USER GUIDE
Second English edition for Ulead Photo Explorer version 7.0, Sept. 2002 Copyright © 2000-2002 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without prior written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc.
What's Inside Welcome to Ulead® Photo Explorer ...................................................................... 4 What’s new in this version ........................................................................................... System requirements .................................................................................................... Installing and running the program ............................................................................... Free photo sharing account at iMira .
Welcome to Ulead® Photo Explorer Ulead Photo Explorer makes digital photography fun on the PC. Get images from a digital camera, memory card reader or scanner into your computer in a snap. Browse files visually on-screen and easily organize them. Print greeting cards using your images or create your own photo prints in a variety of sizes and layouts. You can also capture video directly in Photo Explorer as well as create instant Web pages.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide #2 More print layouts. Cards -- Print half fold or quarter fold greeting cards using your images. More photo sizes and special layouts -Print images in large 8” sizes or in small 2” wallet sizes. Also print a combination of different image sizes on the same page. #3 Standalone Viewer. Ulead Instant Viewer -- Compare two or more full-size images by displaying them in separate windows. Associate image file types with Ulead Instant Viewer. #4 Improved slide show.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide System requirements Before installing Photo Explorer, make sure your computer meets these requirements: m m m m m m m m m m m Intel® Pentium® processors (or 100% compatible processors) Microsoft Windows® 95/98, NT 4.0, 2000 or higher 32 MB RAM (or more) 17.8 MB available hard drive space for program files True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended) 800 X 600 minimum display resolution Windows compatible pointing device Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.
Photo Explorer at a glance Photo Explorer combines tools for acquiring, viewing, organizing, adjusting, and sharing images with video features in a single easy-to-use interface. It has a Browser that lets you browse, preview and manage the files and folders in your computer, and a Viewer which gives full-size view of images.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide The Viewer Photo Explorer has a built-in Viewer integrated with the Browser. You can use the built-in Viewer to: m Get a full-size or full-screen view of m m m m m images. Navigate through images using the keyboard, toolbar buttons, or menu commands, or let Viewer automatically step through the images. Copy, rename or delete an image file. Copy an image for pasting onto your desired image editor. Rotate, flip and edit images, and then save the changes.
Customizing Photo Explorer When using any application, it is important for you to set up a work environment that’s comfortable and convenient for you. Photo Explorer provides many options that can change the look and feel of what’s on-screen to suit your needs. You can also make Photo Explorer as your default image viewer and editor, or configure other programs to open and edit your images.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Customizing toolbars For quicker access to your favorite Photo Explorer commands, you can add them as buttons on the Browser and Viewer toolbars and even arrange their order. Take note that the toolbar in Photo Explorer’s built-in Viewer is customizable. As for the Ulead Instant Viewer, toolbar buttons are fixed and cannot be changed. To add toolbar buttons: 1. Select File: Customize Toolbars. 2. From the Select toolbar dropdown list, choose a toolbar. 3.
Browsing and managing files With the convenience of thumbnails and the familiar Windows Explorer functionality, Photo Explorer makes it simple and easy to work with multimedia files. Displaying files in thumbnail or list view When you select a folder from the Folder Tree, multimedia files are displayed as visual thumbnails in the Browse Pane on the right hand side of the Photo Explorer window. A thumbnail is a small replica of the original image file or an icon representing a specific type of file.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide The size of the cache folder is defined in the Preferences dialog box under the Cache category. Increase the Cache size if you want to allot more disk space for thumbnail files. To delete thumbnail files and recover disk space, click the Clear Cache button. Since many digital cameras can now automatically create thumbnails when taking photos, you can customize Photo Explorer to just get the thumbnails from the JPEG (Exif) image files instead of generating them.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide The types of files you can preview include: m Image files -- Zoom in to get a larger preview, or zoom out to see a more complete view of the image. m JPEG files with Exif format -- Many new digital cameras can store extra information (such as the date when a photo was taken and camera settings) and even include audio. You can view such JPEG images in the Preview Pane, access the embedded Exif information and play audio attachments.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide m Create a collection of folders you frequently visit: For quicker access to frequently used folders, select Favorites: Add to Favorites to add them to the Favorites List. (Or, simply drag folders to the list.) m Arrange files in the order that best suits your browsing needs: Select View: Sort By and choose a sorting order for your files. To sort images from a digital camera by order of the date they were taken, select Tools: Arrange by Date Taken.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Notes: G You can also right-click and drag selected files to another folder. A pop-up menu lets you select whether to copy or move the files. A Select Edit: Undo Last Delete to recover the previously deleted file, or select Edit: Redo Last Delete to delete again the previously selected file. (Other file operations cannot be undone or redone.
Working with cameras and scanners Images can come from different sources. With Photo Explorer, photos that were taken with a digital camera can be transferred to your PC. If you have a scanner device, you can also transform photo prints or documents into images directly in Photo Explorer. Once you have all your desired images, easily rename the files and resequence them based on your own numbering scheme.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide 5. Specify a single master folder in the Image destination section for storing images. Then, click OK to return to the Digital Camera Wizard dialog box. 6. Each time you transfer images to your computer, you can save them to a unique subfolder. To do so, choose the subfolder you want to use in the Transfer Images to section.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide In Photo Explorer, using File: TWAIN Acquire is recommended only for getting images from a scanner. For digital cameras, use File: Digital Camera Wizard instead. In most cases, JPEG images from a camera will be decompressed and resaved with some loss of image quality through TWAIN transfers. Also, Exif camera information embedded in the JPEG files will be lost. The Digital Camera Wizard can be used with many cameras to avoid the problems associated with TWAIN transfers.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Click the tabs in the Batch Operation dialog box to define criteria for renaming files: q Rename -- Give your images brand new file names. Sequentially number the file names by adding a counter. q Renumber -- Change the numbering scheme of file names. q Change Case -- Convert file names to upper or lower case, etc. q Replace -- Change some text in the file names. q Add -- Extend file names by inserting additional text to the file names.
Viewing images Get a larger, clearer look of your images. Display your images in Photo Explorer’s built-in Viewer or the Ulead Instant Viewer. Using Photo Explorer’s Viewer If you want to display full-size images one at a time and edit them whenever necessary, use Photo Explorer’s built-in Viewer to open your images. Double-click an image file to open it in the built-in Viewer. Selecting View: Open Viewer or clicking the Open Viewer button on the Browser toolbar also opens the file.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide To use Ulead Instant Viewer for displaying images: m Select the image files first in the Browser, then select View: Open in New Viewer to display each image in a separate window. m When an image file is opened, the Instant Viewer sets its file list to the content of the current folder and lets you step through the images in the folder. To change to a different folder, select File: Open and choose any file from the desired folder.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Take note that the focal length setting (which measures the zoom setting for the camera lens) in digital cameras are different from conventional film cameras. The reason is, since the CCD (the device used to collect light) in the digital camera is much smaller than a film camera, all the lenses and their focal lengths are smaller, too.
Editing images Images, especially those that came from a digital camera or scanner, often need some adjustments. Photo Explorer provides tools for you to do quick touch-ups to your images. Image editing tools Photo Explorer has all the basic tools that can help you adjust your images. You can access these image editing tools from the Photo menu of the Browser and built-in Viewer (or by clicking the corresponding toolbar buttons).
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Adjusting images Sometimes, images from a camera may appear too dark or their color did not come out right due to inadequate lighting conditions when taking them. Images may also appear crooked, especially when the camera was not held in the upright position. You can fix such basic problems by selecting Photo: Adjust Image. What’s special about Photo Explorer is that image adjustments can be applied to multiple selected images.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Removing red eye After taking photos with a camera flash, you sometimes see a red-eye effect on the images. If you have such images, Photo Explorer can quickly correct this problem. Select Photo: Remove Red Eye to remove the red-eye effect from an image. You can either decrease the level of red, or replace it with a more natural color. Click the Help button in the Remove Red Eye dialog box for more information.
Printing Once you are satisfied with your images, it’s time to print them out. Photo Explorer offers a variety of formats for printing images. Fun prints you can create With a variety of layouts and printing options available, creating prints with your images can be much fun in Photo Explorer. Select File: Print to choose the type of output that you want.
Working with video Sending video greetings or fun videos by e-mail can be entertaining for your distant family and friends. With Photo Explorer, capture short video clips, trim them or transform them into smaller-size file formats, and then send them by email. You can also capture a single image or a series of snapshots from video.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide m Frame size -- Select the desired video dimensions. 320 x 240 is typical. Smaller sizes are good for use on the Web or for sending by e-mail. 4. Select the Capture audio option to capture both video and sound. Click the Audio Format button to choose sound quality. 5. Click the Record button to capture. 6. Click the Save button to save the captured clip as an *.AVI video file. 7. Click the Live button to change back to the live video display.
Slide show and other cool stuff In Photo Explorer, you can make fun projects using your multimedia files. Combine images, videos and sounds to create impressive slide shows. Decorate your Windows desktop by creating wallpapers and calendars using your favorite images. More so, make your own screen savers. Creating a slide show Photo Explorer’s Slide Show Storyboard is where you bring together images, videos and sounds, and plan out their sequence in the slide show.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Here’s how to create a slide show: 1. Select Tools: Slide Show to open the Slide Show Storyboard and create a new project. 2. Select and drag the thumbnails of image, video, and sound files to the storyboard. You can drag thumbnails from different folders. 3. To change the sequence of thumbnails, just drag them to the desired position. If you want to play music while displaying images, place the sound file before the first image in the slide show sequence.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide The multimedia files which you selected to include in a slide show may have come from various folders. If you want to distribute your slide show on a CD-ROM, collect all the files and copy them to the same location first before you transfer them to a CD. To copy the slide show files to the same location: 1. Click the Package button on the storyboard toolbar. 2. Enter the slide show project file name (*.UES). You can enter the same file name or specify another name. 3.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Creating a slide show disc After composing your slide show, you can create a slide show disc using your disc burner. To burn a slide show disc: 1. Click Create Slide Show Disc. The Create Slide Show Disc - Settings dialog box appears. 2. The following options determine the target playback device for the slide show disc: m Output format -- Select the type of disc format for the slide show disc.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide Other fun projects you can create Photo Explorer allows you to create interesting projects for your desktop: Wallpaper Use your favorite image as your Windows desktop wallpaper. Here’s how: 1. Select an image file, then click Tools: Wallpaper. 2. Select Enable wallpaper. 3. Choose to display the image at the Center of the screen, or show several duplicates of it by specifying Tile options.
Working on the Internet With Photo Explorer, you can share your images and multimedia files over the Internet. Upload images to iMira.com, order photo prints online, send files by email, or include image collections and slide shows on your Web page. Photo Explorer also allows you to easily retrieve image, sound and video files from the Internet. Photo Explorer finds all your desired files from a selected Web site and quickly downloads them to your computer. Sharing images on iMira.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide 3. To upload images, click Internet: Open Ulead Drop Spot Window and then drag your image files to this window. 4. Specify which online photo album to upload images into. 5. After Photo Explorer finishes uploading your images, it will bring up your Web browser and take you directly to iMira.com. Drop Spot window Ordering photo prints online Aside from image sharing, iMira.com also provides photo printing services.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide To create Web pages and thumbnails: 1. Place your image files into one folder. 2. Select the folder containing the images, and then select Internet: Output Web Thumbnails. 3. Design the layout of your Web page. Click each tab in the Web Page Output dialog box to select layout options and add background music. Tips q In the Output Options tab, choose to generate Web pages or create a single, self-extracting file ready to be sent by e-mail.
Ulead Photo Explorer User Guide 3. Click each tab (except for the Thumbnail Page tab) in the Web Page Output dialog box to select layout options and add background music. 4. When you are satisfied with the results, click OK to generate the HTML files (or a self-extracting EXE file). Note: For details on Web page layout options, click the Help button on the Web Page Output dialog box. Scanning the Web for images Photo Explorer makes it fast and easy to download files from the Web.
