Microtek 35t plus User Guide

The Color Meter Display is useful if you wish to adjust the shadow and highlight points
of an image.

As you pass over a point in the image, the Color Meter Display will show the appropriate
RGB values of that point in the image. The significance of the numbers is explained
below.
•      There are two numbers shown in the Color Meter Display. The first number repre-

sents the raw color data taken by the scanner; the second number represents the
resulting value after color correction or image enhancement is applied to the image.

•      The values can be anywhere from 0 to 255, with 0 as the black point, 255 as pure

white, and all other values in between corresponding to shades from black to white.

•      The values as a whole represent color information for the sample size selected in the

Sample Size button (discussed below). For instance, if you chose 3 x 3 as your
sample size and your R value reads 23, that shows your red value of 23 is the
average of a 3-pixel by 3-pixel area.

The numbers in the Color
Meter Display represent
color information.

The numbers can be from
0 to 255, with 0 as the
black point, 255 as white,
and all values in between
corresponding to shades
from black to white.

Pixel-value information is useful especially if you are making color corrections based on
color values. Knowing this, you can modify the shadow and highlight points of an
image, then come back to the same point in the image, and verify through the Color
Meter Display that the RGB values have indeed changed.

The Color Meter Display can also be used in conjunction with the Color Picker tool. For
more details, see the Color Picker topic in the Preview Window section of the Reference.