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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS•    Any color-capable Macintosh•    At least 8 Mbytes of installed RAM (5,000K free)•    A 13-inch (640x480) or larger color monitor•    A double-speed CD-ROM drive•    System 7 or laterSETTING UPThese instructions assume a basic familiarity with Macintosh interface conventions. If you’re just getting started with your computer, and find the operations described below confusing, please refer to the documentation that came with your computer.To install this title, follow these steps:1.    Drag With Open Eyes  from the CD to your hard drive. 2.    Open the System Extensions folder on the CD to show the extensions necessary or recommended for use with this title.3. If you don’t already have QuickTime version 2.5 or later installed, launch the Install QuickTime™ icon and follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation. If you install QuickTime, you will need to restart your computer to make the new version active. GETTING STARTED1.    Make sure the With Open Eyes  CD is in your CD-ROM drive.2.    Double-click the copy of With Open Eyes  on your hard drive.PERFORMANCE TIPSWe recommend that you quit out of all other applications before launching the With Open Eyes  program.  SOFTWARE REGISTRATIONPlease register your software using the online Registration Form available at http://voyager.learntech.com/register/.TECHNICAL SUPPORTPlease use the online Technical Support Request Form located at http://voyager.learntech.com/techsupport/. Or, you may send e-mailto [e-mail]
If these options are not available, please call [phone] or [phone] duringnormal business hours, Monday through Friday.MACINTOSH COLOR CALIBRATION ISSUESAs we get ready to publish this CD-ROM we find that cross-platform and multi-vendor color calibration standards are still not fully evolved. The recent adoption of Apple’s ColorSync™ 2 by a number of imaging hardware and computer software vendors offers promise for the future. Colors on different monitors could be adjusted to have a fair resemblance to each other. Even more promising will be the ability to measure real-world objects such as works of art and fine tune the representative image file from that reading.Today, however, it is still difficult even to match monitors of the same vendor without dedicated calibration hardware. The most problematic variable is actually ambient light, a non-computer issue. Fully calibrated monitors will display perceptibly different color palettes depending  upon the quality and luminance of the light in the room surrounding the monitors. We keep our room fairly dark by turning off all electrical lights and letting only a small amount of indirect daylight in. This helps with variables such as the color of your walls and even your clothing when viewing the images.We have tried to find a practical solution to the color display of digital images of works in the Art Institute’s collection. By following our suggestions you should be able view our collection in a manner close to our intention.Most of our color files were scanned from 4x5 Ektachrome transparencies. These transparencies were viewed on ANSI (American National Standards Institute) daylight light boxes against the works of art illuminated by 5000K lights. We fine tune the transparency as close as possible using filters, but sometimes there are technical compromises due to the limitations of the dynamic range of film.We used only one monitor to perform all the color correction. The luminance on the monitor was set to a foot-candle reading of 4.5 measured off a medium gray file. The gray file was created in Adobe Photoshop™ by using numerical readings of 117 for each of the Red, Green and Blue channels. Using the Gamma 2.0 (Knoll Software) control which is bundled with Photoshop™ we set our monitor to gamma 1.8. The color temperature of our monitor is 6500K, a standard in video display. 5000K seems too warm for us to set our monitors.To assist you we have provided a scanned file of the 4x5˝ Kodak Q-60™ Color Input Target, using the same equipment (a Sharp JX-610 scanner). We color corrected in the same way we did all the transparencies, by observation; i.e. the transparency is viewed on an ANSI standard photo light box and adjustments are made to the color balance and density range using tools in Photoshop™. By viewing this Q-60 file on your display and using a tool like Gamma  you can correct your monitor to resemble ours.If you are not interested in all of this preparation, set your monitors to about 80% of the brightest point, set the contrast at normal, turn down the lights in your room and enjoy!Alan B. Newman, Executive DirectorImaging and Technical ServicesThe Art Institute of Chicago COPYRIGHT INFORMATIONAll of the images in this program are protected in conformity with the United States Copyright Act, Universal Copyright Convention, Berne Literary Convention and other applicable statutes, regulations, treaties or conventions, including those hereinafter enacted or enabled.Copyright ©  1995  by  The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights reserved. WARNING: All images on this disk are copyrighted.  Contact The Art Institute of Chicago for the right to publish or reproduce in any form. Images may be viewed on your computer, but may not be saved to any other storage device or transmitted to other computers.Contact:Photographic Rights DepartmentThe Art Institute of Chicago111 S. Michigan Ave.Chicago IL 60603tel.  [phone]We would love to have your reaction to this product.  You can reach The Art Institute on the Internet at [e-mail]