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 XSane mode:
   Scan options
 
 Medium selection
 
 Color management
 
 Color correction:
 Standard options window
 
 Advanced options window
 
 Preview:
 Batch scan:
 Setup:
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When you scan an image with color management disabled then you often get an image that does not look very good.
The colors do not look natural, the contrast is bad, the image is too dark etc.
The reason for this is that each device interprets a color e.g. represented by a red, green and blue value in
its own way.
When you want a display or a printer to produce an image with the colors of a photo that you want to scan with a scanner
then you need to tell your system how each device interprets colors. This is done with ICC/ICM profiles.
When you have at least an ICC/ICM profile for your scanner and for your display then you can enable the color management of XSane.
Please make sure that you filled out the
color management setup
correct before you enable it, otherwise you will get a lot of error messages.
 
 Enable color management:
 
   
To enable the color management activate it in the Preferences menu.
When you do this then the gamma, contrast and brightness options are disabled.
Color management function: 
   
There are three different functions available when color management is enabled:
  
    Embed scanner ICM profile
    The image is saved with the original image data, no color transformation is
    done. The ICM profile is embedded to the image file. Programs that support
    color management know how to correct the colors.
 Advantages:
    
    Disadvantages:
 
      Usage:a lot of programs are not able to handle embedded profiles 
      image archive, image manipulation with all color corrections,
      professional printing When the selected file format does not support the embedded profiles then
    the image is tranformed to sRGB.
 
  
    Convert to sRGB
    The image is converted to sRGB, no ICM profile is embedded.
 Advantages:
 
      Disadvantages:all programs can handle the color corrected image 
      Usage:sRGB does not cover all visible colorswhen you do any further color correction then you lose color
      information that can result in visible color steps 
      web publication, office documents, image manipulation only when no color
      correction is done, home and office printing 
  
    Convert to working color space
    The image is converted to the working color space you selected in the color
    management setup. The ICM profile of the working color space is embedded
    to the image file.
 Advantages:
 
      Disadvantages:There are color spaces that do cover the visible colors better than sRGB
      does 
      Usage:when you do any further color correction then you lose color
      information that can result in visible color steps 
      image archive, image manipulation with (may be limited) color correction,
      professional printing 
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