User manual ACDSEE PHOTO MANAGER

Credits and acknowledgements Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. This software contains portions of imaging code owned and copyrighted by Pegasus Imaging Corp., Tampa FL, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CD/DVD recording software developed under license from Padus, Inc. - www.padus.com MPEG 1 codec provided by MainConcept AG. Copyright © 1999/2000-2005 MainConcept AG. Portions utilize Microsoft Windows Media Technologies. Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved RealSystem(r) technology is provided under license from RealNetworks, Inc., copyright (c) 1995-2001 RealNetworks, Inc. and/or its suppliers. 2601 Elliott Avenue, Suite 1000, Seattle, Washington 98121, U.S.A. Patents Pending. All rights reserved. RealNetworks and RealSystem are registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. TIFF support based on LibTIFF, Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. ii Contents Chapter 1 Welcome .............................................................................................................1 Welcome to ACDSee Pro .........................................................................................................................1 Key features in ACDSee Pro ...................................................................................................................2 Manage your photographs ...........................................................................................................2 Streamline your workflow ..............................................................................................................3 Accelerate your productivity ........................................................................................................4 Chapter 2 Getting started ..................................................................................................7 Starting ACDSee Pro .................................................................................................................................8 About the ACDSee user interface ........................................................................................................8 The Browser ........................................................................................................................................8 iii ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide The Viewer ...........................................................................................................................................9 Edit Mode ............................................................................................................................................9 Using the Browser .....................................................................................................................................9 About Browser panes ................................................................................................................... 10 Working with Browser panes .................................................................................................... 11 Using the Viewer ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Viewing images in full screen mode ....................................................................................... 14 Using the Viewer panes ............................................................................................................... 14 Returning to the Browser ............................................................................................................ 15 Using Edit Mode ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Editing images ................................................................................................................................ 15 Working in Edit Mode .................................................................................................................. 16 Closing Edit Mode ......................................................................................................................... 18 Getting photos with ACDSee ............................................................................................................. 18 About removable devices ........................................................................................................... 19 Organizing and managing files in ACDSee ................................................................................... 19 Searching with ACDSee ....................................................................................................................... 20 Sharing images with ACDSee ............................................................................................................ 20 Chapter 3 Getting Help .................................................................................................... 21 Using the ACDInTouch Service .......................................................................................................... 22 Using myACD ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Contacting ACD Systems ..................................................................................................................... 23 Chapter 4 Getting photos ................................................................................................ 25 About the Device Detector ................................................................................................................. 26 Using device profiles ............................................................................................................................. 26 Configuring a device .................................................................................................................... 27 Custom settings for destination and naming options ..................................................... 28 Custom settings for device storage options ........................................................................ 28 Getting photos from a profiled device ........................................................................................... 29 Updating or deleting a device profile ............................................................................................. 30 Getting photos from a digital camera ............................................................................................ 30 Getting photos from a scanner (TWAIN) ........................................................................................ 31 Getting photos from a mass storage device ................................................................................ 32 Getting photos from a CD ................................................................................................................... 32 Getting photos from a mobile phone ............................................................................................. 33 Creating a renaming template .......................................................................................................... 34 Taking a screen capture ....................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 5 Browsing ......................................................................................................... 37 Browsing files in the File List pane ................................................................................................... 38 Sections of the File List pane ..................................................................................................... 38 Maximizing the File List pane .................................................................................................... 39 iv Contents Browsing files in one or more folders .............................................................................................. 39 Selecting multiple folders ........................................................................................................... 40 Creating and managing folders ................................................................................................ 40 Browsing files by category, rating, or classification ................................................................... 40 Selecting multiple categories, ratings, and classifications ............................................. 41 Organize pane classifications .................................................................................................... 41 Browsing files by date ........................................................................................................................... 42 Calendar pane toolbar buttons ................................................................................................ 42 Navigating in the Calendar pane ............................................................................................. 43 Calendar pane shortcuts ............................................................................................................. 43 Browsing favorite files ........................................................................................................................... 44 Creating a shortcut ........................................................................................................................ 44 Creating a new folder ................................................................................................................... 44 Deleting a shortcut or folder ...................................................................................................... 45 Browsing RAW files ................................................................................................................................ 45 Changing view modes .......................................................................................................................... 45 View modes ...................................................................................................................................... 46 Customizing the Details view mode ....................................................................................... 46 Sorting files ............................................................................................................................................... 47 Sorting files using column headers ......................................................................................... 48 Custom sorting files ...................................................................................................................... 48 Filtering files ............................................................................................................................................. 48 Selecting files ........................................................................................................................................... 49 Previewing images ................................................................................................................................. 49 Gathering images in the Image Basket ........................................................................................... 50 Chapter 6 Viewing ............................................................................................................ 51 Zooming images ..................................................................................................................................... 52 Zooming an image ........................................................................................................................ 52 Setting the zoom level ................................................................................................................. 53 Automatically shrinking or enlarging images ..................................................................... 53 Displaying a thumbnail of a magnified image .................................................................... 55 Panning a magnified image ....................................................................................................... 55 Magnifying specific areas of an image ................................................................................... 55 Viewing and configuring a slide show ............................................................................................ 56 Starting a slide show automatically ................................................................................................. 59 Viewing images with Auto Advance ................................................................................................ 60 Displaying text on images in the Viewer ........................................................................................ 61 Hiding image text .......................................................................................................................... 62 Viewing RAW images ............................................................................................................................ 62 Synchronizing the Viewer to a folder .............................................................................................. 63 Viewing offline images ......................................................................................................................... 63 Rebinding Photo Discs ................................................................................................................. 64 v ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Viewing images in another application ......................................................................................... 65 Creating a desktop screen saver ....................................................................................................... 65 Setting an image as the desktop wallpaper ................................................................................. 67 Chapter 7 Playing ............................................................................................................. 69 Playing audio and video files ............................................................................................................. 70 Automatically playing audio and video files ....................................................................... 70 The Media toolbar ......................................................................................................................... 70 Selecting part of a media file .............................................................................................................. 71 Saving video frames as images ......................................................................................................... 71 Adding or editing image audio ......................................................................................................... 72 Chapter 8 Editing ............................................................................................................. 75 Using the undo/redo system ............................................................................................................. 76 Previewing changes to images ......................................................................................................... 76 Resizing an image .................................................................................................................................. 76 Rotating an image .................................................................................................................................. 78 Flipping an image .................................................................................................................................. 78 Cropping an image ................................................................................................................................ 79 Resizing the crop window .......................................................................................................... 79 Adding text to an image ...................................................................................................................... 80 Adding a watermark to an image ..................................................................................................... 82 Selecting part of an image .................................................................................................................. 83 Saving or discarding changes in Edit Mode ................................................................................. 84 Saving tool settings ............................................................................................................................... 85 Repairing images .................................................................................................................................... 85 Removing flaws .............................................................................................................................. 85 Reducing red-eye ........................................................................................................................... 87 Straightening crooked photos .......................................................................................................... 87 Correcting perspective distortion .................................................................................................... 88 Correcting barrel, pincushion, and fisheye distortion .............................................................. 89 Correcting shadows and highlights ................................................................................................ 90 Adding light to shadows ............................................................................................................. 90 Adding shadows to highlights .................................................................................................. 90 Adding color to pale areas of a photo .................................................................................... 91 Tips for adjusting the shadows and highlights in your photos .................................... 91 Adjusting image light levels ............................................................................................................... 92 Automatically adjusting exposure .......................................................................................... 92 Adjusting image brightness ...................................................................................................... 92 Adjusting image levels ................................................................................................................ 93 Adjusting brightness curves ...................................................................................................... 94 Adjusting image color .......................................................................................................................... 95 Using the Histogram ..................................................................................................................... 95 Applying Auto Color ..................................................................................................................... 95 vi Contents Removing a color cast .................................................................................................................. 96 Changing image color depth ..................................................................................................... 96 Changing HSL values .................................................................................................................... 97 Changing RGB values ................................................................................................................... 97 Sharpening and blurring an image .................................................................................................. 98 Using the Sharpness tool ............................................................................................................ 98 Using the Unsharp Mask tool .................................................................................................... 98 Blurring an image ........................................................................................................................... 99 Adding and removing image noise ...............................................................................................100 About noise and noise reduction ...........................................................................................100 Removing noise from an image ..............................................................................................101 Adding noise to an image .........................................................................................................102 Batch editing ..........................................................................................................................................103 About batch editing ....................................................................................................................103 Converting multiple images to another file format ........................................................104 Rotating or flipping multiple images ....................................................................................105 Resizing multiple images ..........................................................................................................106 Adjusting exposure for multiple images .............................................................................108 Changing the color profiles of multiple images ...............................................................109 Using the Batch Processor ........................................................................................................110 RAW image processing .......................................................................................................................125 About RAW image processing ................................................................................................125 Processing a RAW image ...........................................................................................................126 Processing a batch of RAW images .......................................................................................130 Sharing RAW processing settings ..........................................................................................131 Removing RAW processing settings .....................................................................................131 Editing RAW images ....................................................................................................................132 Applying special effects filters .........................................................................................................132 About special effect filters ........................................................................................................132 Applying a Bathroom Window effect ...................................................................................132 Applying a Blinds effect .............................................................................................................133 Applying a Bulge effect ..............................................................................................................134 Applying a Colored Edges effect ............................................................................................135 Applying a Contours effect .......................................................................................................135 Applying a Crayon Drawing effect .........................................................................................136 Applying a Crosshatch effect ...................................................................................................136 Applying a Dauber effect ..........................................................................................................136 Applying an Edge Detect effect ..............................................................................................137 Applying an Emboss effect .......................................................................................................137 Applying a Furry Edges effect .................................................................................................138 Applying a Glowing Edges effect ...........................................................................................139 Applying a Granite effect ..........................................................................................................139 vii ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Applying a Mirror effect ............................................................................................................140 Applying a Negative effect .......................................................................................................140 Applying an Oil Paint effect .....................................................................................................141 Applying the Old effect .............................................................................................................141 Applying an Outline effect .......................................................................................................142 Applying a Pencil Drawing effect ..........................................................................................142 Applying a Pixel Explosion effect ...........................................................................................142 Applying a Pixelate effect .........................................................................................................143 Applying a Posterize effect ......................................................................................................144 Applying a Radial Waves effect ..............................................................................................144 Applying a Rain effect ................................................................................................................145 Applying a Ripple effect ............................................................................................................146 Applying a Scattered Tiles effect ............................................................................................147 Applying a Sepia effect ..............................................................................................................147 Applying a Sheet Metal effect .................................................................................................148 Applying a Shift effect ................................................................................................................148 Applying a Slant effect ...............................................................................................................149 Applying a Sobel effect .............................................................................................................150 Applying a Solarize effect .........................................................................................................150 Applying a Stained Glass effect ..............................................................................................151 Applying a Sunspot effect ........................................................................................................151 Applying a Swirl effect ...............................................................................................................152 Applying the Threshold effect ................................................................................................153 Applying a Topographic Map effect .....................................................................................153 Applying a Vignette effect ........................................................................................................154 Applying a Water effect .............................................................................................................155 Applying a Water Drops effect ................................................................................................156 Applying a Waves effect ............................................................................................................157 Applying a Weave effect ...........................................................................................................158 Applying a Wind effect ..............................................................................................................158 Creating a custom special effect filter ..................................................................................159 Chapter 9 Organizing .................................................................................................... 161 Copying and moving files .................................................................................................................162 Copying images ....................................................................................................................................163 Pasting files and folders .....................................................................................................................163 Replacing or overwriting files ..........................................................................................................163 Renaming a file or folder ...................................................................................................................164 Renaming multiple files .....................................................................................................................164 Tagging images ....................................................................................................................................166 Creating categories ..............................................................................................................................167 Assigning categories and ratings ...................................................................................................168 Removing files from classifications .......................................................................................169 viii Contents Comparing images ...............................................................................................................................169 Viewing file properties in the Viewer ............................................................................................172 Using the Properties pane .................................................................................................................172 Properties pane areas .................................................................................................................173 Changing the date and time properties of images ..................................................................175 Creating and assigning keywords ..................................................................................................176 Adding database, EXIF, and IPTC information to multiple files ...........................................176 Removing IPTC keywords and supplemental categories .......................................................178 Backing up your files to another computer ................................................................................179 Updating or deleting a synchronization ..............................................................................179 Running a saved synchronization ..........................................................................................180 Creating archives of your files ..........................................................................................................180 Managing database information ....................................................................................................181 About the ACDSee database ...................................................................................................181 Excluding folders from the database ....................................................................................182 Cataloging files in the database .............................................................................................182 Converting an older database .................................................................................................183 Importing database information ............................................................................................184 Importing file information from other sources .................................................................184 Exporting database information ............................................................................................186 Generating file lists ......................................................................................................................186 Backing up your database ........................................................................................................187 Restoring database information from a backup ...............................................................188 Maintaining the database .........................................................................................................189 Optimizing the database ...........................................................................................................190 Rebuilding thumbnails ..............................................................................................................190 Quarantining files ........................................................................................................................190 Chapter 10 Searching .................................................................................................... 191 Using the Quick Search bar ...............................................................................................................192 Using the Search pane ........................................................................................................................193 Search pane areas ........................................................................................................................193 Files and Text .................................................................................................................................193 Properties area ..............................................................................................................................194 Searching with file name patterns .................................................................................................195 Finding duplicate files .........................................................................................................................196 Finding images quickly .......................................................................................................................196 Using selective browsing ...................................................................................................................197 Setting selective browsing criteria ........................................................................................197 Tips for selective browsing .......................................................................................................198 Hiding the Selective Browsing pane .....................................................................................198 ix ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Chapter 11 Sharing ........................................................................................................ 199 E-mailing images ..................................................................................................................................200 Sharing slide shows and screen savers .........................................................................................200 Creating a PDF .......................................................................................................................................202 Creating a CD or DVD ..........................................................................................................................202 Creating video files and VCDs ..........................................................................................................204 Creating an HTML album ...................................................................................................................204 Creating a contact sheet ....................................................................................................................206 Publishing images to TiVo .................................................................................................................207 Creating a SendPix album .................................................................................................................208 Chapter 12 Printing ....................................................................................................... 209 Printing images in ACDSee ...............................................................................................................210 Creating custom print formats ...............................................................................................210 Setting printer options .......................................................................................................................211 Setting image size and positioning ...............................................................................................212 Adding text to pages ..........................................................................................................................212 Setting contact sheet printing options ........................................................................................213 Ordering prints online ........................................................................................................................214 Chapter 13 Customizing ................................................................................................ 215 Setting options ......................................................................................................................................216 Setting the General options .....................................................................................................216 Setting Browser options ............................................................................................................217 Setting the Quick Search options ..........................................................................................218 Setting File List pane options ..................................................................................................218 Setting the Thumbnail Display options ...............................................................................220 Setting the Thumbnail Ratio options ...................................................................................222 Setting the Details View options ............................................................................................222 Setting the Preview pane options .........................................................................................223 Setting the Folders pane options ..........................................................................................224 Setting the Organize pane options .......................................................................................224 Setting the Calendar pane options .......................................................................................225 Setting the CD/DVD Management options .......................................................................226 Setting the Properties Pane options .....................................................................................227 Setting File Management options .........................................................................................227 Setting the Color Management options .............................................................................228 Setting the Database options .................................................................................................231 Setting Viewer options ..............................................................................................................232 Setting the Viewer Display options .......................................................................................233 Setting RAW Image Preview options ....................................................................................234 Customizing and configuring ..........................................................................................................235 Creating custom Browser layouts ..........................................................................................235 Auto-hiding panes and panels ...............................................................................................236 x Contents Using the Custom tab in the Properties pane ...................................................................236 Using the Task Pane ....................................................................................................................237 Using the Context Sensitive toolbar .....................................................................................238 Customizing toolbars .................................................................................................................238 Customizing the Edit Panel ......................................................................................................240 Configuring image editors .......................................................................................................241 Customizing keyboard shortcuts ...........................................................................................241 Chapter 14 Shortcuts ..................................................................................................... 243 Browser keyboard shortcuts .............................................................................................................244 Viewer keyboard shortcuts ...............................................................................................................247 Viewer mouse shortcuts .....................................................................................................................252 Appendix A Plug-ins ................................................................................................... 255 Types of plug-ins ...................................................................................................................................256 Managing plug-ins ...............................................................................................................................256 Disabling a plug-in ......................................................................................................................257 Changing the plug-in order .....................................................................................................257 Viewing plug-in properties and getting help .............................................................................257 Appendix B File formats ................................................................................................ 259 Supported file formats ........................................................................................................................260 Supported RAW formats ....................................................................................................................265 Associating files .....................................................................................................................................267 Appendix C System requirements ............................................................................... 269 Glossary .......................................................................................................................... 271 Index ............................................................................................................................... 285 xi ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide xii Chapter 1 Welcome Welcome to ACDSee Pro Welcome to ACDSee Pro Photo Manager, and congratulations on choosing the industry-leading digital photo management software. ACDSee is the essential application for acquiring, organizing, viewing, enhancing, and sharing your digital photos and other media files. ACDSee's Browser lets you copy photos from your camera to your computer, categorize and rate your files, and manage photo collections of any size - from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand. Choose to view thumbnail previews of any size, or use a detailed list of file properties to sort your files. 1 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Can't find a particular photo? No problem - ACDSee includes a variety of powerful searching tools and a Compare Images feature to eliminate duplicates. ACDSee's full-featured image viewer and media player quickly generates high-quality displays of your images and media files. You can run slide shows, play embedded audio, and display multiple-page images in any of the more than 50 image and multimedia file formats. Also, ACDSee includes a wide variety of image editing tools you can use to create, edit, and touch-up your digital images. Use tools such as red-eye reduction, crop, sharpen, blur, and photo repair to enhance or correct your images. Image management tools, such as exposure adjustment, convert, resize, rename, and rotate, can be performed on multiple files at the same time. The user interface is completely customizable, and provides quick access to tools and features. You can customize the screen layout, the order of images, toolbar display, and many other options to suit your preferences. ACDSee contains extensive context-sensitive Help to assist you as you move through the application. ACDSee Pro Photo Manager is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use image management system that everyone from beginners to professionals can use and enjoy. Related topics · · · Starting ACDSee Pro About the ACDSee user interface Getting photos with ACDSee Key features in ACDSee Pro Manage your photographs View all your RAW files faster than ever before. ACDSee Pro supports DNG (Digital Negative Specification)-the widely available archival RAW format, guaranteeing you'll be able to access and view your RAW images quickly and trouble free. It also guarantees you'll be able to view your RAW files in the future, despite changes made to industry software and camera technology. You'll never have to worry again about not being able to view your images in their native RAW formats. Why? Pro also supports a wide range of RAW formats from Nikon, Canon, Konica-Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, and Pentax cameras, including popular new DSLR models like the Nikon D2X, Nikon D70S, Canon EOS1Ds Mark II, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, and the Olympus E-300. Powerful RAW processing gives you precision, control, and a creative edge. Process your RAW images the way you want. Experiment and fine-tune image development settings to ensure each of your images look great. Get full control over your images with precision tools for 2 Chapter 1 Welcome adjusting exposure, white balance, sharpness, and noise, taking your digital photography to a whole new level. · · · Save settings so you can use them repeatedly. Process multiple RAW images in a single step. View RAW files faster than ever before. Batch processing allows you to manage thousands of images at once. Simultaneously resize, change color depth, convert to sepia, crop, rotate, reduce noise (grain), sharpen, change exposure, rename, add text, add copyright, copy, move, and convert the format of images all in a single operation. You can then save these settings for future use. Insert IPTC information in batches too, including captions, keywords, copyright, credit, origin, and others. This feature allows you to apply unique information to one file, or the same information to multiple files, in one operation. The benefits of setting IPTC information in batches are speed and efficiency. Setting IPTC information also makes it easy to find and identify the photographer, similar sets of photos, or a single specific photo. Streamline your workflow Personalizing your desktop workspace is essential to creating a streamlined workflow. With ACDSee Pro, it's easy. You can tailor a wide range of functionality to suit your personal preferences, making it easier and faster to the use the application in your daily workflow. · · · · Customize the buttons to display on the File List toolbar. Customize the workspace layout to suit each of your workflows. Save each layout and then quickly load that workspace for a specific task. Customize the image/media decoder to use for a specific file extension. Customize the Properties tab and create custom Info Tips. Configure both the properties and the Info Tips information to display in the Choose Properties dialog. The Choose Properties dialog is where you select information from EXIF, IPTC, ACD Database, and File Properties. Preview images in the Browser with a histogram and essential properties information. Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly assign categories and sort files. You can also customize your own keyboard shortcuts. Create and save contact sheet print settings. Use the new feature on the Status bar in the Viewer to set ratings or tag your photographs. · · · · 3 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Accelerate your productivity Add text captions. Write descriptive text captions, insert the filename, or add the photographer's name using styles and special effects. Styles include talk and thought bubbles, as well as drop shadows. Add up to 13 special effects such as Blur, Ripple, Shift and Twirl. Include the photographer's name and the date, company logo, and indexing information that stay with the photograph in transit, allowing you to work with more efficiently with clients and colleagues. Add watermarks to your photographs. Now you can easily add watermarks to your photographs to properly reflect copyright and ownership laws, or to mark specific photographs or images with pertinent business related information like logos and graphics. Use powerful lens correction tools. Easily fix common lens distortions such as barrel, pincushion, and fish-eye. You can also fix perspective distortions. Fine tune your images with shadows and highlights adjustments. While most other editing functions such as "brightness" and "levels" tend to affect all areas of the image in the same way, the Shadows and Highlights tool allows the user to enhance only the shadows, or only the highlights, or both shadows and highlights independently. If your subject is placed in front of a bright background, such as a sky, this often results in a sky that is too bright or a subject that is too dark. Shadows and Highlights allows you to make the subject brighter and make the sky darker whereas other functions such as brightness or levels only allow you to brighten or darken the photograph as a whole. Shadows and Highlights also allows you to increase or decrease the color saturation of the photos when you make adjustments. Take advantage of improved HTML albums. Choose from several HTML album templates designed to suit your professional needs, or customize them by adding your contact information and company logo, and so give your Web pages a look and feel appropriate for your business. Get fully integrated color-management support. View and print accurately with full color management support for ICC and ICM color profiles. For increased productivity, remove or convert the color profiles of multiple files simultaneously. 4 Chapter 1 Welcome Quickly identify your best photos with the new tagging feature. When you acquire photographs from a fashion photo shoot, for example, you can tag each image with a mark that denotes whether or not you wish to keep it. Tagging is a fast, and time-efficient way to sort through preferred photographs, helping you keep your hard drive and memory cards uncluttered by making image deletion a simpler process. With a single keystroke you can tag and un-tag images from within the Browser or the Viewer. Tagged images appear with a check mark and remain tagged across sessions. A tagged category in the Organize pane allows you to search and view all your tagged images whenever you want. Selecting and unselecting tagged images is a single click operation. Use the histogram to adjust your photographs with pinpoint accuracy. Now you can view a histogram when browsing through thumbnails, viewing full size images, or editing your photographs. The Histogram displays a graphical representation of the distribution of intensity levels of pixels for each color channel in an image, so you can immediately identify what aspects of the image need to be edited as you browse through your thousands of photographs. With the Histogram you can make adjustments to brightness curves. Use the Curves tool to change the tonal range of an image in the Histogram, which displays a visual representation of the color information levels in the image, based on the selected channel. Click and drag the line to manipulate the curve. Simply click and drag the line to manipulate the curve. Select the RGB color channel to adjust the entire range of the image, or select a specific color. Quickly edit and retouch images with professional tools. ACDSee Pro provides all of the most common photo editing tools in one single application, so you don't have to import images to a more difficult editing software just to make necessary changes to your photographs. Remove noise from images with the new hybrid Median Noise Reduction tool, all using 48-bit (16 bits per channel) editing functionality. Be creative with over 15 new special effects like vignette, old, stained glass, and more. 5 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 6 Chapter 2 Getting started The ACDSee user interface has three main functional areas; the Browser, the Viewer, and Edit Mode. The Browser displays your photos and files as a list of thumbnail previews that you can resize, customize, tag, organize, or sort in many ways. The central File List is surrounded by customizable toolbars and panes, each designed to help you organize and streamline your workflow. With the Viewer, you can view your photos and media files at actual size, or at any magnification. The Edit Mode is a powerful image editor where you can quickly fix common problems like red-eye, color cast, exposure and more. You can also enhance images by adding text and watermarks, or using a variety of special effects. Many of these editing functions are available in the Batch Processor, a powerful tool that you can use to apply multiple edits to multiple files, simultaneously. 7 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Starting ACDSee Pro After you install ACDSee Pro Photo Manager on your computer, an application icon is placed on the desktop and in the Start menu. To start ACDSee Pro: Do one of the following: · · Double-click the ACDSee Pro icon on the desktop. Click Start, and select Programs | ACD Systems | ACDSee Pro. About the ACDSee user interface The ACDSee user interface provides easy access to the various tools and features you can use to browse, view, edit, and manage your photos and media files. ACDSee consists of three main parts: the Browser, the Viewer, and Edit Mode. The Browser The ACDSee Browser is the main browsing and managing component of the user interface, and is what you see when you start ACDSee using the shortcut icon on your desktop. In the Browser, you can find, move, preview, and sort your files, and access organization and sharing tools. 8 Chapter 2 Getting started The Browser consists of 12 panes, most of which can be closed when not in use. The File List pane is always visible, and displays the contents of the current folder, the results of your latest search, or the files in your database that match your filtering criteria. A status bar at the bottom of the Browser window displays information about the currently selected file, folder, or category. The Browser also features two toolbars: the main toolbar, which provides shortcuts to commonly-used commands, and the context-sensitive toolbar, which provides different shortcuts depending on what is currently selected in the Browser. You can open and close panes, move them to different areas of your screen, and stack them on other panes or dock them to the edge of the Browser. Most panes also have additional options you can set to further customize their behavior and appearance. The Viewer The ACDSee Viewer plays media files and displays images in full resolution, one at a time. You can also open panes in the Viewer to view image properties, display areas of an image at varying magnifications, or examine detailed color information. You can open the Viewer directly by double-clicking an associated file type in Windows Explorer, and you can use the Viewer to flip quickly between all of the images in a folder. The Viewer contains a toolbar with shortcuts to commonly-used commands, and a status bar at the bottom of the Viewer window, which displays information about the current image or media file. Edit Mode You can open your images in ACDSee's Edit Mode to adjust or enhance them using the editing tools and effects. Edit Mode displays the available tools on the Edit Panel, a customizable menu that can be closed or hidden when not in use. Clicking the name of a tool on the menu opens that tool in the Edit Panel, where you can adjust the settings to edit or enhance your image. The Edit Mode also contains a status bar, which displays information about the image you are editing. Using the Browser With the ACDSee Browser, you can browse, sort, manage, manipulate, and share your files and images. You can combine different tools and panes to perform sophisticated searching and filtering operations, and view thumbnail previews of images and media files. The Browser panes are fully customizable, and can be moved, resized, hidden, docked, or closed. You can also stack the panes together for easy reference and accessibility, and to maximize your screen space. 9 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide About Browser panes The ACDSee Browser consists of the following panes: File List This pane displays the contents of the currently selected folder, the results of your latest search, or the files and folders that match your selective browsing criteria. The File List pane is always visible, and cannot be hidden or closed. You can customize the File List pane by changing the way the files are displayed, or the size of the thumbnails. This pane displays the directory structure of your computer, much like the directory tree in Windows Explorer. You can use the Folders pane to browse through the folders and display their contents in the File List pane. You can also display the contents of multiple folders in the File List by clicking the Easy Select box opposite each folder, on the left side of the pane. This pane displays a calendar that you can use to organize and browse your files according to their associated dates. For more information about the Calendar pane, as well as a description of the toolbar buttons, see Using the Calendar pane. This pane stores shortcuts to your favorite images, files, folders or even applications. Dragging an image, file, or folder into the Favorites pane creates a shortcut to the original without affecting it in any way. This pane provides access to ACDSee's powerful search utility. You can specify the type of search you want to perform, and enter your search criteria into the fields provided in the Search pane. This pane displays a thumbnail preview and histogram of any image or media file currently selected in the File List pane. You can adjust the size of the thumbnail by resizing the Preview pane, and also specify whether you want the Preview pane to play media files or just display the first frame. This pane combines input from the Folders, Organize, and Calendar panes to limit the list of files in the File List pane to those that match a specific set of criteria. You can include or exclude files by adjusting the different criteria in the Selective Browsing pane. This pane lists the categories and ratings to which you can assign your files to help sort and manage them more easily. You can also use the Special Items area in the Organize pane to quickly view all of the images on your computer, or see any uncategorized files in the current folder. This pane displays menus of commonly-used buttons and commands from the menus and toolbars. The menus change dynamically based on your current location and selections in ACDSee. Folders Calendar Favorites Search Preview Selective Browsing Organize Task 10 Chapter 2 Getting started Properties This pane displays file properties and database information for any file or folder you select in the File List pane. You can use the Properties pane to view and edit database information for your files, and the EXIF metadata included in digital photos. While browsing through your files and folders, you can place images in the Image Basket to hold them temporarily. You can then edit, print, or share those images without moving them all into a single folder. This pane provides the tools you need to group and organize files and then burn them to CDs and DVDs from within ACDSee. Image Basket Burn Basket Working with Browser panes You can open and close panes in the Browser to suit your preferences, and move, float, or stack any of the panes to customize the layout of the Browser window. To open or close a Browser pane: Click View and select the pane you want to open or close. Moving panes You can move a pane from a docked or floating position to a new location. You can move one pane at a time, or several stacked panes. To move a pane: 1 2 3 Drag the pane's title bar and hold your mouse pointer over any of the arrows of the Docking Compass. When the shaded marquee displays the position of the pane you want, release the mouse button. To return a pane to its previous location, double-click its title bar. To move a docked or floating pane: Do one of the following: · · Drag the pane's tab to a new location. Only one pane moves. Drag the pane's title bar to a new location. Any panes stacked beneath it also move. Docking panes When you select a pane in the Browser, the Docking Compass activates to help you place the pane precisely. The Docking Compass consists of an outer and inner ring of arrows. When you hold your mouse pointer over any of the arrows, a shaded marquee displays the potential position of the pane. 11 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide To dock a pane in the Browser window: 1 2 3 Drag the pane's title bar or tab to activate the Docking Compass. To dock a pane around the outer edge of the Browser window, hold your mouse pointer over any of the outer arrows of the Docking Compass, and then release the mouse button. To dock a pane around the outer edge of the File List pane, or another Browser pane, hold your mouse pointer over the inner arrows of the Docking compass, and then release the mouse button. Stacking panes You can stack panes and reorder their tabs to suit your needs. To stack panes: 1 Do one of the following: · · 2 3 Drag one pane's title bar onto the title bar of another pane until the shaded marquee appears, and then release the mouse button. Drag one pane inside another, hold your mouse pointer over the center of the Docking Compass, and then release the mouse button. To reorder the panes, drag a tab to the left or right in the tab order. To separate a tabbed pane, drag the pane's tab to another location on the screen. Resizing panes You can resize all the panes in the browser, whether they are docked or floating. To resize a docked pane: 1 2 Hold your mouse pointer over the edge of the pane until the pointer changes to arrows and lines. Drag the edge of the pane to the size you want. To resize a floating pane: Hold your mouse pointer over the edge or corner of the pane and then drag the pane to the size you want. Resetting the Browser layout You can return all of the Browser panes to their default positions at any time. To reset the Browser layout: Click View | Reset Layout. 12 Chapter 2 Getting started Using the Viewer You can use the Viewer to display your images and media files using their actual dimensions or at a variety of magnifications. You can also display a group of images in sequential order. The Viewer window contains four main areas: · Viewer toolbar: Located at the top of the Viewer and below the menu bar, the Viewer toolbar provides shortcut buttons to commonly-used tools and commands, such as the zoom and scroll tools. You can set the options on the toolbar to show or hide the toolbar, and to use large or small icons. Editing toolbar: Located on the left side of the Viewer, the Editing toolbar provides shortcuts to the editing tools available in ACDSee's Edit Mode. View area: This is the main Viewer area, which displays the current image or media file. You can customize the Viewer window, and zoom in or out on your images and media files. Status bar: Located at the bottom of the View area, the Status bar displays information and properties for the current image or media file. It also displays overlay icons for rating and tagging that you can click to edit. The Viewer can also display the Properties pane to show database, EXIF, and IPTC information about the image or file. The Viewer also has the Navigator, Magnifying Glass and Histogram panes, each of which show detailed image information. · · · To open an image or media file in the Viewer: In the File List pane, do one of the following: · · · Select a file and press Enter. Double-click a file. Right-click an image or media file, and then select View. To open a group of images in the Viewer: 1 2 In the File List pane, select a group of images. Press Enter. 13 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 3 To navigate through the images, do the following: · · To view the next image in the sequence, click View | Next Image. To view the previous image in the sequence, click View | Previous Image. By default, the Viewer displays all of the files in a folder. You can customize the Viewer to display only those files that you select in the File List pane. Viewing images in full screen mode You can use the entire screen of your monitor to display images. In full screen mode, the window borders, menu bar, status bar, and toolbars are hidden, and only the image is visible. If you want to always view your images in full screen mode, you can set this option as the default for the Viewer. To view images in full screen mode: 1 2 3 Open an image, or a group of images, in the Viewer. Click View | Full Screen. Right-click the image to access the Viewer tools and options via a shortcut menu. To exit full screen mode: Do one of the following: · · Press the F key. Right-click the image and select View | Full Screen. Using the Viewer panes To open the Viewer panes: 1 2 Open an image in the Viewer. Do one of the following: · · · · Click View | Histogram to display the histogram for the image. Click View | Magnifying glass to magnify the area of the image under your cursor. Click View | Navigator to display a thumbnail overview of a magnified image. Click View | Properties to display file, database, EXIF, or IPTC information about the image. 14 Chapter 2 Getting started Returning to the Browser You can close the Viewer window and return to the Browser at any time. To return to the Browser from the Viewer window: Do one of the following: · · · · · Press Esc. Press Enter. Double-click the image. Click File | Browse. Click the Browse button on the toolbar. Related topics · Magnifying specific areas of an image Using Edit Mode Editing images ACDSee includes a powerful, yet easy-to-use image editor with an array of useful tools to help reduce red-eye in digital images, remove an unwanted color cast, apply special effects, and much more. You can also edit and enhance your images by adjusting the light and color levels, cropping images that are too large, rotating or flipping images that are incorrectly aligned, and adjusting sharpness. When you are finished editing, you can preview your changes, and then save your images in over 10 different file formats. You can use the Edit Mode to edit and enhance your images, or you can configure ACDSee to work with a variety of editing applications, such as ACD Photo Editor. To open an image in Edit Mode: Do one of the following: · · · In the Browser, select an image and click Tools | Open In Editor, and then select ACDSee. In the Viewer, click Modify, and then select Edit Mode. In the Viewer, click Modify, and then select the name of the tool you want to apply to your image. Edit Mode will open directly to that tool. 15 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide To edit an image in another image editing application: Do one of the following: · · In the Browser, click Tools | Open in Editor, and then select the editing application you want to use. In the Viewer, click Modify | Open in Editor, and then select the editing application you want to use. For more information about editing in other applications, such as Canvas or ACD Photo Editor, see Configuring image editors. Working in Edit Mode In Edit Mode, the right side of your screen displays the Edit Panel, which provides access to all of the editing tools and effects. Click a name in the Edit Panel to open that tool and use it to edit your image. The Edit Panel contains extensive context-sensitive Help to assist you as you move through the application -- click the Help button at any time to view a Help file page specific to that tool. At the top of the screen, just below the Edit Mode toolbar, are the Current, Saved, and Preview tabs. You can select these tabs at any time to compare your original image with the edited version, and preview your editing choices before saving them to your hard drive. The Edit Mode toolbar provides access to commonly used commands and zooming controls. Edit Mode toolbar Finished Editing Save As Closes Edit Mode, after prompting you to save any unsaved changes, and returns you to the Viewer. Opens the Save Image As dialog box so you can save your changes as a new image. Displays the previous image in your selection. Previous Image Next Image Displays the next image in your selection. Zoom In Increases the magnification of the current image. 16 Chapter 2 Getting started Zoom Out Reduces the magnification of the current image. Zoom Menu Opens a menu of zoom options. Print Opens the Print dialog box. Help Opens the Help file. Zoom controls While editing an image, you can adjust the magnification with the Edit Mode Zoom controls, located in the top-right corner of the Edit Mode. Actual Size Returns the current image to its actual size. Fit Image Reduces the image to fit within the Edit Mode area. Navigator Displays a thumbnail preview of the current image. Click and drag across the thumbnail to select an image area. This feature is most useful at higher magnifications. You can also drag the slider beside the Zoom controls to set a precise magnification. 17 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Closing Edit Mode You can close the Edit Mode window and return to the Viewer or Browser at any time. To close Edit Mode: Do one of the following: · · Click the Finished Editing button on the toolbar. Press Esc. If you are currently working with a tool, the Finished Editing button may be disabled. Close the tool first, and then click Finished Editing to return to the Browser or Viewer. Getting photos with ACDSee You can use ACDSee to download images from your digital camera, scanner, mobile phone, or other removable device. You can also use ACDSee to capture images of your screen and save them as files. When you connect your digital camera or other device to your computer, ACDSee detects it automatically with the Device Detector, and prompts you to choose one of the following: · Acquire images from the device with ACDSee: Select this option and click OK to start creating a profile for your device. You can then specify naming, storage, and destination options once, and have ACDSee automatically download your photos to a new directory every time you connect that device. This is particularly useful if you have more than one digital camera or card reader. Do nothing: Select this option and click OK if you don't want to create a device profile, but want to use the Get Photos Wizard from within ACDSee to copy your photos to a specific directory, rename files as you copy them, and clear the originals from your device. For more specific instructions, select the type of device you connected from the list below: · · · · Getting photos from a digital camera Getting photos from a scanner (TWAIN) Getting photos from a mass storage device Getting photos from a CD · 18 Chapter 2 Getting started About removable devices With ACDSee, there are several ways to obtain images from your digital camera, scanner, or memory card. For more information about how your device communicates with your computer, please consult your device's Help file or manual. The different types of removable devices are: · USB mass storage device: mass storage devices include removable memory cards that you can attach to your computer using a USB card reader, and cameras that contain an internal memory card, and can be attached directly to your computer. USB Mass Storage devices are detected by your system as a removable drive. Windows Image Acquisition: cameras and scanners that use Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) drivers. TWAIN: cameras and scanners that use the TWAIN interface. TWAIN-supported devices use TWAIN drivers that you must install on your computer to communicate with the device. For more information about drivers, and whether or not your device uses TWAIN, please consult your device's Help file. Older model digital cameras: some older model cameras require an ACD Systems digital camera plug-in. Newer camera models connect to your computer as a mass storage device, or with TWAIN or WIA drivers, and do not require a camera plug-in. You may require DirectX and QuickTime to copy and view audio or video files. · · · Related topics · · About the Device Detector Using device profiles Organizing and managing files in ACDSee In addition to its browsing, viewing, and editing capabilities, ACDSee features integrated management tools you can use to better organize and sort your images and media files. These tools include batch functions (tools that can alter or adjust multiple files at the same time), category and rating systems, and a powerful database to hold all of your important image information. You can use ACDSee's batch functions to rename, resize, rotate, add EXIF information, and adjust the exposure of a single image, a group of images, or the contents of an entire folder all at once. With the category and rating systems, you can create a virtual folder structure, and use it to find related images and media files with a single click. ACDSee displays file properties and image information in an easily accessible Properties pane that you can use to directly add and edit file information, including metadata and database content. You can 19 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide add an author, description, notes, and keywords to your files, and adjust the category and rating assignments at the same time. · · · · · Related topics About the ACDSee database Setting the Database options Using the Properties pane Browsing files by category, rating, or classification Searching with ACDSee ACDSee includes a number of ways to search your computer for files and folders. You can use the Search pane to search by file name, keywords, or image properties. You can create advanced searches to locate files that fall within a date or rating range, or use the Duplicate Finder to locate and manage identical files. For simpler searches, you can use the Quick Search bar to quickly locate files and folders, or search the database for specific names and keywords. You can also customize the Quick Search bar to only search for specific items or certain parts of the database. Also, you can use the Organize pane to quickly locate and list all images on your hard drive, or to locate any files in a folder that have not been categorized. If you are working with larger image collections, you can use Selective Browsing to specify broad or narrow criteria for the images you want to display in the File List pane. Related topics · · Using the Quick Search bar Using the Search pane Sharing images with ACDSee ACDSee makes it easy to share your images with friends and family. You can e-mail images right out of the File List, post images on the Internet with ACD Systems' secure SendPix servers, and create your own Web pages with the HTML Album plug-in. ACDSee includes a Burn Basket pane, to help you burn your images safely onto a disc. You can also create slide shows and screen savers that you can give to anyone with a computer - they don't need ACDSee to view them. You can even publish your images to your TiVo, and view them on your television screen. 20 Chapter 3 Getting Help ACDSee Pro includes a context-sensitive Help system to instantly provide you with more information about whatever tool you are using. To read instructions or tips for any part of the interface, click that area to select it, and then press the F1 key to open that topic in the Help. In many dialogs there is a What's this? icon. To use What's this? help, click the ? button in the top-right corner of the dialog box, and then click on the control to open its tool tip. 21 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Using the ACDInTouch Service ACDInTouch is a data exchange service. When you connect, information is sent to you so that you can read up-to-date information directly in the ACDInTouch Viewer. This information is relevant to your product, such as upgrades, add-ons, and related software from ACD Systems that may also be of interest to you. To view languages other than English, click the Site Language drop-down list, and then select the desired language. Using myACD You can use myACD to manage your ACD Systems software. With it, you can check the status of your software, enter a license code to update your trial versions, and download other products to try or buy. To open the myACD Control Panel: Click Help, and then select myACD. For complete access to all the myACD features, you must be connected to the Internet. The myACD Control Panel displays a list of currently installed software, and whether that software is a trial or full version. You can purchase software and even update your trials to a full version. You can also view a list of additional products that you can download and install on your hard drive. To obtain a full version license code for trial software already installed on your hard drive: 1 2 In the Installed Products list of the myACD Control Panel dialog box, select a product containing a trial version status. Click the Buy button below the Installed Products list. You will be prompted with further instructions. To update a trial version with a full version license code: 1 2 3 4 In the Installed Products list of the myACD Control Panel, select a product that contains a trial version status. Click Enter License Code. In the License Code dialog box, type the license code provided to you by ACD Systems. Click OK. 22 Chapter 3 Getting Help To download and install free software: 1 2 In the Additional Products list of the myACD Control Panel dialog box, select a free product. Click the Install button. You will be prompted with further instructions. To download and install trial version software: 1 2 In the Additional Products list of the myACD Control Panel dialog box, select a product. Click the Try button located below the Additional Products list. You will be prompted with further instructions. To buy, download, and install full version software: 1 2 In the Additional Products list of the myACD Control Panel dialog box, select a product. Click the Buy button located below the Additional Products list. You will be prompted with further instructions. Related topics · Appendix A Plug-ins Contacting ACD Systems For information about purchasing software, customer service, and technical support, click Help, and then select Contacting ACD Systems. 23 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 24 Chapter 4 Getting photos ACDSee Pro makes it easy to download photos and movies from your digital camera or other devices. Plug your camera, scanner, card reader, or removable drive into your computer, and ACDSee Pro automatically detects it and guides you through the process of copying the photos to your hard drive. You can set up a profile for your device to specify how you want to handle the photos you get from each device. For example, you can automatically copy all of the photos from your scanner into one folder and those from your digital camera into another folder, while using a completely different renaming system for photos from your mobile phone. 25 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide About the Device Detector You can use the ACDSee Device Detector to access the photos stored on your camera, scanner, mass storage device, or CD and display them using ACDSee. To start Device Detector: Click File | Get Photos, and then select ACDSee Device Detector. After you start the ACDSee Device Detector, it runs in the background and displays a camera icon in the Taskbar Notification area. When you plug a camera or other device into your computer, the Device Detector detects the connection, the icon changes color, and either prompts you to specify what you would like to do with your images, or automatically launches the Photo Transfer Wizard or the Get Photos Wizard. ACDSee Device Detector replaces the Windows XP AutoPlay feature. To resume AutoPlay functionality, close the ACDSee Device Detector. The ACDSee Device Detector can also detect when you insert a CD into your CD-ROM drive, or attach a mass storage or Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) device to your computer. Such devices may include cameras, card readers, Web cams, and scanners. If your device does not have a TWAIN or WIA driver installed, is not a mass storage device, or if there are no files on your device, ACDSee Device Detector will not be able to detect it. For more detailed information about using the Device Detector, click the camera icon in the Taskbar Notification area and select Help. Related topics · Getting photos with ACDSee Using device profiles You can use ACDSee to automate the transfer of files from a removable device to your computer. ACDSee's Photo Transfer Wizard guides you through the process of automatically downloading images from a camera, memory card, or other storage device. You can name the device, specify the actions you want to take each time you connect the device, and edit or remove the device's profile at a later time. To use the Photo Transfer Wizard, your device needs to connect as a mass storage device. If you are uncertain about how your camera, scanner, or memory card connects to your computer, please see About removable devices. 26 Chapter 4 Getting photos Configuring a device The first time you connect a device to your computer, the Photo Transfer Wizard will work in conjunction with ACDSee's Device Detector to configure and profile your device. To perform the initial configuration, Device Detector needs to be active. If you choose not to use the Device Detector, you can get your photos using the Get Photos Wizard, or the Folders pane and File List. If there are no files on your device, Device Detector will not detect it. To configure a device the first time you acquire your images: 1 2 Connect the device to your computer. Make sure your device is turned on, and the cable is properly connected to your computer. Depending on the settings of your Device Detector options, the wizard opens or prompts you to select options. When the Device Detector prompts you, select the Acquire images from the device with ACDSee radio button. On the Welcome page of the Photo Transfer Wizard, type a name for your device. Click Next when you are ready to continue. On the Photo Transfer Settings page, specify how you would like to download and process files each time you connect the device to your computer, and click Next to continue: · · Files options: select whether the wizard will automatically select and copy new files to your hard drive, or ask you which new files to copy. Destination and naming options: select whether the wizard will automatically retain file names used on your device and place files in your My Pictures folder, prompt you to name the files and select a destination, or use a custom file and folder naming template. Click Settings to create a custom naming template and specify folder options as explained below. Device storage space options: select whether the wizard will automatically delete files from your device once they are copied to your hard drive, prompt you to delete files, or use custom storage settings. Click Settings to specify custom storage and deletion options as explained below. 3 4 · 5 6 If you selected the Files option Always prompt for which files to copy, on the Files to Copy page, select which files to copy to your hard drive, and then click Next. If you selected the Destination and naming option Ask what to do each time, on the Output Options page, specify the file name and folder options. Click Edit if you would like to specify a naming template. Click Next when you are ready to continue. 27 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 7 If you selected the Device storage space option Ask what to do each time, on the Device Storage Options page, specify whether, or how, you would like to delete files from your device. Click OK when you are finished. Click Finish to close the wizard. Your files will be placed in the specified location on your hard drive, and the profile for your device will be saved. 8 Custom settings for destination and naming options In your device profiles, you can set the destination and naming options to specify the file names for copied photos, and the location on your hard drive where you want to store them. To set the custom destination and naming options: 1 2 On the Photo Transfer Settings page of the Photo Transfer Wizard, in the Destination and naming options area, click Settings. In the Destination and Naming Options dialog box, in the File names area, select one of the following options: · · 3 4 Keep original file names: copies photos using the original file names created by the device. If there are duplicate file names already in the destination folder, they are overwritten. Rename using template: renames the photos as they are copied. Click Edit to create or adjust the renaming template. In the Destination folder area, click Browse to locate a destination folder on your hard drive. Select one of the following options from the drop-down list: · · Use Today's Date: creates a new subfolder, named after the current date, in the folder you specified. Always use root of: copies your photos directly into the folder you specified, without creating a subfolder. 5 6 To rotate your photos automatically as you copy them, select the Automatically rotate images check box. Click OK to return to the Photo Transfer Wizard. Custom settings for device storage options In your device profiles, you can set the device storage options to specify the amount of free space you want to maintain on your device. To set the custom device storage options: 1 On the Photo Transfer Settings page of the Photo Transfer Wizard, in the Device storage space options area, click Settings. 28 Chapter 4 Getting photos 2 In the Device Storage Options dialog box, in the Delete options area, select one of the following options: · · · · Do not delete files from the device: leaves the photos on your device after copying. Prompt me to select which files to delete: prompts you to specify which photos you want to delete each time. Delete all files from device after copying to hard drive: automatically removes all photos and files from your device after copying them to your hard drive. Automatically delete files: deletes files after copying, based on the choices in the Automatic delete settings area. 3 If you selected to automatically delete files, select one of the following options in the Automatic delete settings area: · Delete oldest files, freeing up __% of the total space on the media: automatically deletes files from your device, beginning with the oldest files, until the specified percentage of free space is attained. (Type the amount of free space you want to maintain on your device into the field.) Delete oldest files, freeing space for approximately __ new images: automatically deletes files from your device, beginning with the oldest files, until enough free space for the specified number of photos is attained. The Photo Transfer Wizard analyzes the device to determine how much space is actually required. (Type a number of photos into the field.) Delete files that are older than: automatically deletes any files on your device that are older than the specified date. (Type a number into the first field, and select a period of time from the drop-down list.) · · 4 Click OK to return to the Photo Transfer Wizard. Related topics · Getting photos with ACDSee Getting photos from a profiled device After you complete an initial device configuration, you can access your device by connecting it while the Device Detector is running, or from the File | Get Photos menu in the Browser. Each time you connect that device to your computer, ACDSee will acquire any new files based on the settings you selected in the initial configuration. To acquire files from a profiled device: 1 2 Connect your device to your computer. If you experience problems, make sure your camera is turned on, and your device's cable is properly connected to your computer. Do one of the following: · If Device Detector is active, depending on the configuration of your Device Detector options, the wizard will automatically open or you will be prompted. When the Device 29 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Detector prompts you, select the Acquire images from the device with ACDSee radio button. · 3 In the Browser, click File | Acquire, and select the name of your device. Follow the instructions in the wizard. You will be prompted with different dialog boxes depending on the settings you selected in the initial configuration. Updating or deleting a device profile You can adjust the settings of a profiled device, or delete the profile from ACDSee. To update or delete a profile: 1 2 3 In the Browser, click File | Get Photos, and select Edit Photo Transfer Settings. In the Edit Photo Transfer Settings dialog box, select a device from the list. Do one of the following: · · · 4 To adjust the profiled settings, click Edit. In the Edit Device Profile dialog box, change the options, and then click OK. To rename the profile, click Rename. Type a new name for the profile, and then click OK. To delete the profile, click Delete. Click Close to accept your changes and return to ACDSee. Getting photos from a digital camera ACDSee's Get Photos Wizard guides you through the process of downloading files from your camera. You can preview the images you want to download, and specify a location for them on your hard drive. To use the Get Photos Wizard, your camera needs to do one of the following: · · Connect as a mass storage device. Use a digital camera plug-in. If your camera connects to the computer as a removable drive, you can download photos directly from the File List and Folders pane as ACDSee detects and displays the drive letter in the folder list. To download photos from a camera using the Get Photos Wizard: 1 2 3 Connect your camera to your computer. Make sure your camera is turned on, and the cable is properly connected to your computer. Click File | Get Photos, and then click From Camera or Card Reader. On the Welcome page, select the Skip this step next time check box to bypass this page the next time you use the wizard. Click Next when you are ready to continue. 30 Chapter 4 Getting photos 4 On the Source Device page, select the type of device from the Type list. ACDSee scans your device and displays the available options. In the Device list, select the name of your camera, and then click Next. On the File Format Options page, select a file format to save your images. You can click the Options button to select any file-specific options available for your chosen format. Note that not every file format has additional options. Click Next when you are ready to continue. Finally, on the Output Options page, specify whether you want to rename your acquired images using a renaming template, and where to store them on your hard drive. You can also select options to automatically correct the orientation of images taken with certain digital cameras, and to remove the files from your camera after copying. When you are ready, click Next to copy your photos. Select Browse to your images if you want to view the files in the Browser, and click Finish to return to ACDSee. You may require DirectX and QuickTime to download audio and video files from your camera. For more information, please refer to the system requirements. 5 6 7 Related topics · Appendix C System requirements Getting photos from a scanner (TWAIN) ACDSee's Get Photos Wizard guides you through the process of downloading files from your scanner. You can preview the images you want to download, and specify a location for them on your hard drive. To use the Get Photos Wizard, your scanner needs to use Windows Imaging Acquisition or TWAIN. To download photos from a scanner: 1 2 3 4 Connect your scanner to your computer. Make sure your scanner is turned on, and the cable is properly connected to your computer. Click File | Get Photos, and select From Scanner. On the Welcome page, select the Skip this step next time check box to bypass the Welcome page the next time you use the wizard. Click Next when you are ready to continue. On the Source Device page, select TWAIN from the Type list. In the Device list, select the specific name of the scanner from which to download your files. Click Next when you are ready to continue. 31 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 5 On the File Format Options page, select a file format to save your images. You can click the Options button to select any file-specific options available for your chosen format. Note that not every file format has additional options. Click Next when you are ready to continue. Finally, on the Output Options page, specify whether you want to rename your acquired images using a name template, and where to place them on your hard drive. When you are ready, click Next to copy your images. Select Browse to your images if you want to view the files in the Browser, and click Finish to return to ACDSee. 6 7 Getting photos from a mass storage device The ACDSee Get Photos Wizard guides you through the process of downloading photos or files from a USB mass storage device or a Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) device. You can preview the images you want to download, and specify a location for them on your hard drive. If your device does not have an MSD or WIA driver installed, ACDSee Device Detector will not be able to detect it. To download photos from a mass storage device using the Get Photos Wizard: 1 2 3 4 Connect the USB mass storage device to your computer. Click File | Get Photos, and then click From Camera or Card Reader. On the Welcome page, select the Skip this step next time check box to bypass the Welcome page the next time you use the wizard. Click Next when you are ready to continue. On the Source Device page, select the Mass Storage Device from the Type list. ACDSee scans your device and displays the available options. In the Device list, select the specific name of the device from which to download your files. Click Next when you are ready to continue. On the File Format Options page, select a file format to save your images. You can click the Options button to select any file-specific options available for your chosen format. Note that not every file format has additional options. Click Next when you are ready to continue. Finally, on the Output Options page, specify whether you want to rename your images using a template, and where to place them on your hard drive. You can select options to automatically correct the orientation of images taken with certain digital cameras, and to remove the files from your device after copying. When you are ready, click Next to copy your photos and files. Select Browse to your images if you want to view the files in the Browser, and click Finish to return to ACDSee. 5 6 7 Getting photos from a CD You can download photos from a CD using the Device Detector and the Get Photos Wizard, or the Folders pane. You can set options in the Device Detector so that when you place a disc in your CD-ROM drive, the Get Photos Wizard opens automatically. You can also set options to open photos in the File List 32 Chapter 4 Getting photos automatically, to be prompted for new options each time you insert a CD, or to create an ACDSee Photo Disc. If the Device Detector is running and the option is set to Automatically launch ACDSee's Get Photos Wizard, the wizard opens as soon as you insert a CD in the drive. To download photos from a CD using the Get Photos Wizard: 1 2 3 4 Insert the CD into the drive, and wait for a moment while Device Detector locates the CD and launches the Get Photos Wizard. On the Welcome page of the Get Photos Wizard, select the Skip this step next time check box to bypass the Welcome page the next time you use the wizard. In the Files to Copy page, select the images you want to copy, and then click Next. On the Output Options page, select whether you want to rename your images using a template, and where to place them on your hard drive. You can also select options to automatically correct the orientation of images taken with certain digital cameras, and to remove the files from your camera after copying. When you are ready, click Next to copy your photos. Select Browse to your images if you want to view the files in the Browser, and click Finish to return to ACDSee. If you select Automatically view files with ACDSee in the Device Detector options, your files will appear in the File List pane as soon as you insert a CD in your CD-ROM drive. 5 Related topics · Viewing offline images Getting photos from a mobile phone ACDSee's Mobile Phone Acquire Wizard will guide you through the process of downloading images from your mobile phone folder. To download photos from your mobile phone: 1 2 Click File | Get Photos, and select From Mobile Phone Folder. On the Welcome page, select the location of your mobile phone folder, and where you want to place the images on your hard drive. You can select options to place images in a dated subfolder, and to remove the files from your device once they are on your hard drive. Click Next when you are ready to continue. On the Downloaded Images page, preview your downloaded images. Click Next when you are ready to place the images on your hard drive. 3 33 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Creating a renaming template On the Output Options page of the Get Photos Wizard, you can set up a template to rename your files as they are placed on your hard drive. You can create a template with a numerical sequence, add custom text, and insert file-specific information into each new file name. To use a renaming template: 1 2 On the Output Options page of the Get Photos Wizard, click Edit. In the Edit File Name Template dialog box, do one or both of the following: · · In the Template field, type a word or phrase to use in each file name. Click the Insert Property button and select specific properties to add to each file name. The property is added as a placeholder, e.g., . When the file is renamed, the actual date is inserted into the file name. 3 Click the Insert Sequence Number button to add number signs to your template. Any number signs (#) in the template are replaced with sequential numeric characters, starting at the number you specified in the wizard. For example, if you enter ###, the first photo copied will be numbered 001, the next 002, and so on. Click OK to return to the wizard. 4 Taking a screen capture You can use the ACDSee Screen Capture utility to create images from different areas of your screen. You can select what areas to capture, how you want to perform the capture, and where to store the captured image. To take a screen capture: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Click Tools | Screen Capture. In the Source area of the Screen Capture dialog box, identify the part of the screen you want to capture. See the table below for a description of the Source options. If you want to include your mouse pointer in the output image, select the Include mouse cursor check box In the Destination area, identify where you want to place the output image. In the Initiate capture area, identify how you want to take the screen capture. Click Start to launch the screen capture tool. An icon appears in the Taskbar Notification area. Prepare your screen to show the area you want to capture, and then follow the steps that appear in the bubble above the Screen Capture icon. To exit the Screen Capture utility without taking a screen capture, right-click the Screen Capture icon, and then select Exit Screen Capture. 34 Chapter 4 Getting photos Screen Capture options Source options Desktop Window Current monitor Entire window Content only Region Fixed size Captures an image of the entire area displayed on the screen. Captures an image of the entire active window. Captures an image of the window contents (does not include the frame or title bar). Captures an image of a fixed area on the screen. Click the drop-down button and select a dimension setting or select Custom, and enter the dimension in pixels. Captures a selected area of the screen. Click and drag your mouse pointer to surround the area you want to capture. Captures an image of sections of the window. For example, a toolbar or button. Captures selected menu commands. Selected region Object Child window Menu under cursor Destination options Clipboard File Editor Initiate Capture options Hot key Designates a keystroke combination to trigger the screen capture. To set the Hot Key, press a key or combination of keys (e.g., Ctrl + S) on the keyboard; do not type in the box. Takes a screen capture after a designated period. Choose enough time to set up your desktop or window for the screen capture. The maximum setting is 60 seconds. Places a copy of the image on the Clipboard. From the Clipboard you can paste the image in a new location. Displays the Save dialog box to save the file; you can specify location, format, and file name. Opens the captured image in the default editor. Timer 35 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide 36 Chapter 5 Browsing In ACDSee Pro you can preview, sort, tag, and filter files in a simple, fast, drag-and-drop interface, the Browser. The main part of the Browser is the File List pane, which displays all of the contents of the current folder, the result of your latest search, or whichever files match your current browsing criteria. Use the Easy-Select bar in the Folders pane to view the contents of one folder or multiple folders, with a single click. Click any thumbnail to see a larger preview and histogram in the Preview pane. Organize your photo collections using the Organize pane, or see detailed EXIF, database, or file information using the Properties pane. Find your photos quickly using Quick Search or use Image Compare to view the histograms of up to four photos simultaneously while assigning metadata, color profiles, categories or ratings to each photo. 37 ACDSeeTM Pro User Guide Browsing files in the File List pane The File List pane is the large pane in the center of the Browser. The File List pane displays the contents of the currently selected folder, the results of your latest search, or the files and folders that match your selective browsing criteria. The File List pane is always visible, and cannot be hidden or closed. Files display as thumbnails in the File List pane by default. However, you can change the File List pane view mode from thumbnails to details, list, icons, tiles, or filmstrip. You can sort your files according to name, size, image properties, and more. You can also use filters to control which files display in the File List pane. Sections of the File List pane There are two sections in the File List pane: the Contents bar and the File List toolbar. The contents bar The Contents bar is located at the top of the File List pane and describes what you are currently browsing. When you are using the Folders pane, the Contents bar will display the path or paths to the folders you are browsing, as in the following example: If you are browsing files by category or rating with the Organize pane, the Contents bar displays the selected classifications, as in the following example: The Contents bar also displays a date range when browsing with the Calendar pane, and a summary of your search criteria when you use the Search pane. File List toolbar Filters Opens the Filters dialog box, where you can specify what types of files to display in the File List pane. Opens the View Modes menu, where you can select how to display files in the File List pane. Displays a list of available file attributes you can use to sort the files in the File List pane, and choose the order in which you want to display your files. View Modes Sort 38