Minolta DiMAGE Viewer - Manual

7 RAM-stationed programs such as anti-virus or installation-monitoring software may cause the installerto fail. Remove or disable these programs before installing the DiMAGE Viewer. Reinstall or enablethe software when the installation is complete. If you are upgrading the DiMAGE Viewer from a versi...

8 INSTALLING THE DIMAGE VIEWER - WINDOWS In the example below, the hard disk drive is drive F. The letters designating the drives will varybetween computers. With Windows 2000 or XP, the software should be installed with the Administratorprivilege. Turn on the computer to start Windows. Insert the D...

10 INSTALLATION The license agreement appears. If you accept the agreement, click “Yes”to continue the installation routine. Read the entire license agreement carefully before continuing. If you donot agree to the terms, click “No” to exit the installation program. Turn on the computer to start the ...

12 STARTING UP THE VIEWER STARTING UP THE VIEWER - WINDOWS Select the DiMAGE Viewer fromthe DiMAGE Viewer folder in theprogram option of the startmenu. The utility will start upand the thumbnail win-dow will be displayed.

13 STARTING UP THE VIEWER - MACINTOSH Open the DiMAGE Viewer folder. Double-clickthe DiMAGE Viewer icon to start up the appli-cation. The main window of the utility will bedisplayed.

14 IMPORTING AND EDITING IMAGES Images can be loaded directly from a digital camera or from imagefolders saved in the computer. Simply use the folder tree to select thefile containing the images. For information on the camera’s folderorganization, and connecting the camera to the computer, refer to ...

15 OPENING AUDIO FILES Voice memos, audio captions, and audiorecordings made with the camera can beplayed back with the DiMAGE Viewer. To con-firm if your camera can make audio record-ings, refer to the instruction manual. After set-ting up the preferences box (see below), sim-ply click on the note ...

16 IMPORTING AND EDITING IMAGES CHANGING THE DISPLAY FORMAT The contents of a folder can be displayed as thumbnail images, icons, or in a list with file data. Tochange the display format, simply press the appropriate button located on the tool bar. Thumbnail display button Icon display button List d...

17 CHANGING THE THUMBNAIL FORMAT The thumbnail format can be changed.Four format are available: large, medi-um, small, and medium with data. To change the format, highlight theThumbnail Preferences option on theview menu to display the formatoptions. Highlight and click the desiredthumbnail format; ...

18 IMPORTING AND EDITING IMAGES SORTING IMAGE FILES Image files can be sorted by name, date, extension, or subject line in ascending or descending order.This function works with the thumbnail, icon, or list displays (p. 16). To sort the displayed images, usethe sort menu or the sort-by drop-down men...

20 IMPORTING AND EDITING IMAGES New folders can be created to store images. Click on the desiredlocation for the new folder. In this example the new folder will beplaced in Camera Images. Click on the new-folder button on the tool bar orselect new folder from the file menu. The new folderwill be cre...

MOVING IMAGES TO ANOTHER FOLDER Multiple files can be moved from one folder to another. Clickon the thumbnail boarders or file icon to select the imagesto be moved.• To select multiple images, press and hold the control key (Windows) or command key (Macintosh) and then clickon each image to be moved...

22 IMPORTING AND EDITING IMAGES COPYING IMAGES TO ANOTHER FOLDER Multiple files can be copied from one folder to another.Click on the thumbnail boarders or file icon to select theimages to be copied.• To select multiple images, press and hold the control key (Windows) or command key (Macintosh) and ...

Image information can be saved as a special text file. Simplyselect single or multiple thumbnails and then select the save-image-information option from the file menu; the save-as dialogbox will open. The image-information file can beopened in spreadsheet software such asMicrosoft Excel or with word...

25 IMAGE INFORMATION SETUP The Exif information displayed in the image infor-mation window can be edited. Select the image-information-setup option from the file menu toopen the setup window. Click on the item to be added to or removedfrom the image information display and click theappropriate move ...

26 BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING B ASIC IMAGE PROCESSING The image-correction window displays the utility’s image-processing tools. Adjustments to color, con-trast, brightness, and saturation can be made. This section contains details on the basic image-pro-cessing tools. For descriptions of the advanced t...

28 BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING In the index display, an image can automatically beloaded into the image-correction window. Simply dou-ble-click on a thumbnail or icon to display the image inthe image-correction window. The color-correction window will display the image number and the total number of imag...

29 FLIP AND ROTATE IMAGES Original image Flip - when an image is flipped, itwill create a mirror image. Rotate - the rotate-right button rotates thethumbnail 90° clockwise and the rotate-leftbutton rotates the thumbnail 90° counterclock-wise each time the buttons are clicked. The orientation of the ...

30 BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING Normally, an image is displayed based on its size and resolution. When the image is toolarge for the display area, clicking the fit-to-window button will automatically resize theimage to fit the display area. Clicking the button again displays the image at its original size...

31 The display image can be enlarged or reduced.Click the magnifying button on the tool bar orselect Magnifying Tool from the cursor option on the view menu. Click on the image to enlarge. To reduce,hold down the shift (Windows) or option key (Macintosh)and click on the image. When the image has rea...

32 The variation palette allows an image to be corrected by comparing it to other slightly correctedimages surrounding it. This is an easy method to correct images for individuals who are inexperi-enced in image processing or photofinishing. Click the arrow next to the variation list box to select t...

In photography, red, green, and blue are theprimary colors. The secondary colors, cyan,magenta, and yellow, are made from combin-ing the primary colors: cyan = blue + green,magenta = blue + red, and yellow = red +green. The primary and secondary colors aregrouped in complementary pairs: red andcyan,...

36 BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING COMPARING PRE AND POST CORRECTION IMAGES Clicking the comparison display button divides the image display area in two. The originalimage is on the left and the corrected image is on the right. To display the corrected imageonly, click the comparison display button again. Or...

38 DATA IMPRINTING The date and time of record-ing, file name, and the subjectline can be imprinted into theimage. To add a subject line toan image, see page 25. Select the imprinting-setupoption from the tool menu toopen the setup dialog box. Select the information to be imprinted bychecking the ap...

40 SAVING IMAGES S AVING IMAGES RESIZING AN IMAGE TO BE SAVED Enter the new width or height value in the text boxes.Only one value needs to be entered, the other valuewill adjust automatically to keep the image proportionsunchanged. The dimensions cannot exceed 5120 X3840 pixels. Select bilinear or ...

41 Click the save button to save the image. CHANGING THE IMAGE NAME OR FORMAT To save an image file under a new name or in anew file format, select the save-as option fromthe file menu. The save-as dialog box will open. Specify the location to save the file. Enter the file name without an extension....

42 PRINTING P RINTING With the image to be printed displayed inthe correction window, click the print buttonor select the print option from the file menuto open the print setup window.

44 PRINTING CREATING AN INDEX SHEET Multiple images can be laid out in index sheets.Select the images in the thumbnail display choosethe create-index-sheet option from the tool menu. Click the save but-ton to save theindex sheet as afile. Click the print button to open theprint-preview dialog box. S...

46 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING A DVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING RGB value display Load image-correction Job button (p. 67) Save image-correction Job button (p. 66) Snapshot button (p. 65) Hue, saturation, and lightness button (p. 60) This section covers the advanced image-processing tools in the DiMAGE View...

Place the mouse pointer over the tone curve. Click and dragthe curve. Each time the tone curve is clicked, a new node will beattached to the curve. The nodes can be moved by clickingand dragging. The input and output levels of the node are dis-played as it is moved. The input level (horizontal axis)...

49 DRAWING TONE CURVES BY FREEHAND Click the freehand-curve button (1). The mouse point-er changes to the pencil tool when placed in the tone-curve box. Click and drag the pointer to draw a new curve.Extreme image manipulations are possible with thefreehand curve tool. To smooth a rough freehand cur...

50 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING The tone curve is a graphic representation of the brightness andcolor levels of the image. The bottom axis is the 256 levels of theoriginal image (input data) from black to white. The vertical axis isthe corrected image (output data) with the same scale from top tobottom...

54 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING The white and black-point values are set to 255 and 0 for each RGB level. Changing these valuesallow the calibration of an image with no true white or black. This is an advanced image-processingtool. SETTING THE WHITE AND BLACK-POINT VALUES Double-click on either the whi...

55 TONE-CURVE / HISTOGRAM AUTO SET-TING Click the auto-setting button. The change is immediately reflect-ed in the displayed image. The auto-setting function automatically adjusts the tone curveand histogram to maximize image data. The darkest pixels in theimage are set to a black level for 0, the b...

56 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING The color histograms can be displayed with the channel list box or with keyboard shortcuts. Whileholding the shift key (Windows) or command key (Macintosh), press “1” to display the red channel,“2” to display the green channel, “3” to display the blue channel, or “0” (ze...

58 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING A SHORT GUIDE TO HISTOGRAM CORRECTIONS This guide shows simple corrections that can be made with a histogram. Unlike the the tone curve,the histogram provides information on a specific image. This can used to evaluate the image andmake adjustments accordingly. The histog...

61 Clicking the auto-setting button adjusts the saturation automatically without affecting the hue or light-ness. Click the reset button to cancel any changes. Auto-setting button Changes in hue rotate the original colorvalues though a color space and reassignsa new hue depending on the new position...

62 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING The apparent sharpness of the image can be increased. Sharpness is a very subtle, but can have apowerful affect on overall image quality. Click the sharpness button or select Sharpness from theimage-correction option in the correction menu to open the palette. SHARPNESS ...

65 TRACKING IMAGE CORRECTIONS - SNAPSHOT BUTTON Image corrections can be stored temporarily as a thumbnail next to the displayed image.Simply click the snapshot button on the tool bar or select the snapshot option from the cor-rection menu to create a thumbnail with the current image corrections. To...

66 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING All corrections applied to an image can be saved as an image-correction Job. The Job can be loadedinto the utility at any time and applied to different images. This is a time-saving function when a largenumber of images need too be processed with the same correction sett...

67 LOADING IMAGE-CORRECTION JOBS Display the image to be corrected in theimage-correction window. Click the loadimage-correction Job button or select the load-image-correction-Job option from the correc-tion menu to load a saved image-correction set-ting. Click on an image-correction Job thumbnail t...

68 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING Certain digital cameras, such as the DiMAGE 7Hi, or DiMAGE A1, use a special file format calledMinolta-RAW. This file can only be read and processed by the DiMAGE Viewer software. To open aRAW file, simply double click on it in the thumbnail display The open dialog box i...

70 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING Click the save button on the tool bar or select the save option from the file menu to save the dis-played image. In the save-as window, specify the location to save the file (1). Enter the file namewithout an extension (2). Specify the file type of the image (3). If save...

72 ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING Except for RAW processing, the settings in the dia-log box are applied equally to all images. If RAWimages are included in the batch, they can beprocessed with the camera settings used when theywere recorded, or a RAW Job can be used (p. 71).Click the select button to op...

74 MOVIE ENHANCER M OVIE ENHANCER QuickTime must be installed on the com-puter system for the Movie Enhancer to beused. For QuickTime system requirements,see page 7. To open a movie file in this application,simply double click on the thumbnail in theDiMAGE Viewer thumbnail display. To playthe movie ...

75 The Movie Enhancer can minimize flicker in 640 X 480 (VGA) or smaller movie files. General flickereffects the overall image area evenly. Localized flicker is isolated to only a portion of the image area;a scene with natural light and fluorescent lighting may only show flicker in the area illumina...

76 MOVIE ENHANCER EDITING MOVIE FILES The Movie Enhancer can join movie clips together, cut sections from a clip, or copy sections fromone clip to another with the edit menu. Open the necessary movie files in the main window with thefile menu. Click on the first movie clip to select it; the slider b...

77 1 2 In the first movie file, use the jog slider to locate the beginning of the section to be pasted. While pressing the shift key, drag the jog slider to mark the frames in the section (1); the slider bardarkens to indicate the selected section. To deselect the section, click on a gray area on th...

The image quality of a 640 X 480 (VGA) or smaller movieclip can be adjusted. If both flicker correction and image cor-rection is applied to the same movie clip, the flicker correc-tion processing should be done first. With the movie dis-played in the movie enhancer, select the image-correctionoption...

80 ADVANCED SETUP The application software to open stillimages, movie clips, and audio filescan be specified in the preferencesdialog box. To open the dialog box,select the preferences option fromthe file menu. The default application setup speci-fies the software used to open cer-tain files. When a...

82 ADVANCED SETUP COLOR MATCHING - COLOR PREFERENCES Each output device (monitor or printer) defines colorand contrast differently. To ensure accurate repro-duction, the output color space must be defined.Color matching is used for professional color man-agement. It is not needed for normal personal...

84 ADVANCED SETUP USING PRINTER ICC PROFILES Specific printer ICC profiles can be used with theDiMAGE Viewer. Select the color-preferences optionfrom the file menu to open the dialog box. In the dialog box, click the color-matching-on andprinter-ICC-profile check boxes. Click on the printer ICC prof...

85 USING MONITOR ICC PROFILES The computer system’s monitor ICC profiles can beused with the DiMAGE Viewer. Select the color-pref-erences option from the file menu to open the dialogbox. In the dialog box, click the color-matching-onand monitor-ICC-profile check boxes. If the monitor ICC profile fie...

86 ADVANCED SETUP ICC profiles for a specific monitors or printers are available from the manufacturer. These may bedownloaded from the manufacturer’s web site. See the instruction manual of the specific device onhow to install the ICC profile. ICC PROFILE LOCATIONS ICC profiles can be found in the ...

87 V IEWER NOTES UNINSTALLING THE DIMAGE VIEWER Windows Uninstall the the DiMAGE Viewer using the add/remove programs or add/remove applications (XP)routine in the control panel. Afterwards, place the 7300 folder in the trash and empty it to completethe operation. The folder contains the Job files. ...

88 VIEWER NOTES Windows If you are upgrading the DiMAGE Viewer from a version earlier than 2.2, the following procedure canbe used to copy Job files from the old application to the new one. This is not necessary for MacintoshOS 9 operating systems. COPYING JOB FILES 1. Log on to your computer as an ...

89 Macintosh OS X 1. Log on to your computer an administrator. Open the 7300 folder: /Library/Preferences/7300. 2. Copy the Prefs folder into another folder in a different location. Example, /Job_Move. 3. Delete the old DiMAGE Viewer application folder. 4. Install the new DiMAGE Viewer. See page 10....

90 ADVANCED SETUP Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks in the United States and other countries ofMicrosoft Corporation. The official name of Windows is Microsoft Windows Operating System.Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, PowerMacint...

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