Hi, On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:47:32PM +0100, stef wrote: > I gave the name 'highlight' to this option, because of the specs of the > scanner. UMAX says that this scanner has shadow/highlight settings. I'm not > quite > the option name is really exact. > The 'highlight' option increase the dynamic range of the samples. By > example, > if samples for a given color range from 56 ro 180, when 'highlighted', the > samples will range from 30 to 197. I don't know the right word for it in > english, > but in french I'd call it 'contraste'.
If you broaden the color range like you describe, you increase the "contrast" (German = "Kontrast"). If you do this color manipulation in hardware (analog), you may call it "gain" (German = "Verstärkung"). At least that's how I understand it. Bye, Henning
