Operation Manual

262 Images, Animation, and Multimedia
The Media Bar can be used as a temporary storage area before placing photos in
your site, or it can be used to create more permanent photo albums from which
you can retrieve stored photos at any time. By default, photos are added to a
temporary album but remember to click the New Album button if you want to
save your album for later use. Each time you start WebPlus you simply load that
saved album (or any other saved album) or just work with a temporary album—
the choice is yours!
You can import an unlimited number of photos by file or by whole folders, and
whether photos are embedded or linked to your site in advance of photo
placement on the page.
For large photo collections, searching throughout albums for photos by file
name and EXIF, IPTC or XMP metadata is possible; even edit XMP metadata
from within WebPlus.
The currently loaded album shown on your Media Bar will remain
visible irrespective of which site you have open.
Thumbnails can be dragged from the Media Bar directly onto an existing picture
on your page, replacing it in the process. Alternatively, a picture can be added as
new, being placed at its original size.
To view the Media Bar:
• Unless already displayed, click the handle at the bottom of
your workspace.
To add photos to a temporary album:
1. With the Media Bar visible and a temporary album loaded, click on
the Media Bar's workspace to reveal an Import Picture dialog.
2. From the dialog, navigate to a folder, then select photo(s) for import.
3. Click Open. Your photos appear as thumbnails in the Media Bar
workspace.
Unless you save it, the temporary album and its photo contents will
not be saved when you close WebPlus.