Kodak Professional
DCS Photo Desk
Version 4.1
© Eastman Kodak Company, 2000-2004
Table of Contents
- Camera Support
- Hardware System Support
- Operating System Support
- Functional Improvements
- Functional Limitations
- Functional Clarifications
- Known Bugs
- Third Party Solutions
- Contacting Eastman Kodak Company
- Additional Product Acknowledgements
Kodak Professional DCS Photo Desk supports images from the following Kodak
Professional DCS products:
Macintosh
Kodak Professional DCS Photo Desk is supported on Apple Macintosh systems
that meet or exceed the following minimum requirements:
- PowerPC G3 or equivalent processor
- 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM (512 MB recommended)
- 200 MB of available hard-disk space
- Color monitor with 24-bit or greater video card
- 1024x768 or greater monitor resolution
Windows
Kodak Professional DCS Photo Desk is supported on PCs that meet or exceed
the following minimum requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or newer
- Microsoft Windows XP or newer
- The "Save as JPEG" option will create Exif V2.2 compliant JPEG
images.
- A "Paste Special" command that will allow the pasting of selected
image processing parameters to selected images.
- When viewing images that have been modified in DCS Capture Studio,
most of the image modifications made in DCS Capture Studio will not be
applied in DCS Photo Desk. Also most of the image modifications made in DCS
Photo Desk will not be applied in DCS Capture Studio.
- It is recommended that English file names are used when saving White
Balance files. White Balance file names may contain no more than 8
characters in English. Some other languages may limit the length of the name
to 4 characters.
- DCS Photo Desk works best with one hundred or fewer images per folder.
With more images in a folder, performance may be slow and 200% view scale
may not scroll correctly; resizing the window a little or setting the view
scale to 100% will correct this.
- DCS Photo Desk may not be able to open a contact sheet located at the
root level of a mounted PC Card that has been formatted in a camera.
Renaming the PC Card volume to something other than "untitled" will allow
DCS Photo Desk to open the root level as a contact sheet. Alternatively,
reformatting the card as a DOS volume in the card reader will allow DCS
Photo Desk to open the root level. (Note that reformatting the card will
erase any existing images on the card.)
- It is recommended for optimum image quality that you set noise
reduction to Advanced or Advanced with Moiré when processing DCS 7xx
and DCS Pro Back series images.
- DCS 3xx, 5xx, and 6xx images that had sharpening applied and saved in
DCS Photo Desk versions 2.0 or earlier, will not have those same settings
applied with this version. Those settings are not lost but just ignored with
this release. This means that no sharpening is applied to these images.
However, new sharpening settings can be applied and saved.
- When using Photoshop as an Image Editor, the Send To Photoshop
command may behave incorrectly under the following circumstances:
- If you send more than one raw file to Photoshop and a color
management dialog appears, Photoshop will not open any images but the
first one. You can avoid this by making sure your RGB working spaces
match in DCS Photo Desk and Photoshop, and by checking the "Embed RGB
Working Space Profiles In TIFF Files" option in Photo Desk's preferences.
- If you repeatedly send the same file to Photoshop, answering yes
to the prompt to replace the existing file, Photoshop may appear to be
stuck unless you switch out of and back into Photoshop.
Windows Only
- The File Open dialog box that is presented when selecting
File | Open from the menu contains a "File Type" pull down.
This pull down allows the selection of the types of image files to be
presented and subsequently open in Review mode. If you select the "Open as
Contact Sheet" button, a contact sheet will open and will contain all of the
DCS Photo Desk compatible image files in the current folder regardless of the
"File Type" pull down.
- Installation will occur in the language of the previous install of DCS Photo Desk.
If you would like to change to a different language, you must first uninstall DCS Photo Desk
before running the installer.
- DCS 660M images cannot be saved in Linear mode. An error message will
occur and the files saved will be invalid.
- DCS Photo Desk recognizes that it cannot save changes to locked files
and to files in folders for which the user does not have write permissions,
but fails to detect if files have read-only permissions. If you try to
save changes to a file with read-only permissions, it will produce an error
message and subsequent attempts to render the image will produce a black image.
To correct this, close the image and contact sheet in DCS Photo Desk,
select the files in the Finder and use the Get Info command. In the Ownership
and Permissions section, set the "You Can" menu to "Read and Write." You can
now reopen the images in DCS Photo Desk and save changes.
- DCS Photo Desk uses the Mac OS "Generic RGB Profile" during printing,
but cannot find it on some non-English systems. In this case, DCS Photo Desk
uses the DCS RGB profile rather than the "Generic RGB Profile". This does
not affect your RGB working space.
- After installing the 1.2.1.1 or newer versions of DCS Photo Desk,
any remaining installed versions older than 1.2.0.11 will crash.
- DCS Photo Desk will not give you an error when trying to write over a
read-only image.
Canto (http://www.canto.com), the global leader in Digital Asset Management
Solutions, supports Kodak Professional DCS images with the "Cumulus Filter
for Kodak DCS Cameras". This Cumulus Option is available for the entire
Cumulus product line, consisting of Single User Edition, Workgroup Edition
and Enterprise Edition. Cumulus users can access Kodak Professional DCS
(raw) images in their original full resolution and therefore in best
quality. It is also possible to convert cataloged pictures of the Kodak
Professional DCS raw image formats into other image formats such as TIFF or
JPEG using the "Convert to" functionality included in all Cumulus Editions.
More details can be found on
Canto's web site (http://www.canto.com/products/options/kodak/kodak_main.php).
The file "sRGB Color Space Profile.icm" is provided "AS IS" WITH
NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY.
This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
The ability to save standard TIFF files is based in part on the work of
Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics, Inc., who request that the following
be included:
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