User manual ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM 2.0 - STARTER EDITION

Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help Using Help | Contents | Index Back 1 Using Help About Help Adobe Systems Incorporated provides complete documentation in an Adobe PDF-based help system. This help system includes information on all tools, commands, and features of an application. It is designed for easy on-screen navigation and can also be printed and used as a desktop reference. Additionally, it supports third-party screen-reader applications that run in a Windows environment. Navigating in Help Help opens in an Adobe Acrobat window with the Bookmarks pane open. (If the Bookmarks pane is not open, click the Bookmarks tab at the left edge of the window.) At the top and bottom of each page is a navigation bar containing links to this page (Using Help), the table of contents (Contents), and the index (Index). To move through pages sequentially, you can click the Next Page and the Previous Page arrows; click the navigation arrows at the bottom of the page; or click Back to return to the last page you viewed. You can navigate Help topics by using bookmarks, the table of contents, the index, or the Search (Acrobat 6) or Find (Acrobat 5) command. To find a topic using bookmarks: 1 In the Bookmarks pane, click the plus sign (+) (Windows) or the right-facing arrow (Mac OS) next to a bookmark topic to view its subtopics. 2 Click the bookmark to go to that topic. To find a topic using the table of contents: 1 Click Contents in the navigation bar. 2 On the Contents page, click a topic to go to that topic. 3 To view a list of subtopics, click the plus sign (+) (Windows) or the right-facing arrow (Mac OS) next to the topic name in the Bookmarks pane. To find a topic using the index: 1 Do one of the following: · · Click Index in the navigation bar, and then click a letter at the top of the page. n the Bookmarks pane, expand the Index bookmark to view the letter subtopics; then click a letter. 2 Locate the entry you want to view, and click the page number to go to that topic. 3 To view other entries for the same topic, click Back to return to the same place in the index, and then click another page number. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 1 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help Using Help | Contents | Index Back 2 To find a topic using the Search command (Acrobat 6): 1 Choose Edit > Search. 2 Type a word or phrase in the text box and click Search. Acrobat searches the document and displays every occurrence of the word or phrase in the Results area of the Search PDF pane. To find a topic using the Find command (Acrobat 5): 1 Choose Edit > Find. 2 Type a word or phrase in the text box and click Find. Acrobat searches the document, starting from the current page, and displays the first occurrence. 3 To find the next occurrence, choose Edit > Find Again. Printing Help Although Help is optimized for on-screen viewing, you can print selected pages or the entire file. To print Help: Choose File > Print, or click the Print icon in the Acrobat toolbar. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 2 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Contents Using Help | Contents | Index Back 3 Contents Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition 4 Installing and Learning to Use Adobe Photoshop Album 12 Photoshop Album Basics 15 Getting Photos into Photoshop Album 25 Organizing Photos 42 Viewing and Finding Photos 79 Fixing Photos 98 Making Creations from Your Photos 119 Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos 144 Shortcuts 163 Legal Notices 166 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 3 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 4 Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition About Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition Welcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition application, the fast and easy way to organize your lifetime of photos so that you can instantly find the ones you want and share your experiences with anyone, anywhere. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition offers many of the important features found in Photoshop Album 2.0. This addendum supplements the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help and will get you started using Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition immediately. For detailed information on using the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition and on the additional features in Photoshop Album 2.0, see the main Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Installing Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition To install Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition, launch the installer and follow the onscreen instructions. If Photoshop Album 1.0 or Photoshop Album 1.0 Starter Edition is already installed on your computer, Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition installs and automatically creates a copy of your existing catalog. The original catalog file remains unaltered so you can continue using it with Photoshop Album 1.0 or Photoshop Album 1.0 Starter Edition. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition cannot be installed on a computer that already has Photoshop Album 2.0 installed. Note: Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition does not support certain Photoshop Album 1.0 and Photoshop Album 1.0 Starter Edition features such as creations; file formats other than BMP, JPEG, or TIFF; burning to CD or DVD; and the calendar view. Unsupported features will not show in the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition catalog. However, if you upgrade to Photoshop Album 2.0, all features unsupported in Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition will be carried forward into the Photoshop Album 2.0 catalog. Starting Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition The first time you start the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition application, you'll be presented with the Adobe End User License Agreement window. Click Agree to continue using the application. After closing the License Agreement, you're prompted to register online. Use the Registration Wizard to register and use your copy of Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 4 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 5 Using the Quick Guide By default, the Quick Guide window opens when you first start Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. The Quick Guide is a convenient starting point for key tasks in Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. Select a task by clicking an icon or tab in the Quick Guide Overview window. You can open or close the Quick Guide at any time while you're using Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. To open or close the Quick Guide: Choose Help > Quick Guide. Getting photos into Photoshop Album Starter Edition The first thing you'll probably need to do is get photos into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. You might already have photos on your computer, or you might need to get photos from your digital camera. To get photos from your computer's hard drive: In the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition Quick Guide, click the Get Photos in the Overview tab or the Get Photos tab, and then click Search Drive . Follow the on-screen instructions to search for and import photos into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. To get photos from a digital camera or card reader: 1 Make sure that your camera or card reader is connected properly and turned on. 2 In the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition Quick Guide window, click the Get Photos in the Overview tab or the Get Photos tab, and then click Camera . Follow the onscreen instructions to finish importing the photos into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. To get photos from specific files and folders: In the Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition Quick Guide window, click the Get Photos in the Overview tab or the Get Photos tab, and then click File Folders . In the Get Photos from Files and Folders dialog box, select the files and folders you want, and then click the Get Photos button. For more details on getting photos into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition, including instructions for getting photos from a scanner or CD, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Viewing photos in Photoshop Album Starter Edition Once your photos are in Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition, they appear in the photo well as thumbnail images. You can adjust the appearance of the thumbnails by clicking the four buttons below the photo well. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition also gives you different ways to sort your catalog in the photo well. In the options bar, you can choose from the following sort options in the Sort pop-up menu: · Date (Newest First) to show the most recently taken or imported photos first. (Within a given day, the photos are still shown in the order they were taken, oldest-first). Newest- Using Help | Contents | Index Back 5 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 6 first order is convenient when you need to attach tags to the photos you imported most recently. · · · Date (Oldest First) to show all the photos in chronological order. Import Batch to display photos in the batches in which they were imported. Each batch is separated by a bar that displays information about the way you got the photos. Folder Location to display photos by the folders in which they are stored. A B C D E G F H The Photoshop Album work area A. Menu bar B. Shortcuts bar C. Timeline D. Timeline endpoint markers E. Find bar F. Photo well G. Tag pane H. Options bar Above the photo well is the timeline. It helps you view and find photos by date. The height of each bar in the timeline shows the number of photos in each month, import batch, or folder. You can select a range of photos to view by clicking a bar or dragging the endpoints of the timeline. In the options bar just under the photo well are controls for viewing photos and their properties. Among the controls is a View Slideshow button that instantly displays a slideshow of the photos you've selected in the photo well. For more details on the Photoshop Album work area, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 6 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 7 Organizing your photos Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition automatically organizes your photos in the photo well based on when they were taken. However, you can enhance the organization, sorting, previewing, and finding of photos by using tags. You can use keyword tags to find photos based on the people in them, where the photo was taken, the event, and other characteristics of the photo that are important to you. When you tag your photos, you don't have to remember each photo's filename, date, or folder. Using tags also liberates you from filing your photos in folders by subject, and from renaming your photos and videos. To use tags, you first need to open the Tag pane. Attach one or more tags from the Tag pane to a photo in the photo well by dragging and dropping them onto the photo. Tags don't change the photos they are attached to; they simply give you additional and more flexible ways of finding and organizing your photos. To open the Tag pane: Click the Tags button in the shortcuts bar. To create your own tag: 1 Click the New button in the Tag pane and choose New Tag. 2 In the Create Tag dialog box, use the Category menu to choose which category or subcategory you want to list the tag under. 3 In the Name text box, type the name you want to give the tag. 4 In the Note text box, type any information you want to add about the tag. (For example, you could write that Mildred is your mom's elementary school friend who lives in New York.) 5 Click OK. The tag appears in the Tag pane under the category or subcategory you selected. Notice that the tag has a question mark icon . The first time you attach the tag to a photo, it will use that photo as its icon. You can change the icon to a different photo. For more information on changing the icon and for using tags, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. To attach a tag to a photo: Drag the tag from the Tag pane onto the photo in the photo well. Finding your photos It's easy to find photos in Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition. You can use tags to find photos by subject. In the Tag pane, double-click a specific tag; the search will find all photos that have that particular tag attached. Simply select the check boxes next to the tags and you will be able to cross-reference or search using multiple tags. The Best match results will find photos that have all the selected tags in them. The Close match results will find photos that have one or more of the selected tags in them. The timeline lets you narrow the range of photos and jump to a particular month just by clicking a bar. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 7 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 8 For more information and procedures on finding photos using timeline or tags, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Fixing photos The photos you bring into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition may not be perfect. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition provides tools to fix the most common photo problems. For instance, you can apply a quick fix to adjust the overall color, brightness, contrast, or sharpness of the photo. You can also rotate or crop a photo or remove red-eye from it. A B C D The Fix Photo dialog box A. Tabs for choosing different views of the photo B. Preview images C. Editing options D. Rotate options To fix photos in Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition: 1 Select a photo in the photo well and click the Fix button in the shortcuts bar. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition makes a copy of the original photo file for editing. 2 In the Fix Photo dialog box, choose one of the following: Single Click Fix Applies an automatic correction for color, contrast, or sharpening. Crop Lets you crop a photo to improve the composition or add emphasis to an image. Red Eye Removal Corrects for the red-eye effect caused by a camera flash. For details on fixing photos and the advanced options for fixing photos in Photoshop Album 2.0, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 8 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 9 Creating a PDF slideshow PDF slideshows automatically present your photos in the sequence you specify. Slideshows are a good way to share your photos via e-mail and view them on a computer screen. PDF is a universal file format that can be read by anyone who has the free Adobe Reader software. PDF provides a better photo-viewing experience for your recipients by packaging up all the individual photos into a slideshow, complete with transitions. Your recipients can download the free Adobe Reader from the Adobe Web site (http:// www.adobe.com). To create a PDF slideshow: 1 In the photo well, select the photos you want to use in the slideshow. If you don't make a selection, all the photos in the photo well will be used in the slideshow. 2 Click the Create button in the shortcuts bar. 3 In the Create Slideshow dialog box, click the Add Photos button to add any more photos to the slideshow you are about to create. 4 In the Add Photos to Creation dialog box, display a set of photos by clicking one of the options at the left. 5 Select the photos you want to include in your creation by clicking the check box next to each one. 6 Click Add to Creation. The photos you selected are added to your PDF slideshow, and the check boxes are cleared to let you make a new selection. When you're done adding photos, click OK. 7 In the Create Slideshow dialog box, rearrange, duplicate, or remove photos as desired. Click the Full Screen Preview button to preview your slideshow. 8 Click OK and follow the on-screen instruction to save your PDF slideshow. Sharing and printing your photos Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition lets you share your photos by e-mailing, printing them locally, ordering prints online, and sharing online. You can e-mail individual photos or a PDF slideshow. When you print, you can make individual prints, contact sheets or a Picture Package. You can also order prints via the Web using the Online Services feature. To e-mail photos: 1 Select one or more photos in the photo well. 2 Click the Share button in the shortcuts bar, and then choose E-mail from the pop-up menu. Follow the on-screen instructions to choose recipients and specify a format for the attachment. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition automatically resizes and compresses your photos for a smoother e-mail delivery. You can also package up multiple photos into a slideshow by clicking the PDF Slideshow button in the E-mail window. Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition generates the attachment and then launches your default e-mail program. To get more information on setting your e-mail preferences, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 9 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 10 To print photos to your printer 1 Make sure that your printer is on and connected to your computer. 2 In the photo well, select one or more photos that you want to print. 3 Click the Print button in the shortcuts bar and choose Print from the pop-up menu. 4 Select options in the Print Photos dialog box and click Print. For more details on printing photos, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. A B C Three different printing options A. Individual prints B. Contact sheet C. Picture package To print photos from an online service: First select the photo or photos you want to order. Click the Print button and choose Order Prints from the pop-up menu. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish ordering your prints. The service list may be updated each time you select the Online Services command, so check it occasionally for new services. To share photos online: 1 Select the photo or photos you want to share. 2 Do one of the following: · · Click the Share button pop-up menu. in the shortcuts bar, and then choose Share Online from the Choose Online Services > Share Services, and then choose a service from the list. 3 The first time you use a provider, an End User License Agreement appears. Click the Agree button to continue. 4 A screen appears to let you know that you've left the Adobe Photoshop Album program. From this point, if you need help, refer to the service provider's customer service or help system. To download shared photos: 1 Choose Online Services > Download, and then choose a service from the list. 2 The first time you use a provider, an End User License Agreement appears. Click the Agree button to continue. 3 A screen appears to let you know that you've left the Adobe Photoshop Album program. From this point, if you need help, refer to the service provider's customer service or help system. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 10 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Using Help | Contents | Index Back 11 For more details on sharing your photos through prints, e-mail, or online services, see the Photoshop Album 2.0 Help. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 11 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Installing and Learning to Use Adobe Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 12 Installing and Learning to Use Adobe Photoshop Album Introduction Welcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Album application, the fast and easy way to organize your lifetime of photos so that you can instantly find the ones you want and share your experiences with anyone, anywhere. Photoshop Album has features designed specifically for active picture takers, photo-hobbyists, and business users who want to organize their digital photos, create albums, print photos, e-mail photos, share photos on the Web, or make a CD or disc for viewing on a computer or TV screen. Registration Please register your copy of the application so Adobe can continue to provide you with the highest quality software, offer technical support, and inform you about new Photoshop Album software developments. When you first start the Adobe Photoshop Album application, you're prompted to register online. You can choose to submit the form directly or fax a printed copy. You can also register by filling out and returning the registration card included with your software package. Installing Adobe Photoshop Album You must install the Photoshop Album application from the Adobe Photoshop Album CD onto your hard drive; you cannot run the application from the CD. Follow the on-screen installation instructions. For more detailed information, see the How to Install Read Me file on the CD. Tools for using Adobe Photoshop Album Adobe provides a variety of options to help you learn and use Photoshop Album, including built-in Help, the Photoshop Album Quick Guide, context-sensitive menus, and tool tips. In addition to this Getting Started Guide, you'll also find Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents on the Photoshop Album CD. The Adobe Acrobat ® Reader® lets you view PDF documents and is included on the CD as part of the Photoshop Album installation. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 12 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Installing and Learning to Use Adobe Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 13 Using Help Adobe Photoshop Album includes complete documentation in an easily accessible, built-in Help system. The Help system contains essential information on using all Photoshop Album commands, features, and tools, as well as keyboard shortcuts and full-color illustrations. When launched, the Help system is displayed in a Web browser for easy navigation. To properly view the Help topics, your computer must have either Netscape Communicator (4.75 or higher) or Microsoft® Internet Explorer (5.0 or higher) installed. To start Photoshop Album Help: Do one of the following: · · · Press the F1 key. Choose Help > Adobe Photoshop Album Help from the menu bar. Click the Help button located in the lower right corner of the Quick Guide window. Using the Photoshop Album Quick Guide By default, the Photoshop Album Quick Guide window opens when the application is launched. The Quick Guide is a convenient starting point for major tasks in Photoshop Album. For more information on using the Photoshop Album Quick Guide, see "Start using Photoshop Album" on page 17. Using context-sensitive menus Photoshop Album streamlines your use of the application with context-sensitive menus. These menus display options for photos and tools, and change depending on the item that's currently selected. A context-sensitive menu To display context menus: 1 Position the pointer over an image or item in a pane. 2 Right-click. If no context-sensitive menu appears, no menu is available for that tool or pane. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 13 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Installing and Learning to Use Adobe Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 14 Using tool tips The tool tips feature displays the name or function of tools, buttons, or controls. A tool tip To identify a tool, button, or control: Position the pointer over a tool, button, or control, and pause. A tool tip appears showing the name or function and sometimes the keyboard shortcut for the item. Note: Tool tips are not available in most dialog boxes. However, some dialog boxes contain hyperlinks that display explanations or tips. Using Web resources If you have an Internet connection, you can access additional resources for learning Photoshop Album on the Adobe Systems Web site. These resources are continually updated. To access the Adobe home page for your region: Do one of the following: · · Click the Go to Adobe.com button window. near the top-right corner of the application Choose Help > Adobe Online from the menu bar. Customer support When you register your product, you may be entitled to technical support for a single incident. Terms vary depending on your country of residence and are available only for retail versions. For more information, refer to the registration card provided with your Photoshop Album documentation. Additional customer support resources Adobe Systems also provides several forms of automated technical support: · · See the ReadMe and ReadMe First! files installed with the program for information that became available after this guide went to press. Choose Help > Support to explore the extensive customer support information on Adobe's Web site. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 14 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 15 Photoshop Album Basics Enjoying your photo collection with Photoshop Album If you love to take pictures, you've probably accumulated piles of shoeboxes filled with prints and negatives. Or maybe you've gone digital and you're trying to keep track of all those photo files on your computer. Now you can spend time enjoying your photos instead of just looking for them. Let Adobe Photoshop Album be the hub to manage your lifetime of photos. With Photoshop Album, you can bring photos into your computer, organize them, find them, view them, fix them, get creative with them, and share them. With Photoshop Album, you see all your photos in one place, organized by the time you took the photos, even if they're spread across many folders on your computer. Gone is the tedium of painstakingly organizing your folders by subject or renaming all your photo files--only to discover that you still have no way to see a list of all your photos by date and time or that you put a photo in one folder but went looking for it in another. Get photos from various devices such as digital cameras, scanners, and folders on your computer and bring them into Photoshop Album. You can also bring video clips or audio clips into Photoshop Album. Once photos and media are in Photoshop Album, you can organize, view, and find them. You can even fix common photo problems. As the hub for all your photo activities, Photoshop Album lets you make such creations as albums, greeting cards, slideshows, and Web photo galleries based on your photos. You can also share your photos online or in print, all without leaving the program. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 15 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 16 Photoshop Album recognizes digital photos, video, and audio in some of the most commonly used formats. For more information on file formats you can bring into Photoshop Album, see "Working with different file formats in Photoshop Album" on page 39. GET PHOTOS BURN AND BACKUP ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM ORGANIZE SHARE FIND CREATE FIX Adobe Photoshop Album is the hub of all your work with photos--the fast and easy way to organize and share your lifetime of photos. How Photoshop Album works Adobe Photoshop Album creates links to your photos so it knows where the photo is located, what file format it's in, and so forth. Photoshop Album does this by keeping information about your photos, video clips, and audio clips in a database of information called the catalog. Photoshop Album automatically creates a catalog for you named My Catalog.psa when you first launch the application and bring in photos. Your catalog keeps track of the photos, video clips, and audio clips on your computer and on other media such as discs. It's a collection of information about each photo, but it doesn't contain the actual photos themselves. Photos, video clips, and audio clips brought into Photoshop Album are automatically organized by the date/time the photo was taken by the digital camera. For more information about how Photoshop Album automatically organizes your photos in the timeline, see "The timeline" on page 20 and "Organizing photos in the photo well" on page 43. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 16 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 17 Photoshop Album also has a powerful tags feature that functions much like attaching keywords to identify your photos. It's very similar in concept to the use of name tags or luggage tags. Tags give you even more flexibility in how you manage, identify, and organize photos by letting you find photos based on the people in them, where the photo was taken, what the event was, and so forth. You can have multiple tags for any photo to mark the photo with all of the things that are important about it. By selecting any combination of tags, you can find and organize just the photos you want. For more information on tags, see "The Tags pane" on page 23 and "Organizing photos into catalogs" on page 71. Of course, if you want the tags to reflect your existing folder organization, Photoshop Album gives you an easy way to create and apply tags based on those folder names. For more information, see "Creating and attaching tags based on existing folder names" on page 55. Start using Photoshop Album When you first start Photoshop Album, the Quick Guide window is open by default. The Quick Guide is a convenient "jumping off" point to all the major tasks in Photoshop Album. Select a task by clicking an icon in the Quick Guide Overview window or clicking a tab. If you're a new user of Photoshop Album, your first task will be to get photos into Photoshop Album. The Quick Guide can be closed or reopened at any time while you're using Photoshop Album. For more information about a specific feature in the Quick Guide, see documentation on that feature in Photoshop Album Help. To start Photoshop Album: 1 Do one of the following: · · Double-click the Photoshop Album icon on your desktop. Use the Start menu to find and open Photoshop Album. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 17 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 18 By default, the Quick Guide window appears on top of the Photoshop Album work area. The Quick Guide Overview window 2 In the Quick Guide Overview window, do one of the following to start using Photoshop Album immediately: · · Click a tab. Click one of the six icons in the Overview window. Note: Click the Help button at the bottom-right corner of the Quick Guide window if you want to access the built-in Help. For more information on Help, see "Using Help" on page 13. To open the Quick Guide (if it's been closed): Choose Help > Quick Guide from the menu bar. To automatically show the Quick Guide when you start Photoshop Album: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences, and then click General from the list on the left. 2 Select Show Quick Guide at Startup. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 18 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 19 About the Photoshop Album work area The Adobe Photoshop Album work area is designed to help you get, find, view, organize, and fix photos; make creations; and share those photos and creations. To do all this, the work area is organized into several related components that help you move from one task to another easily and effectively. A B C D F G H E I The Photoshop Album work area A. Menu bar B. Shortcuts bar C. Timeline D. Find bar E. Photo well F. Calendar view G. Collections tab for displaying Collections pane H. Tags pane I. Options bar The menu bar The menu bar contains commands for performing tasks. The menus in the menu bar are organized according to the type of task you can perform. For example, the Find menu lists commands for finding photos according to date, name, and so forth. The menu bar Using Help | Contents | Index Back 19 Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 20 The shortcuts bar The shortcuts bar displays buttons for common commands, and is located just below the menu bar. You can quickly click these commands as you need them while you're working in Photoshop Album. To see the name of a button, position the pointer over the button and its tool tip appears. A B C D E F G H I J K The shortcuts bar A. Navigation buttons B. Click to show all photos C. Get photos, video, and audio D. Fix photos E. Start a new creation F. Print photos G. E-mail and share photos H. Display items in the photo well I. Display the Tags pane and Collections pane J. Display items in the calendar view K. Go to Adobe.com The timeline The timeline lets you find photos by the date they were taken. When you select a date or range of time in the timeline, photos that were created or saved with that date appear in the photo well. When you select a range of time in the timeline, the photo well scrolls to the photos that were taken within that range. You can also scroll to a particular month in any year by clicking that month in the timeline. The timeline also shows how items are distributed across time; the height of each bar is proportional to the number of images in each month. For more information on the timeline, see "Using the timeline to find photos" on page 82. A B C D E F G Using the timeline A. Click to scroll the range of the timeline B. Gray area indicates photos out of set range C. Drag end points to refine searches D. Click a bar or drag the marker to scroll to a different month E. Hold pointer over a bar to identify its range (month, import batch date, or file location) F. The height of the bar indicates the number of photos G. Blank area indicates hidden photos The find bar The find bar performs quick searches when you drag tags onto it. When not in use, the find bar is a horizontal bar right above the photo well. When you drag a tag onto it, the find bar automatically expands so you can see the tags you've added to the search. Every file with the chosen tag attached to it will be found, so if you want to refine your search, you can drag more tags onto the find bar. Using Help | Contents | Index Back 20