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Page 3 - Microsoft Corporation.

- 3 - This instruction manual does not provide instructions for the basic operation of thepersonal computers, or the basic operation of Windows® or Mac OS operatingsystems.Please refer to the manual that came with your computer for information on theabove mentioned topics. • Microsoft® and Windows® ...

Page 4 - TABLE OF CONTENTS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (Windows

- 4 - TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS..................................................................................................4 BEFORE YOU BEGIN.....................................................................................................6 TERMS USED IN THIS MANUAL .................

Page 6 - BEFORE YOU BEGIN; TERMS USED IN THIS MANUAL

- 6 - BEFORE YOU BEGIN TERMS USED IN THIS MANUAL • This manual assumes that your computer’s operating system (Windows®95/98/98 Second Edition/Me/2000/NT 4.0 or Mac OS) as well as other necessary software such as device drivershave been installed, and are operating properly. • In general, the descrip...

Page 10 - INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Windows; For Windows; Turn on your PC to start Windows

- 10 - INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Windows ® ) Follow the procedure below to install the software on your Windows PC. RAM stationed programs such as anti-virus programs or installation monitoring programsmay cause the installer to fail. Uninstall those programs from your system or temporarilydisable th...

Page 13 - Turn on your Macintosh to start Mac OS.; Double-click the “Utility” folder to open

- 13 - INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Macintosh) Follow the procedure below to install the software on your Macintosh computer. Functional expansion programs such as anti-virus programs or control panel documents maycause the installer to fail. Remove those programs/documents from your system using theuti...

Page 16 - STARTING THE SOFTWARE; “DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility”

- 16 - STARTING THE SOFTWARE For Windows ® : 1. Turn on your PC to start Windows®. 2. Select “Start” “Programs(P)” “DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility” “DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility”. The main window of the utility (figure-left) appears.

Page 18 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS; handled by this software; If you use Windows; then connect it to your computer using the USB cable.

- 18 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS This software reads all image files (or one file) in the selected folder, and displays their thumbnails (100 x 75pixels) on the screen.If image files are Minolta-RAW files (image files with the .mrw extension), they will be processed to theimage format that can...

Page 19 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS; To Display Thumbnails of All Images in the Folder:; Click the “Load All Images” button of

- 19 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Display Thumbnails of All Images in the Folder: 3. Click the “Load All Images” button of the main window. The OS (operating system) standard folder selectiondialog box appears. (The left-hand figure is forWindows ® .) 4. Select the folder where image files a...

Page 20 - Image files in the selected folder are; “Open

- 20 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS 5. Image files in the selected folder are read, and their thumbnails are displayed (figure-left). * If Minolta-RAW files (image files with the .mrw extension) exist in the selected folder, the “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window appears every time the software r...

Page 21 - To Display a Thumbnail of a Certain Image in the Folder:; Click the “Load an Image” button in the

- 21 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Display a Thumbnail of a Certain Image in the Folder: (continued from page 18, Operation 2 ) 3. Click the “Load an Image” button in the main window. The OS (operating system) standard folder selectiondialog box appears. (The left-hand figure is forWindows ® ...

Page 22 - “Open the Minolta-RAW File”; See page 23 of this document for details

- 22 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS * If you selected a Minolta-RAW file (image file with the .mrw extension), the “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window appears when the software reads it in. The file will be processed to the image format that can be displayed on the monitor, and its thumbnail will ...

Page 25 - select the sharpness level.; Preview; Reset; Color Matching ON

- 25 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS 1. Select a white balance option to apply from the white balance selection menu. 2. Adjust the saturation and contrast level with slide bars if necessary, and then select the sharpness level. If you select “Setting when recording”, the whitebalance set by the d...

Page 26 - sharpness

- 26 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS 3. Click “OK”. Image files are processed according to the settingin the “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window, andthumbnails of Minolta-RAW files are displayed inthe main window. The “Open the Minolta-RAWFile” window will close automatically. If you changed the sa...

Page 27 - “Save”

- 27 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Save in the Minolta-RAW File Format: If you click “Save” instead of “OK” in the “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window, the OS (operatingsystem) standard file save dialog appears. (The left-hand figure is for Windows ® .) If you select the place (folder) to save...

Page 29 - To Change the Image Size:; Select the thumbnail that you wish to; Type the width or the height value of

- 29 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Change the Image Size: 1. Select the thumbnail that you wish to re-size, and then click the “Image Size” button in the main window. The “Image Size” window appears. 2. Type the width or the height value of the re-sized image in pixels. If you change either t...

Page 30 - Select the thumbnail for which you

- 30 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Display the Image (Recording) Information: 1. Select the thumbnail for which you wish to see image information, and then click the “Image Information” button in the main window. “Date of Recording”, “Time of Recording” and variousinformation during recording...

Page 31 - To Delete Thumbnails:; you wish to delete in the thumbnail

- 31 - USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Delete Thumbnails: 1. Select the (thumbnailed) image that you wish to delete in the thumbnail display area of the main window. 2. Press the “Delete” key on your keyboard. The selected thumbnail will be deleted. This only removes the selected thumbnail fromth...

Page 32 - USING THE SOFTWARE – COLOR MATCHING; in different colors from those on the; the “Color Matching ON” option of the “Select Folder” window or the OS

- 32 - USING THE SOFTWARE – COLOR MATCHING The color matching function of this software is to reproduce a subject’s color on your monitorscreen or on the specified color space. If you wish to reproduce a subject for photography as close to original colors as possible, youshould select the “Color Mat...

Page 33 - Select the desired color space from the

- 33 - USING THE SOFTWARE – COLOR MATCHING 2. Select the desired color space from the “Output Color Space” drop-down list. If you wish to reproduce images on your monitor as close to the subjects’ original colors aspossible, select the “Use ICC profile” option from the “Output Color Space” drop-down...

Page 34 - Select your color monitor’s ICC profile, and then click “Open”.

- 34 - USING THE SOFTWARE – COLOR MATCHING 2. Click “Load…”. The Windows ® standard file open dialog box appears. 3. Select your color monitor’s ICC profile, and then click “Open”. ICC profiles are normally stored in the following folders (if your system startup disk drive is C): • Windows ® 95/98/9...

Page 35 - Click “Choose” of the folder selection

- 35 - USING THE SOFTWARE – COLOR MATCHING If you use Macintosh, follow the procedure below. 1. Select the “Use ICC profile” option from the “Output Color Space” pop-up menu. 2. Click “Choose” of the folder selection dialog box or “Open” of the file selection dialog box. The folder selection or the ...

Page 36 - USING THE SOFTWARE – SAVING IMAGES; To Save an Image File:; Select the thumbnail that you wish to save.

- 36 - USING THE SOFTWARE – SAVING IMAGES The following describes how to save thumbnailed images as image files in your desired location. To Save an Image File: 1. Select the thumbnail that you wish to save. 2. Click the “Save an Image” button in the main window. The OS (operating system) standard f...

Page 38 - To Save Multiple Images at One Time:; Select the thumbnails that you wish to save.

- 38 - USING THE SOFTWARE – SAVING IMAGES To Save Multiple Images at One Time: 1. Select the thumbnails that you wish to save. If you wish to select more than 2 (thumbnail) images, click those (thumbnail) images while holding the“Ctrl” key (“Command” key for Macintosh). If you wish to select more th...

Page 39 - Select the destination folder to save images.

- 39 - USING THE SOFTWARE – SAVING IMAGES 3. Select the destination folder to save images. 4. Select the type of image files to save from the “File Type:” drop-down list (“File Type:” pop-up menu for Macintosh). Select either “TIFF” or “JPEG” . If you selected “JPEG”, set the compression ratio withi...

Page 40 - COLOR CORRECTION

- 40 - COLOR CORRECTION If you click the “Color Correction” tab, the following “Color Correction” window appears. You can add variouscorrections (retouches) using tone curves and histograms, or corrections of brightness, color balance,saturation, lightness and so on. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14...

Page 41 - Corrections using the tone curves; Select the desired tone curve channel; Move the mouse cursor over the tone

- 41 - COLOR CORRECTION Corrections using the tone curves 1. Click the “Tone Curves/Histogram Correction” button. The “Tone Curves and Histogram” window (figure-below) appears. 2. Select the desired tone curve channel to correct from the “Channel” drop- down list. If you select the “RGB” channel, ea...

Page 42 - To Draw a Free Hand Tone Curve:; and then move the mouse cursor over; Drag the mouse to draw the tone curve.

- 42 - COLOR CORRECTION To Draw a Free Hand Tone Curve: 1. Click the “Tone Curves/Histogram Correction” button. 2. Select the desired tone curve channel to correct from the “Channel” drop- down list. 3. Click the “Draw Tone Curves” button, and then move the mouse cursor over the tone curve. The mous...

Page 43 - To Correct Images Using the “Black Point” Button:; Type values for the shadow point; Click the shadow point (the point that

- 43 - COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Images Using the “Black Point” Button: You can correct images by specifying the shadow point (the point that you wish to reproduce in black) onthe preview image in the corrected image display area. 1. Double-click the “Black Point” button. The “Point Value Setting”...

Page 44 - To Correct Images Using the “White Point” Button:; Type values for the highlight point; Click the highlight point (the point that

- 44 - COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Images Using the “White Point” Button: You can correct images by specifying the highlight point (the point that you wish to reproduce in white) onthe preview image in the corrected image display area. 1. Double-click the “White Point” button. The “Point Value Setti...

Page 45 - To Correct Images Using the “Gray Point” Button:; Click the point that you wish to

- 45 - COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Images Using the “Gray Point” Button: You can correct images by specifying the gray point (the point that you wish to reproduce in monochrome)on the preview image in the corrected image display area. 1. Click the “Gray Point” button. The mouse cursor changes to a s...

Page 46 - Histogram Correction – Auto Setting:; Click “Auto Setting”.

- 46 - COLOR CORRECTION Histogram Correction – Auto Setting: You can correct images by specifying the “Input Level” and the “Output Level” ranges in the “Histogram”palette in the corrected image display area, where the color level distribution of the preview image isdisplayed. The color level is div...

Page 47 - Histogram Correction – To Correct RGB Channels Separately:; in

- 47 - COLOR CORRECTION Histogram Correction – To Correct RGB Channels Separately: 1. Click the “RGB Histograms” button. The “Tone Curves and Histogram” window isexpanded to the right and each histogram for “R”, “G”and “B” (figure-lower left) appears. You can close the histogram for each channel byc...

Page 48 - To Correct Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance:; Color Balance Correction” button.

- 48 - COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance: 1. Click the “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” button. The “Brightness, Contrast and Color BalanceCorrection” window (figure-lower left) appears. 2. Drag the control of each slide bar with the mouse, or type...

Page 49 - Auto Setting

- 49 - COLOR CORRECTION If you click “ Auto Setting ”, “Brightness” and “Contrast” will be automatically adjusted based on the lightnessinformation holding the RGB color balance. You can cancel all kinds of correction performed in the“Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction”window by click...

Page 50 - To Correct Hue, Saturation and Lightness:; Lightness Correction” button.

- 50 - COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Hue, Saturation and Lightness: 1. Click the “Hue, Saturation and Lightness Correction” button. The “Hue, Saturation, Lightness Correction” window(figure-lower left) appears. 2. Drag the control of each slide bar with the mouse, or type an appropriate number in each...

Page 52 - Variation Correction:; Click the “Variation Correction” button.

- 52 - COLOR CORRECTION Variation Correction: You can perform corrections of “Color Balance”, “Brightness & Contrast” and “Saturation” while checking thefinishing (the image after corrections) on simulation images. 1. Click the “Variation Correction” button. The “Variation” window (figure-lower ...

Page 53 - Variation Correction – Color Balance:; “Color Balance” variation option

- 53 - COLOR CORRECTION Variation Correction – Color Balance: “Adjust Correction Level” slide bar “Display Limit” checkbox If you selected the “Color Balance” variation option , showing the “Current” image in the center, six other simulation images are displayed for “Red (R)”, “Magenta (M)”, “Blue (...

Page 54 - Variation Correction – Brightness & Contrast:; “Brightness & Contrast” variation option

- 54 - COLOR CORRECTION “Adjust Correction Level” slide bar “Display Limit” checkbox Variation Correction – Brightness & Contrast: If you selected the “Brightness & Contrast” variation option , showing the “Current” image in the center, eight other simulation images are displayed, where each...

Page 55 - Variation Correction – Saturation:; “Saturation” variation option

- 55 - COLOR CORRECTION Variation Correction – Saturation: “Adjust Correction Level” slide bar “Display Limit” checkbox If you selected the “Saturation” variation option , showing the “Current” image in the center, two other simulation images are displayed in the horizontal direction, where each sim...

Page 56 - To Undo the Correction:; Click the “Undo” button.; To Redo the Canceled Correction:; Click the “Redo” button.; To Undo All Color Corrections:; Click the “Reset All” button.

- 56 - COLOR CORRECTION To Undo the Correction: Click the “Undo” button. You can cancel the current image correction andreturn the image to the previous status. You can keepcancelling corrections you made by clicking thebutton repeatedly as far as your computer memorycapacity allows. To Redo the Can...

Page 57 - Click the “Snapshot” button.

- 57 - COLOR CORRECTION Snapshot: You can save the preview image displayed in the corrected image display area temporarily in the snapshotdisplay area. If you save the snapshot at each phase of correction, you can quickly preview the image undereach correction status. Click the “Snapshot” button. Th...

Page 58 - Color Correction Job:; Perform desired corrections to the

- 58 - COLOR CORRECTION Color Correction Job: You can register color correction contents in each correction window as the “Color Correction Job”. If youhave a fixed correction pattern (to some extent), you can easily perform the fixed color correction pattern byregistering the series of correction c...

Page 59 - Display the image that you wish to; Select the color correction job that you

- 59 - COLOR CORRECTION To apply the registered color correction job to other images, perform the following operations: 1. Display the image that you wish to apply the series of color corrections in the “Correction Image Display” area. 2. Click the “Select a Color Correction Job” button. The “Select...

Page 60 - To Compare the Pre/Post Correction Images:; Click the “Pre/Post Correction Comparison” button.

- 60 - COLOR CORRECTION To Compare the Pre/Post Correction Images: Click the “Pre/Post Correction Comparison” button. You can check the correction result by comparison with the pre-correction image that appears in the left withthe post-correction image in the right. If you click the “Pre/Post Correc...

Page 61 - To Display the Whole Post-Correction Image:; Click the “Whole Image” button.

- 61 - COLOR CORRECTION To Display the Whole Post-Correction Image: Click the “Whole Image” button. The whole post-correction image is expanded or shrunken according to the main window size, anddisplayed in the corrected image display area. If you click the “Whole Image” button again, it returns to ...

Page 62 - Thumbnail Number Display:

- 62 - COLOR CORRECTION Thumbnail Number Display: If you selected the image folder (see page 19), the total number of images in the folder and the framenumber of the image currently displayed. frame number of the image currently displayed total number of images in the(opened) folder If you click “ ”...

Page 64 - SHARPNESS; frequency that you wish to emphasize the sharpness.

- 64 - SHARPNESS If you click the “Sharpness” tab, the following sharpness correction window appears. You can set thefrequency to be emphasized or the degree to be emphasized while checking those effects on the previewimage. 1. Drag the “Frequency to be” slide bar control with the mouse to select th...

Page 65 - “Preview”; “Reset”

- 65 - SHARPNESS If you check the “Preview” checkbox, you can execute the real time reflection of the correction effect to the preview image in the sharpness correction window. You can select display magnification out of six options; 100%, 66.7%, 50%, 33.3%, 25% and 16.7%. If youclick the “+” button...

Page 66 - QUITING THE SOFTWARE

- 66 - QUITING THE SOFTWARE Click the “Close” box in the main window (the “X” button on the upper right-hand corner of the main window for Windows®, and the “ ” button on the far left corner of the title bar for Macintosh). The main window is closed and the software quits.