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Hagens Manual EN 7-6 a Interim.Fm User’s Interim Manual GraphicConverter 7.6 Programmed by Thorsten Lemke Manual by Hagen Henke This manual is under construction as many details of GraphicConverter have been changed in version 7. For updated versions please visit : http://www.lemkesoft.com/manuals-books.html Sales: Lemke Software GmbH PF 6034 D-31215 Peine Tel: +49-5171-72200 Fax:+49-5171-72201 E-mail: [email protected] In the PDF version of this manual, you can click the page numbers in the contents and index to jump to that particular page. © 2001-2011 Elbsand Publishers, Hagen Henke. All rights reserved. www.elbsand.de Sales: Lemke Software GmbH, PF 6034, D-31215 Peine; www.lemkesoft.com This book including all parts is protected by copyright. It may not be reproduced in any form outside of copyright laws without permission from the author. This applies in particular to photocopying, translation, copying onto microfilm and storage and processing on electronic systems. All due care was taken during the compilation of this book. However, errors cannot be completely ruled out. The author and distributors therefore accept no responsibility for any program or documentation errors or their consequences. This manual was written on a Mac using Adobe FrameMaker 8. Almost all software, hardware and other products or company names mentioned in this manual are registered trademarks and should be respected as such. The following list is not necessarily complete. Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Mac and the Mac OS logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Copyright for all pictures in manual and on cover: Hagen Henke except for PCD example picture © AMUG Arizona Mac Users Group Inc. Reginald Muhl and ECW and mrSID example pictures. Third Parties Components: • ExifTool used with permission of Phil Harvey • Photo CD mark licensed by Kodak • ECW Compression/Decompression Earth Resource Mapping Pty Ltd.; LuraWave-Technology © 2000 LuraTech GmbH © 2000 Images compressed by LuraWave • XMP toolkit © Adobe Systems Incorporated and others. All rights reserved. The original version of this source code may be found at http://adobe.com • RCWebColorPicker © 2006 Carl Lindberg • NeuQuant © 1994 Anthony Dekker • DDS and ACE import with the help of Martin Wright • BioFormats library licensed from Glencoe Software • JPEG 6 © 1998 Thomas G. Lane, updated to 6c by Bruce Barthon • Remote Control Wrapper, a library of classes by Martin Kahr • Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak • Crashreporter framework by Uli Kusterer • webp format sdk Copyright © 2010, Google Inc. All rights reserved. New editions of this book may contain some paragraphs translated by the author in rough English. These paragraphs will be replaced with a professional translation as soon as possible. Typesetting: Hagen Henke Version 1.8, Lorenzkirch 2012 Contents Introduction Welcome to GraphicConverter . .4 System Requirements . .4 Installation . .5 Update . 10 Mac OS 10.7 Lion. 10 Support . 13 This Manual . 13 Starting the Program and Opening a Picture . 14 Converting a Picture with Save as... 18 Saving and Closing . 23 Save a Copy as... 23 Convert & Modify . 23 Work Environment . 45 Internet Preparing Pictures for the Internet . 57 Save for web. 61 Comparing Pictures . 63 Pictures in E-mails . 65 Pictures in mobile phones . 69 Slices . 69 Photo Albums on the Internet (Catalog) . 71 Uploading and Downloading Documents . 82 On Paper Paper Format . 84 Printing . 85 Print Catalog . 87 Print Folder . 92 Processing Pictures Color correction with Color Balance . 92 Highlights and Shadows . 93 Color correction with Xe847 . 94 Cropping for Photo Prints . 94 Picture Size . 99 Alpha Channels . 104 Viewing & Sorting The Browser . 107 3 Welcome to GraphicConverter Pictures on your iPod . 154 Slide show . 155 Find duplicate files . 163 Special Shortcuts . 167 Supported Formats . 169 New features in GraphicConverter . 181 Index . 200 Introduction After dealing with installation of the program, the first section of this manual looks at the most important functions for everyday use. Welcome to GraphicConverter GraphicConverter converts pictures into other picture formats allowing you to use graphics files from other computer systems, for example. The most important functions are: – Converting the most frequent Atari, Amiga, UNIX, Organizer and IBM graphics formats to and from Macintosh formats. Numerous format-related parameters can be configured (page 18). – Image editing – Multiple conversion (page 23) – Importing Pictures from Digital Cameras – Browser for quick viewing of all pictures contained in a folder (page 107) – Slide show (page 155) – Automatic creation of Internet pages with picture indices for download (page 71) – Picture processing including dithering – Remove red eyes – Simple text conversion (page 26) – Print pictures indices (page 87) We wish you all the best in your work with GraphicConverter. System Requirements GraphicConverter 7.x requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Click here to download older versions of GraphicConverter for almost any older Mac OS. 4 Installation Installation Summary: Copy GraphicConverter onto your hard drive and start the program. From version 5.1, GraphicConverter is a multi-language program that starts in the language set in the International section of the System Preferences. The languages available are: German, English, French, Danish, Sweden, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Dutch, Catalan and Russian. This manual is stored inside the GraphicConverter program file that is a so-called package. Packages can be opened by selecting Show Package Contents from the context menu in the Finder. They then work in the same way as folders. All documentation for GraphicConverter is under the path Contents / Documentation. If you want to install a newer version of the documentation, simply overwrite the old file with the new one. You may not change the names. In Mac OS X, plug-ins are copied to the Library / Application Support / GraphicConverter / Plug-ins folder. User plug-ins are copied to the Users / ˜ / Library / Application Support / GraphicConverter / Plug-ins folder. The tilde character ˜ stands for the name of the respective user. User plug-ins are only available to the respective users. One very easy way to install plug-ins is to drag them onto the GraphicConverter program icon. After a query, they will be automatically copied into the correct folder. Mac OS X already supports a large number of USB scanners. Connect your scanner and select File / Scan / Scan with Image Capture.... If you want to use the functions of the software supplied with the scanner, please follow the instructions in the scanner documentation. Step By Step Installation You may have downloaded GraphicConverter from the Internet or received it on a CD or GraphicConverter may already have been installed on your computer. Please.
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