Question about Canon Digital Photo Professional 4

Rather than ask a question here, I thought I'd first ask anyone to guide me to the correct forum if this is not it. Thanks!

You are in the right place, ask away!

There is a "RAW, Post Processing & Printing forum at https://photography-on-the.net/forum/forumdis​play.php?f=18

DPP 4.9.20 is available, literally today October 4th 2018.

Some resources I've found to be helpful.

The manual for version 4.9.20 can be found at http://gdlp01.c-wss.com …08/dpp-4-9-20-w-im-en.pdf

Canon made video tutorials can be found at https://cpn.canon-europe.com …re/dpp_video_tu​torials.do. These are quite extensive and include a source for some sample RAW images to use for the suggested workflows.

OK, here's my question: I am scanning slides with a carousel projector and my Canon 550D. I have two choices to make the scans approximately "right". One is to orientate the slides in the carousel so they scan correctly, top to bottom, right to left, or to leave the slides as they are in the carousel, ready for projection, and post process to get the slide right side up and correct front to back. So the question is, can I, in Digital Photo Professional, flip the images front to back? I'm assuming that I can write a script to automate the process to do the transformations I need as long as I can do every thing in DPP4. Help appreciated!

SteveSchachter wrote in post #18723815
I'm assuming that I can write a script to automate the process to do the transformations I need as long as I can do every thing in DPP4. Help appreciated!

I've never tried what you are attempting to do (flipping rotation, etc.) but have you tried to do what you want with the recipe feature? Canon says

See https://photo.stackexc​hange.com …mages-in-canon-digital-ph for some guidance or check the manual.

I think in DPP you can do rotations but not flip.
Here is an example of what is possible and what is not (at least depending on my knowlodge)

I really like DPP but that seems an almost useless feature on it's own. Was the designer sitting on his/her head while developing it?

Why don't you mirror the slide? That way it is correct when you process?

As usual, I should have been more specific. I am scanning slides that are resident in Kodak Carousel carousels, camera lens pointing down the throat of an unlensed slide projector. The slides in the carousels are oriented so that when projected they will be correct, top to bottom, front to back. Problem is, when scanning rather than projecting, either that slides would have to be turned around and up side down to get the scanned images to appear correct, or have all the images post processed, front to back and upside down to get them "right." Each option is equally difficult: If the slides are re-oriented, theycannot be projected again until changed back, or the difficulty of post processing every image. The latter would not be so bad, the the software available to me apparently does not do a front to back flip. So what to do. I really don't want to buy Photoshop for the purpose only.

Paint Shop Pro can be purchased for under $50. It's an excellant program that I prefer over Photoshop. Gimp, an open source, program is free. I'm not a fan, but you may be.

Cumbersome, especially if you have an abundance of images, but Paint allows a horizontal flip, but I don't find that ability in DPP. You can do this in Photoshop but I don't remember the version I used about 5 years ago in a college level art class.

Much depends on how you plan to archive the final images. If you are shooting Raws and after editing in DPP generating tiffs or jpgs, you can postpone the flip until later. There is no shortage of cheap or free RGB-editors that will do a batch flip. If you intend to retain only the Raw files with the edits saved in the metadata, you should be aware that previews of the edited versions will be viewable only in DPP. Other Raw converters can't read or apply Canon's embedded processing.

Thanks all. Good information. I'll decide at some point which way to go.

Regards,

Steve

If it helps any, and you're shooting jpeg, Adobe still have a link to download Photoshop CS-2 here: https://helpx.adobe.co​m …ads.html?promoi​d=19SCDRQK

(the adobe page includes a serial number because their activations servers have been switched off long ago)

"Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, including Acrobat 7, because of a technical issue. These products were released more than seven years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems; Adobe no longer supports them.

Adobe strongly advises against running unsupported and outdated software. Only customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products may use the serial numbers provided during the download."