User Guide

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d. Add several images by holding down your Shift or Control key while clicking on different
files. Click Open.
e. Click the Add Tool again.
f. Add non-image files by changing the Files of Type category to “All File Types”.
This allows files other than images (e.g. DOC, TXT, XLS, HTML, MPEG) to be
inserted in your album. Select one or more of these files, then click Open.
Note: PhotoBase supports standard variations of the following image file formats: BMP,
JPG, GIF, PCD, PCX, TGA and FlashPix. However if one of your images does not open,
it may be an uncommon variation that PhotoBase does not support. If this is the case, try
opening the file with the software that created it. Save the file in a common file format.
3. Add images to the album using a TWAIN device
If you do not have a digital camera, scanner or other TWAIN device, you may skip to the next
step.
a. Click the Acquire Tool from the Tool Bar. The Select Source dialog box will appear, listing
all TWAIN devices installed on your system.
b. Click the device you want to use. Click Select. A TWAIN interface with acquiring options
specific to your device will appear. (For instructions on acquiring, consult
the manual that came with your TWAIN device.)
c. Acquired images will automatically be added to your current album.
4. Save the album
Always remember to save your changes! Click the Save Tool from the Tool Bar to save your
current album. For learning purposes, name the album you just created TEST, then click OK.
5. Open an existing album
To view and open other available albums, click on the Album Title Menu. For learning purposes,
select the sample album titled PHOTOS. Your screen should look similar to the one pictured in
Fig. 1 (although you may have more rows of thumbnails depending on the resolution setting of
your monitor).
6. Add descriptive text
To document important information about a file and make it easy to sort and search, add
descriptive text to the Information Fields and customize the Label Names. See Fig. 1.
a. Using the current album, click on any thumbnail.
b. The default label names should read Title, Date and Description. To customize, click on
Label Names from the Album Menu. Type “Today's Date” instead of “Date”, then click
OK. The album will show the change.
c. In the Information Fields, enter up to 3 lines of descriptive text.
d. Click the Save Tool to save your changes.
7. More Cool Features
See online Help for information on how to use...
• Delete - lets you delete files from the current album
• Delete an Album - lets you delete the current album and its contents
• Rename an Album - lets you give the current album a new name
• Duplicate an Album - lets you make a copy of the current album while retaining its
original
• Capture - lets you capture still images, video and audio
• Record Audio - lets you record audio WAV files that can be attached to image files
• Album Properties - displays helpful information about the current album including: the
name of the album, number of thumbnails, size of the album, total size of files in the
album and a description.
• File Properties - displays the image file location, image size (in pixels), file size (in bytes)
and file date.