The DOMO Fotolumea mea software supports the following file formats for photos/pictures:
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| JPEG | *.jpg |
Graphic format for compressed storage of photos. Very widely used in digital cameras and on the Internet. The standard was adopted by the "Joint Photographic Experts Group". |
| PNG | *.png |
Portable Network Graphics - graphic format for raster graphics with loss-free compression. Supports transparencies (alpha channel). |
| BMP | *.bmp | Bitmap - Graphic format for Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems |
| GIFF | *.gif |
Graphics Interchange File Format - special file format for Web graphics. Low colour strength (max. 256 colours), supports transparency (a colour can be "transparent"). |
| JPEG2000 | *.jp2 | Like JPG, but allows better compression and supports transparencies (alpha channel) - Has scarcely gained acceptance, due to large amount of computing power required and strict licensing conditions. |
| TIFF | *.tif |
Tagged Image File Format - graphic interchange file format. The DOMO Fotolumea mea software does not support transparencies and some levels of the TIFF format. |
| TARGA | *.tga |
Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Array - graphic format for raster graphics from the Truevision company. The DOMO Fotolumea mea software does not display a transparency in a TARGA picture. |
The optimum file formats are JPG and PNG.
The DOMO Fotolumea mea software does not initially display picture formats that are not supported.
A colour space is a combination of all colours which can actually be displayed in a picture.
The colour spaces will vary depending on the picture editing program and the recording and output devices used.
Some Nikon cameras, for example, take photos in the special "Nikon sRGB" format, and Adobe Photoshop often uses its own "Adobe sRGB" format".
Printers operate in a completely different colour space (CMYK), in which the pictures are first converted by the printer driver.
The simple "sRGB" format (standard RGB) has gained acceptance as a standard and as an interchange format between colour spaces.
This colour space can be handled by all digital cameras, scanners, monitors and printer drivers.
In production, the photos are always processed in the "sRGB" colour format, and photos in other RGB formats are converted automatically into the "sRGB" format without any loss of quality. Most digital cameras take photos in the sRGB format, so there should be no problems.
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Please avoid photos in the CMYK colour space. Our production processes are all optimised for the RGB colour space. |
AIC ("Automatic Image Correction") optimises the image quality of your photos.
It reduces any exposure defects and colour faults and automatically optimally adapts the contrast and saturation of the colours to the respective output system.
This takes place automatically, and the degree of correction is determined by a prior analysis of the image.
The settings are optimised for a wide cross-section of pictures, so AIC generally leads to an improvement in picture quality.
We recommend that you leave it switched on as standard until such time as you make adjustments to the colour, contrast and brightness of your pictures.
AIC should be switched off for artificial images such as computer graphics and drawings.
AIC can be switched on and off individually for each photo (using the "OPT" button).
Under Options/Photos a standard setting can be selected which applies to all pictures.
Pictures are always sharpened slightly to adapt them to the output system, regardless of whether AIC is activated.
We recommend that you do not sharpen the picture data too much beforehand.
Please bear the following in mind: If you are not using a calibrated monitor and your picture editing does not support calibration, the printed result may always turn out slightly differently to what you expect.
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Standard settings
Colour temperature: 6,500 Kelvin |
You can switch "Automatic Image Correction" on or off completely.
Particularly for pictures edited with a picture editing program (also follows from the EXIF data), you can adjust the settings so that AIC is always used or never used or so that you are asked for each picture whether it should be used.
The application checks the picture material and optimises it for production and transmission.
They will be scaled down to the optimum size to keep the data file as small as possible.
That saves computer space and reduces transfer times in the burning process and the online transmission.
There is no reduction in quality, as the resolution of the compressed photos is geared precisely to their optimum print resolution in production.
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The picture or photo effects change a photo, usually in an artistic way.
Multiple effects can be applied to the same photo one after the other.
If you do not like the result of an effect, you can "discard" it.
The relevant button can be found at the bottom of the extended function view for the effect.
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Some of the effects shown here may be available only through the "Effects" menu item (in the header), |
To provide a clearer overview, the photo effects are subdivided thematically under three tabs:
Under this tab you will find
Your photo is converted into greyscale and looks like an old black-and-white photo.
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Black and white |
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This makes your photo look yellowed with age.
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Sepia |
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Converts the light tones into white and the dark tones into black pixels.
Not to be confused with "black-and-white," as the photo really does consist only of the two colours black and white.
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Posterisation |
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Adds fuzziness to the photo.
The photo can also be desaturated (faded colours) and superimposed with white (placing a white veil over the photo).
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Soft focus |
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Adds movement to the picture.
The angle of motion and the degree and of fuzziness can be set by means of slider controls.
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Motion blur |
Motion blur |
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A special photo effect which adapts your picture so that it can be used as a discreet background picture.
It is actually a "soft focus" image (see above) with preset values.
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Background picture |
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Under the "Art" tab you will find photo effects to transform your photos in an artistic way.
The individual photo effects under this tab are as follows:
This makes your photo look like an oil painting.
The painting can be made more or less abstract by adjusting the brush radius.
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Oil painting |
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This effect reduces the colours of the photo, making it very striking.
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Poster |
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This makes your photo look like a charcoal drawing to be used as a sketch by an artist.
The crayon thickness controls the width of the drawing lines and the smudging of the charcoal on the sheet.
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Charcoal |
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With relief, your photo looks as if it has been carved out of a surface, including light and shade effects.
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Relief |
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Looks like a line drawing with a thin crayon.
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Weak contours |
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Looks like a line drawing with a thicker crayon.
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Strong contours |
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Simulates a prism filter (special effect lens for cameras).
The number of repeats can be adjusted.
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Illusion |
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Simulates concentric ripples, like when a stone is thrown into the water.
The amplitude and the wavelength can be adjusted.
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Ripple |
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This effect projects your photo onto a tiled wall.
The size of the tiles and the depth of the gaps between the tiles can be adjusted.
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3D grid |
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Simulates a ring filter (special effect lens for cameras).
The picture becomes blurred at the edges, steering the viewer's eyes to the sharp centre of the picture.
The strength of the effect can be adjusted.
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Radial soft focus |
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This makes your photo look as if it has been sprayed with colour.
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Spray effect |
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Turns your photo into a mosaic of single-coloured tiles.
Attractive as a background picture if the strength of the tile effect is set low.
The larger the picture, the more abstract the result.
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Tiles |
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This tab contains photo effects which involve the displacement of pixels.
The individual effects for photo distortion are:
Displaces pixels in a circular pattern around the centre of the picture.
It looks like a whirlpool in the photo.
You can adjust the strength of the swirl effect by means of the angle.
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Swirl |
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This distorts the photo into an arc or circle segment.
You can adjust the size of the circle segments by changing the size of the arc.
If the control is to the far left, the photo will not be distorted at all. If it is precisely in the centre, the photo will turn into a semicircle. If it is to the far right, the photo will be turned 360° into a full circle.
You can turn the arc around its axis by means of the angle of rotation.
If the control is in the centre, the photo is upside down.
And you can adjust the width of the arc by means of the inner and outer radius.
If the control for the inner radius is set to the far left (i.e. 0), the arc turns into a sector of a circle (cake slice).
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Arc |
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The implosion draws the pixels to the centre of the photo.
The strength of the effect is adjusted by means of a slider control.
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Implosion |
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An explosion distorts the photo from the centre to the edge.
Here too the strength of the effect is adjusted by means of the slider control.
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Explosion |
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This twists the photo into a wave shape.
The wavelength affects how many troughs and peaks the photo contains, the amplitude, the height of the waves.
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Wave |
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To emphasise photos or make them stand out better against the background, you can place a frame around them, which is then also printed or output to film.
You can specify the properties of the frame, i.e. its width (line thickness) and colour.
With the left mouse button, select the photo, which has already been inserted in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK. Now select the Frame and Shading function in the toolbar.
Left-click this function and a window opens. Here you can now set the properties of the frame.
You can adjust the thickness of the frame in 1/10 mm steps. That means if you enter "3", you will produce a frame with a thickness of 0.3 mm, not 3 mm!
You can select the colour as a basic colour or click in the colour table and set your own colour.
This selected colour can now be fine-tuned in the narrow right-hand bar.
Confirm your chosen colour by clicking "ok" in the open window.
You can adopt the window properties for the active (selected) photo, for all photos on this page or for all photos on all pages.
TIP: A frame distinguishes the photo from other photos and from the background and makes it more effective.
That is a very effective and attractive function in the design of the CEWE PHOTOBOOK.
Shading gives the photos in your CEWE PHOTOBOOK a very pleasing effect.
The photos are positioned more prominently into the foreground.
Pages with a foreground / background design are often much more attractive to look at.
Click the "Frames and Shading" function in tools to edit the photos.
A window opens. Now you can set the properties of the shading.
Activate the shading function by checking the checkbox.
Select the width, intensity and direction of the shading.
The width is set in mm and determines how far the shading stands out below the photo.
The intensity in percent determines how transparent and how dark the shading will be.
You set the direction by moving the sun symbol around the globe.
See the preview at the bottom of the open window.
TIP: Discreet, narrow shading will often make your photos stand out very well from the background.
That will make the designed CEWE PHOTOBOOK page more interesting and more attractive.
The optimum sizes in pixels when using your own photos as a background of a CEWE PHOTOBOOK page naturally varies depending on the format and size of the photobook.
It is no problem if the picture size is smaller. The main point is that the quality indicator must be green. Photos with smaller dimensions will remain unchanged.
But photos which exceed the required pixel size will have no recognisable effect on the print quality.
They will be scaled down to the optimum size to keep the data file as small as possible.
That will speed up the transmission and storage of the pictures at the time of ordering.
The software may cut the picture size further to the actual required size and the photos may be scaled down to the necessary resolution at the time of ordering.
The CEWE PHOTO SHOW is the central program module used to edit your photos.
You can use it to improve a photo, e.g. to correct over- or underexposure, weak contrast, colour faults or red-eye effect.
You can apply artistic effects to your photo, e.g. turn it into a black-and-white picture, age it with a sepia effect or make it look like an oil painting or a drawing.
You can distort, reflect and turn a photo, and much more besides.
And you can manage your photos using the CEWE PHOTO SHOW, rating your photos and adding titles and comments and filtering them according to these and other metadata (in order to show only certain pictures).
The CEWE PHOTO SHOW can also be opened as a standalone program (own icon on the desktop, context menu for photos in Explorer).
To find photos more easily in the photo selection or to use them for different products, it is possible to rate a photo.
When photos are rated they are awarded a number of stars, which are displayed in the photo selection.
This rating can be an additional way of sorting your photos.
In the photo selection, right-click a photo and a context menu will open.
In this context menu you can sort photos by date, file name or rating.
That means you quickly can find your best photos in the photo selection.
The rating is also an effective way to presort your pictures in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK wizard.
Just click the minimum number of stars your photos must have in order to be selected by the wizard.
