Digital Photography - Main Software Window

Used to connect the software to your memory card reader device, and save your selected images to your PC. The images will be organized by the category, today's date, then by customer name. The software also adds the customer last name to the image file saved on your PC.

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Click the Connect to Image Memory Card button (1). If the software can't locate the memory card reader device, a pull down menu will appear (2) allowing you to select the drive letter for your memory card device. The software will recognize images of TIF and JPG image file formats.

The Organize Images (3) area is used to keep all your digital images organized. Select the Category for your images. You can add or remove Categories from the Manage Categories Menu (Add a Category, Remove a category) located on the Menu Bar. You must enter First name and Last name before buttons (4) and (5) are available.

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After successfully connecting to your memory card reader device. The software displays all images in a Thumbnail View Window (4). After filling in the First and Last name, button (2) Copy Selected Image to Customer Folder and button (3) Copy All Images from Thumbnail View to Customer Folder are available. These buttons save the selected image or all images to your PC. You can increase or decrease the Thumbnails using the Thumbnail Size Selector (5). The selected image will be highlighted with a Blue border and the file name will be appearing in area (6). You can change the displayed Thumbnails from Color to Sepia (7). Clicking the Right Mouse Button over an image, brings up a pop up menu (8).

The pop up menu has the following options:

• Delete - Remove the selected image from the Thumbnail View.
• Brighter - Increase the select image brightness as digital photography can be too dark.
• Rotate Single Image - Rotate the selected image, 90 deg, 180 deg, or 270 deg.
• Rotate All Images - Rotate all Thumbnail images, 90 deg, 180 deg, or 270 deg.
• Copy to Proof Sheet - Copies the selected images to a Proof Sheet.
• View Proof Sheet - After an image is Copied to Proof Sheet, this selection will display the proof sheet.
• Add to Proof Sheet - After the proof sheet is open, you can add images from the Thumbnail View to the Proof Sheet View.

(9) Double-clicking the left mouse button on an image opens the image in a bigger window. You can rotate, flip and change the brightness and contrast of the image.

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