Jor H Contrast Noma A Brightness _ BalancedTone Saturation MedumLow gt ey Sharpness Medium Sharpness gt Despeckle Off hd Dust amp Off gt Scratches
43. ets you adjust not only color balance brightness and saturation visually but also Sharpness Contrast and Cast Test Strip Output Print the totally customizable comparison layout to view a multitude of possibilities from the output device of your choice Totally Flexible and Customizable Interface Choose the number of enhancements from an intuitive Layout menu with twenty five different custom layouts e Repeating Image Comparisons Using Repeating Image View images can be viewed by repeating a specific portion of the image or the image in its entirety in each of the panes that make up the image matrix e Split Image Comparisons Using Single Image View an image can be split into sections across the different panes of the image matrix Enhancements include Fine Tune Presets Presets can now be saved as either Intelligent or Fine Tune manual settings One Click Access to All Presets Apply all presets directly from Photoshop Simply choose the desired preset from a Photoshop menu and the Intellihance preset is applied to the image or selection Ships with 25 Customizable Presets Several real world pro duction and many special effects presets are already included giving you 25 different starting points from which you can tweak the settings further Dust amp Scratch Removal Finds dust and scratches and removes them without blurring or destroying detail Paper amp Ink Settings Provides several Pres
44. first pane forward will cause the last pane to assume the first position Flipped Horizontally ee 5 25 v Single Image R Repeating Image BR Ez i es eS Single Preset 98N 20 Multiple Presets 2M a aaa E M E J ce Filp Layout Horizontally 3H 1 5 Flip Layout Vertically BY Shuffle Layout Forward Shuffle Layout Backward 10 Zoom In e Entel ca 7 Ee sae aa E Zoom Out 38 Fit 0 1 2 3 4 5 Actual Pixels 59360 Fill 336 1 Shuffled Forward One Position 34 Flipped Vertically Shuffled Backward One Position Tip To quickly duplicate the active pane press Option Alt while clicking an inactive pane Manual Reordering You can change the order of individual panes by dragging them them using the Arrow tool Swap Positions Dragging one pane and dropping it on top of another pane will cause the two panes to swap positions Duplicate Copy a Pane You can duplicate the settings in any pane by pressing the Option Alt key while dragging and drop ping the desired pane over another pane This is handy when you want to use the settings on one pane as the starting point for adjustments to another pane without saving a Preset for those settings You can make changes to the d
45. g Presets 37 DefaultiPresets 2 csc een da pate E SEN a a ee 38 Modifying Resetting and Copying Presets 39 Saving Presets 212 As eh a ky WA a le ea as 40 Deleting Presets cae ck se eae ee EER Ba oe CE 40 Viewing the Preset Value Summary 41 Intelligent Adjustment Mode 5 42 Using Intelligent Adjustment Settings 43 Intelligent Adjustment Settings 0 00 43 Fine Tune Mode 00 cn eee nee 47 Making Fine Tune Adjustments 48 Fine Tune Controls 0 0 cee eee eee 49 PowerVariations Mode 0000008 54 HOW Jt WOrKS 564 ces Bh he e R E EAE ER E 55 Changing the Value of the Active Pane 56 PowerVariations Controls 00 2 c eee ee eee eee 57 Test Strip Output 00000 ne eee Batch Processing and Actions Imaging Tips 0000eee ee 63 Scanning TIPS so so bee a Sa ee et Aah G 63 Determining When to Use the Despeckle Filter 64 Enhancement Tips 0 0 0 0 00 eee eee eee eee 65 Running Intellihance Pro on the Image Again 65 Monitor Calibration Tips 00 00000005 65 Printing Tips es ees ia oa scl E de RR Sha WER eos Rs 66 Troubleshooting 000000e nee ene Glossary 2 cee Appendix A Default Presets and Settings Index ws e eee 71 72 Introducing Intellihance Pro Welcome to Extensis
46. g zooming stops at the pane border To Zoom Out e Activate the Zoom tool press and hold Option Alt then click the area of the image that you want to reduce or e Press Command Ctrl To activate the Hand tool e Click its icon or press the H key To Pan Scroll using the Hand tool e Activate the Hand tool then drag the image until you locate the area you wish to view 31 View v Single Image Ctrl R Repeating Image Ctrl R Single Preset Ctrl N Multiple Presets Ctrl M Flip Layout Horizontally Ctrl H Flip Layout Vertically Cirle Shuffle Layout Forward Ctrl Shuffle Layout Backward Ctrl Zoom In Ctrl Zoom Out Ctrl Fit Ctri 0 Actual Pixels Ctrl Alt O Fill Ctrl Alt Single Image View Repeating Image View You can display your image in Single Image view where the image is sectioned between the panes each displaying a different part of the image or you can display the image in Repeating Image view where each pane displays the same part of the image The active pane remains in the same position when you change image views To change the Image View Select either Single Image or Repeating Image from the View menu To toggle between Single Image and Repeating Image View Press Command R Ctrl R Single Image and Repeating Image Views Single Image View Repeating Image View 32 Back Enhance ha Dark Imag
47. ge with the original image which helps to fill in any gaps and to cover up noticeable colored dots while still maintain ing detail Amount The Amount slider controls the amount of descreening The further the slider is dragged to the right the more descreened the image will be Radius The Radius slider controls how far the descreen function examines the image to determine if a contrasting color is present and needs to be descreened The higher the value toward the right the greater the area that is checked This value is measured in pixels The Radius setting is the most critical of the Descreen settings adjust it until you have an acceptable removal of visible halftone dots without too much blurring 49 50 Settings Dust amp Scratches Radius zn Threshold Settings Brightness Contrast Amount 4 229 oN 2 ME Dust amp Scratches Dust and Scratches removes salt and pepper noise from your image without sacrificing detail Dust amp Scratches can only be previewed at 100 Radius Radius defines the search area in which to remove salt or pepper noise any area smaller than the radius setting you choose You can manually adjust the Radius setting from 0 to 5 a setting of 5 is best for dust and scratch removal Threshold Dust To best remove dust move both Threshold sliders to the far left 0 for the left slider and 1 for the right slid er Scratches To best remove
48. he image in each pane page 32 Repeating Image view allows you to preview the entire image or as much of it as will fit within each pane page 32 You can view a single preset in all of the panes or view different presets in different panes And you can quickly reorder the layout by flipping the panes horizontally vertically or shuffling them forward or back ward 13 14 v IntelligentAdjustment 31 Fine Tune Power Variations F 38P Overview of Tools Note For the following refer to the figure on page 15 Settings and Modes The type of Settings displayed in the top right corner of the workspace is determined by which of the three enhancement modes is currently active Intelligent Adjustment Fine Tune or PowerVariations No matter which mode is active these settings always apply to the active selected pane see page 29 In Intelligent Adjustment Mode page 42 Intellihance Pro determines appropriate enhancements for the active pane based on settings that you select from pre defined lists of common settings Fine Tune Mode page 47 allows you to tweak the image in the active pane to fine tune individual settings Power Variations Mode page 54 automatically applies equal variations of a selected setting across all the panes using the settings in the active pane as the starting point If only one pane is being displayed when PowerVariations is chosen the variations are automatically displayed in
49. he total amount of ink to the designated level Reducing the total ink limit can result in better trapping 53 PowerVariations Mode Tip To switch to PowerVariations mode press Command P Ctrl P Note Presets saved in PowerVariations mode are saved as Fine Tune pre sets PowerVariations is a visual mode that allows you to compare the Brightness Contrast Sharpness Saturation Cast or Color Balance of an image with different variations of that setting Using PowerVariations you work with one setting at a time this allows you to focus on one particular effect seeing a number of variations displayed in specified increments The increments are represented as percentages of the selected Fine Tune setting in the currently active pane PowerVariations displays the variations across as many panes as are displayed in the current layout If only one pane is displayed PowerVariations will automatically create a 1x5 layout to display the different settings see figure below PowerVariations mode allows you to make visual adjustments to each setting of the Preset in the active pane When this mode is invoked the active pane will be displayed in the centermost posi tion You can adjust the amount of variation using the controls in the Settings area of the workspace when PowerVariations is selected PowerVariations Settings Settings Brightness Y 50 Darker Bal 25 Darker Bal p
50. images that require it It will not reduce the amount of sharpness in an image that is too sharp Using this filter Intellihance Pro recognizes image areas in terms of sharpness affecting the least sharp areas the most and the most sharp areas the least Despeckle The Despeckle filter removes noise such as photo grain or scanner induced noise while preserving detail Using this filter Intellihance Pro detects the edges in an image the areas where significant color changes occur and gently smooths all of the selection except for those edges This filter has three options that will process only noisy pixels without changing highlights or other details Paper amp Ink Paper amp Ink dot gain prevents overinked under inked areas when printing Dot gain only applies to CMYK Grayscale and printing not RGB Adjusts Dot Gain and Limits and changes Total Ink Limit on CMYK or grayscale images to reflect printing industry standards for the following types of paper Coated Commercial 150 LPI Uncoated Commercial 133 LPI Coated SWOP 133 LPI Uncoated SWOP 120 LPI Uncoated SWOP Newspaper Proof Laser Printer Dust amp Scratches Dust and Scratches removes Salt and Pepper Noise from your image without sacrificing detail In Intelligent mode you can chose whether you would like to remove Dust Scratches or both by selecting one of the settings from the pop up menu Dust and Scratches can only be previewed at 100 Intelligent Adjustm
51. infor mation displayed in the Information tabs Histogram Info and Clip apply to the active pane only Any changes that you make in the Settings area also apply only to the active pane When you apply the enhancement to your image using the Apply command the settings from the active pane are applied To activate a pane Click on it with the Arrow tool 0r Press any arrow key amp gt y until the desired pane is selected 0r Select a new Preset from the Preset pop up menu in the pane that you want to activate Layout Views Single Image The Single Image command on the View menu allows you to see the entire image at once If multiple panes are selected from the Layout menu the panes will be superimposed over the image You can toggle between Single and Repeating Image views by pressing Command R Ctrl R See also page 32 Repeating Image The Repeating Image command allows you to repeat a small portion of the image as much as will fit in a pane across each of the panes in a multi pane layout Single Preset You can limit the display to a single Preset no matter how many panes are being displayed by selecting this option from the View menu If more than one pane is being dis played the Preset for the Active Pane is displayed in all the panes This can be useful when you want to see what changing the value of one or two settings does to the Preset Single Preset is not available in PowerVariations
52. ion represents the amount of gray in proportion to the hue and is measured as a percentage from 0 gray to 100 fully saturated screen frequency The number of lines or dots per inch on a halftone screen Same as Ipi white point The reflective value that a scanner sees as white or 0 Appendix A Default Presets and Settings De Bright Sharp De Paper Dust amp Preset screen Contrast ness Saturation Cast ness speckle amp Ink Scratch Quick Enhance Off Normal Balanced MedLow Remove Medium Off Off Off Original Image Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Last Applied Bright Enhance Off Snappy Highlight MedLow Purify Gray Soft Light Tones Off Off Emphasis Balance Clean Up Off Flatten Shadow High Aggressive Medium Off Off Off Shadows Emphasis Dark Image Enhance Off Snappy Balanced MedLow Remove Medium Dark Tones Off Off Darken Off Soft Deeper Med Low Remove Off Off Off Off Shadows Deep Enhance Off Normal Deeper Medium Purify Gray Medium Off Off Off Shadows Balance Descreen Magazine Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Despeckle Off Off Off Off Off Off Overall Off Off Digital Camera Off Snappy Midtone MedLow Aggressive Off Overall Off Off Emphasis Digital Camera Flash Off Snappy Shadow MedLow Remove Off Overall Off Off Emphasis Drum Scanner Off Normal Balanced Medium Purify Gray Soft Dark Tones Off Off Dust Reduction Off Off Off Off Off Off Dark
53. lution of the printer dpi the line screen frequency lpi and the number of shades in your halftone Setting the LPI for Your Laser Printer Use the following table for setting the lpi of your laser printer Printer DPI LPI shades Optimal for 300 53 32 600 72 65 600 dpi laser proofing 600 85 50 newsprint proofing 800 100 64 800 85 88 newsprint proofing 1000 133 56 high resolution 1000 120 69 better tone 1000 100 100 1200 150 64 high resolution 1200 133 81 better tone 1200 100 120 For example if you have a 600 dpi laser printer you should use 72 lpi This provides 64 shades of gray A setting of 85 lpi could also be used in proofing newsprint which provides about 50 shades of gray Troubleshooting The Intellihance Pro menu isn t showing up in my Filter menu or The Intellihance Pro menu isn t showing up in the Extensis menu Check that your application is looking to the correct plug ins folder when it loads If you have multiple version of the host application it is possible that the program is looking in the wrong plug ins folder Will Intellihance Pro process every image correctly Intellihance Pro processes most images in an optimum way Users have experienced a 1 7 fallout although it is interest ing to note that often it is hard to improve the fallout images beyond that of images processed by Intellihance even when starting from scratch If i
54. mage quality degrades after running Intellihance Pro with its default preferences try turning Brightness and or Brightness preference settings Off and running Intellihance Pro again What scanners does Intellihance Pro work with Intellihance Pro works with all scanners you can optimize images from any source Will Intellihance Pro work with my color management system Intellihance Pro works well with color management systems both inside and outside of Adobe Photoshop Does Intellihance Pro require that my scanner be calibrated Because Intellihance Pro operates on color balance principles it works with both calibrated and uncalibrated scanners 67 68 gt Must I calibrate my monitor when using Intellihance Pro If you plan to use the monitor display to evaluate the quality of the image before you print it is very helpful although not required to calibrate your monitor If you are evaluating grayscale images on the monitor then calibrate your monitor using the monitor preferences in Adobe Photoshop If you are evaluating color images on your monitor you should use a color calibration system gt My image looks good on the monitor but not in print You may need to calibrate your output device or monitor or both Try outputting and printing a test strip page 59 and comparing this to the image on the monitor Intellihance Pro 4 0 Product Team Senior Product Marketing Manager Ted Alspach Program Manager
55. mages Cyan Dragging these sliders to the right increases the Cyan Dragging to the left increases the Red removing the Cyan Magenta Dragging these sliders to the right increases Magenta Dragging to the left increases the Green removing the Magenta Yellow Dragging sliders to the right increases the Yellow Dragging to the left increases the Blue removing the Yellow Cast Slider Settings for Lab Images a Dragging these sliders to the left increases the red removing the green Dragging to the right increases green removing red b Dragging these sliders to the left increases the yellow remov ing the blue Dragging to the right increases the blue removing the yellow Sharpness Sharpness controls the sharpness of the image Amount Controls the general sharpening amount of the image Radius Controls how far from each pixel the sharpening is applied Definition Controls the sharpening more in the shadows and midtones than the highlights This makes the image appear sharp er overall because our eyes are more sensitive to highlights when the shadows are sharpened more we perceive an equal amount of sharpness throughout the image Threshold Determines how different adjoining pixels need to be to be sharpened Differences above the indicated threshold will be sharpened differences below this threshold will be smoothed Smoothness Controls the blend or mix between the original image and the smoothed image blurri
56. mode 29 30 Layout 1x1 2x1 3x1 4x1 5x1 1x2 2x2 3x2 4x2 5x2 1x3 2x3 3x3 4x3 5x3 1x4 2x4 3x4 4x4 x4 bee 2x5 3x5 4x5 5x5 View v Single Image R Repeating Image 3R Single Preset 3N Multiple Presets 38M Filp Layout Horizontally 38H Flip Layout Vertically Vv Shuffle Layout Forward Shuffle Layout Backward Zoom In Zoom Out Actual Pixels Fill Multiple Presets The Multiple Presets command on the View menu automatically displays each of the available Presets in a different pane If there are more panes than Presets the remaining panes will have QuickEnhance selected Changing the Pane Layout When using multiple panes you can specify how many panes you want in the layout and how the panes are to be arranged number of panes displayed horizontally and number of panes displayed vertically by choosing the appro priate matrix parameters from the Layout menu The layout can be changed at any time Changing Preset Display Order After you have chosen a lay out the Preset order within that layout can be changed By drag ging one pane to another pane the Preset from the first pane will move to the new location You can also change the display order by selecting options from the View menu such as Flip Layout Horizontally Vertically and Shuffle Layout Forward Backward See page 34 for more information on the various Layout options Fit Selecting this option from the View menu fits the entire
57. n Drum Scanner Dust Reduction Edge Enhance Flatbed Scanner Focus Halftone Enhance Heavy Cast Removal Photo CD Scratch Reduction Smooth Soft Enhance Vector Enhance Vivid Enhance Using Quick Enhance The fastest and easiest way to enhance your images is to select the Quick Enhance Preset and let Intellihance Pro do all the work Simply select Quick Enhance from the Extensis Intellihance Pro menu the best enhancement settings for the image are immediately determined and applied To enhance an image using Quick Enhance 1 In Photoshop or other host application open an image that you would like to improve or enhance Note Quick Enhance and other Presets will also work on a selection Choose Quick Enhance from the Intellihance Pro menu Extensis gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Quick Enhance or Filter gt Intellihance Pro 4 0 gt Quick Enhance Intellihance Pro will enhance the image or selection If you are not satisfied with the results you can undo the enhancement press Command Z Ctrl Z then open the Intellihance Pro plug in see below and fine tune the adjustment manually 0r 2 Choose any Preset from the Intellihance Pro menu to apply those settings to the image 17 The Intellihance Pro Environment 18 How Intellihance Pro Works Intellihance Pro improves the way your images appear in print or on the screen by automatically adjusting the contrast brigh
58. n Photoshop The Original Image preset allows you to view your image as it is without enhancement For additional information on Presets see page 36 Active Pane The Active Pane is the pane indicated by a red out line around the border of the cell unless this color has been changed in File gt Preferences Settings the controls found to the right of the preview window see below contain all image adjustments in the Active Pane s Preset These settings apply only to the currently active pane if you activate another pane i e by clicking it with the Arrow tool the Settings will display the information contained in that pane s preset Presets can be select ed from the pop up menu in each pane Settings When you select a Preset in a particular pane the select ed pane becomes the active pane and the settings associated with it are displayed in the Settings area Any changes you make to the Settings will affect the Preset in the currently active pane A plus sign is appended to the Preset name when its settings are changed The sign is removed when the Preset is saved For additional information on Settings see page 25 and the different Settings Modes Intelligent Adjustment Fine Tune and Power Variations Views Using commands found under the View menu you can view your image across multiple panes in one of two ways as a single image or as a repeating image The Single Image view pre views a section of t
59. ng a batch of images with severe photo grain noise set the Despeckle filter menu to Overall Enhancement Tips After you have processed an image with Intellihance there are three ways to further enhance the image 1 Run Intellihance Pro on the image again Command F Ctrl F 2 Reopen Intellihance Pro and adjust the Intelligent mode settings Mode gt Intelligent Adjustment 3 Reopen Intellihance Pro and adjust the Fine Tune mode settings Mode Fine Tune You can always refer to your Adobe Photoshop User Guide for additional information about image enhancement Running Intellihance Pro on the Image Again When Intellihance Pro processes an image it compares the input to the settings in the active Preset then chooses from a range of values within each setting to apply to make the output conform to those settings Sometimes you can process the image through Intellihance Pro again to gradually attain the desired enhancement for that image You can also run Intellihance Pro again to bring out the effects of a specific filter For example maybe the sharpness of the image is good but you want more brightness If you set the Sharpness fil ter to Off and run Intellihance Pro again the Brightness filter con tinues to improve the brightness of the image Monitor Calibration Tips If you want to use your monitor to evaluate halftones and color images on the screen commonly referred to as soft proofing y
60. ng areas of the image that fall under the threshold At 100 the blurred image is placed at all the pixels that fall below the threshold This has the effect of removing noise and speckles from relatively smooth areas Summary You can examine a listing of all the settings in effect for the Active Preset the Preset currently selected in the Active Pane by selecting this option from the pop up list in the Fine Tune Settings See page 4 for additional details Settings Despeckle Threshold 25 Amount 10 Limit Dot Gain Limits Total Ink Limit Settings Paper amp Ink v Options Cyan x 5 3 60 g 30 g Magenta a a 100 g 0 g Yellow a a 100 g o g Black a 100 0 g Despeckle The Despeckle control removes unwanted tiny pixels from larger solid areas Threshold This value helps Intellihance Pro determine the dif ference between an edge and actual noise Amount Controls how much blur is mixed with the original image Limit Controls what pixel values are affected by the Despeckle The lower limit toward the left controls dark pixels the upper limit toward the right controls light pixels Paper amp Ink Paper amp Ink prevents overinked underinked areas when printing Applies to CMYK and Grayscale printing not RGB Intelligently adjusts Dot Gain and Limits and changes Total Ink Limit on CMYK or Grayscale images to reflect printing indus
61. ng settings 39 default 38 71 deleting 40 italicized 38 71 modifying 39 overview 12 permanent 38 previewing 37 resetting 39 resaving 40 saving 40 selecting 29 settings listed 71 Summary 41 52 using 36 41 Preview 12 23 Printing Tips 66 Q Quick Enhance 10 17 18 38 how to use 17 Registration 6 Repeating Image 29 32 command 29 view 32 Reset command 49 57 in Fine Tune mode 49 in PowerVariations mode 57 74 S Saturation Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 45 Fine Tune settings 51 PowerVariations settings 57 Scanning Tips 63 Sharpness Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 46 Fine Tune settings 52 PowerVariations settings 57 Save Preset command 40 Save Preset As command 40 Selecting and Applying Presets 37 serial number obtaining 6 Settings changing 25 modes 14 25 overview 13 14 selecting 25 Shuffle Layout commands 34 Single Image 29 32 command 29 view 32 Single Preset command 29 Software requirements 5 Summary of Preset values 41 52 System requirements 5 swapping panes 35 see also Panes Layout T Technical Support contacting 6 Test Strip 59 60 Tips 63 66 Despeckle using 64 enhancement 65 Monitor calibration 65 Printing 66 running Intellihance Pro again 65 scanning 63 Tools 14 15 22 Troubleshooting 67 v Views layouts 29 overview 13 Ww What s New 7 Workspace overview 11 13 X Y Z Zoom tool 14 22 31 Zoom command 31 Zooming how
62. number your computer configuration and your question or a description of the difficulty you re experiencing what specifically occurs and when Take note of any displayed error numbers or messages and any other information you think may be relevant Using this Manual This User Guide covers Intellihance Pro for both Macintosh and Windows Where necessary keyboard commands and menus that differ between the two systems are indicated as follows Macintosh Command Windows Command This User Guide uses examples taken from Photoshop though you may be using a different host program such as Photo Paint Please refer to the user guide for your specific application for any plug in specific issues What s New in Intellihance Pro 4 0 Intellihance Pro version 4 0 is a major upgrade to this popular image enhancement program Minor enhancements are too numerous to mention but the major new features and enhance ments are listed below New to Intellihance Pro 4 0 e View up to 25 Simultaneous Enhancement Comparisons Lets you view any number of enhancements at once from a single enhancement up to twenty five different enhancements at once all in real time Each enhancement can be slightly or radically different from the next Enhancements contain up to 50 different Photoshop functions at once and can be saved as presets for future use e PowerVariations Taking Photoshop s Variations to the next level Intellihance Pro l
63. og you can select the following Active Pane Histogram Color Allows you to change the color used to display both the active pane border and the enhanced image values on the Histogram tab Clipped Pixel Color Allows you to change the color used to display clipped pixels in the Info tab Bump Sharpen Weak Channels Gives you the option to sharpen only the weak channels of your image When this box is not checked all channels of the image will be sharpened Apply Test Strip to Allows you to specify whether Test Strips are saved to the Original Image overwriting the original image or to a Duplicate Layer which preserves the original image by placing the test strip on a new layer above the active one To change a Preference Choose Preferences from the Intellihance Pro File menu or press Command K Ctrl K then select the desired options Preferences LI Active Pane Histogram Color E Clipped Pixel Color 7 Bump Sharpen Weak Channels Apply Test Strip to Duplicate Layer V eee aes 27 Working with Panes By displaying your image across a number of mini windows or panes you can compare different enhancement settings and select the one just right for your image By selecting any of the Presets in the Preset pop up menu in each pane you can specify different enhancement settings for each pane Your image can be displayed in a single pane or across a matrix of panes up to 5x5
64. or Balance in PowerVariations 58 Contrast Intelligent Adjustment settings 43 45 Fine Tune settings 50 PowerVariations settings 57 Default Presets 38 Descreen Intellgent Adjustment settings 43 45 Fine Tune settings 49 72 Despeckle Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 46 Fine Tune settings 53 Tips for using 64 duplicating panes 35 see also Panes Dust amp Scratches Intelligent Adjustment settings 44 46 Fine Tune settings 50 Enhance image how to 16 17 Enhancement Tips 65 Extensis contacting 2 6 F Fill command 30 Fine Tune 10 14 47 53 adjustments making 48 Brightness settings 50 Cast settings 51 52 Contrast settings 50 controls 49 54 Descreen settings 49 Despeckle settings 53 Dust amp Scratches settings 50 described 47 mode 10 14 47 53 Paper amp Ink settings 53 Saturation settings 51 settings changing 48 settings saving 48 Sharpness 52 Summary 41 52 Fit Window command 30 Flip Layout commands 34 G Getting Started 9 Glossary 69 70 Hand tool 14 22 hardware requirements 5 Histogram tab 14 15 24 color changing 27 How Intellihance Pro works 18 Image enhancement how to 16 17 Image Matrix overview 12 Installation 6 Info tab 14 15 24 Intelligent Adjustment 10 14 42 46 Brightness settings 44 Cast settings 44 Contrast settings 43 Descreen settings 43 Despeckle settings 44 Dust amp Scratches settings 44 described 42 mode 10 14 42 46 Paper amp Ink settings 44 Sa
65. ou must calibrate your monitor Reliably soft proofing an image can save time and money in proofs and printing jobs Calibration is the process of adjusting your monitor with the color conversion parameters to compensate for various factors that affect both the on screen image and its conversion to printed output These factors include room lighting conditions the type of viewing light source and the quality and settings of your monitor and display card For comprehensive instructions on calibrating your monitor refer to Calibrating Your System in the Adobe Photoshop User Guide 65 66 Printing Tips After you ve processed your image so that you re satisfied with it the next step is to prepare the image for your output device You need to set the lpi of your output image and then of your out put device Setting the LPI of Your Output image Selecting the lpi of your printer or imagesetter has a dramatic effect on the quality of your printed image The human eye needs to see at least 64 gray levels for good tonal evaluation This is why you should consider your output printing requirements before you begin setting the ppi of your scanner If you plan to photocopy laser print or quick print don t use line screens over 100 lpi In most cases you can use the setting for your printer s default screen ruling located in your graphics application If not calcu late the best lpi for your printer based on the reso
66. ould create a sepiatone Fine Tune preset then use an action to apply first Quick Enhance and then the sepiatone preset to the image This way images processed would be both color corrected and enhanced and changed into a sepiatone 62 3 Create a batch process using the Automate gt Batch command from the Photoshop File menu Use Batch command options to select a folder of images to perform the action on or to import multiple images directly from your digital camera or scanner Batch f Intellihance Pro 4 0 Remove Cast Gigas E oyenmide Action Save In Garinands f Stop For Errors For more information on actions and batch processing see your Adobe Photoshop User Guide Imaging Tips Getting a great image is easier than ever before thanks to Intellihance Pro 4 0 but there are things you can do to make your images look even better as well as things you can do to help determine what type of enhancements to make Scanning Tips You can use your scanner interface to control your scanner s brightness color cast white point and scan resolution Most scanner interfaces have various controls to set brightness contrast gamma highlight and shadow points These controls if used improperly can add noise or flatten the highlights and shad ows of the image That s why it s best to turn off your scanner s automatic features To evaluate your scanner s capabilities
67. pane settings When you duplicate a pane the pane that you dropped the duplicate on will be discarded along with any unsaved settings applied to that pane 39 Save Preset As x 40 Apply Enter Apply test Strip Save Preset S Save Preset As Delete Preset Preferences Quit Saving Presets To Resave a Preset 1 When you are ready to save the changes to a Preset select Save from the Intellihance Pro File menu or press Command S Ctrl S The Preset in the Active Pane will be saved replacing the Preset s current settings with the new settings To Save a New Preset 1 When you are ready to save your settings to a new Preset select Save As Save Preset As from the Intellihance Pro File menu or press Command Shift S Ctrl Shift S Enter a name for the new Preset The Preset settings in the Active Pane will be saved to the name you specify The new Preset will be added to the Presets list Deleting Presets The Delete Preset command affects the currently selected Preset in the Active Pane To Delete a Preset 1 Select the desired Preset from any Preset pop up menu The Preset in the active pane will become the active Preset 2 Select Delete Preset from the File menu or press Command Delete Ctrl Backspace The currently selected Preset in the Active Pane will be deleted Settings Summary Descreen Alpha 35 Ra
68. phasis Emphasizes shadows resulting in a darker image overall Darkens an overall range of areas to give the entire image a darker feel Attempts to balance the dark and light areas of the image Increases the amount of midtone areas by darkening some mid to bright areas and brightening some mid to dark areas Biases the brightness toward the highlight range Saturation Low Medium Low Medium Medium High High Produces pictures with a minimum amount of color Produces pictures with a little less color than in typical images Produces pictures with the amount of saturation found in typical images Produces pictures with a little more saturation than in typical images Produces pictures with intense saturation 45 Intelligent Adjustment Settings Options continued Filter Option Cast Purify Gray Balance Remove Cast Aggressive Cast Removal Description when enabled Looks for areas of the image that are close to gray and automatically balances them Only purifies slight casts leaving the rest of the image untouched Looks for any distinguishable color cast in the highlight midtone and shadows of an image and removes that cast Can remove casts of different colors simultaneously if they occur Use this setting when the cast is visually apparent of itself no side by side comparison is needed to discern it Also use this setting if you see a certain hue throughout
69. provide the most effective method for removing cast from an image Use the eyedroppers to sample unwanted cast on an image and have that color neutral ized throughout the image Use the Black left most eyedropper to sample from a shadowed area don t aim for black just a dark area Use the Gray middle eyedropper to sample a midtone Use the White far right eyedropper to sample a highlight color avoid white As you sample with the eyedroppers the sliders are updated automatically You can then adjust the sliders individually or enter a value in the fields to fine tune the results of the eyedroppers Cast Slider Settings for RGB Images Red Dragging these sliders to the left increases the Red Dragging to the right increases the Cyan removing the Red Green Dragging these sliders to the left increases the Green Dragging to the right increases the Magenta removing the Green Blue Dragging these sliders to the left increases the Blue Dragging to the right increases the Yellow removing the Blue 51 52 Settings Sharpness Amount 99 Radius Definition 98 Threshold oO Smoothness Settings Summary Descreen Alpha 35 Radius 1 0 Tone BlackPoint 12 MidPoint 125 Gamma 1 02 WhitePoint 229 Saturation Factor 115 Cast RedBP 7 RedMP 124 Redwi GmBP 2 GmMP 128 GmiwP BluBP 0 BluMP 128 BluwP 2 Sharpness all Alpha 99 Radius 1 0 Cast Slider Settings for CMYK I
70. r each filter can be selected from the appropriate pop up menu in the Settings area of the workspace see figure below To manually adjust any of the preconfigured settings fine tune the setting you will need to switch to Fine Tune mode by selecting it from the Mode menu or press Command F Ctrl F See page 47 for information on Fine Tune mode Intelligent Adjustment Settings Intellihance Pro 4 0 87 5 Contrast Y Brightness Balanced Tone v Saturation Cast Sharpness Medium Sharpness w veser a Contrast norma 7 Despeckle Off 7 Brightness Saturation Paper amp Ink Off X Eoria Soratches Paper amp Ink Dust amp Soratches Settings options in Intelligent Adjustment mode 42 Descreen Off Contrast Normal Brightness Balanced Tone Saturation Medium Low Cast Remove Cast Sharpness Medium Sharpness w Despeckle Off Paper amp Ink Off Dust amp Scratches Tip When scanning images to be de screened scan newspapers at 300 dpi magazine and fine art images at 600 dpi Tip For greater accuracy when descreening images should be viewed at 100 and should not be resized prior to being enhanced by Intellinance Pro Using Intelligent Adjustment Settings The settings options available from the pop up menus in the Intelligent Adjustments Settings should
71. s changed a plus sign will appear next to the Preset s name You can save the changed Settings as a new Preset by choosing Save Preset As from the File menu The new Preset will be available from the Preset pop up menu displayed in each pane Presets are discussed on pages 36 through 41 25 File Mode View Layout Help 26 Menubar Commands Features options and commands available in Intellihance Pro can be accessed from the Intellihance Pro menubar Most com mands can also be invoked using keyboard shortcuts including using the tab key and arrow keys to navigate in the workspace Keyboard shortcuts are listed on the Quick Reference Card that came with your Intellihance Pro application and are noted where appropriate throughout this User Guide Cancel and Apply Cancel To cancel out of Intellihance Pro without changing the original image click the Cancel button or choose Quit Exit from the File menu The Intellihance Pro dialog box will be closed without changing the original image Apply To enhance the image click the Apply button or choose Apply from the File menu or press Return Enter The current Settings for the active pane are applied to the image and the Intellihance Pro dialog box is closed Apply Apply test Strip Enter Save Preset 2S Save Preset s oes Delete Preset Preferences Quit Preferences From the Preferences dial
72. s to increase the Brightness value of the active pane by 10 resulting in a lighter image in that pane The Brightness values of all the other panes are increased or decreased by 10 using this new setting as the starting point Mode PowerVariations Settings Brightness Adjustment 10 Layout 1x5 Click with Arrow Brightness 10 20 Darker oo Active Pane Brightness 20 Dark 20 Darker gt Active Pane Brightness 20 Darker 10 Darker v 10 Darker v Active Pane Brightness 10 Dark Active Pane Brightness 10 start Last Applied v Last Applied v Active Pane Brightness start D Active Pane Brightness Light 10 Lighter v 10 Lighter had Active Pane Brightness 10 Light h Active Pane Brightness 10 Lighter Active Pane Brightness 20 Lighter Active Pane Brightness 20 Even Lighter 56 Settings Brightness v Settings re vi Fil Visual Adiustment Settings Settings 25 Fine Coarse Settings Red Cyan Cast Y Zia Settings __Green Magenta Cast v a A V Shadows Fin V Midtones Visu V Highlights Fine Visual Adiustment Settings Blue Yellow Cast v 25 Fine Coarse PowerVariations Controls Clear The Clear button below each setting in PowerVariations mode clears the adjustments for that setting in the active pane This sets the active pane setting
73. salt noise scratches from images Removes both salt and pepper noise from images 46 Fine Tune Mode Tip To switch to Fine Tune mode press Command F Ctrl F Fine Tune Settings Fine Tune mode allows you to make manual refinements to the enhancement settings of individual images This differs somewhat from the settings options in Intelligent Adjustment mode where Intellihance Pro uses its imaging engine to analyze and automati cally adjust the color saturation hue etc according to the select ed settings In Fine Tune mode you use controls associated with the same nine enhancement Settings that are available in Intelligent Adjustment mode to individually adjust any or all of the enhancement settings The image in the active pane is updated immediately as you change the settings in Fine Tune mode Fine Tune settings are saved when you save a Preset so be sure that any changes that you make using the Fine Tune controls are appropriate for the Preset that you are saving Fine Tune also provides a Summary option which allows you to display the individual values for all the settings that are currently applied to the active pane Intellihance Pro 4 0 98 3 File Mode View Layout Settings Brightness Contrast olki Gack Enhance Settings Brightness Contrast z Clear Reset Typical settings options in Fine Tune Mode Brightness Contrast shown 47 48
74. screen A pattern of dots of different sizes used to simu late a continuous tone photograph either in color or black and white Lab The Lab color model is based on the original color model proposed by the Commission Internationale d Eclairage CIE in 1931 as an international standard for color measurement Ipi lines per inch A measure of the frequency of a halftone screen usually ranging from 55 200 Originally halftones were made by placing an etched glass plate over an image and expos ing it to produce dots Lpi refers to the frequency of the horizon tal and vertical lines monitor calibration The process of correcting the color rendi tion settings of a monitor to match the colors of printed output multitone Used to integrate one or more colors into a grayscale image for a design effect 69 70 pixel picture element The smallest distinct unit of a bitmapped image pixelization If the image resolution is too low the PostScript language may use the color value of a single pixel to create sev eral halftone dots when printing This results in pixelization or blocky looking output posterization A flattening of highly saturated colors ppi pixels per inch A measure of the amount of scanned infor mation The finer the optics of the scanner the higher the scan resolution RGB Red Green Blue The additive primary colors used for computer monitor displays saturation The strength or purity of color Saturat
75. tellihance Pro will open and your image or selection will be displayed in the Preview area of the workspace Intellihance Pro 4 0 87 5 Descreen Off v Contrast Brightness Saturation Sharpness Despeckle Off v Paper amp Ink Off v Dust amp Seratches Lk The first time you open Intellihance Pro your image will fill the entire Preview area and the filter settings will be at their default values Thereafter Intellihance Pro will display your image using whatever preview layout and filter set tings were in use when the settings were last applied Note Lower resolution images on smaller selections will also fill the screen and therefore may appear pixelated Images are best viewed at 100 19 20 Applying the Current Settings to an Image The first time Intellihance Pro is opened it will be in the 1x1 lay out mode with the default settings Quick Enhance highlighted in the Preset pop up menu If the enhancement looks acceptable simply click the Apply button in the lower right corner of the window or press Return Enter to apply the settings to the image Feel free to change your layout to a view that best suits your enhancement needs Select different Presets adjust settings within the Presets etc until you have your image looking the way you would like it to Once the enhancement is acceptable simply click Apply and the
76. the image Sharpness Soft Only sharpens images that have a noticeable blur Medium Sharpens both soft and blurry images Hard Sharpens most images with the exception of very sharp images Extra Hard Creates the sharpest edges of the Sharpness options Despeckle Overall Useful for situations where the image may contain speckles or photo grain noise Dark Tones Only Useful for images where the light tones are satisfactory but the dark tones need to be adjusted Light Tones Only Useful for images where the dark tones are satisfactory but the light tones need to be adjusted Off Turns off despeckle filtering Paper amp Ink Off Turns off paper and ink filtering Coated Commercial Uncoated Commercial Coated SWOP Uncoated SWOP Unoated SWOP Newspaper Proof Laser Printer Use this setting if the image will be printed on 150 LPI coated commercial stock Use this setting if the image will be printed on 133 LPI uncoated commercial stock Use this setting if the image will be printed on 133 LPI coated SWOP stock Use this setting if the image will be printed on 120 LPI uncoated SWOP stock Use this setting if the image will be printed on newspaper stock Use this setting if the image will be printed on a Laser Printer Dust amp Scratches Off Dust Scratches Dust and Scratches Turns off dust and scratches filtering Removes pepper noise dust from images Removes
77. tness cast saturation and sharpness of your images If necessary you can set Intellihance Pro to automatically descreen despeckle and remove dust and scratches from the image The easiest way to apply these enhancement settings to an image is using Presets which are preconfigured groups of settings see below When you select a Preset such as Quick Enhance Intellihance Pro measures the original image compares the measurements to the settings in the Preset then automatically processes the image to match If no adjustment is required for a particular setting Contrast for example none will be applied You can adjust the enhancement manually by changing the settings for the Preset in the currently active pane You do this using the controls in the upper right area of the window To start with blank settings in a particular pane select the Original Image Preset The Presets Intellihance Pro ships with 25 different Presets for enhancing a number of common image types As you work with images you may want to create and save Presets that apply to specific types of images or jobs that you work with regularly Any Presets that you create will be available directly from the Intellihance Pro menu in Photoshop and in the pop up menu in each pane of the preview For more information see Using Presets starting on page 36 Quick Enhance By selecting the Quick Enhance Preset you are telling Intellihance Pro to determin
78. tput device Using options in the Preferences dialog File gt Preferences you can specify whether the test strip is saved to the image layer over writing the original image or to a another layer retaining the layer with the original image Note The settings from the currently active pane are not applied to the image when a test strip is saved To output the current layout as a test strip Choose Apply test strip from the File menu This applies the current layout to the active document in Photoshop as a test strip image and closes Intellihance Pro Test Strip Output SS Intellinance Pro 4 0 43 3 mura l U 2 Flatbed S Focus Soratch Smooth v Test Strip Setup O _ 003A0044 JPG 100 Layer 1 RGB ae roan Poe sacra DT Test Strip Output 59 60 How a Test Strip is Used The test strip feature has several uses to create a print sheet with different settings for testing printer or other output device calibration for testing monitor calibration between Macintosh and Windows or to see how different enhancement settings will look when printed on a particular printer For example if you have had problems in the past with a printer that tends to print too much cyan using Intellihance Pro you can create and save several Presets with different variations of color cast to offset the overly blue printing Next yo
79. try standards for the following types of paper Coated Commercial 150 LPI Uncoated Commercial 133 LPI Coated SWOP 133 LPI Uncoated SWOP 120 LPI Uncoated SWOP Newspaper Proof Dot Gain Press Gain is the apparent dot size increase from film to the printed reproduction This value is a function of many factors namely the LPI Paper type and press type Dot gain is typically measured at a 50 dot meaning that a known 50 dot is printed from an electronic file and the resultant apparent dot area is measured The difference between the measured value and 50 becomes the actual Dot Gain number As an example if you would print a 50 128 pixel value swatch on a printer and the value reads 65 on a densitometer the dot gain would be 15 65 50 15 To compensate for Dot Gain Intellihance Pro adds brightness to the pixel so that the 50 dot will actually print at 50 Be sure to consult with your commercial printer to deter mine if you should use Intellihance Pro s Dot Gain feature Limits Limits minimum or maximum dot size is used to pre vent highlight loss and shadow plugging Intellihance Pro allows for control over individual channels Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black regarding limits Total Ink Limits Total Ink Limits controls the maximum allowable amount of the total of Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black ink in the image If there is too much ink proportional amounts of Cyan Magenta and Yellow will be removed to reduce t
80. ts Intellihance Pro comes with 25 Presets already installed each Preset performs a specific enhancement function for example Despeckle Any of these Presets and any Preset you save from within the plug in can be applied from within Photoshop by selecting them from the Extensis menu From Intellihance Pro Intelligent Adjustment When Intelligent Adjustment is select ed from the Intellihance Pro Mode menu Intellihance Pro intelli gently determines the best possible adjustments for enhancing the image based on your preferred settings You can immediately apply Intellihance Pro s recommended adjustments or you can use these settings as a starting point for additional adjust ments and or fine tuning the settings v Intelligent Adjustment 1 Fine Tune F Power Variations P Fine Tune Selecting Fine Tune gives you access to manual con trols that allow you to individually tweak any or all of the settings that can be applied using Intellihance Pro The values you choose for each setting in Fine Tune mode are absolute values which affect each image regardless of its original appearance See page 47 Power Variations Selecting PowerVariations allows you to see incremental variations for each selected enhancement setting You can set the degree of difference to any range between 1 and 50 of the base setting See page 54 Overview of the Workspace Intellihance Pro gives you total control of th
81. tting of this filter will modify the contrast slightly Keep in mind that these settings are target set tings and a low setting may appear to do much more on a low contrast image than on a high contrast one Image contrast even on the lowest setting will never decrease 43 44 Tip As with other Intellinance Pro set tings don t pick a high setting just because your images tend to be low on saturation Pick the target amount of saturation that you d like your images to have in general Tip When zoomed in on large images the Preview screen may exaggerate the Despeckle effect Brightness The Brightness filter biases the automatic adjustment of the midtone of the image Saturation Saturation is the amount of color within the image The settings will increase or decrease the saturation based on the current setting Cast The Cast filter is used to remove unwanted color casts from the image Often times over or under exposed film will result in images that have a yellow red or green cast to them This is also potentially a problem when a scanner is improperly calibrated or when a picture was taken under fluorescent lighting Color cast ing is usually only noticeable when you compare the color cast image with the same image that has had the cast removed It is usually a good idea to keep the Cast setting on Remove Cast for the majority of images Sharpness The Sharpness setting selectively sharpens any
82. turation settings 44 Settings defined 43 44 Settings Options list 45 46 Sharpness settings 44 using 41 Intellihance Pro enhancing image how to 16 17 20 entering 19 exiting 20 how it works 18 layouts see Layouts modes see Intelligent Adjustment see Fine Tune see PowerVariations opening plug in 17 19 Presets 18 see also Presets running on image again 65 workspace 21 27 internet address Extensis 2 6 L Last Applied preset 18 38 Layout views 29 30 34 35 changing 30 flipping order 34 Multiple Presets 30 Repeating Image 29 Single Image 29 Single Preset 29 shuffling order 34 swapping 35 Menubar 21 26 Modes Settings 14 25 changing 25 overview 14 selecting 25 Monitor calibration tips 65 Multiple Presets 30 Oo Original Image preset 18 33 38 Overview of Modes 10 of the Workspace 11 13 of Tools 14 15 P Panes active 13 23 26 27 29 changing order of 34 35 defined 28 duplicating 35 layouts and 28 rearranging 34 35 selecting activating 29 working with 28 35 Panning how to 31 Paper amp Ink settings 44 46 53 73 PowerVariations 10 14 54 58 active pane value in changing 56 clear command and 57 Color Balance settings 58 controls 57 described 54 how it works 55 56 mode 10 14 54 58 Preferences 27 Presets 12 16 17 18 33 38 40 about 18 and Intellihance Pro menu 16 37 71 applying 16 17 33 37 and image views 33 assigning to panes 33 copyi
83. u would apply these different Presets to a sample image using an appropriate number of image panes and then output the variations as a test strip You would then print the test strip image on the printer in question and see which of the Preset variations looks best when the image is printed On future jobs destined for the heavy cyan printer you could use the selected Preset to adjust the images so that they print just as you want them to Things to Know About Outputting an Image as a Test Strip e To avoid accidentally overwriting your original image with the test strip image allow Intellihance Pro to create a new layer for your test strip To do so select the option Apply Test Strip to Duplicate Layer in File Preferences e If you modify Presets for use on a test strip be sure to save them If you do not you may not be able to recreate them once you have printed the test strip and identified the appropriate setting e You cannot create a test strip as part of an action Batch Processing and Actions Tip For detailed information on creating actions and using the Batch com mand refer to your Adobe Photoshop User Guide You can use the Photoshop Actions Palette and Batch command to further automate the photo enhancement process with Intellihance Pro Presets You can create your own Presets or you can use any of the preconfigured Presets including the Quick Enhance Preset To use batch processing first create an
84. uplicated pane and then compare the results with the initial pane When you duplicate a pane the pane that you dropped the duplicate on will be discard ed along with any unsaved settings applied to that pane 35 Using Presets Presets allow you to automate your work by saving and applying different sets of enhancement settings called Presets You can apply any Preset to any pane by selecting it from the pop up menu in the pane You can access the 10 most recently used Presets from the File menu or by using keyboard shortcuts see the Intellihance Pro Quick Reference Card included in the Intellihance Pro product box Presets selected from the File menu or with a keyboard shortcut are always applied to the Active Pane Any changes you make to the enhancement settings for an image can be saved as a Preset You can select a Preset and use it as is or you can modify it by selecting different settings You can re save the Preset with the new settings save a new Preset with those settings or simply use those settings until Intellihance Pro is closed at which time unsaved settings are discarded Intellihance Pro 4 0 88 8 Quick Enhance T aa af Contrast Bright Enhance Clean Up Brightness Off MM Dark Image Enhance saturation Deep Enhance r Cast Despeckle 7 Digital Camera Sharpness Off bd Digital Camera Flash Dirt Reduction Despeckle Dust Re
85. y all of the image values at once Master by individual channel such as Red Green Blue for RGB images or by saturation Saturation To change the Histogram channel being displayed Select a new display option from the Histogram pop up menu Info Tab The Info tab displays individual pixel values in a chart allowing you to pinpoint a specific pixel to compare the before and after values This is particularly useful if you need to determine what changes are being made to individual pixels The Info chart displays the original and changed values for each color channel as well as the values for Luminosity and Saturation To check the value of a pixel Click the Info tab to select it then pass the mouse over the Preview without clicking or dragging As the mouse passes over the different pixels the display is updated with the new values Stop the mouse anywhere to display the val ues for the pixel directly beneath it You may want to zoom in to make pixel selection easier Clipping Tab The Clipping tab lets you examine the clipping for different parts of the image Shadows Highlights or Saturation Clipped areas are defined as 100 Black pixels when Shadows is selected 100 White pixels when Highlights is selected and 100 Saturated pixels when Saturation is selected To check for clipped areas in an image Click the Clipping tab to select it then choose a clipping type Clipped pixels are displayed in the image ar

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