Digital Photo Professional Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Digital Photo Professional
- Introduction
- Basic Operation
- Advanced Operation
- Advanced Image Editing and Printing
- Adjusting While Comparing with the Original Image
- Adjusting by Comparing Multiple Images
- Displaying an Area Beyond the Set Range as a Warning Indicator (Highlight/Shadow Warning)
- Performing Advanced Editing
- Reducing Noise
- Correcting Lens Aberration
- Performing Automatic Dust Erasure Processing
- Manually Erasing Dust (Repair Function)
- Transferring a RAW Image to Photoshop
- Setting Work Color Space
- Printing with Shooting Information
- Printing a Thumbnail List (Contact Sheet Printing)
- Printing RAW Images on a High-End Canon Printer
- Specifying Preferences
- Useful Functions for Processing Large Numbers of RAW Images
- Editing JPEG and TIFF Images
- Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Deleting the Software (Uninstalling)
- List of Main Window Functions
- Image Frame Information in the Main Window and Edit Image Window
- List of Edit Window Functions
- List of Tool Palette Functions
- List of Quick Check Window Functions
- List of Edit Image Window Functions
- List of Convert/Save One Image Window Functions
- List of Trimming Window Functions
- List of Lens Aberration Correction Window Functions
- List of Copy Stamp Window Functions
- List of Convert/Save Multiple Images Window (Batch Processing) Functions
- List of Rename Window Functions
- Glossary
- Index
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Introduction
Contents at
a Glance
Basic
Operation
Advanced
Operation
Advanced
Image Editing
and Printing
Editing JPEG
Images
Index
Processing
Large Numbers
of Images
Reference
Introduction
Digital Photo Professional (hereinafter, “DPP”) is high-performance RAW
image processing, viewing and editing software for EOS DIGITAL
cameras. It is often thought that RAW images are difficult to handle
compared with ordinary JPEG images, but using DPP, you can perform
advanced edits and print RAW images with ease.
RAW Images and Their Features
A RAW image is image data that has recorded output data of imaging
sensor. Because image processing does not occur inside the camera
when a photo is taken and the photo has been recorded in the special
form of “RAW image data + Image processing conditions information at
the time of shooting”, special software is needed to view or edit the
image.
* “RAW” means “in a natural condition” or “not processed or refined”.
If described in terms of film, the concept of a RAW image is a shot
image not yet developed (latent image).
With film, the image appears for the first time when it is developed. And
as for the RAW image, too, you cannot view it as an image on your
computer unless you perform subsequent image signal processing.
Therefore, even though it is digital, this processing is called
“development” and with EOS DIGITAL is performed using DPP.
With DPP, you can view, edit and print RAW images without having to be
particularly conscious of the development processing.
What is a RAW Image?
What is RAW Development?
RAW images are recorded in the format “RAW image data + Image
processing conditions information at the time of shooting”. When you
open an image in DPP, the image is instantly developed and you can
view the image as an image to which image processing conditions at the
time of shooting have been applied.
Even if you perform various adjustments to the image you have opened
(it undergoes automatic development processing each time), only the
image processing conditions (development conditions) change and the
“original image data itself” remains unaffected. Consequently, image
deterioration is not a problem and it is the perfect image data for users
who want to get creative with their images after they have been shot.
In DPP, the “Image processing conditions information” that can be
adjusted is called a “Recipe”.
What Advantages Does a RAW Image Have?
RAW image data
Image processing conditions information