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1. Alpha Chameleon wl ee ae wee Ree Smaart 128 WIGS OIC TURBOS da A a a a as td Ge lec 130 WAY OWE Ag re E Beats aoe eyed Nees Geese AR kei oe earn 132 ISD Enri and brava bren o Sigh A sah bon Rd a 135 Copy File into Resource 0 00 eee eee eee 137 Invert Blacks VV MiG GES icc od art ace a aa ah tke a ncaa aa 137 Gopy Gut Paste Clears aa acme aca da wie aid ia e ak arial We ada Mave eje 137 Text IM PICS a teat ai at at aaa An as fe E a dey tae AL al AMR att Ane aE 141 Painting with GraphicConverter 4 2442 4ud ie bua eee an adage Es 143 MA ITCH A A fy Gees clam en Nar se a Mest ANNAN 153 Viewing amp Sorting The BROW SOR tc ites sents ccd rein Ta aces tele oa cece ete mi Sa a Wrenn Ge red 154 PIKIOSHOW NN 163 Special Bale FUNCOM ccs sree sae a an esta wee cara eee ne 171 IPTC Document Information 00 0000 ee ee ees 179 Recording Points for Determining Measurements 00000e ee 180 Comping PICS aumen ais hea aes 180 Video Pictures ais aud cle aaa ale oat tada aaa ana da prlde woe 180 Eist from STRA ROSQUICO ua dada aa a latido das e 182 Important Formats pepa ADAN 182 PA tact o ES De eta 203 AppleScript sti AA pasos 229 QUIE eaa A x aca cs eal an AN E es echo Gala tw Gulp ie O 229 e A A tease aaa O a 229 ONORGCUES usos dead ad ahd sa aja ad dad ada aaa ada ate 230 Supported Formats as a a a a a ee a O 231 WAG os a orto pee ass A an ein 240 Trimming Trimming In most scanner programs the picture2. Rotate D 90 clockwise X31 a 90 counterclockwise C362 y 180 X83 Other Value with Line E4 Other Value X35 The A indicates the position of the picture or a selected part of the picture after it has been rotated Other Value with Line changes the mouse cursor to a cross You can then drag a helper line along a line in the picture that is supposed to be straight Drag the helper line along the side of a house in your picture for example and release the mouse button Zoom into the section of the picture where you want to drag the line using the magnifying glass GraphicConverter will now rotate the picture automatically so that this line is vertical The closest alignment is always selected The helper line does not stay in the picture 69 Rotate The houses in the following example are leaning to the left Choose a long vertical house wall Make sure it is as close to the center as possible because lines near the edges of the picture tend to be distorted by simple lenses and zoom lenses This effect is increased when you take pictures from above or below the subject e009 E Willemstad 09 JPG The mouse cursor turns into a cross with a hole in the center Through this you can see whether your line is running along the edge from the brightness of the pixels Use this hole at the start and end of the helper line to rotate the picture as accurately as possible 70 Rotate All angles on th
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4. with pictures made using a digital camera The width and height of pictures are swapped in the EXIF information upon rotation This is only important if the pictures are transferred back to a digital camera and then displayed on a television for example The loss of quality with JPEG pictures does not come from the rotation but from opening and saving again as a JPEG because the file has to be recompressed each time it is saved The compression process causes a loss in quality Therefore it is best to save JPEGs in a lossless format such as TIFF Photoshop etc if you intend to make several changes saving the image throughout the editing process If necessary you should only create a JPEG version once you have finished editing the file Two further options are available for pictures with 16 7 million colors when rotate using Other Value Error Correction and Add Alpha Channel The Error Correction option should always be selected because each pixel is calculated on the basis of the exact color content of the source pixel This improves the picture quality especially around the edges The Add Alpha Channel option can be used to create an additional alpha channel This contains just the picture without the white borders that were added during rotation as a kind of template Once an alpha channel has been created you cannot create another one GraphicConverter updates the alpha channel after any further rotate processes An alpha channel
5. a multiple of 90 It is therefore a good idea to sharpen the picture again after rotating See p 73 If the angle is not a multiple of 90 an even better way would be to scan the picture again placing it at the corresponding angle in the scanner Do not rotate the picture several times Return to the original version by selecting Edit Undo and try again You can use Other Value to enter an angle by which the picture should be rotated r Rotate Angle Error Correction FS Add Alpha Channel Values positive rotate counterclockwise Cenc RD As positive values are used to indicate counterclockwise rotation in mathematics GraphicConverter also follows this principle Negative values for example 0 7 will 72 Unsharp Mask and Sharpen Edges therefore rotate the picture clockwise It is only worth rotating by an angle if you know the angle Otherwise use the Other Value with Line option see above The picture quality is not affected if rotated 90 180 or 270 Larger pictures require longer processing times as new coordinates have to be calculated for each pixel JPEG pictures that you do not want to convert and edit may still be rotated from within the browser using the context menu Select File Browse Folder click the small picture preview and then Control click hold down the Control key and click the small picture preview The picture width needs to be a multiple of 8 This is normal however
6. being scanned is displayed so poorly in preview mode that it is worthwhile making the selection rectangle for the area you want to scan slightly larger The edges of the picture will then need to be trimmed In GraphicConverter it is best to use the selection tool at the top right of the toolbox If you cannot see the toolbox you can call it up by selecting Picture Show Toolbox from the menu o ate E E h L H tr Use the selection tool to place a rectangle as accurately as possible around the section of the picture that should be left after trimming The pixels behind the line also belong to the selected area Use the handles on the selection lines to adjust the rectangle You can adjust the rectangle very accurately by using the center handles between the corners as they only move one edge You can work most precisely when the picture is zoomed to at least 100 Finally trim the selected area by selecting Edit Trim Selection Command Y The parts of the picture not enclosed in the selection rectangle will be cut away The picture will be displayed in a correspondingly minimized window You can cancel a selection by pressing Escape or selecting Edit Unselect from the menu The Edit menu also contains the Smart Trim command This trims any single color margins leaving you with the actual picture Unless for example the scanned picture has black or white areas at the edges you can use this option to easily cut off the scann
7. is an invisible level of the picture containing information on shapes and boundaries In professional DTP Desk Top Publishing programs such as QuarkXPress 4 or InDesign 2 this alpha channel can also be used to hide the white borders Unsharp Mask and Sharpen Edges If you are using a budget scanner or unfocused pictures it is always necessary to sharpen the scanned pictures In the Effect menu GraphicConverter has the Unsharp Mask and Sharpen Edges options The Sharpen Edges option has been available in GraphicConverter for a long time and results in slightly more defined lines than the newer Unsharp Mask option We recommend that you 13 O 2001 Elbsand Publishers Hagen Henke All rights reserved www elbsand de Sales Lemke Software Erich Heckel Ring 8a D 31228 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 6 Almost all software hardware and other products or company names mentioned in
8. Sample Chapter From the User s Manual GraphicConverter 4 4 Programmed by Thorsten Lemke Manual by Hagen Henke Translated by Paul Rowley Libby Bunn and Aziz Hashmi Sales Lemke Software GmbH Erich Heckel Ring 8a D 31228 Peine www lemkesoft com Tel 49 5171 72200 Fax 49 5171 72201 E mail support graphicconverter net Contents Introduction Welcome to GraphicConverter 0 00 cece eee ee ee eee 4 System Requirements 0 0 c cece eee eee eee eee teeta eeees 4 Stan Se hte Redeemed A eee Bee A 4 Updates al o at anh enon tata era nA as oa hs get Aan ganar en 9 License Key and Registration oooooooooocrrrrrornr mmm 10 SUPPOR matas noz ars aa daa na a ah aael aie yaa 12 This Manual sia da daa o a Ad soe 13 Starting the Program and Opening a Picture 0 000 e eee cease 13 Converting a Picture with Save aS o ooooooooocnnnrrrr eee 15 Saving ane COSING cate ir sa ena 20 Save a UODY asi aran da ra ad al 21 COMO rta aaa o a il dre sare 21 Work ENVIFONMENE 04 sarro alg ote cote ela dd rios 32 Internet Preparing Pictures for the Internet 0 0 00 ees 37 Comparing Pictures fie eh tee ped ten een ie 41 Pictures IN E Mas ati da Ro 43 SICOS rad ls ro ios is renga E 46 Optimizing File Names for the Internet 00 00 cece eee eee 48 Photo Albums on the It Foc ats NC tat teak ihe tM Me Oe edt Meal Se 48 On Paper Paper FORMAL ute ah eek eek oie Bn A da 55 Printin
9. e helper line that deviate less than plus or minus 45 from vertical will be aligned vertically All angles that deviate less than plus or minus 45 from horizontal are aligned horizontally You can therefore also choose a line in the picture that should actually be horizontal 090 E Willemstad 09 JPG 50 w a Ms The edges of the picture may need to be cropped after rotation as the corners will now stick out over the original frame GraphicConverter enlarges the picture automatically so that the white borders can be added Use the selection lines to mark out the picture area to be trimmed and double click inside the rectangle or press Return Select File Trim Selection see Trimming Page 68 has the same results Trimming loses parts of the picture This cannot be avoided Select the area to be trimmed carefully so that you do not cut out any important parts of the picture 71 Rotate This is our finished rotated and trimmed picture Please note that horizontal lines only really need to be horizontal if they have been photographed head on Objects are usually depicted at an angle from the side In our example picture the front roofline of the houses and the edge of the quay are on a line that should not be rotated to horizontal Therefore you should use mainly vertical lines as orientation points Furthermore when using the Rotate option note that picture quality and sharpness is lost on angles that are not 90 or
10. ed edges without having to set a selection rectangle Click the center of the picture section which is to be kept Note that GraphicConverter searches for the color set as the background color as the edge If you want to delete a white edge white needs to be set as the background color and black accordingly if the edge is black The foreground and background colors can be set by clicking the color areas and using the pipette a You will find detailed information on this in the chapter Foreground and Background Color on Page 143 68 Rotate By selecting Edit Trim Options you can specify under Sides whether all four edges of the picture should be trimmed If for example you leave the bottom edge out the typical scanner edge will remain there Trim Tolerance 9 0 255 Sides check all for normal behavior Y Top W Left M Right Y Bottom f Cancel gt Fox gt If the scanned edge is not quite one color you can increase the Tolerance The larger the entered value the more lenient GraphicConverter will be about patches in the scanner edges for example The correct value will have to be determined a few times by trial and error However before you spend a long time doing this just use a selection rectangle Rotate After scanning the newly acquired picture often needs to be rotated because you could not fit it in your scanner the right way round All rotation options are available in a submenu under Picture
11. g sortir eae ie alaska ct acre a as ance da a dadas 55 Print Catalog aras sido 58 Print Folder atico asas sara oras alg wee Aeterna ed ba 60 Processing Pictures PISO A aa 61 Scanning with GraphicConverter qt a e Oe ale 64 EXPO a a Ns 67 TEAM at da ha aa an eck aoa ae aa 68 ROtate uo nr ara tea rd Ble cnt 69 Unsharp Mask and Sharpen Edge S 0000 c eee eee eens 73 Brightness and Contrast a eects or ste ky eevee ae et eo NS 76 COlOMGON SCION reece 2 Ga acts nanias his Medea chon Ta 78 Selecting me ta arden 9 5 a abanico aa 79 Removing Red Eyes narra a oa 84 Undo sandue tasadores 86 RGB and CMYK Sra Ss ia si in i 87 Transparent nannaa A A A Phd teenage te 87 LONA E A EE 89 bevels Lua orar Dret reta alk aS end e Ea 92 Colos and Modes eas ho cda atada a 93 IVETE ei a O A ety aye e e id Mal 106 MIO a o E A An 106 Date Time Sta A Aa inde 107 Median Filtet a a A bed 108 Pict re Information A asa 109 IISLOOVA 20 casa aa ae Wl aid ao Bin ape ele ule wt a e pjs aa 109 POE SERSOR a a A e a a a te be 110 FlaybaC K sarate OT 110 Put Picture on Desktop aaaa anana aaaea 110 Bannet cet ais daa a area mae a iodo 112 StoyDoard A A nena seh te eet ee acai 116 Gamma Correction uta ast saree eos a tc ra albo 118 PIG sla Piers mcr to a ot EA a od pe ets wie 119 User defined Filters a e a el drena o A 121 Color Permutations ns cose wes ei lat eee eae oe nated EEG Ones 121 WECIONIZE 20000 dido anita dedi euler hub and daran also 127
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