[sane-devel] .fr.po - first snapshot

Tue Feb 18 23:38:05 GMT 2003

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