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    IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS
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    Scanner's or displayed image's brightness setting. 0x0502  1282

    IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS allows you to set or read the brightness setting of a scanner or displayed image.

    Type:

    IG_ISIS_TAG_TYPE_SHORT

    Drivers

    All scanner drivers.

    Values:

    The application must get choices (using IG_ISIS_choice_get_long) to be aware of the number of possible positive brightness settings as well as the following special values for IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS. Higher numbers produce lighter pages. These values were chosen so that all possible combinations of brightness can be represented by a single range of values. All scanners support values of at least -2 through 0, and many support, for example, 1 through 127 as well (providing 128 brightness steps).

    Value Defined Constant Meaning
    -3 IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_AUTO Set brightness value automatically based on real-time sampling during scanning.
    -2 IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_DARKEN Lighten the page relative to IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_NORM. This will result in a particular value being set based on tests conducted by the designer of the scanner driver. To determine this value, read the value of IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS.
    -1 IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_NORM Select a "normal" brightness. This will result in a particular value being set based on tests conducted when the scanner driver was designed. Each model of scanner may have a different IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_ NORM value To determine this value, get the value of IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS.
    0 IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_LIGHTEN Darken the page relative to IG_ISIS_BRIGHTNESS_NORM. This will result in a particular value being set based on tests conducted by the designer of the scanner driver. To determine this value, read the value of IG_ISIS_TAG_BRIGHTNESS.

    See Also

    IG_ISIS_TAG_CONTRAST