Important note: Use this excellent scanner when you need a high resolution scan of a mounted slide or when you have a slide where the color has faded or developed an unwanted color cast.

Scans made with this particular scanner, because of how it is configured, will take longer to process, so if you are scanning a number of mounted slides and don't need the special image processing capabilities it offers, or if you need to scan negatives, we recommend you use one of the GroundWorks flatbed scanners equipped to scan transparencies.

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Bring your images. Gather the slides you plan on scanning. It would be best to come with the slides you wish to scan well organized to save yourself time later on.

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Have a place to save your images. Make sure to prepare a place to save your files. While you are scanning, it is a good idea to first save your files to a folder on the desktop of the computer you are using. When you are finished, you can then transfer your files to your IFS space, another network storage area, Zip disk, or CD.

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Find and open the Nikon Scan application.

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Insert your slide face up, right side up, into the slot in the scanner.

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Select your slide type from the second pull down menu in the Nikon CoolScan window.

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Click the Preview button in the lower left corner of the CoolScan window. An image of your slide will appear when the scanner is done previewing it.

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In the Tool Palette, open the Crop menu.

Note: if you can't locate the Tool Palette, click the purple Tools button in the CoolScan window. In the menu that appears, select Tool Palette 1.

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The Crop menu allows you to select which setting takes priority when adjusting the settings for your scan. While each setting is selected, it will ensure that those particular selections remain stable, while the other settings will change.

In the next step, you will want to freely select the area to scan, so select Keep this crop.

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Position the cursor over the right-hand border of the selection marquee. The cursor will become a double-sided arrow.

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With the double-sided arrow, click and drag the marquee border to resize it and select the area you wish to scan.

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Use this technique to adjust all four borders of the scan area.

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Once you have your scan area selected, the physical size of your scan take priority, so select Keep this output size.

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Enter the size you would like your finished scan to end up. The width and height will change proportionately, according to the scan area you previously selected.

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Enter the appropriate resolution. If you'd like to have a high quality image ready to print on a printer, select a resolution of 300 Pixels/Inch. For an image that is perfect for screen display or web display only, select 72 Pixels/Inch.

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To save your file, choose Save As from the File menu.

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In the Save As dialog box that appears, type a descriptive name for your image document, choose where it is to be saved, and select a file format to save it as.

We recommend to save the first copy of your image as a TIFF file (.tif). TIFF is a widely used, cross-platform format that can be compressed without any loss of data. After you have saved a copy in this format you may save alternate copies as other file types.

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When you are finished click Save.

It is a good idea to save your files to the hard drive of the computer you are using. When you are finished with all of your scanning, you should then transfer your files to your IFS space or another network storage area. You may also copy them to a Zip disk though we have found them to be problematic and unreliable.

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