Minolta DiMAGE H-A106 manual

INSTR UCTION MANU AL E 9224-2766-21 H-A106[...]

- 2 - • This instruction manual ma y not be copied either in par t or in its entirety without the prior per mission of Minolta Co ., Ltd. © 2001 Minolta Co ., Ltd. • Ev er y precaution has been taken to ensure the accur acy of this material Please contact Minolta if you ha ve any questions , find an y mistak es or notice missing inf ormation. [...]

- 3 - This instruction manual does not provide instructions f or the basic operation of the personal computers, or the basic oper ation of Windows® or Mac OS oper ating systems. Please ref er to the man ual that came with y our computer f or inf or mation on the abov e mentioned topics. • Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks in th[...]

- 4 - T ABLE OF CONTENTS T ABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................4 BEFORE Y OU BEGIN.....................................................................................................6 TERMS USED IN THIS MANU AL ...........................................................[...]

- 5 - T ABLE OF CONTENTS COLOR CORRECTION ................................................................................................40 Corrections using the tone cur ves ...........................................................................41 T o Dra w a F ree Hand T one Cur ve ............................................................[...]

- 6 - BEFORE Y OU BEGIN TERMS USED IN THIS MANU AL • This manual assumes that y our computer’ s operating system (Windo ws®95/98/98 Second Edition/Me/2000/NT 4.0 or Mac OS) as well as other necessary software such as de vice drivers hav e been installed, and are operating properly . • In general, the descriptions in this manual are illustrat[...]

- 7 - BEFORE Y OU BEGIN • If you are using Macintosh OS , the ter m ‘Command K ey’ ref ers to the key located ne xt to the Space Bar . • Command names shown in this man ual which are common both to the Windows® and Macintosh systems do not indicate any of the shor tcut ke ys found in Windows® command names . Example No . 1: The File comma[...]

- 8 - SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (Windo ws ® ) The system requirements f or the operation of this softw are are as shown belo w: IBM PC/A T and their compatible computers CPU Intel P entium® Processor 133MHz or higher OS Windows®2000 Prof essional, Windows®Me , Windows®98 / 98 Second Edition, Windoes®95, Windows®NT4.0 (Service P ack 6 or later) RAM[...]

- 9 - SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (Macintosh) The system requirements f or the operation of this softw are are as shown belo w: Apple Macintosh Series computers CPU P owerPC 100MHz or higher (e xcept a non-Macintosh Mac OS-compatib le computer) OS Mac OS 8.6 / 9 / 9.0.2 / 9.0.4 / 9.1 RAM 64MB or more of free memor y Hard Disk Space 100MB or more of free ha[...]

- 10 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Windo ws ® ) F ollow the procedure belo w to install the softw are on your Windows PC . RAM stationed programs such as anti-virus progr ams or installation monitoring programs ma y cause the installer to f ail. Uninstall those programs from y our system or temporarily disable them bef ore star ting the installatio[...]

- 11 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Windows ® ) The “License Agreement” (figure-left) appears. Read the entire “License Agreement” carefully before continuing the installation If you do not ag ree to the terms of the “License Agreement”, clic k “No”. The installation procedure will be ter minated. The window that lets y ou select a d[...]

- 12 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Windo ws ® ) Click “Next >”, and the “Select Program F older” window (figure-left) will appear . 7. The name of the pr ogram f older where y ou will add the pr ogram icon is shown in the windo w . Click “Next >” to add the icon in the default (rever sed) f older . T o add the progr am icon in a n[...]

- 13 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Macintosh) F ollow the procedure belo w to install the softw are on your Macintosh computer . Functional e xpansion progr ams such as anti-virus programs or control panel documents ma y cause the installer to f ail. Remov e those programs/documents from your system using the utility such as the functional e xpansio[...]

- 14 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Macintosh) 6. Clic k “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 ag ree to the terms of the “License Agreement”, clic k “No”. The installation[...]

- 15 - INST ALLING THE SOFTW ARE (Macintosh) 8. Make sure that y ou ha ve selected a pr oper f older f or installation, and then c lic k “Next >>”. The software installation star ts. F ollow the instructions shown on the screen. When the software installation has been completed, the window sho wn in the low er left-hand corner (Operation [...]

- 16 - ST AR TING THE SOFTW ARE F or Windows ® : 1. T urn on y our PC to start Windows®. 2. Select “Star t” “Pr ograms(P)” “DiMA GE Image Vie wer Utility” “DiMA GE Image Viewer Utility”. The main window of the utility (figure-left) appears .[...]

- 17 - ST ARTING THE SOFTW ARE F or Macintosh: 1. T urn on y our Macintosh to start Mac OS. 2. Open the f older where y ou installed the application software (the f older that y ou selected or created during the software installation), and open the “DiMA GE Image Viewer Utility” folder in the same wa y . 3. Double-c lic k the “DiMA GE Image V[...]

- 18 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS This software reads all image files (or one file) in the selected f older , and displa ys their thumbnails (100 x 75 pix els) on the screen. If image files are Minolta-RA W files (image files with the .mrw extension), the y will be processed to the image f ormat that can be display ed on the monitor , and t[...]

- 19 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Displa y Thumbnails of All Images in the Folder: 3. Clic k the “Load All Images” button of the main window . The OS (operating system) standard f older selection dialog bo x appears. (The left-hand figure is for Windows ® .) 4. Select the f older where image files are stored, and then clic k “Sel[...]

- 20 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS 5. Image files in the selected f older are read, and their thumbnails are displa yed (figure-left). * If Minolta-RA W files (image files with the .mrw e xtension) e xist in the selected f older , the “Open the Minolta-RA W File” windo w appears e v ery time the software reads it in. Those files will be [...]

- 21 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Displa y a Thumbnail of a Cer tain Image in the Folder: (continued from page 18, Oper ation 2 ) 3. Clic k the “Load an Image” button in the main window . The OS (operating system) standard f older selection dialog bo x appears. (The left-hand figure is for Windows ® .) 4. Select the image file that[...]

- 22 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS * If you selected a Minolta-RA W file (image file with the .mrw extension), the “Open the Minolta-RA W File” window appears when the softw are reads it in. The file will be processed to the image format that can be displa y ed on the monitor , and its thumbnail will be display ed. See page 23 of this do[...]

- 23 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Open Minolta-RA W Files: If the selected image files are Minolta-RA W files (image files with the .mrw extension), the f ollowing “Open the Minolta-RA W File” window appears bef ore thumbnails are displa y ed. “Minolta-RA W files” are in image file format for more prof essional image processing [...]

- 24 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Open Minolta-RA W Files: (continued) 1 2 3 4 5 white balance selection menu 1 Select the white balance to apply to Minolta-RA W files. saturation adjustment slide bar 2 Adjust the saturation le v el between L (lo w) and H (high). The digital camera setting during recording is reflected r ight after the [...]

- 25 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS 1. Select a white balance option to apply fr om the white balance selection menu. 2. Adjust the saturation and contrast level with slide bar s if necessary , and then select the sharpness level. If you select “Setting when recording”, the white balance set by the digital camer a is applied (including ?[...]

- 26 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS 3. Clic k “OK”. Image files are processed accor ding to the setting in the “Open the Minolta-RA W File” window , and thumbnails of Minolta-RA W files are display ed in the main window . The “Open the Minolta-RA W File” window will close automaticall y . If you changed the satur ation, contrast, [...]

- 27 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Sa ve in the Minolta-RA W File Format: If you clic k “Save” instead of “OK” in the “Open the Minolta-RA W File” window , the OS (operating system) standard file sav e dialog appears. (The left- hand figure is f or Windows ® .) If you select the place (f older) to sav e the file, type the fi[...]

- 28 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Rotate, Flip and Sort Thumbnails: Sor ting-Order Switch button Sor ting-T arget Specification list bo x Flip-V er tical button Flip-Horizontal button Rotate-Clockwise b utton Rotate-Counterclockwise b utton [Rotate] Select a thumbnail and c lic k either the “Rotate-Counterc loc kwise” or the “Rota[...]

- 29 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Change the Image Size: 1. Select the thumbnail that y ou wish to re-size , and then clic k the “Image Size” b utton in the main window . The “Image Size” window appears . 2. T ype the width or the height value of the re-sized image in pixels. If you change either the width or the height v alue, [...]

- 30 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Displa y the Ima ge (Recording) Inf ormation: 1. Select the thumbnail f or which y ou wish to see image inf ormation, and then c lic k the “Image Information” b utton in the main window . “Date of Recording”, “Time of Recording” and various inf ormation dur ing recording are display ed (figu[...]

- 31 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – THUMBNAILS T o Delete Thumbnails: 1. Select the (thumbnailed) image that y ou wish to delete in the thumbnail displa y area of the main window . 2. Press the “Delete” key on y our keyboar d. The selected thumbnail will be deleted. This only remo ves the selected thumbnail fr om the thumbnail display area of the ma[...]

- 32 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – COLOR MA TCHING The color matching function of this software is to repr oduce a subject’ s color on your monitor screen or on the specified color space. If y ou wish to reproduce a subject f or photography as close to original color s as possible, you should select the “Color Matching ON” option. * If you select[...]

- 33 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – COLOR MA TCHING 2. Select the desired color space fr om the “Output Color Space” drop-do wn list. If y ou wish to reproduce ima ges on your monitor as c lose 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 IC[...]

- 34 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – COLOR MA TCHING 2. Clic k “Load…”. The Windows ® standard file open dialog bo x appears. 3. Select y our color monitor’ s ICC profile, and then clic k “Open”. ICC profiles are nor mally stored in the f ollowing f olders (if your system star tup disk drive is C): • Windows ® 95/98/98SE/Me C:WindowsSys[...]

- 35 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – COLOR MA TCHING If you use Macintosh, f ollow the procedure below . 1. Select the “Use ICC profile” option from the “Output Color Space” pop-up menu. 2. Clic k “Choose” of the folder selection dialog bo x or “Open” of the file selection dialog bo x. The f older selection or the file selection dialog bo[...]

- 36 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – SA VING IMA GES The f ollowing describes how to sa ve thumbnailed images as image files in your desired location. T o Sa ve an Image File: 1. Select the thumbnail that y ou wish to sa ve . 2. Clic k the “Save an Image” button in the main window . The OS (operating system) standard file sa v e dialog appears. (The [...]

- 37 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – SA VING IMA GES 3. Select the location to save the ima ge file from the “Sa ve in:” drop-do wn list (the pop-up menu on the top of the dialog f or Macintosh), and then type the file name to save in the te xtbo x next to “File name:” (“Name:” for Macintosh). If you do not type the e xtension here, the corre[...]

- 38 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – SA VING IMA GES T o Sa ve Multiple Images at One Time: 1. Select the thumbnails that y ou wish to sa ve . If you wish to select more than 2 (thumbnail) images , clic k those (thumbnail) images while holding the “Ctrl” key (“Command” ke y f or Macintosh). If you wish to select more than 2 (thumbnail) images lis[...]

- 39 - USING THE SOFTW ARE – SA VING IMA GES 3. Select the destination f older to save ima ges. 4. Select the type of image files to save fr om the “File T ype:” dr op-down list (“File T ype:” pop-up menu for Macintosh). Select either “TIFF” or “JPEG” . If you selected “JPEG”, set the compression ratio within the range of 1 (?[...]

- 40 - COLOR CORRECTION If you clic k the “Color Correction” tab, the f ollowing “Color Correction” window appears. Y ou can add various corrections (retouches) using tone cur ves and histog rams , 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 15 16 T one curves/histogram corr[...]

- 41 - COLOR CORRECTION Corrections using the tone curves 1. Clic k the “T one Curves/Histogram Correction” button. The “T one Cur ves and Histog ram” window (figure-below) appears . 2. Select the desired tone curve channel to correct fr om the “Channel” drop- down list. If you select the “RGB” channel, each color will be corrected [...]

- 42 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Dra w a Free Hand T one Curve: 1. Clic k the “T one Curves/Histogram Correction” button. 2. Select the desired tone curve channel to correct fr om the “Channel” drop- down list. 3. Clic k the “Draw T one Curves” b utton, and then mo ve the mouse cursor o ver the tone curve . The mouse cursor changes to a pen [...]

- 43 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Correct Images Using the “Blac k P oint” Button: Y ou can correct images by specifying the shadow point (the point that y ou wish to reproduce in b lac k) on the pre vie w image in the corrected image displa y area. 1. Double-c lic k the “Blac k P oint” button. The “P oint V alue Setting” windo w (figure-left[...]

- 44 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Correct Images Using the “White P oint” Button: Y ou can correct images by specifying the highlight point (the point that you wish to reproduce in white) on the pre vie w image in the corrected image displa y area. 1. Double-c lic k the “White P oint” button. The “P oint V alue Setting” windo w (figure-left) [...]

- 45 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Correct Images Using the “Gra y P oint” Button: Y ou can correct images by specifying the gra y point (the point that you wish to reproduce in monochrome) on the pre vie w image in the corrected image displa y area. 1. Clic k the “Gray P oint” button. The mouse cursor changes to a syringe shape. 2. Clic k the poi[...]

- 46 - COLOR CORRECTION Histogram Correction – A uto Setting: Y ou can correct images by specifying the “Input Le vel” and the “Output Le v el” ranges in the “Histogram” palette in the corrected image displa y area, where the color le v el distribution of the pre view image is displa y ed. The color lev el is divided into 256 le vels [...]

- 47 - COLOR CORRECTION Histogram Correction – T o Correct RGB Channels Separately: 1. Clic k the “RGB Histograms” button. The “T one Cur ves and Histog ram” window is e xpanded to the right and each histogram f or “R”, “G” and “B” (figure-lower left) appears . Y ou can close the histogram f or each channel b y click the “RG[...]

- 48 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Correct Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance: 1. Clic k the “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” button. The “Br ightness, Contr ast and Color Balance Correction” window (figure-lo wer left) appears . 2. Drag the contr ol of eac h slide bar with the mouse, or type an appropriate number in eac h b[...]

- 49 - COLOR CORRECTION If you clic k “ A uto Setting ”, “Brightness” and “Contrast” will be automatically adjusted based on the lightness inf ormation holding the RGB color balance. Y ou can cancel all kinds of correction performed in the “Brightness, Contrast and Color Balance Correction” window b y clic king “ Reset ”. The pr[...]

- 50 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Correct Hue, Saturation and Lightness: 1. Clic k the “Hue , Saturation and Lightness Correction” button. The “Hue, Saturation, Lightness Correction” window (figure-low er left) appears. 2. Drag the contr ol of eac h slide bar with the mouse, or type an appropriate number in eac h bo x. If you mo v e the “Hue”[...]

- 51 - COLOR CORRECTION If you clic k “ A uto Setting ”, “Saturation” will be automatically corrected f ocusing on conspicuous par ts of the image and holding “Hue” and “Lightness” as they are. Y ou can cancel all kinds of correction performed in the “Hue, Satur ation, Lightness Correction” window b y clicking “ Reset ”. The[...]

- 52 - COLOR CORRECTION V ariation Correction: Y ou can perform corrections of “Color Balance”, “Br ightness & Contrast” and “Saturation” while checking the finishing (the image after corrections) on simulation images . 1. Clic k the “V ariation Correction” button. The “V ariation” windo w (figure-lo wer left) appears . 2. S[...]

- 53 - COLOR CORRECTION V ariation Correction – Color Balance: “Adjust Correction Le v el” slide bar “Displa y Limit” checkbo x If you selected the “Color Balance” variation option , sho wing the “Current” image in the center , six other simulation images are displa yed f or “Red (R)”, “Magenta (M)”, “Blue (B)”, “Cy [...]

- 54 - COLOR CORRECTION “Adjust Correction Le v el” slide bar “Displa y Limit” checkbo x V ariation Correction – Brightness & Contrast: If you selected the “Brightness & Contrast” variation option , showing the “Current” image in the center , eight other simulation images are displa yed, where each simulation image has bee[...]

- 55 - COLOR CORRECTION V ariation Correction – Saturation: “Adjust Correction Le v el” slide bar “Displa y Limit” checkbo x If you selected the “Saturation” variation option , sho wing the “Current” image in the center , two other simulation images are displa yed in the horizontal direction, where each simulation image has been c[...]

- 56 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Undo the Correction: Clic k the “Undo” button. Y ou can cancel the current image correction and retur n the image to the pre vious status. Y ou can k eep cancelling corrections you made b y clicking the button repeatedly as f ar as your computer memory capacity allows . T o Redo the Canceled Correction: Clic k the ?[...]

- 57 - COLOR CORRECTION Snapshot: Y ou can sav e the pre vie w image displa y ed in the corrected image displa y area temporarily in the snapshot displa y area. If you sa ve the snapshot at each phase of correction, you can quic kly previe w the image under each correction status. Clic k the “Snapshot” button. The current pre vie w image is tem[...]

- 58 - COLOR CORRECTION Color Correction Job: Y ou can register color correction contents in each correction window as the “Color Correction Job”. If you hav e a fixed correction pattern (to some extent), y ou can easily perf or m the fixed color correction pattern by registering the ser ies of correction contents as the color correction job an[...]

- 59 - COLOR CORRECTION T o apply the registered color correction job to other images, perf or m the follo wing operations: 1. Displa y the image that y ou wish to apply the series of color corrections in the “Correction Image Display” area. 2. Clic k the “Select a Color Correction Job” b utton. The “Select a Color Correction Job” windo[...]

- 60 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Compare the Pre/P ost Correction Images: Clic k the “Pre/P ost Correction Comparison” button. Y ou 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 clic k the “Pre/P ost Correction Comparison” b utton again, th[...]

- 61 - COLOR CORRECTION T o Displa y the Whole P ost-Correction Image: Clic k the “Whole Image” button. The whole post-correction image is e xpanded or shrunken according to the main windo w size , and displa y ed in the corrected image displa y area. If you clic k the “Whole Image” button again, it returns to the or iginal-sized image.[...]

- 62 - COLOR CORRECTION Thumbnail Number Displa y: If you selected the image f older (see page 19), the total number of images in the f older and the frame number of the image currently displa yed. frame number of the image currently displa y ed total number of images in the (opened) f older If y ou c lic k “ ”, the previous frame is displa yed[...]

- 63 - COLOR CORRECTION RGB V alue Displa y: The RGB v alues are displa y ed f or the current mouse pointer location on the pre vie w image in the corrected image displa y area.[...]

- 64 - SHARPNESS If you clic k the “Sharpness” tab , the f ollowing sharpness correction window appears. Y ou can set the frequency to be emphasized or the deg ree to be emphasized while chec king those eff ects on the previe w image. 1. Drag the “Frequency to be” slide bar control with the mouse to select the frequency that y ou wish to em[...]

- 65 - SHARPNESS If you chec k the “Preview” chec kbo x, y ou can e x ecute the real time reflection of the correction effect to the pre vie w image in the shar pness correction window . Y ou can select display magnification out of six options; 100%, 66.7%, 50%, 33.3%, 25% and 16.7%. If you click the “+” button under the pre vie w image, th[...]

- 66 - QUITING THE SOFTW ARE Clic k the “Close” bo x in the main window (the “X” button on the upper right-hand corner of the main window f or Windows®, and the “ ” b utton on the far left corner of the title bar f or Macintosh). The main window is closed and the softw are quits.[...]

9224-2766-21 H-A106[...]