Photo Manager user manual
Contents Welcome to Photo Manager! ........................................................3 Installing Photo Manager...............................................................4 Photo Manager Quick Start Guide................................................5 Album Manager icons ...……………………….…………………………………..6 Task Bar controls………………………………..……………………….………..7 Thumbnail Tools …..……...………………………..……………………………...8 Using the Album Manager.............................................................
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Welcome to the Photo Manager! Photo Manager is the ideal photo management solution for organizing photos that are transferred from your digital camera to your computer. Photo Manager gives you the ability to categorize, move, copy and edit your photos in an intuitive, user-friendly environment. The Photo Manager software is created for Windows OS users.
Installing Photo Manager 1 Insert the supplied installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2 Select Install Photo Manager to start installation of the Photo Manager software. 3 Follow all the on-screen instructions to complete installation. After installation, the Photo Manager icon appears on your desktop. è On your task tray bar, the è Monitor Program icon appears. This will detect your camera and launch Photo Manager automatically each time you connect your camera to your PC.
Photo Manager Quick Guide Album Manager Lets you manage your photos in ‘Albums’ whether they’re on your computer or still on your digital camera. Task Bar Contains tools for working with your photos. Thumbnail display Thumbnail Tools Shows you the contents of your selected Album. Lets you manage the displayed thumbnails.
Album Manager icons New Album Creates a new Album for organizing your images. Duplicate Album Makes a copy of an existing Album. Delete Album Removes Album. Album Properties Lets you view details of any Album. Albums Displays Albums organized in various ways. Scroll buttons Enables you to move up and down among Albums.
Task Bar controls Enhance Provides tools to brighten, darken, and modify your photos. Hi-res generator Lets you convert your photos to a higher resolution. Crop Provides size options to crop your photos to the size and view you want. Whiteboard processor Assists you in cleaning up photos of notes written on whiteboards often found in offices and schools. Save Lets you copy photos to your computer or different folders. Print Enables you to print your photos.
Thumbnail Tools Zoom in zooms in on a selected image/ enlarges (M/L) all photos in Thumbnail mode. Zoom ratio displays the magnification level. Zoom out zooms out from a selected image/ shrinks (S/M) all photos in Thumbnail mode. Select all selects all images in the Album. Rotate counterclockwise 90° turns photo 90 degrees to the left. Rotate clockwise 90° turns photo 90 degrees to the right. Duplicate photo makes a copy of the photo. Select a photo or photos and click this icon to delete a photo.
Using the Album Manager The Album Manager (see page 6) is where you organize your photo collections. Each collection is collectively called an Album. Working with your Digital Camera The fastest and easiest way to create an Album for your photos is to launch Photo Manager when your digital camera is attached to your computer and turned on. With Windows ME and higher, the camera is detected automatically and a new temporary Removable Drive is created.
Moving photos/ Duplicating To move a photo between Albums You can move a photo from one Album to another. 1 Drag the photo from the Thumbnail display to the Album that is to be its destination. 2 From the Album Manager panel, select the Album where you placed the photo. è The photo appears in the Thumbnail display contents of the new destination folder. Duplicating an Album Create a duplicate album as a back-up for your originals.
Deleting an Album • Properties To delete a photo collection from your hard drive you can either remove them individually from a given Album or delete the entire Album. To remove an Album 1 Select the Album to be removed. 2 Click the Delete Album icon 3 The Delete Confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes if you’re sure you want to remove the Album. . You can also delete an Album by right-clicking an Album and then choosing the Delete option from the pop-up menu.
Importing Photos If you have photos on your computer created from another device (such as a digital video camera), you can easily import them into this program to enhance and manage them. 12 1 Close Photo Manager. 2 Locate the folder containing the files you’d like to import. 3 In Windows Explorer, drag your file to My Documents/My Pictures/Photo Manager/films. 4 Restart Photo Manager. The new folder will be added in the Album Manager panel and its contents displayed in the Thumbnail display.
The Task Bar The task bar is where the Photo Manager’s core functionality resides. Here you can enhance photos, generate high-resolution images, process photos of whiteboards, and copy photos from your Albums to other locations. Enhance Click Enhance on the task bar to access the Photo Enhancement window to edit and enhance photos. There are three operating modes for Photo Enhancement: • Portrait photo – Optimized for enhancing portrait-style photos.
Portrait photo mode Portrait mode is optimized for working with photos of people and contains the following tools: Skin Clear, Salon Effect, Color Cast Removal, and Enhance Tone (which has additional tools available). Skin Clear – This filter applies a “bridal veil” effect to the person in the center of the photograph, removing blemishes to even out skin tone. Moving the slider to the right applies the filter with increasing degrees of strength. Moving the slider left decreases the “bridal veil” effect.
Landscape photo mode Landscape mode is best suited for working with landscapes or images that have a broader focus. The following tools may be used when working in this mode: Vivid, Colorful, Color Cast Removal, and Enhance Tone (same operation as the tools in Portrait mode.) Vivid – This filter can be used to sharpen a landscape photo. Adjust the slider as desired. The effect is evenly applied across the photo. Colorful – This filter enhances the photo’s hue and saturation across the photo.
Mixed photo mode • Reset •Hi-res generator Portrait and landscape mixed photo mode combines the best features of Portrait and Landscape modes. While the enhancement level is not as fine as using either Portrait or Landscape modes alone, it is useful for blending both properties within a photo. The available tools are: Vivid, Skin Clear, Colorful, Color Cast Removal, and Enhance Tone For details of each tool, see the previous Portrait and Landscape photo mode descriptions.
To increase a photo’s resolution 1 In the Thumbnail display, select the photo to be modified. 2 Click the High-res generator icon bar. 3 In the Hi-resolution Generator, use the control panel slider to adjust the image size. The higher the resolution, the larger the subsequent file size will be. on the task Selecting the Anti-alias option blurs the image slightly so as to prevent the image from becoming too ‘pixilated’ or ‘chunky.
Crop This tool is useful when you want to create a selected crop area as the new subject of your photo. 18 1 In the Thumbnail display, select the photo to be modified. 2 Click the Crop icon 3 Select your size option from the Crop dialogue box. For speed, select one of the 6 preset sizes. To further adjust your crop area, left-click on your mouse and drag out/ in on a yellow square on the crop area border. 4 Click Rotate if you want to rotate your crop area.
Whiteboard processor The Whiteboard processor is specifically designed for cleaning up photos of notes written on whiteboards as used in offices and schools. You can also clean up scanned paperwork. To process a whiteboard photo or scanned text document 1 In the Thumbnail display, double-click the photo to be modified. 2 In the Whiteboard processor, select Document source. 3 To clean up a whiteboard photo, click the White board button. • To clean up a scanned document, click Document.
4 Select your Output color depth option: • Choose Color to process the image as a photo. • Choose Line art to process the image as a scanned document. 5 Click the Photo clean button to process the image according to the options you selected. 6 Use the Confirm slider to fine-tune the scrubbed areas. • Move the slider to the left to restore some of the original image. • Move the slider to the right to increase the range of data scrubbed.
Saving photos to your PC You can copy photos from a digital camera connected to your PC using from the Task Bar. You can also move photos from one Album to other locations on your computer. To copy photos 1 Select the thumbnails of the photos you’d like to copy by pressing either the Ctrl-key or the Shift-key as you click the photos with your mouse. 2 Click 3 The Save dialog box opens. 4 Select a folder. 5 Select your format option in Save Format for the destination images.
Configuring Photo Manager • Info Opening the Setting dialog box lets you customize how Photo Manager handles photo files. • Click the Setting icon on the Task Bar to view your options: User Selectable – Displays the Welcome screen each time Photo Manager starts, allowing you to choose how you want to begin using the program (such as going directly to your digital camera’s photos, or moving photos from one location to another).
The Thumbnail display The Thumbnail display lets you view thumbnails of all the photos in your Photo Album library. You can view them individually, zoom in or out on them, rotate them, copy them, and delete them. There are 2 ways you can work with photos in the Thumbnail display: • Select a thumbnail and then click a tool from the Thumbnail tool bar (right). Thumbnail tool bar • OR, you can right-click a thumbnail and Photo Manager displays a pop-up menu.
Zooming with Thumbnails Use the zoom tools to enlarge or decrease the size of all of the thumbnails in the display area. In Thumbnail mode, the zoom ratio L (Large), M (Medium) and S (Small) is displayed between the two zoom tools. Zooming with photos In photo mode, the zoom ratio displays the percentage of zoom that you have applied to the photo. 1 Double-click any thumbnail to view it individually in the display area. By default, the photo is displayed at full size.
Photo mode has its own navigation system for moving through the contents of an Album. When you return to thumbnail mode, these controls are hidden. The controls are: First photo – shows the first photo in the current Album. Previous photo – returns to the last photo viewed. Album total – shows which photo you are viewing out of the total number available in the current Album. Next photo – moves ahead to the next photo in the Album. Last photo – jumps forward to the last photo in the current Album.
Troubleshooting Problem Possible cause Solution When I unplug the camera in Windows ME or Windows 2000, an error message is generated. Windows ME and 2000 have safety measures installed that prompt users with a warning when detaching USB connections with the computer and camera powered on. Right-click the Eject Hardware icon on the Windows Task Bar and select Eject Device from the pop-up menu. Follow the screen instructions to unplug your camera.
Problem Possible cause Solution Why does the Monitor This is not a problem but a default feature. Monitor Program allows you to easily manage your photos by having Photo Manager detect for any new photos whenever you connect your digital camera to your computer. Monitor Program therefore launches with every Windows start up. If you want to disable Monitor Program, click on Program launch after every re-boot? and select Close Monitor Program. To enable again, restart your computer.
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