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Converting TIFF files using Contenta Converter PREMIUM

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:05:09 +0000

The TIFF format’s strength is its print-oriented flexibility through features such as tiling, multiple color spaces and LZW compression. It was the first graphical file format to focus on the print appearance and it includes the ability to have multiple images in one file. The ability to store image data in a lossless format makes a TIFF file a useful image archive, because a TIFF file using lossless compression (or no compression at all) may be edited and re-saved without losing image quality.

TIFF files, because of their size, are less than ideal for web display and this is where Contenta Converter PREMIUM can be a huge assist. Using Contenta Converter PREMIUM you can load a TIFF file and convert it to formats like JPG, GIF, PNG, WBMP, PPM, PGM, PBM, XPM and ICO. I will demonstrate the quick and easy way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .TIF photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting TIF files for conversion with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” check box is checked and select the format. In this example we picked JPEG, but the drop down menu also gives you more than a dozen other formats! You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to JPEG will be stored.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

All done!

Click start and soon you will see the final screen and you will have your new .JPG file that are only 10% the file size of the original .TIF file.

File conversion success!

Converting DNG files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:18:43 +0000

The Digital Negative (DNG) file format is a royalty free RAW image format designed by Adobe Systems. Adobe saw that every camera manufacturer was releasing a different version of the RAW format and this is their attempt to made a standard format. Cameras using the Adobe DNG RAW format will save photographs with the information stored exactly how it was captured by the camera’s sensor, with no compression or color adjustment. Respected camera manufacturers such as Hasselblad, Leica, Casio, Ricoh, and Samsung have introduced cameras that provide direct DNG support (Click here for the full list of supported cameras). The quality of these images is fantastic, but frequently you will need to convert the Adobe DNG format, to a more common format like TIFF or JPEG.

Contenta Converter PREMIUM handles DNG files. This how-to article will show you how easy and pain free it is to convert DNG files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the DNG photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select your DNG photos to convert with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” check box is checked and select the format. In this example we picked TIFF, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for JPEG, EPS, PDF and more than a dozen other formats! You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to TIFF will be stored.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

All done!

Click start and soon you will see the final screen and you have your new TIFF files! Tip – We always suggest you save the original DNG files as these will have the best quality if you ever need to convert to other formats in the future.

Contenta Converter PREMIUM Success

Canon CR2 files converted with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:16:56 +0000

Canon is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of digital cameras. Many Canon cameras can produce uncompressed CR2 RAW photographs with the information stored exactly how it was captured by the camera’s sensor, with absolutely no compression or color adjustment. Contenta Converter PREMIUM currently supports pictures taken with the Canon PowerShot G9, CCanon EOS 30D, Canon EOS 40D and dozens more Canon cameras that can produce images in the CR2 format. The quality of these images is fantastic, but frequently you will need to convert the Canon CR2 format to a more common format like JPEG or JPEG 2000.

We’ll show you the easy and pain free way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .CR2 photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select your Canon CR2 Files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select the format. In this example we picked JPEG 2000, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for EPS, JPG, PDF and more than a dozen other formats! You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to JPEG 2000 will be stored.

The program will default to preserve EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadatas which will preserve all the details about the photo – date it was taken, brand of camera used, model of camera used and much more detail. You can choose to turn this off to make the file a bit smaller or to hide any of that information. You can also choose to reduce the image size and in this example we’ll turn these files into thumbnail size images.

Select the JPEG 2000 format with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

Click on start and moments later, you will see the final screen and you have your new JPEG 2000 thumbnail files! Tip – We always suggest you save the original CR2 files as these will have the best quality if you ever need to convert to other formats in the future.

Successful thumbnail creation with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

How to convert 3FR files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:03:58 +0000

For over fifty years, Hasselblad has been devoted to producing the finest camera equipment known to man. A Hasselblad digital camera will produce uncompressed 3FR RAW photographs with the information stored exactly how it was captured by the camera’s sensor, with no compression or color adjustment. Contenta Converter PREMIUM currently supports pictures taken with the Hasselblad CFV and the Hasselblad H3D cameras. The quality of these images is fantastic, but frequently you will need to convert the Hasselblad 3FR format, to a more common format like TIFF or JPEG.

I will demonstrate the easy and pain free way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .3FR photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select your Hasselblad 3FR Files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select the format. In this example we picked TIFF, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG and more than a dozen other formats! You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to TIFF will be stored.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

Optional:

The program will default to preserve EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadatas which will preserve all the details about the photo – date it was taken, brand of camera used, model of camera used and much more detail. You can choose to turn this off to make the file a bit smaller or to hide any of that information. You can also choose to make the file multipage, which we have done in the image below. This will save the two images we have selected into one TIFF file.

Selecting Multipage and Metadata Options in Contenta Converter Premium

Click Start and Name the output file:

Since we selected multipage the images will be added to one file which we have to named as shown below:

Provide a name for the Multipage File

All done!

Moments later, you will see the final screen and you have your new TIFF file! Tip – We always suggest you save the original 3FR files as these will have the best quality if you ever need to convert to other formats in the future.

Contenta Converter PREMIUM Success

How to convert images to EPS?

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:27:20 +0000

Do you ever need to convert a raster image file such as JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, … to EPS ? That can be necessary in several circumptances, for example, when in need to import a figure into a LateX document or when dealing directly with the Postscript format.

We will show you here how to perform such an operation with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos

Click on the Add Photos button and select in your computer the photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select EPS as the format. You can select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to EPS will be stored.

Setup the conversion settings

Optional:

You can choose to wrap the images as JPEG inside the EPS container. It makes the files a lot smaller as you can see in the size preview. The files are reduced to 328kb when they were 6.6Mb large previously.

Wrap as JPEG in the EPS container

Click Start!

The conversion job will start and will soon be finished.

Click Start! and you're done