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EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Rochester, NY 14650
Part No. 3B3233
WELCOME TO THE KODAK PHOTO╩CD SYSTEM
The KODAK Photo CD System provides you with an exciting new way to access high-quality photographic images and include them in your computer-prepared publications, documents, presentations, and other materials. The Access Plus Software Demo disc contains images and two software applications to help you explore the potential of the Photo CD system in your own environment. The disc contains:
Ñ Sample images of a variety of subjects. The images demonstrate the high resolution and excellent color quality of Photo CD discs.
Ñ KODAK Access 2.0 software for working with the Photo CD images. Access 2.0 software lets you read images from the disc, control the images╒ cropping, resolution, and color format, and then copy the images to the clipboard or export them in standard file formats for use with your favorite computer applications.
Ñ A sample multimedia presentation featuring images and high fidelity stereo sound that you can explore at your own pace. The presentation can be viewed on any KODAK Photo CD player or on a personal computer using the included Photo CD Player software.
Ñ KODAK Photo CD Player software for playing back the multimedia presentation on your computer system.
Some Background About the System
The Photo CD system is extremely flexible and is designed for a broad range of uses. It can be used to provide high-quality digital access and storage for images to publishers, professional photographers, amateurs, and medical users of images. It is a compact and convenient medium for slide and multimedia presentations. Commercial users can take advantage of its storage capacity for pictorial catalogs of everything from merchandise to museum collections to stock photo libraries.
To accommodate this range of uses, there are several different types of Photo CD discs. All the different types share the same image file format but have different image capacities and resolutions. Some include recorded sound. The types of Photo CD discs are:
Ñ Photo CD Master: Master discs are usually created by photofinishers, often at the time film is initially processed. They contain images only. Each image is stored in full color in five resolutions. The highest resolution╤2048 x 3072 pixels╤is sufficient to preserve the full quality of a 35 mm negative. A Master Photo CD can store about 100 images.
Ñ Pro Photo CD Master: Like Master discs, these are also used for high quality image storage. However, the professional discs can store images at even higher resolutions, up to 4096 x 6144 pixels. This addresses the needs of professionals working in larger film formats. The Pro Photo CD Master disc can store approximately 25 such images at full photographic resolution.
Ñ Photo CD Portfolio: Portfolio discs contain multimedia programs consisting of images, narration, and music. The programs are interactive, so the viewer can decide how to view the program.
Ñ Photo CD Catalog: Catalog discs are used to preview up to 6000 full color images at low resolution. They are an excellent medium for publishing pictorial indexes to large picture libraries, museum collections, etc. The images are typically stored at low resolution and are not intended to be of reproduction quality.
Putting Your Own Images on a Photo CD Disc
The Photo CD system gives you a very efficient and cost-effective way to transfer your own images into your computer applications. To create a Photo CD disc containing your own images, you start by taking pictures with any 35 mm (or larger-format) camera. Then, when you take the film in to be processed, ask your photofinisher for a Photo CD disc in addition to normal processing. You can also have a disc created from existing negatives or slides.
A Photo CD Master disc can hold about 100 images. However, you don╒t have to have enough material to fill up a disc right away. A special feature developed by Kodak, called multisession recording, allows additional images to be placed on the disc at any time, until the full disc capacity is reached.
Once you get your disc back, you can read and play back the images on your personal computer using KODAK Access Plus software or other Photo CD-enabled applications. If you have a Photo CD player, you can also view the images on your television set.
KODAK PHOTO╩CD ACCESS PLUS SOFTWARE
KODAK Photo╩CD Access Plus Software consists of two software applications, KODAK Photo╩CD Access 2.0 software and KODAK Photo╩CD Player software. Both are capable of reading and displaying Photo CD images.
KODAK Photo╩CD Access 2.0 software lets you view the photographic-quality images stored on Photo╩CD discs and use these images in documents you create. For instance, you can use Access 2.0 software to export Photo CD images to applications such as:
Ñ Word processing and desktop publishing software
Ñ Painting, drawing, graphics, and presentation packages
Ñ Any other applications that support bit-mapped images
The following sections provide installation instructions and an introduction to the features of Access Plus. For more detailed operating procedures, refer to on-line Help while using Access Plus.
Installing and Running Access 2.0 Software
To install Photo╩CD Access 2.0 on your hard disk and start it:
Step 1 Insert the Photo CD Access Plus Software disk into the floppy drive.
Step 2 Copy the ACCESS 2.0 folder to your hard disk by selecting it and dragging it to your hard disk.
Step 3 Double-click the ACCESS 2.0 folder on your hard disk.
Step 4 Double-click the application icon ACCESS.
Alternatively, you can run the application ACCESS from the floppy disk instead of from your hard disk. If you encounter a problem, see page╩8 for information on recommended CD-ROM drives, memory, and disk requirements.
Access 2.0 Software Features
Photo╩CD Access 2.0 allows you to
Ñ View the stored images in a contact sheet format
Ñ Select and display a single photo or multiple photos
Ñ Edit a displayed photo by cropping it or by changing its size, color settings, and orientation
Ñ Copy an original or edited photo to the clipboard for use within other applications
Ñ Export an original or edited photo to a file. TIFF, PICT, and PostScript file formats are supported
Ñ Produce CMYK color separations. This feature requires the KEPS Precision Color Management software
Exploring the Features
The features of Access 2.0 software are discussed in greater detail below. You can simply read these sections or actually perform the operations discussed as well. If you need more information to perform a particular operation, refer to on-line Help. It contains complete instructions for every Access 2.0 function. To access Help, select Help from the Help menu. Then choose the topic you want to learn more about.
CONTACT SHEET
The contact sheet window shows all the images on the Photo CD. You can use the display to quickly see what images the disc contains and to select the images you want to work with. To display the contact sheet, choose Load Contact Sheet from the File menu.
There are two ways to select images from the contact sheet.
You can display an image immediately by simply double-clicking on it. The image is displayed in a photo window, ready for cropping, and for color and size adjustment.
You can also browse through the contact sheet and select images of interest. Simply shift-click an image to select it. Each image you select is highlighted with a colored outline. When you have selected all the images you want to work with, you can display them by choosing Load Selected Photos from the File menu. Each of the images is displayed in its own photo window, ready for further manipulation.
Selecting Images by File Name
You can also select images without displaying the contact sheet. If you know the image number or file name of the image you want to display, you can select it directly by choosing Load Photo from the File menu. (Image numbers are shown on the index print that comes with each Photo CD disc.)
The Load Photo dialog has a preview window that displays a small thumbnail of the image so you can confirm that it is indeed the image you want to load.
You can also use the Access 2.0 software to load a Photo CD image that had been previously copied to one of the disk drives in your system by choosing Open Image Pac from the File menu. The dialog allows you to load a Photo CD image from any folder in your system.
USING THE PHOTO WINDOW
Each photo you select is displayed in a photo window. You use the photo window to view details of the photo, to select the resolution you want to work with, to set color parameters and to crop the image. You can open several photo windows at the same time. An optional status window shows file size, image dimensions, and other information about the photo in the active window.
Selecting Image Resolution
Each image is stored on a Photo CD disc at a number of different resolutions. Access 2.0 software supports resolutions ranging from 128 x 192 pixels up to 4096 x 6144 pixels. This highest resolution is available only on Pro Photo CD Master discs. Photo CD Master discs store images at resolutions up to 2048 x 3072 pixels.
Using the Size menu, select the resolution that is convenient for working with the image on the screen. Later, if you export the image, you can choose a different resolution. Adjustments made to the image╒s color or cropping are automatically transferred at the new resolution.
Selecting the Color Format
Photo CD images are stored with full color information. That means that each pixel can express any one of 16 million colors. However, if your system is not capable of displaying that many colors, or if you want to view images using different colors or shades of gray, you can choose a different color format. Access Plus software supports four color formats, three grayscale formats, and monochrome. For formats using 256 (or fewer) colors, an optimum colors feature finds the best set of colors to use. Again, the format choice you make affects the display of the image only. Later, when you export the image, you can use a different color format.
CROPPING
Frequently you can make a photograph more dramatic by cropping it. You may also need to crop a photo to make it fit a particular space. Access 2.0 software provides several ways to crop an image.
You crop images in the photo window. You can use the mouse to outline the desired image rectangle. Then you can make fine adjustments by dragging each edge to the desired position.
The status window helps you to create an image of a specific size. The status window readouts are continuously updated as you make adjustments to the image.
Access 2.0 software also provides a panning tool. After you have adjusted the crop rectangle to the desired size, you can pan the image to show the desired portion of it without affecting the image╒s size.
You can also display an auxiliary crop window. (Choose Show Crop Window from the Windows menu.) This window shows a miniature of the entire image with the crop rectangle superimposed on it, so you can see the cropped area in the context of the full image. The crop rectangle moves and changes shape in step with the adjustments you make in the main image window. You can also perform your cropping in this window rather than the main window. This is useful if your main image is very large, extending beyond the edges of the screen.
When you export an image, the cropping you have selected is reflected in the file that is created.
EXPORTING IMAGES
Export provides a way of transferring Photo CD images to applications that do not support the Photo CD format. When you export, you copy an image to a TIFF, TIFF-YCC, PICT, or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file.
TIFF, PICT, and EPS formats are popular formats supported by many other applications. The TIFF-YCC format is an infrequently-used, specialized format that outputs YCC rather than RGB values.
The image export dialog box allows you to override an image╒s current color format and resolution settings. This lets you work with an image on the screen in one format and resolution and export it in a different one. Any color corrections or cropping changes that you have made to the image are still preserved in the exported file.
CONTROLLING COLOR RENDERING
Access 2.0 software provides you with additional control over your images╒ rendering. When Access 2.0 software reads an image from a Photo CD disc, it converts the image to RGB data. In doing so, it uses the contents of a default look-up table, or LUT, to control the conversion. If you want to change the density and contrast of images, you can choose a different LUT from the Transform menu.
The available look-up tables are named Monitor Setup 1 through Monitor Setup 9. The higher the number, the higher the rendered image contrast will be. Usually, the Default LUT used by the Access 2.0 software is most appropriate. However, you may occasionally find that one of the other LUTs is better suited to your particular display or printing system, or to a particular image. When you select a LUT from the Transform menu, the image is reread using the new look-up table.
SETTING PREFERENCES
The Preferences dialog lets you customize the operation of the Access 2.0 software to match your own working style.
There are three categories of preference parameters╤parameters that affect just the contact sheet, parameters that affect just the photo window, and general parameters that affect both the contact sheet and photo windows. The parameters you can set are:
Ñ Contact Sheet: You can choose the size of the contact sheet images (the smallest size allows the greatest number of images to be displayed and loads fastest), the number of columns in the contact sheet. and the colors of the contact sheet╒s background, ╥matte,╙ highlight rectangle, and text.
Ñ Photo Window: You can choose the initial image size loaded into the photo window, the LUT that is used, and whether or not the image is sharpened. You can also select the units and the resolution (dpi) used to calculate image dimensions displayed in the status window.
Ñ General: You can choose the color format used. For color formats using 256 or fewer colors, you can also turn on the optimum colors feature. When this feature is turned on, a custom palette is calculated for each image. Otherwise a default palette is used.
You can specify which disk drive is to be used for the image cache. The Access 2.0 software automatically stores inactive images (or sections of images) in the image cache on disk whenever it runs out of memory. Generally, you should specify the disk drive that has the greatest amount of free space available.
VIEW IMAGE INFORMATION
In addition to images, a Photo CD disc contains several information files that you can display using the Access 2.0 software. The information files contained on the disc are:
Ñ General information file for the entire disc. This file contains the disc serial number, the number of images on the disc, the number of sessions used to record it and other information.
Ñ Image information files detailing information specific to each image. This includes the image number, the original film type used in photographing the image, data on the scanning, and whether or not the image is known to be copyrighted.
Ñ Copyright information. The disc may contain a copyright or use rights notice placed on the disc by the image provider. Note, however, that the absence of such a notice is not an indication that there is no copyright or other use restrictions. In such cases, you should make an independent determination about use restrictions before using the images.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Photo CD Access 2.0 works on Macintosh computers with either System 7.0 or System 6.0.5 with 32-bit QuickDraw. A minimum configuration, suitable for viewing small Photo CD images, and a recommended minimum configuration are shown below.
Minimum Configuration:
Macintosh LC
4 MB RAM *
4 MB free disk space **
Display card and compatible monitor ***
System 6.0.5
Photo CD compatible CD-ROM XA drive
Recommended Minimum Configuration:
Macintosh II
8+ MB RAM *
20+ MB free disk space **
24-bit color card; compatible monitor ***
System 7.0
Photo CD compatible CD-ROM XA drive
* Additional memory increases the speed of the software by reducing image-caching.
** There must be enough free disk space to hold all images that are simultaneously open. (This includes the images in the Contact Sheet, if it╒s open.)
*** The Access 2.0 software works with images from Photo CD discs in monochrome, gray-scale, and color formats. Your display card and monitor should be appropriate for the images on your Photo CD discs and your intended use of Photo CD Access 2.0.
Memory and Disk Space
Each image on a Photo CD disc may be stored at up to six resolutions. The approximate amounts of memory it would take to display an image at each of the supported resolutions, in millions of colors, include:
Approximate Memory
Size (in pixels) (kilobytes or megabytes)
128 x 192 96 KB
256 x 384 384 KB
512 x 768 1.5 MB
1024 x 1536 6 MB
2048 x 3072 24 MB
4096 x 6144 100 MB
For images up to 512 x 768 pixels, which require 1.5 MB of RAM, it is always possible to bring an entire image into memory on systems that meet even the bare minimum requirements. When image size exceeds the available memory, or in any situation where the requirements of all the open images exceed the available memory, Access 2.0 software uses an image-caching mechanism that stores image information on disk and retrieves it when it╒s needed again.
The more memory there is on your system, the faster the software will run because the image-caching mechanism will be used less often. The more free disk space there is on your system, the more images it will be possible to open and the more effectively the image-caching will work when it is needed.
For optimum efficiency, you should always use the smallest size image with which you can conveniently work for detailed cropping, and request larger sizes when exporting images to disk in other formats.
Using the memory figures listed above, you can calculate the approximate disk space needed to export a full color image. To export to EPS format, for example, you would multiply the memory figure by 1.5 to calculate the required disk space. In the case of a 1024 x 1536 image, the calculation would be 6MB * 1.5, yielding 9 MB. The other multipliers are as follows: PICT=1.0; TIFF=.75; YCC-TIFF=.75; CMYK-EPS=2.0; and CMYK-TIFF=1.0. (The CMYK formats are offered when KEPS Precision Color Management software is installed.)
KODAK PHOTO CD PLAYER SOFTWARE
You can use the KODAK Photo CD Player Software to view multimedia presentations recorded on Photo CD Portfolio discs. In general, presentations consist of images, narration, and music. Menus within the presentation let you choose which parts of the presentation you want to watch.
Installing and Using the Player Software
To install the Player software on your hard disk and start it:
Step 1 Insert the Photo CD Access Plus Software disk into the floppy drive.
Step 2 Copy the PLAYER folder to your hard disk by selecting it and dragging it to your hard disk.
Step 3 Insert the Access Plus Software Demo disc into your CD-ROM drive.
Step 4 Connect headphones or amplified speakers to headphone jack of the CD-ROM drive.
Step 5 Double-click the PLAYER folder on your hard drive to open the folder.
Step 6 Double-click the Photo╩CD PLAYER icon to start the application.
The Player automatically loads a Portfolio presentation, if one is present on the Photo CD disc. (Note that the Player software can play other, non-Portfolio Photo CD discs as well.) Operation of the Player software is fairly straightforward; however, if you have any questions about specific features, click the Help button to get more information.
System Requirements
The KODAK Photo CD Player software works on Macintosh computers with either System 7.0 or System 6.0.5 with 32-bit QuickDraw. The minimum configuration includes a Macintosh LC or more powerful computer, 2 MB RAM, 1 MB free disk space, an 8-bit color card and compatible monitor, and a Photo CD compatible CD-ROM XA drive.
Viewing Photo Sampler Images
You can display sample images on a computer using Access Plus software and a Photo╩CD compatible CD-ROM XA drive. You can also view the sample images on a KODAK Photo╩CD Player or a Philips CD-I player connected to any standard home television set, or with the KODAK Player software. When the Photo╩CD symbol, shown on the cover of this booklet, appears on software application packaging, it indicates that the software is capable of accessing images on a Photo╩CD disc.
ORDERING INFORMATION
To order the full retail copies of version CD Access Plus software, or to learn more about Photo╩CD products or other Kodak desktop color imaging products, call
1-800-CD-KODAK or 1-800-235-6325 (within the U.S.)
1-716-724-1021(outside the U.S.)
Written inquiries can be sent to the following address:
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Kodak Information Center
Department E, 343 State Street
Rochester, NY 14650-0811
PHOTOFINISHING INFORMATION
To obtain information on photofinishing services in your area that offer the Photo╩CD System, call
1-800-CD-KODAK or 1-800-235-6325 (within the U.S.)
1-716-724-1021 (outside the U.S.)
IMAGE INDEX
Kodak acknowledges contributions to the Photo Sampler from the following photographers:
001 Stone building (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN1206
002 Red door (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 Professional (35mm), Ref #R900841 (Frame 14)
003 Hats (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN2330
004 Portrait of girl in red (Studio) by Bob Clemens
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #P008630
005 Motocross bikes (Palmyra, NY, USA) by Steve Kelly
KODAK EKTAR 25 Professional (35mm), Ref #R890365
006 Sailboat at anchor (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0089
007 Shuttered windows (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN1413
008 Market Place (Esslingen, Germany) by Alfons Rudolph
KODAK VR 100 (35mm), Ref #JN0290
009 Sailboats under spinnakers (Annapolis, MD, USA) by John Menihan
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0090
010 Off-shore sailboat race (Chesapeake Bay, USA) by John Menihan
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0190
011 Sailboat at pier (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0189
012 Couple on beach (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN2017
013 Mountain stream (Colorado, USA) by Norm Kerr
KODACOLOR Gold 100 (35mm), Ref #JN0028
014 White water rafters (Colorado River, USA) by Norm Kerr
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0024
015 Girl with painted face (Studio) by Steve Kelly
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0026
016 Tropical Key (Bahamas) by Don Cochran
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #JN0022
017 Monument (Cologne, Germany) by Stephen Wolf
KODACOLOR Gold 100 (35mm), Ref #JN0291
018 Model in black dress (Rochester, NY, USA) by Alan Fink
KODACOLOR Gold 400 (35mm), Ref #SP91322
019 Lighthouse in Maine (Maine, USA) by Alan Fink
KODAK EKTACHROME 64 Professional (35mm), Ref #R914108
020 P51 Mustang (Geneseo, NY, USA) by Alan Fink
KODACOLOR Gold 100 (35mm), Ref #AF0091
021 Portland Head Light (Maine, USA) by Alan Fink
KODAK EKTAR 25 (35mm), Ref #SP91052
022 Barn and pond (Oxford, NY, USA) by Cindy Branham (KINSA Winner)
