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Using ZoomBrowser EX with a Canon BJ printer and a scanner or digital camera, you can enjoy superb-quality photo prints. Custom Layout Printing (Artwork/Layout Album) Printing a Photo Index (Index Printing) You can arrange images in a desired layout and apply artwork including clipping, resizing, rotation, text insertion, and ornamentation with photo frames and background. You can print a photo index that contains thumbnails automatically arranged in a suitab layout for the selected thumbnail size (large, medium, or small). 4 Printing in a Specified Photo Size (Fixed Photo Size Printing) Printing in the Borderless Printing Mode (Tiled photo) You can print images in the specified photo size. You can print images with no margins around each image, so that a single image is printed borderless along the paper edges and multiple images are arranged like tiles with no space between them (available with BJ printers that support the borderless printing feature). 5 Printing on Canon Perforated Paper You can easily make your images fit in a sheet of Canon perforated paper. 6 Basic Operation Procedure The basic operation steps to capture, import, edit, and print photo images are summarized below. STEP 1 Shooting / scanning Acquire images with a digital camera or a scanner. 7 STEP 2 Importing images Start ZoomBrowser EX. Using the Camera Window, import images from a memory card or a digital camera. ZoomBrowser EX supports some simple image editing features. The Automation wizard provides easy means of importing images. 8 STEP 3 Selecting a layout Specify the print mode. Just follow the wizard to select a print mode option from Artwork/Layout album, Index printing, Fixed photo size printing, Borderless printing (Tiled photo), and Canon perforated paper printing. 9 STEP 4 Applying artwork You can apply artwork including clipping, resizing, adding text, and ornamentation such as adding photo frames or background to the imported images. STEP 5 Printing The images can be printed on Canon perforated paper (such as Photo Paper Pro or Glossy Photo Card ). Borderless printing is also supported. *Some features and paper sizes may not be supported depending on the models of printers. 10 What are Canon Utilities? Canon Utilities are the application softwares included in the BJ Solution Disk or Setup Software & User's Guide in the CD-ROM that comes with your BJ series printer. These utilities enable you to display, save (import) to the computer's hard disk, edit, print the images captured using a digital camera or scanner. · ZoomBrowser EX ZoomBrowser EX allows you to display a list of thumbnails (images stored in the internal memory card), import them to your computer's hard disk, and print them in photo-quality using the BJ printer. With ZoomBrowser EX, You can easily display, edit, and manage images stored in your computer's hard disk as well. · PhotoRecord With PhotoRecord used with ZoomBrowser EX, you can print the specified image in photo-quality using the BJ printer. You can print automatically layouted multiple images on a single paper. · PhotoStitch PhotoStitch is an utility program for image merging and allows you to quickly create a panoramic photo by mergng multiple images captured with your digital camera. With PhotoStitch, you can merge any number of images vertically or horizontally, producing unique posters or other photo-prints. The wide-mode merging feature is also useful when you want to create a wide panoramic photo of a building or straight-lined object with straight lines as natural as the original. 11 Starting ZoomBrowser EX This subsection describes how to start ZoomBrowser EX. ZoomBrowser EX supports the following image file types: bmp crw fpx jpg tif pcd wmf Windows bitmap RAW Flachpix Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) KODAK Photo CD Windows Metafile Starting ZoomBrowser EX 12 Steps 1 From the Start menu, select Programs, Canon Utilities, ZoomBrowser EX, and again ZoomBrowser EX. Canon ZoomBrowser EX starts and ZoomBrowser EX application window opens. Starting ZoomBrowser EX 13 Note ³ To learn more about the main window, refer to Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area. Starting ZoomBrowser EX 14 When starting ZoomBrowser EX for the First Time... When starting ZoomBrowser EX for the first time, you will see a message window as shown below. Click the Yes button to register the Windows folder named My Picture as an Image Folder of ZoomBrowser EX. This folder will become an image data storage folder and images imported from a digital camera or scanner can be stored in this folder. ZoomBrowser displays the thumbnails of the images stored in this folder in the Browser Display Area. Click the No button, if you do not want to register the My Picture folder to the ZoomBrowser EX. This message appears only when the ZoomBrowser EX is started for the first time. For more detailed information on registering Image Folders, refer to Image Database. Starting ZoomBrowser EX 15 Creating Panoramic Photo Using PhotoStitch PhotoStitch is an easy-to-use image merger utility which enbles you to create a panoramic photo by merging multiple photos taken with a digital camera. Steps 1 In the Browser Display Area of the ZoomBrowser EX, select multiple photo images (thumbnails) to merge. 2 Open the Edit menu and select the PhotoStitch command. PhotoStitch starts and loads the selected photo images. Merge as many images as you like either horizontally or vertically by a simple operation, and create posters and other photo-prints. Also try the wide-mode merging which shows buildings and other straight-lined objects with straight lines as natural as the original. For more details on the merging procedure, refer to the Help of PhotoStitch. Creating Panoramic Photo Using PhotoStitch 16 Using ZoomBrowser EX This section describes the basic operations and the functions of the ZoomBrowser EX. · Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area · Changing View Mode in the Browser Display Area · Image Database · Processing Image Using Image Viewer · Slide Show · Time Tunnel · Adding Sound to Image · Processing Image for Sending by E-mail · Editing Image Using Other Image Processing Programs 17 Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area Part names and basic operations in the Browser Display Area are described in this section. For more detailed information on working with ZoomBrowser EX, refer to the Help of ZoomBrowser EX. Tree View Displays all the Image Folders and their subfolders that are registered to ZoomBrowser EX. When a Canon digital camera is connected to your computer, double-click the Canon Camera icon, and you can view all the photos stored in the memory card of camera in the Camera Window. Browser Display Area Displays the contents of the Image Folder that is currently selected in the Tree View. Individual images are shown as thumbnails. You can change the thumbnail size, the way the information is displayed, the viewing modes, and other settings. Control Panel Control buttons are provided here. Manage and process images shown in the Browser Display Area by clicking these buttons. The information screen shows the number of subfolders and image files contained in the current folder. Thumbnails Reduced images of the files contained in the folder that is currently selected in the Tree View. You can select images for processing by clicking the thumbnails.To select two or more images, click the thumbnails one by one while pressing the Ctrl key. Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area 18 MINIMIZE buttons Click this button to reduce the Control Panel into a miniature window (see the figure on the right). You can mousedrag it anywhere on the computer screen. View Mode buttons ZOOM MODE Click the ZOOM MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Zoom mode. The Zoom mode displays the images contained in the folder currently selected in the Tree View, in the reduced form of thumbnails. If the folder contains subfolders, the contents of the subfolders are also displayed, as thumbnails grouped under subfolder names. SCROLL MODE Click the SCROLL MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Scroll mode. The Scroll mode displays the images and subfolders contained in the folder currently selected in the Tree View. The images are shown as thumbnails, while the subfolders are shown as folder icons. When in the Scroll Mode, you can zoom in on a desired folder and view its contents, by double-clicking the folder SHOW PROPERTIES button Click this to view the information about the image currently selected in the Browser Display Area. REFRESH button Click this to refresh the display of selected images (thumbnails) or the contents of the selected folder. IMPORT IMAGES button Click this to import images from an input device (digital camera, memory card, etc.), currently connected to the computer. PRINT button Click this to open the Print submenu in which you can select Layout or Index printing option. When Layout is selected, the PhotoRecord Print Modes window opens and the Print Modes wizard becomes ready to start. VIEW IMAGE button Click this to open the Image Viewer and view the selected DELETE button Click this to delete the images or folders currently selected in the Browser Display Area. Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area 19 Tool switching buttons Click these buttons to select a tool (mouse pointer) used in the Browser Display Area. Button Name Function SELECT button ZOOM IN button ZOOM OUT button Turns the mouse pointer into a selection tool.Select this tool for the usual operations in ZoomBrowser EX, for example, selecting images and folders. Turns the mouse pointer into a zoom-in tool.Select this tool for zooming in or (enlarging) the images (thumbnails) in the Browser Display Area. Turns the mouse pointer into a zoom-out tool.Select this tool for zooming out or (reducing) the images (thumbnails) in the Browser Display Area. Basic Operations in the Browser Display Area 20 Changing View Mode in the Browser Display Area There are two View Mode buttons in the Control Panel, the SCROLL MODE button and the ZOOM MODE button. · Zoom Mode Click the ZOOM MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Zoom mode. The images contained in the folder selected in the Tree View are displayed in the reduced form of thumbnails. If the folder contains subfolders, the contents of the subfolders are also displayed, as thumbnails grouped under subfolder names.. Folder Subfolder Double-click the subfolder background to zoom in images. To zoom out the magnified images, click the Display Area. button on the top-right corner of the Browser Changing View Mode in the Browser Display Area 21 · Scroll Mode Click the SCROLL MODE button on the Control Panel to enter the Scroll mode. The images in the selected folder or subfolders contained in the selected folder are displayed. The images are shown as thumbnails, while the subfolders are shown as folder icons.When in the Scroll Mode, you can zoom in the images contained a subfolder by double-clicking the folder icon. This enlarges the view of the folder contents until it fills the Browser Display Area. Double-click the folder icon to zoom in the images contained in the subfolder. Changing View Mode in the Browser Display Area 22 Using Magnifier glass Some thumbnails are displayed smaller than others, depending on the folder structure. The Magnifier is a convenient tool for viewing small thumbn ...