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- Page 1 9224-2766-21 H-A106 INSTRUCTION MANUAL...
- Page 2 Minolta Co., Ltd. © 2001 Minolta Co., Ltd. • Every precaution has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this material Please contact Minolta if you have any questions, find any mistakes or notice missing information. • Minolta cannot accept responsibility for any loss, damage or other problems caused by use of this software.
- Page 3 This instruction manual does not provide instructions for the basic operation of the personal computers, or the basic operation of Windows® or Mac OS operating systems. Please refer to the manual that came with your computer for information on the above mentioned topics.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
To Display Thumbnails of All Images in the Folder...19 To Display a Thumbnail of a Certain Image in the Folder ...21 To Open Minolta-RAW Files...23 To Save in the Minolta-RAW File Format...27 To Rotate, Flip and Sort Thumbnails ...28 To Change the Image Size ...29 To Display the Image (Recording) Information ...30... - Page 5 COLOR CORRECTION ...40 Corrections using the tone curves ...41 To Draw a Free Hand Tone Curve ...42 To Correct Images Using the “Black Point” Button...43 To Correct Images Using the “White Point” Button ...44 To Correct Images Using the “Gray Point” Button...45 Histogram Correction –...
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Page 6: Before You Begin
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 drivers have been installed, and are operating properly. •... - Page 7 • If you are using Macintosh OS, the term ‘Command Key’ refers to the key located next to the Space Bar. • Command names shown in this manual which are common both to the Windows® and Macintosh systems do not indicate any of the shortcut keys found in Windows® command names. Example No.
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Page 8: System Requirements (Windows )
You need a USB port when you connect a USB mass storage class supported digital camera such as DiMAGE 7 or DiMAGE 5 to your PC with a USB cable and use (a CF card in) the digital camera as a removable disc with this software. - Page 9 Apple Computer’s Web site, and then install the downloaded software on your Macintosh to execute this operation. (See the digital camera’s instruction manual for details.) If you do not download/install the dedicated driver software, you can not execute the above operation, however, you can still operate image files copied on Macintosh hard disks since the software also runs on Mac OS 8.6.
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Page 10: Installing The Software (Windows )
Image Viewer Utility installer” button. The “InstallShield Wizard” program starts automatically, and the “Welcome” window appears. See the digital camera’s instruction manual for details of the “Starting up the USB device driver installer” (this button is active if you use Windows ®... - Page 11 6. To install the software in the default folder (C:\Program Files\DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility), click “Next >”. Subsequent parts of this document assume that the software has been installed in the default folder described above. To install the software in a different folder, click “Browse…”The “Choose Folder” window will appear. Select the folder where you wish to install the software, and then click “OK”.
- Page 12 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Windows 7. The name of the program folder where you will add the program icon is shown in the window. Click “Next >” to add the icon in the default (reversed) folder. 8. Click “Finish”, then click “Finish” in the DiMAGE Installer Menu window. The software installation procedure is complete.
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Page 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 may cause the installer to fail. Remove those programs/documents from your system using the utility such as the functional expansion manager or temporarily disable them before starting the installation, and then put them back on your system after completing the installation. - Page 14 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Macintosh) 6. Click “Next >>” in the Installer’s initial window. The “License Agreement” (figure-left) appears. Read the entire “License Agreement” carefully before continuing the installation. If you do not agree to the terms of the “License Agreement”, click “No”. The installation procedure will be terminated.
- Page 15 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE (Macintosh) 8. Make sure that you have selected a proper folder for installation, and then click “Next >>”. The software installation starts. Follow the instructions shown on the screen. When the software installation has been completed, the window shown in the lower left-hand corner (Operation 9.) appears.
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Page 16: Starting The Software
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. - 16 -... -
Page 17: For Macintosh
For Macintosh: 1. Turn on your Macintosh to start Mac OS. 2. Open the folder where you installed the application software (the folder that you selected or created during the software installation), and open the “DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility” folder in the same way. 3. -
Page 18: Using The Software - Thumbnails
If image files are Minolta-RAW files (image files with the .mrw extension), they will be processed to the image format that can be displayed on the monitor, and their thumbnails (100 x 75 pixels) will be displayed. -
Page 19: To Display Thumbnails Of All Images In The Folder
To Display Thumbnails of All Images in the Folder: To execute the color matching process, click here and select the output color space from the drop-down list (or specify the monitor ICC profile). See page 32 for details about the color matching (process). - Page 20 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 reads it in. Those files will be...
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Page 21: To Display A Thumbnail Of A Certain Image In The Folder
To Display a Thumbnail of a Certain Image in the Folder: (continued from page 18, Operation 2) To execute the color matching process, click here and select the output color space from the drop-down list (or specify the monitor ICC profile). See page 32 for details about the color matching (process). - Page 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 be displayed.
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Page 23: To Open Minolta-Raw Files
To Open Minolta-RAW Files: If the selected image files are Minolta-RAW files (image files with the .mrw extension), the following “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window appears before thumbnails are displayed. “Minolta-RAW files” are in image file format for more professional image processing than TIFF or JPEG that DiMAGE 7/DiMAGE 5 supports. - Page 24 Select the white balance to apply to Minolta-RAW files. Adjust the saturation level between L (low) and H (high). The digital camera setting during recording is reflected right after the above window is dis- played.
- Page 25 (including “AUTO” and “CUSTOM”). You do not need to do these operations if you open Minolta-RAW files with the saturation, the contrast and the sharpness level set by the digital camera during recording.
- Page 26 Minolta-RAW files, and the procedure is put back to the main window. If you click “Save” instead of “OK”, you can save Minolta-RAW files with names and in folders of your choice according to the setting in the “Open the Minolta-RAW File” window. See the next page for details.
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Page 27: To Save In The Minolta-Raw File Format
To Save in the Minolta-RAW File Format: * If you saved it with a different name from that of the opened “Minolta-RAW file”, a thumbnail file (file with .thm extension) with the same file name as the saved file will be created automatically. -
Page 28: To Rotate, Flip And Sort Thumbnails
USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS To Rotate, Flip and Sort Thumbnails: [Rotate] Select a thumbnail and click either the “Rotate-Counterclockwise” or the “Rotate-clockwise” button. If you click the “Rotate-Counterclockwise” button once, the thumbnail will be rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise. If you click the “Rotate-Clockwise” button once, the thumbnail will be rotated by 90 degrees clockwise. -
Page 29: To Change The Image Size
To Change the Image Size: USING THE SOFTWARE – THUMBNAILS 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. -
Page 30: To Display The Image (Recording) Information
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 various information during recording are displayed (figure- lower left). -
Page 31: To Delete Thumbnails
To Delete Thumbnails: USING THE SOFTWARE – 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 from the thumbnail display area of the main window, and does not have any influence on the actual... -
Page 32: Using The Software - Color Matching
* If you correct images using the digital camera’s functions such as “Digital Effect Control” during recording, those corrections will be reflected in the images (excluding Minolta-RAW images (files) ). Therefore, if you wish to capture images reproduced as close to the subjects’ original colors as possible, do not use the correction function (of the digital camera) during recording. - Page 33 If you wish to reproduce images on your monitor as close to the subjects’ original colors as possible, select the “Use ICC profile” option from the “Output Color Space” drop-down list, and then set the ICC profile of your monitor properly. * ICC profiles are the files that describe color monitors’...
- Page 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): •...
- Page 35 If you use Macintosh, follow the procedure below. 1. Select the “Use ICC profile” option from the “Output Color Space” pop-up menu. 3. Select your color monitor’s ICC profile, and then click “Choose”. If you save images (thumbnails) displayed with the “Color Matching ON” function set to active, the ICC profile of the color space selected by the color matching function is embedded to those saved TIFF/JPEG files (as the tag information).
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Page 36: Using The Software - Saving Images
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. - Page 37 3. Select the location to save the image file from the “Save in:” drop-down list (the pop-up menu on the top of the dialog for Macintosh), and then type the file name to save in the textbox next to “File name:” (“Name:” for Macintosh). If you do not type the extension here, the corresponding extension to the type of image file that you will select in the following Operation 4.
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Page 38: To Save Multiple Images At One Time
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 than 2 (thumbnail) images listed continuously, click the first and the last (thumbnail) images while holding the “Shift”... - Page 39 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 within the range of 1 (“High Image”) through 100 (“Low Image”) by dragging the slide bar using a mouse.
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Page 40: Color Correction
COLOR CORRECTION If you click the “Color Correction” tab, the following “Color Correction” window appears. You can add various corrections (retouches) using tone curves and histograms, or corrections of brightness, color balance, saturation, lightness and so on. Tone curves/histogram correction button Brightness, contrast and color balance correction button Hue, saturation and lightness correction... -
Page 41: Corrections Using The Tone Curves
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, each color will be corrected based on the same ratio. -
Page 42: To Draw A Free Hand Tone Curve
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. -
Page 43: To Correct Images Using The "Black Point" Button
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) on the 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
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) on the preview image in the corrected image display area. 1. Double-click the “White Point” button. The “Point Value Setting”... -
Page 45: To Correct Images Using The "Gray Point" Button
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 syringe shape. -
Page 46: Histogram Correction - Auto Setting
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 is displayed. -
Page 47: Histogram Correction - To Correct Rgb Channels Separately
Histogram Correction – To Correct RGB Channels Separately: 1. Click the “RGB Histograms” button. The “Tone Curves and Histogram” window is expanded to the right and each histogram for “R”, “G” and “B” (figure-lower left) appears. You can close the histogram for each channel by click the “RGB Histograms”... -
Page 48: To Correct Brightness, Contrast And Color Balance
COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance: 1. Click the “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” button. The “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” window (figure-lower left) appears. 2. Drag the control of each slide bar with the mouse, or type an appropriate number in each box. - Page 49 COLOR CORRECTION If you click “Auto Setting”, “Brightness” and “Contrast” will be automatically adjusted based on the lightness information holding the RGB color balance. You can cancel all kinds of correction performed in the “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” window by clicking “Reset”.
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Page 50: To Correct Hue, Saturation And Lightness
COLOR CORRECTION To Correct Hue, Saturation and Lightness: “Adjusted Color Sample Before Corrections” (hue) “Adjusted Color Sample After Corrections” (hue) 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 box. - Page 51 COLOR CORRECTION If you click “Auto Setting”, “Saturation” will be automatically corrected focusing on conspicuous parts of the image and holding “Hue” and “Lightness” as they are. You can cancel all kinds of correction performed in the “Hue, Saturation, Lightness Correction” window by clicking “Reset”.
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Page 52: Variation Correction
COLOR CORRECTION Variation Correction: You can perform corrections of “Color Balance”, “Brightness & Contrast” and “Saturation” while checking the finishing (the image after corrections) on simulation images. “Select Variations” combo box 1. Click the “Variation Correction” button. The “Variation” window (figure-lower left) appears. 2. -
Page 53: Variation Correction - Color Balance
Variation Correction – Color Balance: 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 (B)”, “Cyan (C)”, “Green (G)” and “Yellow (Y)”, where each simulation image has been corrected by one level up to the “Current” image. If you click one desired simulation image, newly simulated images are displayed by replacing the current image with the selected simulation image. -
Page 54: Variation Correction - Brightness & Contrast
COLOR CORRECTION 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 simulation image has been corrected by one level (“Less”, “Current”... -
Page 55: Variation Correction - Saturation
Variation Correction – Saturation: 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 simulation image has been corrected by one level (“Less” and “More”) to the “Current” image. If you click one desired simulation image, newly simulated images are displayed by replacing the current image with the selected simulation image. -
Page 56: To Undo The Correction
COLOR CORRECTION To Undo the Correction: To Redo the Canceled Correction: To Undo All Color Corrections: Click the “Undo” button. You can cancel the current image correction and return the image to the previous status. You can keep cancelling corrections you made by clicking the button repeatedly as far as your computer memory capacity allows. -
Page 57: Snapshot
Snapshot: You can save the preview image displayed in the corrected image display area temporarily in the snapshot display area. If you save the snapshot at each phase of correction, you can quickly preview the image under each correction status. Click the “Snapshot”... -
Page 58: Color Correction Job
COLOR CORRECTION Color Correction Job: You can register color correction contents in each correction window as the “Color Correction Job”. If you have a fixed correction pattern (to some extent), you can easily perform the fixed color correction pattern by registering the series of correction contents as the color correction job and simply selecting the job. - Page 59 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”...
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Page 60: To Compare The Pre/Post Correction Images
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 with the post-correction image in the right. If you click the “Pre/Post Correction Comparison” button again, the pre-correction image disappears and only the post-correction image remains. -
Page 61: To Display The Whole Post-Correction Image
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, and displayed in the corrected image display area. If you click the “Whole Image” button again, it returns to the original-sized image. - 61 -... -
Page 62: Thumbnail Number Display
COLOR CORRECTION Thumbnail Number Display: If you selected the image folder (see page 19), the total number of images in the folder and the frame number of the image currently displayed. frame number of the image If you click “ ”, the previous frame is displayed. -
Page 63: Rgb Value Display
COLOR CORRECTION RGB Value Display: The RGB values are displayed for the current mouse pointer location on the preview image in the corrected image display area. - 63 -... -
Page 64: Sharpness
SHARPNESS If you click the “Sharpness” tab, the following sharpness correction window appears. You can set the frequency to be emphasized or the degree to be emphasized while checking those effects on the preview image. 1. Drag the “Frequency to be” slide bar control with the mouse to select the frequency that you wish to emphasize the sharpness. - Page 65 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 you click the “+”...
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Page 66: Quiting The Software
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). - Page 67 9224-2766-21 H-A106...