Epson Software Film Factory Manuale utente

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without the prior written permission of Epson America, Inc.

Trademarks

EPSON and EPSON Stylus are registered trademarks and PRINT Image Matching and the PRINT Image

Matching logo are trademarks of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

EPSON Software and the EPSON Software logo are trademarks, and EPSON Store and EPSON

PhotoCenter are service marks of Epson America, Inc.

Film Factory and the Film Factory logo are trademarks of A.I.Soft, Inc.

General notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be

trademarks of their respective owners. EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks.

contributions.

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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

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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