User guide

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Chapter 4, Using Matrox WYSIWYG Programs
About the Adobe Photoshop plug-in
The Adobe Photoshop plug-in, together with your Matrox RT.X hardware, lets
you display your current Adobe Photoshop image on your NTSC or PAL video
monitor. This lets you see the exact color temperature, safe-title area, and any
interlaced artifacts in your image as you work.
Only image modes of
Grayscale, RGB Color, CMYK Color, and Lab Color are
supported in 8 bits/channel or 16 bits/channel. If your image has numerous alpha
channels, only the topmost alpha channel in the
Channels palette will be
displayed on your video monitor.
How to use the plug-in
1 Start Adobe Photoshop.
2 Open your image or create a new image file.
3 To display the current image on your NTSC or PAL video monitor, choose
File > Export > Matrox WYSIWYG Video Preview. This opens the
Matrox Preview Setup dialog box:
¥Tip We recommend that you use Photoshop actions to apply the Matrox
settings. For more information, see “Using Photoshop actions with the plug-
in” on page 59.
4 Under Output Size, select the size that you want your image to be displayed
on your NTSC or PAL video monitor. For example, select
Original to
maintain your image’s original size.
¦NoteImages that are larger than full-screen size are always displayed as
full-screen on your NTSC or PAL video monitor.
5 Under Render Preview Type, select one of the following options for
previewing the rendering of your image on your video monitor:
$ Video and alpha Select this to view your image keyed over a black
background
$ Alpha only Select this to view only your image’s grayscale
alpha-key (matte) information.