Here is a pictorial step-by-step tutorial to use the HS-V2 Hyper Utility RAW Processor for beginners which include myself.

1. This is the start screen which may vary depending on the user preference. Look at the bottom two icons highlighted in a red oval. The left one is the batch RAW processor. The right one is the individual RAW processor.

2. Once you press the second icon inside the red oval in the above picture, you will be presented with the individual RAW processor screen like this one shown below.  You can see that the RAW control panel on the right of the screen is still greyed out.

3. Click on the thumbnail of the photo shown inside the red square above. You will see the RAW control panel on the right is now alive and ready to accept user input, like the picture shown below.

4. Click on the "Show Warning" icon shown in the red circle in the picture below. You will be able to see any over-exposed (too bright) area of your photo shown as red patches and any under-exposed (too dark) area as blue patches.

5. Lets look at the RAW control panel on the right side. You can select the size of the photo (see inside the red square below) to be produced by the RAW processor.

6 You can determine the output file format TIFF or JPEG Fine/Normal/Basic.

7. To select the various RAW processing parameters, you need to switch from Camera Setting to Custom Setting.

8. With Custom Setting selected, you can change: FinePixColor, Tone Curve(Contrast), White Balance, Sensitization(Exposure), Satuation (mistakenly named as Color) and Sharpness. Screen shots of these are shown a bit later.

9. Lets see an example of changing sensitization (exposure). Firstly, turn on dual photo mode (top red square). Secondly, turn on the "Show Warning" icons in both photos (middle red squares). Thirdly, select -1.0 on the Sensitization field (right red rectangle) to make the photo darker. You will see the over-exposed areas (red patches) on the left-side BEFORE photo are all gone in the right-side AFTER photo.  In addition, the -1.0 Sensitization has created some under-exposed areas (blue patches).

10. Click on the left-side BEFORE photo. You will see this histogram (inside the red rectangle).

11. Click on the right-side AFTER photo. You will see the histogram (inside the red rectangle) has changed due to the -1.0 sensitization.

12. FujiColor Options are Camera Setting, Standard, Chrome and B&W. The picture below shows what happens to the right-side AFTER photo if you select B&W.

13. In the Curve Section, you can choose Camera Setting, Manual Setting (i.e. you modify the curve) or select pre-defined Standard, Hard and Soft contrast. The right-side AFTER photo shows the effect of HARD contrast.

14. You can fine-tune the RGB master curve or R, G, B individual curves.

15. For White Balance, you can choose Camera Setting, Grey Picker, Color Temperature, Auto, Fine, Shade, Daylight Fluorescent Lamp, Daytime White Fluorescent Lamp, Cool White Fluorescent Lamp, Incandescent Light, Custom 1 and Custom 2.

16. Here is an example of using the Grey Picker (inside the red square) on the grey car to correct the White Balance.

17. For Satuation, you can choose Camera Setting, Standard, High and Low.

18. For Sharpness, you can choose Camera Setting, Soft, Normal and Hard. The picture below shows on effect of SOFT sharpness on the right-side AFTER photo.

19. Once you have done the various adjustments to your satisfaction, do make sure you choose your desired Destination Folder (where the output file will be placed), and press the Convert button to produce the output TIFF or JPEG file according to your choice.

This is the end of a simple step by step pictorial tutorial.

I hope this is useful to get you started trying out the HS-V2 Hyper utility program to convert your RAW files.

Happy RAW processing!

Daniel