Axis Technology PackshotCreator 3D Bedienungsanleitung
PackshotCreator 3D
User guide
© 2011 PackshotCreator - Sysnext
All rights reserved.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 : Getting started
User interface
Animation creation interface
Options
Image management
Annotation tools
Calibrating the machine
Chapter 2 : Taking pictures
Chapter 3 : Creating 360° animations
Capturing 360° images
Annotating images
Editing images
Exporting images
Sending images
Generating Flash animations
Generating HTML5 + Javascript animations
Generating animated Gifs
Chapter 4 : Creating 3D animations
Capturing images
Generating Flash animations
Generating HTML5 + Javascript animations
Chapter 5 : Retouching images
Command bar
Editing features
Chapter 6 : Creating custom sequences
Chapter 7 : Continuous rotation
Chapter 8 : Image import
Chapter 9 : Authoring 360
Chapter 10 : Care and maintenance
Chapter 11 : Product registration and warranty
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The PackshotCreator solutions allow any collaborator in a company to create in-house professional, shadow-free
and color-accurate pictures and animations of their products. These pictures and animations can then be used for
all print and web supports.
Gives you the possibility to turn the lightbox and the digital camera on and off.
This feature allows you to preview each camera position by controlling the 90° camera shooting rail,
the camera tilt and the 360° turntable.
When the Preview button is pushed, the camera switches to Preview Mode and objects inside of the
lightbox appear in real-time in the Viewing Window of your screen.
The Preview mode enables you to move your product, zoom in / out, crop or rotate the picture to
meet your needs.
Note: Pressing the Preview button in Preview mode re-focuses the camera.
This feature allows you to control the camera’s optical zoom to zoom in or zoom out on items inside
the box.
Quick Zoom out/in allows you to go at the maximum or minimum zoom level.
This feature is used to remove unwanted portions of a picture, cut images to a desired size or to
enlarge a portion of the image.
To crop an image, press the Crop button and resize or move the cropping frame that appears in the
Preview Window. Cropping does not take effect until clicking Snap.
User interface
Shooting functionalities
ON/OFF button
3D animation
creation
Options
Thumbnail
window
Viewing
window
Image
editing tools
Program
link
Image
retouching
Save for web
3D positioning
Real-time preview
Zoom +/-
Image cropping
Capture
On/Off
Position
Preview
Camera settings
Zoom
Crop
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Gives you the possibility to turn the lightbox and the digital camera on and off.
Viewing window
Thumbnail window
Automatic and advanced modes
Saving Custom
Camera Settings
Camera settings
Automatic or
Manual Focus
mode
Landscape and
Macro mode
(not for SLR
option)
Pressing this button is the same as pressing the shutter button on your camera.
The picture will be taken and the original image will automatically be saved in the PackshotCreator
temp folder for viewing and processing.
When clicking on the Preview button,
the product in the lightbox will appear
in real-time in the software viewing
window.
The Thumbnail Window displays thumbnails of all the original
pictures previously taken with the PackshotCreator.
To view an image, simply click on the thumbnail you want.
Note: A maximum of 100 images can be stored in the Thumbnail
Window. If the image number exceeds 100, a warning message
will appear and you will have to save/delete an image before a
new picture can be created.
When the user clicks on the Preview button in Advanced Mode, the Camera Settings window will
appear:
After clicking on Snap, the product
picture will appear on the screen.
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Manual camera settings can be saved and imported for re-use.
To import or save a set of camera settings, click on the Save Tools icon on the Camera Settings
interface. The following screen will appear:
Saving Custom
Camera
Settings
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Pressing Save allows you to name and save the settings in a file.
Once saved, the filename will appear in the pull down menu.
To load previously saved camera settings
Simply select them from the pull down menu.
To export saved camera settings
Click the Export button and select the settings you wish to export.
Exported camera setting files can be saved anywhere on your computer and will have a .csi file
extension – ‘csi’ stands for ‘Camera Settings Information’.
To import saved camera settings
Importing previously exported camera settings is simple. Click the Import button and select the
camera setting file you wish to import.
The following window will appear:
You can chose either the Automatic Focus mode (AF) or Manual Focus mode (MF).
On Manual Focus, the software will ask you to determine the main focus spot on the image. It can
be determined for the whole serie of pictures or picture by picture.
Focus
AF
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The 3D function allows the user to create interactive 360° or 3D Flash, HTML5 and Gif animations.
The software guides the user to establish the image capture settings (file size, resolution, speed and
rotation direction) and to automatically take a specific number of images as an object rotates.
To get started, click on the 3D button. The 3D Creator screen will appear:
3D
Animation creation interface
Image
capture
commands
The image viewing window
The
thumbnail
and image
manage-
ment area
Image capture commands:
The user chooses whether to start creating an animation, start creating a custom sequence animation, have the
turntable rotate, import images from their computer to create animations or prepare images for the PackshotViewer
software (contact us for more information).
The image viewing window:
Created animations are displayed in this window.
Viewing functions include: stop, play, zoom, fit to screen or actual size display as well as controlling the speed at
which the animation swaps frames.
For Flash and HTML5 files, depending on how the animation was created, the user can control the animation with his
mouse or with the standard file player buttons.
The thumbnail and image management area:
Area where animation files created with the software are temporarily stored. They can be selected for viewing, sent to
others via email, deleted, saved and copied to other locations on the computer or network.
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This function allows the user to define the settings for several software features.
Options
Light info
The light information feature keeps track of how long
the light bulbs in the lightbox have been on. When you
switch bulbs you can reset the counter to zero.
Image quality option
The Image Quality window allows you to generate Jpg
or Raw files.
You can also chose the level of compression of the jpg
file and its resolution (Large, Medium, Small).
Creating a watermark
A watermark protects your images from being copied
or stolen. This feature digitally superimposes your logo
or another image over the main object in the picture.
All watermarks are images.
To create a watermark:
Select Create Watermark in the Options menu.
Press the Load Image button to the load the image
you want to use as the watermark.
Note: the image you intend to use as a watermark
must be a 24-bit bitmap (.bmp) file and at least 700
pixels wide or tall.
Determine the transparency of the overall watermark
image. A higher degree of transparency means the
watermark will be less obvious.
Note : your watermark must be on a white
background.
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Select the watermark location.
Click Preview to see what the watermark will look like on a real image.
Save the watermark and give it a file name.
To apply a watermark on an image:
Apply your selected watermark by checking the Apply Watermark box when saving your file, sending, or direct
image exporting.
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Auto power off
The Auto Power Off dialog allows you to control the
PackshotCreator automatic power off function.
This function is enabled by default and will shut the
system down after 10 minutes of non-use. I
Send option
This feature is used to choose the file format in which
images will be sent from the PackshotCreator software
through the Send button.
Two sending options exist: EBX image files or JPG
image files.
The EBX format is PackshotCreator’s proprietary
format and can be opened only with a PackshotCreator
compatible system. We recommend you use the JPG
format only.
Program link
The PackshotCreator software integrates image editing tools. However, if you want to use advanced tools for image
editing or if you are used to working with a specific software, the program link function allows the user to link the
PackshotCreator software with another application.
Select the image from the image bank and click on the Program Link button.
To set the application to be linked to the PackshotCreator software, click on the Information button and select
Program Link.
The following screen will appear.
Direct image export
The Direct Image Export feature allows users to quickly take pictures and have them automatically saved to a specific
folder.
When Direct Image Export is turned on, all pictures taken with the PackshotCreator software will be automatically
saved according to the settings specified in the Direct Image Export option.
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This feature allows the user to select
how he views and crops items in
Preview Mode.
Two types of grids are available:
• The crosshair grid points the center
of the viewing area.
• The hatch grid can assist users to
create images that are exactly the same
size.
Two crop shapes are available:
• The rectangle is the default shape
and allows you to create any shape
you like by dragging the crop markers.
Grabbing the corners allows you to
adjust the crop markers faster.
• The Square crop option allows you
to always crop/take pictures that are
perfect squares.
• Custom ratio allows you to define a
fixed width and height for all your image
croppings.
The rotation angle when you preview
the rotation can also be determined.
Preview options
Note: the images will only briefly show on your monitor screen and will
not be stored in the thumbnail tray of the PackshotCreator software. You
will need to view the images through a different image viewing software
program.
To setup the direct image export feature:
Click on Direct Image Export.
To determine the size of the image to be saved:
Select Resize or click on the Resize button. You will enter either the desired
width or height of the image(s) to be saved. You can resize images by either
Pixels or Document size (in points, inches or centimeters).
To chose a name for a serie of pictures:
Simply click on the Rename button and type an image name and a naming
index (number extension) that will be used when batch saving.
To set the image resolution:
Click on the Resolution button and select either: 72dpi (typically used for
web), 150dpi or 300dpi (ideal for printing high-quality images).
You can also chose the destinatino folder. Click on Browse and select the
file where you want your pictures to be saved.
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