Canon S520, S820D Guide for Mac

Photo Application Guide

Table of Contents

Printing with ImageBrowser .....................................................................................4

Basic Operation Procedure ......................................................................................7

What are Canon Utilities? ......................................................................................12

Starting ImageBrowser ...........................................................................................13

Using ImageBrowser .............................................................................................15

Using the Browser window .....................................................................................16

Changing the Appearance of the Browser area ..................................................... 19

Organizing Images .................................................................................................22

Editing Image Using Image Viewer ........................................................................26

Slide show ..............................................................................................................30

Time Tunnel ...........................................................................................................36

Adding Sound to Image ..........................................................................................37

Creating Image Files Attached to E-mail ................................................................40

Creating Panoramic Photo Using PhotoStitch ........................................................ 44

Opening Image Selected in the Browser Area from Other Applications ................. 46

Importing Images ...................................................................................................48

Importing images with the Automation wizard ........................................................49

Importing images using the Camera window .........................................................55

Using the Camera window .....................................................................................58

Setting up your Canon digital camera ....................................................................66

Table of Contents

Printing ..................................................................................................................69

Custom layout printing ............................................................................................ 70

Fixed photo size printing ........................................................................................84

Tiled photo printing (Borderless printing) ...............................................................89

Canon perforated paper printing ............................................................................95

About Canon perforated paper .............................................................................102

Starting printing ....................................................................................................103

Index printing ........................................................................................................107

Page Artwork .......................................................................................................115

Editing the layout format ....................................................................................... 116

Inserting text .........................................................................................................125

Cropping an image ...............................................................................................130

How to Use Online Help ......................................................................................133

Index ....................................................................................................................134

Printing with ImageBrowser

ImageBrowser enables you to import image data captured with digital cameras or scanners into a computer and produce photo-quality printouts in a quick and easy fashion. Using ImageBrowser with a Canon BJ printer and a scanner or digital camera, you can enjoy superb-quality photo prints.

Custom layout printing

You can quickly reorganize the selected images. The trimming and text insertion tasks are also easy.

Index printing

You can print a photo index that contains thumbnails automatically arranged in a suitable layout for the selected thumbnail size (large, medium, or small).

Printing with ImageBrowser

Fixed photo size printing

You can print images in the speciﬁed photo size.

Tiled photo printing (Borderless printing)

You can print images with no margins around each image, so that a single image is printed borderless along the paper edges and multiple images are arranged like tiles with no space between them (available with BJ printers that support the borderless printing feature).

Canon perforated paper printing

You can easily make your images ﬁt in a sheet of Canon perforated paper.

Printing with ImageBrowser

Basic Operation Procedure

The basic operation steps to capture, import, edit, and print photo images are summarized below.

Acquiring images with a camera or scanner

Capture your favorite images with your digital camera or scanner.

Importing images

Start ImageBrowser.

ImageBrowser supports some simple image editing features.

Import images stored in the memory card or or the digital camera into the Camera window.

The Automation wizard provides easy means of importing images.

Selecting a layout

Select a layout you want to use and specify the type, orientation, and size of paper. The wizard allows you to easily choose the free layout option, the image index (list) format, or the perforated paper.

* The windows shown above are from BJ S900.

Page Artwork

Changing the image size, trimming, and inserting of text are also easy tasks. Remember, however, you can rearrange the images or change the image size only when you have selected the Custom layout printing option.

Printing

The images can be printed on Canon perforated paper (such as Photo Paper Pro <PR-101S> or Glossy Photo Cards <FM-101>). Borderless printing is also supported.

* Some features and paper sizes may not be supported depending on the models of printers.

What are Canon Utilities?

Canon Utilities are application softwares included in the “BJ Solution Disk” or “Setup&User’s Guide” in the CD-ROM, which is supplied with Canon BJ series printers. These utilities enable you to display, save (import) to hard disk, edit, print the images captured by digital cameras or scanners.

• Image Browser

ImageBrowser allows you to display a list of thumbnails (images stored in the internal memory card), import them to your computer, and print them in photo-quality using the BJ printer. With ImageBrowser, you can easily display, edit, and manage images stored in your computer’s hard disk as well.

• PhotoStitch

PhotoStitch is an utility program for image merging and allows you to quickly create panoramic photos by merging multiple images captured with your digital camera.

With PhotoStitch, you can merge any number of images vertically or horizontally, producing unique posters or other photo-prints.The wide-mode merging feature is also useful when you want to create a wide panoramic photo of a building or straight-lined object with straight lines as natural as the original.

Starting ImageBrowser

ImageBrowser automatically starts through its automatic execution feature. You can also start ImageBrowser by double-clicking its icon in the same way as you would for other applications.

ImageBrowser supports the following image ﬁle types:

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) CIFF Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) PICT EXIF Windows Bitmap (BMP)

Automatic execution by the Automation wizard

ImageBrowser automatically starts when it detects a digital camera connected to your computer. At the same time, the Automation wizard starts.

The digital camera is detected.

Note

Importing images with the Automation wizard

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The Canon ImageBrowser Auto Launch control panel allows you to specify whether ImageBrowser automatically starts or not when the digital camera is detected. When this option is not selected, ImageBrowser will not automatically launch even if the digital camera is detected.

Starting ImageBrowser

Starting ImageBrowser manually

As with other applications, ImageBrowser can be started by double-clicking its icon. When you install ImageBrowser onto you computer, you can select the option to create the Canon

ImageBrowser icon (alias) on the desktop.

Canon ImageBrowser on the desktop

Double-clicking the Canon ImageBrowser icon (alias) on the desktop will start ImageBrowser, and the initial window is displayed as shown below. Then the Browser window appears.

When the Canon ImageBrowser alias icon is not displayed on the desktop, open the ImageBrowser folder, in which the ImageBrowser program has been installed, and double-click the ImageBrowser icon in the folder to launch.

Refer to Using the Browser window for more information on this window.

Starting ImageBrowser

Using ImageBrowser

This section provides an overview of ImageBrowser and its functions.

• Using the Browser window

• Changing the Appearance of the Browser area

• Switching to the Preview Display

• Changing Display Options

• Organizing Images

• Deleting Image

• Updating Information in the Browser Area

• Editing Image Using Image Viewer

• Cropping Image

• Adjusting Image Colors

• Saving Image after Processing

• Slide show

• Time Tunnel

• Adding Sound to Image

• Creating Image Files Attached to E-mail

• Creating Panoramic Photo Using PhotoStitch

• Opening Image Selected in the Browser Area from Other Applications

Using the Browser window

This section describes the names and functions of the areas and buttons in the Browser window, the main window of ImageBrowser.

(2) Browser

(1) Explorer

View

(3) Control

panel

area

(7) Thumbnails

(4) CANON CAMERA

button

(5) SELECT ALL

button

(6) The number of images

contained in the folder is displayed.

Using the Browser window

(1) Explorer View

This view presents the names of your hard drives and the folders contained in the hard drives. When your Canon digital camera is connected, double-click the Canon camera icon to open the Camera window, where the images stored in your digital camera are displayed.

(2) Browser area

The Browser area presents the images in thumbnail format contained in the folder currently selected in the Explorer View. The View menu allows you to change display settings such as the size of thumbnails, the items displayed, and the display mode. Refer to Changing the appearance of the Browser area.

(3) Control panel

This area contains several buttons to manipulate the images in the Browser window.

(4) CANON CAMERA button

Click this button to access your Canon digital camera connected to your computer, and download the images in the camera to display in the Camera window. Refer to Using the Camera window.

(5) SELECT ALL button

Clicking this button selects all images in the Browser area.

(6) The number of images contained in the folder is displayed. (7) Thumbnails

Thumbnails are reduced images contained in the selected folder in the Explorer View. Click a thumbnail to select its associated image. To select multiple images, click each thumbnail while pressing the Shift key.

Using the Browser window

(2) REDUCE button

(4) DISPLAY IMAGE button

(1) SEND TO TRASH button

(3) ENLARGE button

(5) PRINT

(1) SEND TO TRASH button

Click this button to delete the selected images (image ﬁles) in the Browser area.

(2) REDUCE button

Click this button to reduce the size of thumbnails displayed in the Browser area. You can also use the Reduce and Enlarge commands in the View menu to change the size of thumbnails displayed in the Browser area.

(3) ENLARGE button

Click this button to increase the size of thumbnails displayed in the Browser area. You can also use the Reduce and Enlarge commands in the View menu to change the size of thumbnails displayed in the Browser area.

(4) DISPLAY IMAGE button

Click this button to display the selected image (thumbnail) in the Image viewer. Refer to Editing Image Using Image Viewer.

(5) PRINT button

Clicking this button opens the submenu from which you can select either the index printing or layout printing. Refer to Printing.

Using the Browser window

Changing the Appearance of the Browser area

The Browser area of ImageBrowser presents the images and their associated information contained in the selected folder in the Explorer View.

The information on the image appears. The display format can be changed. Refer to Changing Display Options.

Thumbnail The size can be changed.

Browser area The display format can be changed. Refer to Switching to the Preview

Display.

Changing the Appearance of the Browser area

Switching to the Preview Display

The selected image can be previewed. In this mode, the image is sized and displayed so that it ﬁts in the Browser area.

Select the appears. The mode switches to the preview display mode.

Select the

View Mode

List

from the submenu to return to the list mode.

from the

View

menu, and then select the

Changing the Appearance of the Browser area

Preview

from the submenu that

Changing Display Options

You can control what information about an image is displayed below the thumbnail. Select the

from the submenu that appears.

View Settings

from the

View

menu, and then select the information you want to display

Changing the Appearance of the Browser area

Organizing Images

• Changing the location of Images

• Deleting Image

• Updating Information in the Browser Area

Changing the location of Images

To place an image to a different folder, simply drag and drop it (its thumbnail) in the Browser area onto another folder in the Explorer View.

You can copy an image to a different folder by dragging it while pressing the Option key.

The folder where the selected image is stored.

The ﬁgure below shows the steps to create a new folder.

Drag and drop an image (its thumbnail) onto the folder you want to place it.

Organizing Images

(1) Select the folder in which

you want to create a new folder.

(2) Select the New Folder from the

File menu.

An untitled folder is created and its name can be entered.

To move a folder to a different location in the Explorer View, drag and drop it onto another folder. You can copy a folder to a different location by dragging it while pressing the Option key.

Organizing Images

Deleting Image

To delete an image, select its thumbnail in the Browser area and click the To delete a folder, select the folder in the Explorer View and click the

(1) Select the image you

want to delete.

Note

When you delete an image that has not been imported but is just displayed in the

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Browser area, the image is deleted from the memory card of the camera. Even if you delete an image by clicking the moved to the Trash. To completely delete the image files contained in the Trash, select

(2) Click the SEND TO

TRASH button.

Empty Trash

from the

Special

(3) The selected image is deleted.

SEND TO TRASH

menu in the Finder.

SEND TO TRASH

button.

button, it is just

button.

Organizing Images

Updating Information in the Browser Area

When you create a new folder, or move, copy or delete an existing folder in the Finder, these changes are not reﬂected immediately in ImageBrowser. In cases where you have managed ﬁles or folders in the Finder or other applications, select the contents of the Browser area.

Refresh

from the

View

menu to update the

Organizing Images

Editing Image Using Image Viewer

To display an image in the Image viewer, click its thumbnail in the Browser area to select it and click the DISPLAY IMAGE button to run the Image viewer.

Use the

DISPLAY IMAGE button Click this button to invoke the Image viewer.

ENLARGE

The size of the image is displayed.

button or the

The Image viewer is also invoked by double-clicking an image (thumbnail) in the Browser area. You can perform such actions as image cropping, color

adjustment, and saving of modiﬁed images.

REDUCE

button to magnify or reduce the size of the image.

The display scale of the image appears.

Editing Image Using Image Viewer

Cropping Image

Select the portion of the image you want to keep by mouse-dragging over it, and then click the

CROP

button. Area outside the selection is trimmed away.

Cropped area

CROP button Clicking this button will trim the area outside the selection.

Editing Image Using Image Viewer

Adjusting Image Colors

You can change the hue, saturation, and lightness of the image displayed in the Image viewer. Clicking the color adjustments.

ADJUST COLOR button Click this button to open the Adjust Color dialog box.

ADJUST COLOR

button opens the

Click the OK button to make the changes take effect.

Adjust Color

dialog box, which allows you to make

The hue, saturation, and lightness are adjustable.

Editing Image Using Image Viewer

Saving Image after Processing

The modiﬁed image ﬁle can be saved with a new name.

SAVE button Clicking this button opens the Save File window.

Type in a ﬁle name and specify the ﬁle type, and click the Save button. The iamge is saved as a new ﬁle.

Editing Image Using Image Viewer

Slide show

You can review sequentially the selected images in the Browser area as a slide show in full screen mode.

Steps

Choose the

The window containing options for a slide show opens.

Slide Show Options

from the

View

menu.

Slide show

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