DCR_File_format.htm

DCR File format:

The Kodak DCR file format, is an after thought.

Thanks to Marc Tinel for the idea ??

Since I have no Kodak CMS available, Kodak's PhotoDsk, PhotoShop or any other executable may be used to pre-process the *.DCR images into *.tif and in turn processe these tiff images by ImgScale. See "DCR_Img_Processor.txt" file. The idea was to preprocess the DCRs to TIFFs and then jus process the regular TIFFs.

Hence if in the same directory there are TIFF files of the same name as the DCR files.

It is assumed that the TIFF files represent the DCR images and the DCR files will be ignored.

Using the"Select Image" button it is probably best to select a single DCR file from a directory. This will in turn will spawn Kodak's PhotoDsk. option.

When PhotoDsk processing ( "Save Selected as" ) is done, close the PhotoDsk.

This should create *.tif files from the DCR type.

In image scale again, use the "Select Image" button again and select the just created *.tif files from the directory or wherever the "PhotoDsk" saved them. This seems to be quite quick and relatively painless.

If the step above is not done, only the previewed DCR image will be processed, since the preview will again spawn the PhotoDsk. The Image file name should remain the same as the original DCR file, only the extension should change to tif. The image should be also placed into the same directory, where the original DCR file exists.

Pproblem with CD images ). If a CD is used use the image source you will have to preprocess the images, store them somewhere on the hard drive, and then apply the ImageScale functionality,

NOTE 1:

The name of the preprocessor executable used for the DCR images is specified in "ImgProcessor.txt" which resides in the same directory as the ImgScale.exe iself.

Only the first uncommented line ( without # as the first character ) of this file is valid.

It is further assumed that the preprocessor accepts a file name parameter from the command line.

If the"Img_Processor.txt"is not present, "none" is used by default.

The none option prevents a lengthy search for PhotoDsk which is assumed to be the default preprocessor.

The current options are

none

PhotoDsk

PhotoShop

Use "none' if the if the DCR processor is not available.

NOTE: 2:

The Kodaks DCS Photo Desk is available from Kodak at

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/cameras/camerasIndex.jhtml

or the ImageServer.

Sorry about the mess :-)

Wenny Macura

( wmacu@telus.net )

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