for Windows®

Using TimeTunnel Function

PowerShot Utilities

This guide covers the main features of TimeTunnel.

Please refer to the on-screen Help file for more detailed information.
To view the writing on the screen examples in this guide, please set the display to a higher zoom setting.
The screen examples in this guide were created in the 256-color format.
Table of Contents
1. TimeTunnel Overview .................................................................................. 3
2. Displaying Images in a Tunnel .................................................................... 4
3. Control Panel................................................................................................ 5
Speed Bar ................................................................................... 5
Switch Speed Bar/Date Bar Button .............................................. 5
Auto Cruise On/Off Button ......................................................... 5
Rings Button ............................................................................... 6
Spiral Button ............................................................................... 6
Film Button ................................................................................. 6
Display Style Settings Button ....................................................... 6
Speed Settings Button ................................................................ 6
Date/Time Color Display Settings Button ..................................... 6
Open Button ............................................................................... 6
Help Button ................................................................................ 6
Exit Button .................................................................................. 6
4. Tunnel Window ............................................................................................ 8
Displaying an Image Ring with a Specific Date ............................ 8
Opening Original Images ............................................................ 9
5. Exiting TimeTunnel .................................................................................... 10
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TimeTunnel Overview
“I’d like to find that photo. Lets see... Maybe it was last summer...”

"I want to find the picture of that scene we saw on the third or fourth day
of our trip two years ago."

These are the situations for which TimeTunnel is ideally suited. TimeTunnel is a software
program that uses the shooting dates automatically recorded by PowerShot digital cameras
to arrange and display thumbnail versions of images in chronological order on rings repre-
senting a time continuum (a time tunnel) so that you can easily search and find specific
images in a flash. As you watch the images scroll past on the screen, you receive the
impression of going through a time tunnel. When you find your target thumbnail, double-
click on it to view the original image.

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Displaying Images in a Tunnel
Images registered in software application programs supporting TimeTunnel Function can be
displayed in a tunnel.

1. Using your software application, select the images you wish to display
in TimeTunnel Function.
Please read the manual accompanying your particular software application for
instructions on how to select images.

2. Start TimeTunnel Function.

Please read the manual accompanying your particular software application for
instructions on how to start TimeTunnel Function from within the program.
When you start TimeTunnel Function, the images you selected in Step 1 above will
appear in the tunnel window.

Additional Hints
• A maximum of 500 images may be displayed in one tunnel.

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Control Panel
The following operations can be performed with the control panel.
Switch Speed Bar/Date Bar Button
Switches between the Date Bar and the
Speed Bar.
Auto Cruise On/Off Button
Switches Auto Cruise on and off. In
Auto Cruise mode, thumbnails continue
to scroll continuously even when you
release the mouse button.
Speed Bar
Drag the Speed Bar up to scroll
toward rings bearing older dates. The
higher it is dragged, the faster the
rings will scroll.
Letting go off the mouse button
causes the Speed Bar to return to the
neutral position and scrolling to stop.
Drag the Speed Bar down to scroll
toward rings bearing newer dates.
The lower it is dragged, the faster the
rings will scroll.
Window Function Buttons
These buttons change the
presentation of the window and other
settings. Each button is described on
the following page.
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The following functions can be performed with the buttons below.

Rings Button
Spiral Button
Film Button
Clicking any of these buttons changes
Display Style Settings Button the display to the respective style.
Displays the settings dialog to adjust
how rings and the spiral appear in the
window. Open Button
Select a thumbnail in the tunnel and
click this button to display the original
Speed Settings Button image.
Displays the settings dialog to adjust the
speed at which tunnels scroll and at
which the various display styles appear Help Button
or fade from the window. Displays the Help file.

Date/Time Color Display Settings Button Exit Button

Displays the settings dialog to adjust the Press this button to exit TimeTunnel.
color of the date and time displayed in
the window.
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Additional Hints
Each ring generally represents a single day. However, the ring values change under
the following conditions.
• A maximum of eight thumbnails can be shown on one ring. When there are nine
or more images with the same shooting date, the rings represent hours.
• When the rings represent hours and there is a gap of more than four hours
between the times of registered images, the intervening rings for these hours
are condensed.
• If there is a gap of 10 or more days between the dates of registered images, the
intervening rings for these dates are condensed.
• Scrolling beyond the ring bearing the oldest date causes the ring bearing the
newest date to reappear. Scrolling beyond the ring bearing the oldest date
causes the ring bearing the newest date to reappear. Similarly, scrolling past the
newest date causes the ring bearing the oldest date to appear.

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Tunnel Window
The following actions can be performed in the Tunnel window.

Displaying an Image Ring with a Specific Date

1. Double-click on the date displayed in the upper left portion of the
window.
2. Input the date and time in the Go to Date/Time dialog.

3. Click the [OK] button.

The display will fast-forward to the ring bearing the specified date and time.

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Opening Original Images

Double-clicking a thumbnail appearing in TimeTunnel will display the original image in a
different window.

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Exiting TimeTunnel

Click the [Exit] button to close TimeTunnel

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Disclaimer
While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this Guide is accurate and
complete, no liability can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Canon Inc. reserves the right to change the
specifications of the hardware and software described herein at any time without prior notice.

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operation or malfunction of the camera, the CompactFlashTM cards (CF cards), personal computers, peripheral
devices, or use of non-Canon CF cards.

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Canon and PowerShot are trademarks of Canon Inc.
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countries.
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respective companies.

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Design: Sumio Koike, J-Cat Communications, Vancouver, Canada
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Copyright ©1999 Canon Inc. All rights reserved.

Tunnel Window

Date
Rings Window
Spiral Window
Film Window