Epson Software Film Factory User manual

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PRINT Image Matching Version 1.0 Copyright © 2001 by Seiko Epson Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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Contents
Introducing Film Factory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About PRINT Image Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Learning More About Film Factory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Windows System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Macintosh System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Compatible Devices and File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Starting Film Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Film Factory’s Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
How Film Factory Organizes Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Creating a Roll of Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Adding Photos to a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Retouching Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Automatically Retouching a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Manually Retouching a Photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Rotating an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Cropping an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Changing Color to Black and White or Sepia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Applying a Soft Focus Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Correcting Red Eye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Canceling Retouch Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Adding Comments or Sound to a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adding Sound (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managing Your Photos, Film Rolls, and Film Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using the Viewer to Display Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Moving or Copying a Photo to Another Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Deleting a Photo From a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Finding a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Sorting Photos and Film Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Renaming a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Moving a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Deleting a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Working With Film Cases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Managing Photos on Removable Media and Networks . . . . . . . . 32
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Printing Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Standard Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Index Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Duplicate Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Album Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Greeting Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sticker Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Combo Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Other Film Factory Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Creating a Collage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Creating a Photo Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Playing a Movie File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating Web Pages of Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Uploading Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Converting a Photo to Desktop Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using a Photo Roll as a Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Exporting Photos to Files or E-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Where to Get Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Introducing Film Factory
EPSON Software™Film Factory™lets you process your digital “film”and print
snapshots using your own computer and printer. With this powerful photo
management utility, you can import images from any digital-imaging source and
create virtual rolls of film and film cases to organize thousands of photos in a
visual format.
Film Factory is the perfect photo management program for the home or office. If
you’re a home computer user, you’ll have fun organizing, enhancing, printing, and
sharing your favorite photos with family and friends. If you’re a small business
user, Film Factory provides an efficient and convenient way to catalog your
business-related digital photos.
Film Factory lets you:
■Quickly and easily import and organize images from a digital camera, scanner,
PC card, CD-ROM, or disk.
■Retouch your pictures to make them look their best. Automatically adjust
color balance, brightness, and contrast. Rotate or trim the image, or correct red
eyes. Convert photos to black and white or sepia for a classic look. Most
enhancements can be made without modifying the original image file.
■Organize and retrieve all your photos with virtual “rolls of film”and “film
cases.”You can catalog your photos by subject, or family members can have
their own film cases with their own rolls.
■Print vivid color images in a variety of formats, including standard 3.5 ×5 or
4×6 prints, an index (contact) sheet, photo album pages, and greeting cards.
■Add comments or sound (Windows®only) to each photo to be stored with it.
■Create photo collages.
■E-mail your photos to family, friends, and business associates using your own
e-mail program, or create web pages of your photos in one easy step.
■Use your photos as desktop wallpaper or a screen saver (Windows only).
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About PRINT Image Matching
If your digital camera and printer support PRINT Image Matching (P. I. M.),
Film Factory lets you produce the best prints possible. PRINT Image Matching is
a term for the print command that is embedded in the header of the image file
created by digital cameras. It contains color setting and image parameter
information. With PRINT Image Matching, the digital camera can set specific
printing options such as:
The camera saves this information in each image file. For example, macro mode
pictures might include commands for sharpness and clarity, while portrait mode
pictures might emphasize soft focusing and subtle flesh tones. Your printer then
uses the information to ensure the most accurate reproduction of the image.
In Film Factory, a small P. I. M. symbol appears on the thumbnails for PRINT
Image Matching photos: . If a PRINT Image Matching photo has been
retouched, it may not display the P. I. M. symbol. If you trim or rotate a PRINT
Image Matching photo, the P. I. M. settings still appear. Because P. I. M. optimizes
settings such as brightness and color automatically, using retouching options like
these removes P. I. M. settings.
Learning More About Film Factory
■This Getting Started guide explains how to use Film Factory’s exciting features.
■The Film Factory online Help provides convenient access to detailed
information about using Film Factory. Just click the Help button for step-by-
step instructions on the most frequently used features.
■If you need additional EPSON®Support, see “Where to Get Help”on
page 55.
■contrast ■sharpness ■brightness
■gamma level ■color space ■color saturation
■shadow ■highlight ■color balance
If you select multiple images and some of them are not PRINT Image
Matching photos, the PRINT Image Matching settings will be ignored for
all the photos.
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Windows System Requirements
If you’re using Windows, make sure your system configuration meets these
minimum requirements:
■Windows 95, 98, Me, XP, 2000, or NT®4.0
■Pentium®200 (or equivalent) processor or higher
■64MB of RAM (more will improve performance)
■100MB of available hard disk space, not including photo storage
■SVGA monitor with 16-bit (High Color) display adapter or better
■QuickTime®4 or higher to support some file types
■Mouse or other pointing device
■Compatible with most color printers; a high-quality photo printer and special
media are recommended to print the best images
■A PRINT Image Matching-enabled digital camera and printer are required to
print with P. I. M. technology
Macintosh System Requirements
If you’re using a Macintosh,®make sure your system configuration meets these
minimum requirements:
■Macintosh OS version 8.5.1 —9.2.1
■233 MHz G3 processor or higher
■64MB of RAM (more will improve performance)
■100MB of available hard disk space, not including photo storage
■800 ×600 display resolution with Color Depth set to “thousands of colors”
■QuickTime 4 or higher
■HTML browser (such as Microsoft®Internet Explorer or Netscape®
Navigator®version 4.0 or higher) to view online help
If you’re using Windows XP, 2000, or NT 4.0, you may need to have
Administrator privileges to install and use Film Factory.
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■Mouse or other pointing device
■Compatible with most color printers; a high-quality photo printer and special
media are recommended to print the best images
■A PRINT Image Matching-enabled digital camera and printer are required to
print with P. I. M. technology
Compatible Devices and File Formats
Film Factory supports files from all TWAIN-compatible digital cameras and
scanners. For non-TWAIN devices, you can download photos using your camera
or scanner software.
Film Factory supports the following digital photo file types:
■Windows: Supports BMP and JPEG file types. If QuickTime 4 or higher is
installed, Film Factory also supports TIF, PCX, FPX, Photo CD (read only),
MacPaint,®PNG, GIF, PICT, Adobe®Photoshop,®QuickTime, SGI, and
Tar ga fil es.
■Macintosh: Supports JPEG, PICT, BMP, TIF, FPX (read only), PNG, GIF
(read only), MacPaint, PhotoShop, QuickTime, SGI, and Targa files.
If QuickTime 4 or higher is installed, Film Factory supports the following digital
movie formats: QuickTime, DV, MPEG1, and AVI files.
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Starting Film Factory
To start Film Factory in Windows, click the Start button, then select Programs >
Film Factory > Film Factory.
To start Film Factory on a Macintosh, open the Film Factory folder and double-
click the Film Factory icon to open the program.
You see the main screen.
Film Factory’s Main Screen
The main screen displays thumbnail views of the photos in the open roll. (The
Sample roll is shown below.)
Film
cases
Menu commands Toolbar tools
Print
options
Roll of film
Photo
Status bar
PRINT Image
Matching icon
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Toolbar
Click on any tool to perform its function. Hold the mouse cursor briefly over any
tool to see what function it performs.
Menu commands
The menu commands provide another way to access many of the toolbar
functions, as well as some additional features. Open any menu to select a
command. The Status Bar describes the command.
Print options
Click on one of the Print options to select how you want to print your photo(s).
Film cases
Create separate film
cases to catalog your
rolls by subject.
Select a film case by
choosing it from this
list. Only the rolls in
that case are displayed.
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