KONICA MINOLTA DiMAGE S404 User Manual
INSTRUCTION MANUALE
9224-2776-21 H-A112
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Before installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility software, read the data-transfer section in the
camera manual. This section details how to connect the camera to a computer using the supplied
USB cable. Users with Windows 98/98SE or Mac OS 8.6 will need to install driver software before
connecting the camera to a computer. Image data can also be downloaded with an SD memory or
MultiMedia card reader. The examples in this manual assume the camera is connected to the computer with a USB cable as described in the camera manual.
This instruction manual does not provide instruction in the basic operation of personal computers, or
the basic operation of Windows or Macintosh operating systems; refer to the manuals supplied with
the computer.
The examples in this manual use Windows software. The appearance of the screens may differ from
the examples when using Macintosh or other Windows operating systems.
Every precaution has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this material. Contact Minolta if you have
any questions. Minolta is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by the use of this software.
This instruction manual may not be copied either in part or in its entirety without the prior permission
of Minolta Co., Ltd.
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System requirements .............................................................................................................................5
Installation ......................................................................................................................................5
Before installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility...................................................................5
Installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility - Windows ............................................................6
Installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility - Macintosh ..........................................................8
Starting up the Image Viewer...............................................................................................................10
Starting up the Image Viewer Utility - Windows ......................................................................10
Starting up the Image Viewer Utility - Macintosh.....................................................................11
Importing images..................................................................................................................................12
Memory card folder organization.............................................................................................12
Loading all the still-image files in a folder ...............................................................................13
Loading individual still-image files ...........................................................................................14
Rotate, flip, and sort thumbnails..............................................................................................15
Basic image processing .......................................................................................................................16
Color-correction window ..........................................................................................................16
Displaying images in the color-correction window ..................................................................17
Variation palette.......................................................................................................................18
Color-balance variation...............................................................................................19
Brightness & contrast variation...................................................................................20
Saturation variation.....................................................................................................21
Brightness, contrast, and color-balance corrections ...............................................................22
Auto-setting button......................................................................................................22
An introduction to color............................................................................................................23
Undoing an image correction ..................................................................................................24
Redoing a canceled image correction.....................................................................................24
Resetting all image corrections ...............................................................................................24
The image display area ...........................................................................................................25
Fit-to-window button ...................................................................................................25
Resizing the utility window..........................................................................................25
Saving images ....................................................................................................................................26
Resizing an image to be saved ...............................................................................................26
Saving single images...............................................................................................................27
Saving multiple images............................................................................................................28
Closing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility ..............................................................................29
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Advanced image processing ................................................................................................................30
The tone curve / histogram palette..........................................................................................31
Using the tone curve ...............................................................................................................32
Drawing tone curves by freehand............................................................................................33
A short guide to tone-curve corrections...................................................................................34
White, black, and gray-point corrections .................................................................................36
Setting the white and black-point values.................................................................................38
Tone-curve / histogram auto setting ........................................................................................39
Displaying the color histograms ..............................................................................................39
Histogram corrections..............................................................................................................40
Hue, saturation, and lightness palette.....................................................................................42
Auto-setting button......................................................................................................43
Comparing pre- and post correction images ...........................................................................44
Tracking image corrections - snapshot button ........................................................................45
Saving image corrections ........................................................................................................46
Loading color-correction Jobs .................................................................................................47
Sharpness................................................................................................................................48
Color matching ....................................................................................................................................50
Setting the output color space.................................................................................................50
Using the monitor’s ICC profile ...............................................................................................52
Appendix ....................................................................................................................................54
Displaying the recording data of an image..............................................................................54
About the RAW button.............................................................................................................55
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
IBM PC/AT compatible computers
133MHz Pentium processor or higher
64MB or more of RAM
100MB or more of available hard-disk
space
CD-ROM drive
Apple Macintosh series computers
PowerPC 100MHz or higher
Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.1
64MB or more of available RAM
100MB or more of available hard-disk
space
A 24-bit color or greater monitor with a
minimum resolution of 640 X 480.
1024 X 768 or higher is recommended.
CD-ROM drive
A True Color (24 bit) or greater monitor
with a minimum resolution of 640 X
480 (VGA). 1024 X 768 (XGA) or higher is recommended.
Windows 95, Windows 98/98 Second
Edition, Windows Me, Windows 2000
Professional, Windows XP, Windows
NT4.0 (Service Pack 6 or later)
RAM-stationed programs such as anti-virus or installation-monitoring software may cause the installer
to fail. Remove or disable these programs before installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility.
Reinstall or enable the software when the installation is complete.
Before installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility
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INSTALLATION
Click the “Starting up the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility
installer” button to begin installation.
Installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility - Windows
In the example below, the hard disk drive is drive C, and the CD-ROM drive is drive D. The letters
designating the drives will vary between computers. With Windows 2000, NT4.0, or XP, the software
should be installed with the Administrator privilege.
Insert the DiMAGE Software CD-ROM into the CD-ROM
drive.
• The DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility Installer window will
open automatically.
Turn on the computer to start Windows.
The welcome window will open. Click “Next>” to
continue.
The license agreement appears. If you accept the agreement, click “Yes” to continue the installation routine.
• Read the entire license agreement carefully before
continuing. If you do not agree to the terms, click “No”
to exit the installation program.
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To install the software in the default location - C:\Program
Files\DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility, click “Next >.”
• To install the software in a different location, click
browse button to display the folder selection window.
Specify the directory in which to install the software.
The name of the default program folder is displayed. To
install the software icons in this folder, click “Next>.”
Installation will begin.
• To install the software icons in another folder, select one
of the folders listed in the existing-folders box below.
Click “Next>” to begin installation.
When the software installation has been completed, a
message will be displayed. Click “Finish.”
• The DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility installer window will
be displayed. Click “Finish” to close the window.
The license agreement appears. If you accept the agreement,
click “Yes” to continue the installation routine.
• Read the entire license agreement carefully before
continuing. If you do not agree to the terms, click “No” to exit
the installation program.
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INSTALLATION
Turn on the computer to start the operating system.
Installing the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility - Macintosh
When the desktop appears, insert the DiMAGE Software CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
• The contents of the CD-ROM appear automatically. If the contents do not appear, double-click the
CD-ROM icon to open it.
Open the Utility folder, and then open the appropriate language folder.
Double-click on the installer icon to start the
Installation program.
When the installation screen appears click “Next>” to begin the
setup.
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The location for the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility files must be
specified. Click the reference button.
Confirm the installation location on the installer screen. Click
“Next >>” to install the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility.
A window will appear when the software has been installed.
Click “Quit” to exit the installer.
Using the folder-selection dialog box, select the
location where the software should be installed.
Click “Choose.”
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STARTING UP THE IMAGE VIEWER
Starting up the Image Viewer Utility - Windows
Select the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility from
the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility folder in
the program option of the start menu. The
utility will start up and the main window will
be displayed.
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Starting up the Image Viewer Utility - Macintosh
Open the DiMAGE Image Viewer
Utility folder. Double-click the
DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility icon
to start up the application. The
main window of the utility will be
displayed.
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IMPORTING IMAGES
Memory card folder organization
Drive Icon
Dcim
PICT0001.TIF
PICT0002.JPG
Fine, standard,
or economy
image
Misc
When the camera is connected to a computer, a drive
icon representing the camera will be displayed. Doubleclicking on the icon will reveal two folders; the Dcim folder contains the camera images, and the misc. folder contains DPOF print files (see camera manual).
Opening the Dcim folder will show all image folders on
the card. Camera images are stored in these folders.
Only still-images can be opened with the DiMAGE
Viewer Utility. QuickTime can be used to playback movie
and audio recordings.
Still-image file names begin with “PICT,” followed by a
four-digit file number, and a tif or jpg extension. See the
camera manual for information on folder names and file
organization for your specific camera.
100MLT09
Super-fine image
Recording data is contained in an exif tag attached
to the image file. If an image is opened in a imageprocessing application that does not support exif
tag data (e.g. Adobe Photoshop), and then the
image is saved overwriting the original data, the exif
tag information will be erased. When using software
other than the DiMAGE Image Viewer Utility, always
rename the image file to protect the exif tag data.
Software Notes
Folder names vary
between cameras,
see camera manual.
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Confirm the camera is connected to the computer and a memory card is inserted.
Loading all the still-image files in a folder
Click the load-all-images button in the main window.
The operating system’s folder selection dialog box
appears. Select the folder where image files are stored.
Click the select or choose button to load all the JPEG and
TIFF files in the folder.
• The color-matching function can be activated in this
window. See page 50 for details.
• Folder names vary between cameras, see camera
manual.
Thumbnails of still-image files in the selected folder are
displayed.
• If the folder contains a large number of images, the
display area can be resized by clicking and dragging
the bottom right corner of the utility window or the
thumbnails can be scrolled with the scroll bar.
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IMPORTING IMAGES
Click the load button in the main window.
Use the open dialog box to locate the desired image file.
Click “open” to load the image and thumbnail.
• The color-matching function can be activated in this
window. See page 50 for details.
• Folder names vary between cameras, see camera
manual.
Loading individual still-image files
Click on the thumbnail image to be deleted; the frame
around the thumbnail will darken.
Press the delete key on the keyboard to remove the
thumbnail.
• Only the thumbnail image is deleted from the
display area. The actual image file is not affected
and can be re-loaded into the image viewer.
Deleting thumbnails
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Rotate - Click on the thumbnail frame; the frame will darken to indicate it is selected. Click on the
appropriate rotate button. The rotate-right button rotates the thumbnail 90° clockwise and the rotateleft button rotates the thumbnail 90° counterclockwise each time the buttons are clicked.
Flip - Click on the thumbnail frame; the frame will darken to indicate it is selected. Click on the appropriate flip button. When an image is flipped, it will create a mirror image.
Sorting - The thumbnail images can be sorted by name, date, or extension. Simply select the sorting
category from the sorting-target specification list box and the thumbnails will be automatically
arranged within the selected category. The sorting-order switch button alternates between normal and
reversed order.
Sorting-target specification list box
Sorting-order switch button
Flip-vertical button
Flip-horizontal button
Rotate-right button
Rotate-left button
Rotate, flip, and sort thumbnails
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BASIC IMAGE PROCESSING
Clicking the color-correction tab in the main window displays the utility’s image-processing tools.
Adjustments to color, contrast, brightness, and saturation can be made.
Brightness, contrast, and color-balance button (p. 22)
Image display area
Thumbnail number
display (p. 17)
Fit-to-window button (p. 25)
Reset-all button (p. 24)
Redo button (p. 24)
Undo button (p. 24)
Variation button (p. 18)
Color-correction window
Status bar
Color-correction tab
This section contains details on the basic image-processing tools in the DiMAGE Image Viewer
Utility. For descriptions of the advanced tools, see pages 30 though 49.
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The color-correction window will display the thumbnail number and the total number of thumbnails
loaded into the image viewer. Clicking on the arrows on each side of the display will load the previous
or next thumbnail image.
Thumbnail number of the image
currently displayed
Total number of images
loaded in the utility
Displaying images in the color-correction window
In the thumbnail display, an image can automatically
be loaded into the color-correction window. Simply
double-click on a thumbnail to display the image in the
color-correction window.
To display the previous
thumbnail.
To display the next thumbnail.
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