ZPS7-Quick-Start-Guide.pdf

Quick Start Guide

The Magic of Digital Photography

Zoner Photo Studio 7 - The Magic of Digital Photography

Zoner Photo Studio 7 Quick Start Guide

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Content

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2. Overview and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3. he Basics of Zoner Photo Studio 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4. Where to Find Detailed Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

5. Using Zoner Photo Studio 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

6. Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

1. Introduction

We thank you for choosing the complete

digital photography toolkit Zoner Photo

Studio 7.

his program takes its successful predecessor

Zoner Photo Studio 6 and adds numerous

new features and comforts to help with your

digital photography workﬂow.

We ﬁrmly believe that Zoner Photo Studio 7

will become an irreplaceable aid for both

amateur and professional photographers who

work with digital images.

We wish you the best in your work and play

as a photographer!

2. Overview and Installation

2.1 A Brief Overview of the Program

In this section, you can ﬁnd a brief overview of

Zoner Photo Studio 7’s features. Features that were

not included in previous versions are marked with

an asterisk*.

Environment:

• fully scalable, fully graphic, skinnable

environment

• you can have as many browsing and edit-

ing windows open as you want

• savable/loadable workspaces; conﬁgurable

toolbars for the Browser and Editor

• display of any EXIF previews saved in

JPEG ﬁles and—newly in version 7—also

in TIFF* ﬁles

• picture information under thumbnails*

• conﬁgurable display of information in the

Information window

• ﬁle format icons that make it easy to tell

formats apart

• customizable “tool tip” picture informa-

tion for thumbnails*

• launching of your choice of helper pro-

grams from any ﬁle’s right-click menu*

• advanced ﬁle management features; visited-

folders history*; improved ﬁle operations

dialog (progress bar, speed indicators,

warning when overwriting ﬁles)*; copy-

ing/renaming/moving from the Editor* and

during slideshows*

Acquiring Images

• downloading of photos from any device with

USB storage support; downloading of new

images only; automatic insertion of author

and copyright text into EXIF data; automatic

creation of new folders named ater images’

date of download or date taken

• direct download from Canon cameras

without losing EXIF data*

• scanning using any TWAIN scanner (that

is: any typical modern scanner)

• import of images from the Windows

Clipboard

• import of images via an advanced screen-

shot tool

• downloading of images directly from the Web

• support for ﬁles in the Canon RAW format*

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Work with Images in the Editor

• ﬁxed-ratio and ﬁxed-size cropping, includ-

ing presets for common photo ratios; quick

selection of maximum areas that can be

cropped for given ratios, landscape/portrait

auto-ﬁt*

• multi-step Undo/Redo

• leveling of horizons and verticals (so you

can repair photos accidentally shot at a

slant)

• correction of collinearity (tumbling lines)

• correction of perspective problems*

• red eye reduction, including eyedropper-

based color selection

• clone stamp based retouching

Basic Image Manipulation Commands

• resizing, including advanced algorithms

(Lanczos, Mitchell, etc.) and post-resize

resharpening

• rotation in 90° steps, precise rotation

in 0.1° steps, rotation to match proportions

or the EXIF rotation ﬂag

• settings for image canvas and

for inside/outside borders

• horizontal and vertical ﬂipping

• ﬁle conversion

Image Enhancement Functions

• histogram editing for an image’s R/G/B

elements, brightness, and contrast (includ-

ing auto-correction); gamma correction

• automatic white balancing; editing of hue,

saturation, and lightness—both classical

and “lights only”/“shadows only” editing

• color temperature editing; intended white

color/intended gray color can be set using

eyedropper

• automatic exposure enhancement, ex-

posure correction, white balancing, and

contrast correction, all in three degrees of

intensity and three modes

• combined image edits: histogram balanc-

ing; histogram balancing by RGB element;

shadow brightening; all in three modes

• sharpening and blurring; unsharp mask

• shadow brightening*

Defect Correction Functions

• noise reduction

• barrel/pincushion correction

• anti-vignetting

• correction of chromatic aberrations

• de-interlacing of images taken from video

Image Eﬀects

• text overlays (text-in-image); you can over-

lay “variable text” drawn from an image’s

EXIF data, ordinary text, or both

• image overlays

• desaturation and grayscale—customizable

and with several modes

• explosion, oil painting, waves,

pencil drawing, pixelization

• embossing; contour detection; old (an-

tique) photograph; negative

• envelopes and 3D buttons

• fading borders and sot shadows

• image overlays (image-in-image), 3D but-

tons, and “envelopes”—specially-shaped,

sot-fading borders for images

• channel mixing*

Organizing Your Pictures

• picture rating*

• keywords, with support for categories (a

tree structure)*, EXIF notes and EXIF au-

dio notes, import of keyword lists from im-

ages’ EXIF data, drag & drop of keywords

straight onto ﬁles in the Browser*

• digital signatures for JPEG and TIFF ﬁles*

• full support for the EXIF standard up to ver-

sion 2.2, and for IPTC, including backup and

restoration (and including all markers)

• oﬄine media archives, including ﬁle sort-

ing by EXIF data

• functions and support for easily sorting

photos into “albums”—Windows folders

containing shortcuts

• support for proprietary EXIF data formats

(MakerNotes) of all major camera manu-

facturers, including Canon and Olympus

• import and export of descriptions; import of

information from ACD™ Systems ACDSee™ 5

• improved ﬁle list generation

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2.2 Program Versions

Zoner Photo Studio comes in three func-

tionally diﬀerent versions: Classic, Home,

and Professional.

• Classic – for beginning users

• Home – for everyday work with digital

photos

• Professional – includes features best ap-

preciated by experience digital camera us-

ers and users who want to share their data

with friends or business partners

he Professional version has no functional

restrictions.

he Home version does not support:

downloading images from the Web; acquiring

Canon RAW images; the lasso, polygonal

lasso, and magic wand; levels (histogram

editing); channel mixing; export to PDF; Web

publishing; FTP transfer; CD/DVD and Video

CD burning; color management/color proﬁles;

and digital signatures for images (Home ver-

sion contains veriﬁcation support only).

he Classic version contains neither the

above nor: advanced EXIF restoration,

EXIF removal, multiple media archives

(only 1 allowed), batch renaming and con-

version, printing from the Editor (single-

picture printing), calendar generation, dy-

namic contact sheet generation, optimized

printing—paper saver, send-by-email, and

easy launching of helper programs.

• setting of ﬁles’ dates of creation and last changes

to match their EXIF Picture Taken dates

• searching, ﬁltering, sorting, and selection

of media*

• all the usual Windows ﬁle operations

• batch renaming and conversion of ﬁles

• color management; work with color pro-

ﬁles; batch assignment of ICC proﬁles

• universal formatting string (variable

text)—new characters and broader format-

ting options*

Printing and Export

• dynamically generated calendars* and

contact sheets*; optimized “paper saver”

printing for making the best possible use

of a given paper size

• advanced printing from the Editor (full

page, by DPI, or custom dimensions)*

• slideshows of any folder or subfolder;

basic (no-conﬁguration) and advanced

slideshows; savable slideshow presets; op-

tions during slideshows include on-screen

temporary rotation*, transition eﬀects*,

and histogram and blowout displays*

• burning of pictures to CD/DVD—along

with a freely distributable CD viewer—and

to the Video CD format

• support for color management, EXIF Print,

and Print Image Matching II (PIM)

• template-based printing/export—with 250

templates

• print and export wizard with fully editable

output

• print and export jobs can be saved and loaded

• export to PDF

• easy FTP access from inside the program

(e.g. for Web publishing)

• Web galleries with savable/loadable presets

and a progress bar during page generation

• sending of pictures by e-mail, including

options for resizing, JPEG conversion, ZIP

conversion, and a size warning

• setting of images as Windows desktop

backgrounds

2.3 Installing the Program

Before installing Zoner Photo Studio 7, make

sure that your computer’s conﬁguration meets

the program’s minimum requirements:

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, MSIE 4.01 and

higher

• Processor: Intel-compatible 300+ MHz

processor or faster

• Memory: 64 MB RAM

• HDD: 50 MB of free disk space

• Resolution: 800 × 600 High Color

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