Canon EOS 30D Picture Style Editor 1.3 for Macintosh Instruction Manual - Page 3

Introduction Picture Style Editor (hereinafter, "PSE") is software that allows you to edit Picture Style to your unique image characteristics and save the edited results as original Picture Style files. O What is a Picture Style file? A Picture Style file (extension ".PF2") is an extended function of a Picture Style. It differs from the 6 preset Picture Styles (Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome) and provides image characteristics that are effective in a very limited number of scenes. O Main Features of PSE With PSE, you can use the functions below to edit Picture Style to your unique image characteristics and save the edited results as original Picture Style files (extension ".PF2"). O Select a Picture Style to be used as a basis for your images O Set the [Sharpness], [Contrast], [Color saturation] and [Color tone] O Make minute adjustments to a specific color O Adjust the brightness and contrast (gamma characteristic) In addition, you can register the original Picture Style files you have saved to a camera with a Picture Style function and apply them to shot images. You can also use Digital Photo Professional or RAW Image Task to apply them to RAW images. O Color management Use PSE in a computer environment with color management. Also, set the profile of the monitor you are using and the color space of the sample image to be used to perform the adjustments, etc. in the preferences window (p.16). System Requirements OS Mac OS X 10.3 to 10.5 Computer Macintosh with one of the above OS installed CPU PowerPC G3 400MHz or higher, G4, G5 or Intel processor RAM Minimum 512MB Display Resolution: 1024 × 768 or more Colors: Thousands or more O This software program is not compatible with UFS (UNIX File System) formatted disks. O PSE also runs comfortably on Intel-based Macintosh since it is a Universal application. Introduction Contents Preparing a Sample Basic Windows Sample Images for Adjustment With PSE, you can use RAW images from the following camera models as sample images for adjustment and save the adjusted results as original Picture Style files. EOS-1Ds Mark III EOS-1D Mark III EOS-1D Mark II N EOS-1Ds Mark II EOS-1D Mark II EOS-1Ds EOS-1D EOS 5D EOS 40D EOS 30D EOS 20D EOS 10D EOS DIGITAL REBEL EOS DIGITAL REBEL EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/450D XTi/400D DIGITAL XT/350D DIGITAL EOS DIGITAL REBEL EOS 1000D /300D DIGITAL EOS D60 EOS D30 EOS D6000* EOS D2000* * Images converted to RAW images that have the ".CR2" extension in CR2 Converter. For information on CR2 Converter, refer to Canon's web site. Pre-adjustments Image Characteristics Saving Preferences Reference 2