ELAN Imaging and Assembly multi-layer page editing starts on the Composite tab where you decompose your pages into image and text areas.

The composite tab contains tools for separating your image areas from background and text areas making it possible to edit a page's elements separately.

Black and white images can be converted to grayscale for better quality printing. Grayscale can be edited using the available filters.

The following examples show the steps of a typical page edit process; however, you can change the options to accommodate your specific situation.

Our first example page contains black and white images.

Step 1: Markup any area you wish to protect from any background editing or areas you wish to edit separately by clicking the Highlight button from the Composite Toolbar.

Composite Tab

Step 2: Click the Composite View button. If you have selected black and white images using the Highlight button these images will be converted to grayscale images for improved printing quality.

Step 3: Using the Selection tool click on an image and additional editing tools will appear in the right hand pane. The tools in the right hand pane perform the following tasks:

Blur radius - Softens an area selection by smoothing out pixels at the hard edges of text or lines. Blur radius affects the area within a radius from the edges in the selected area.

Unsharp radius -  Used to set the sharpness of text or line edges to make them more sharp and darker or less sharp and lighter. Unsharp radius affects the radius area from the edges in the selected area.

Unsharp amount - A  filter value determining how much smoothness should be removed.

Brightness and Contrast - Sliding scales to adjust the tonal ranges of an image. Brightness and Contrast adjusts every pixel in a selected area.

Composite Tab Image Editing

Step 4: Background editing can now be done on the Edit tab. As you work in the edit tab you will notice that your highlighted images are protected from edits and not visible. Deleting the Highlight will bring back the images should you wish to edit them on the edit tab. Should you at any time need to start over use the Revert button from the toolbar to reset your page to its original properties.

Our second example page contains grayscale images. After highlighting the areas we go to Composite view where we use the selection tool to click on an image. Notice that the Moiré filter appears in the right hand pane. Using the sliding scales you can adjust the Brightness and Contrast on your selected image. Color image editing is not supported by the Moiré filter.

Moire Filter

Clicking on an area other than a highlighted image will display the Threshold level filter in the right hand pane. Using the threshold you can diminish the appearance of disturbance from your background. On this next picture we have edited the background to remove some of the remains of scanning disturbances seen in the picture above.

Threshold Level Filter

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