User’s Manual GraphicConverter 10.7.1 Programmed by Thorsten Lemke Manual by Hagen Henke Sales: Lemke Software GmbH PF 6034 D-31215 Peine Tel: +49-5171-72200 Fax:+49-5171-72201 E-mail: [email protected] Elbsand Publishers In the PDF version of this manual, you can click the page numbers in the contents and index to jump to that particular page. 1 © 2001-2018 Elbsand Publishers, Hagen Henke. All rights reserved. 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 partic- ular 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, registered in the United States and other countries. Mac and the macOS logo are trademarks of Apple. Lumix is a trademark of Panasonic. Copyright for all pictures in manual and on cover: Hagen Henke except for ECW and mr- SID example pictures. Example pictures of ships, Berlin and Hamburg in the chapters Pic- ture Package and Collage by Detlef Großpietsch. Example picture shadow function: De- signed by Freepik.com. 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. Typesetting: Hagen Henke Version 6.3, Meissen, Germany 2019 2 Contents Introduction Welcome to GraphicConverter . .6 System Requirements . .6 Installation . .6 Update . 11 Auto Save and Fullscreen Mode . 11 macOS 10.9 Mavericks . 14 Support . 16 This Manual . 16 Starting the Program and Opening a Picture . 17 Converting a Picture with Save as... 21 Saving and Closing . 26 Save a Copy as... 26 Batch Conversion with Convert & Modify . 27 Automatic Conversion . 58 Work Environment . 60 Internet Preparing Pictures for the Internet . 73 Save for web. 78 Comparing Pictures . 79 Pictures in E-mails . 81 Pictures in mobile phones . 85 Slices . 85 Photo Albums on the Internet (Catalog) . 87 Cloud services . 98 Uploading and Downloading Documents . 98 On Paper Paper Format . 99 Printing . 99 Multiple printing with Pickture Package . 103 Layouts with the Collage function . 105 Print Catalog . 108 Print Folder . 112 Processing Pictures Non-destructive image editing with the Cocooner . 113 Color correction with Color Balance . 115 Color correction with Xe8472. 116 Pure Carbon Filter. 118 3 Color Range . 120 Highlights and Shadows . 121 Cropping for Photo Prints . 122 Picture Size . 126 Scanning with GraphicConverter . 132 Using the Stamp for Touching Up . 133 Importing Pictures from Digital Cameras . 134 Cropping . 138 Free-form select with the Green Screen technology . 140 Rotate . 140 Unsharp Mask and Sharpen Edges . 146 Enhance local Contrast . 149 Brightness, Contrast, Saturation . 150 Vignetting Correction . 152 Operator. 153 Color Correction . ..