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Page 2: Technical Support
First English edition for Ulead Photo Explorer version 6.0, May 2000 Copyright © 2000 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without prior written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
® Welcome to Ulead Photo Explorer ______________________ 4 What’s new in this version _______________________________ 4 System requirements ___________________________________ 6 Installing and running the program ________________________ 6 Signing up for a free account ____________________________ 6 Photo Explorer at a glance _____________________________ 7 The Browser __________________________________________ 7 The Viewer ___________________________________________ 7 Customizing Photo Explorer ____________________________ 8... -
Page 4: Photo Explorer
Photo Explorer makes it fun and easy to view images and manage multimedia files in your computer. Get images from a digital camera, memory card reader or scanner directly in Photo Explorer and transfer them to your computer. Create your own color prints with a color printer, or make fun projects for your Windows desktop like wallpapers and screen savers. - Page 5 Viewer -- Display selected images in the Viewer window or in full screen. Advance through images manually or show them automati- cally on-screen. Customizable toolbars -- Add toolbar buttons for quicker access to your most desired imaging, file management and Internet tools. Slide Show Storyboard -- Bring together images from different folders into a slide show.
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Page 6: System Requirements
User Guide System requirements Before installing Photo Explorer, make sure your computer meets the follow- ing requirements: ® Intel Pentium Microsoft Windows 32 MB RAM (at least) 12 MB available hard drive space for program files Windows compatible pointing device True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher Internet connection (recommended) -
Page 7: Photo Explorer At A Glance
Photo Explorer provides two switchable windows. The Browser lets you jump from one folder to another with ease, move files between folders, and organize files effectively. The Viewer gives you full-size view of images. The Browser The Browser operates much like Windows Explorer. In the Browser window, you will see a Folder Tree at the left hand side and your files at the right. -
Page 8: Customizing Photo Explorer
When using any application, it is important for you to set up a work environment that’s comfortable and convenient for you. Photo Explorer provides many options that can change the look and feel of what’s on- screen to suit your needs. You can also make Photo Explorer as your image viewer and editor. -
Page 9: Customizing Toolbars
Customizing toolbars Photo Explorer’s Browser and Viewer toolbars are fully customizable. For quicker access to your most desired Photo Explorer commands and Internet tools, you can add them as buttons on the toolbars and even arrange their order. 1. Click File: Customize Toolbars. 2. -
Page 10: Browsing And Managing Files
With the convenience of thumbnails and the familiar Windows Explorer functionality, Photo Explorer makes it simple and easy to work with multimedia files. Displaying files in thumbnail or list view When you select a folder from the Folder Tree, multimedia files are displayed as visual thumbnails in the Browse Pane on the right hand side of Photo Explorer’s Browser window. -
Page 11: Managing Multimedia Files
To create thumbnail files: 1. Click File: Preferences. 2. Click the Cache category in the Preferences dialog box. 3. Select Save thumbnails in cache folder. 4. In the Cache size entry box, specify the amount of disk space to allot for the cache folder in which thumbnail files will be stored. -
Page 12: Previewing Files
User Guide Double-click an image file in the Browse Pane or click View: Open Viewer to display selected images in full size in the Viewer window. Click Edit: Copy Image Content to copy the actual contents of an image file. You can then paste the image to your image editor. Use the Photo menu commands to enhance images. -
Page 13: Creating A List Of Favorite Folders
Creating a list of favorite folders If your files are organized in many layers of folders, you may not be able to remember all their locations. It will be more convenient if you can selectively pick out frequently visited folders and “mark” them. You can do so by adding your folders to Photo Explorer’s Favorites list. -
Page 14: Getting Images
Images can come from different sources. With Photo Explorer, photos that were taken with a digital camera can be transferred to your PC. If you have a scanner device, transform photo prints or documents into images directly in Photo Explorer. Once you have all your desired images, easily rename the file names and renumber them based on your own numbering scheme. -
Page 15: Getting Images From A Twain Device
Getting images from a TWAIN device Most scanners and digital cameras come with TWAIN software that allows transfer of images to your computer. Make sure that the TWAIN software for your device has already been installed before you start getting images. 1. -
Page 16: Renaming And Renumbering Files
User Guide Renaming and renumbering files After getting images from a digital camera or scanner, you may want to change their file names or renumber their sequence. The Tools: AutoRename command allows you to change several file names at once. To automatically rename your files: 1. -
Page 17: Editing And Retouching Images
Images, especially those that came from a digital camera or scanner, often need some adjustments. Photo Explorer provides tools for you to view and do quick touch-ups to your images. Enhancing images Photo Explorer has all the basic tools that can help you adjust your images. -
Page 18: Adjusting The White Background
User Guide Adjusting the white background If you have digital camera photographs of meeting room whiteboards and paper documents, the image may appear to have a grayish background color. This is most noticeable when the image is printed. Click Photo: Turn Background into White to adjust the contrast level and restore the white background. -
Page 19: Slide Show And Other Cool Stuff
In Photo Explorer, you can make fun projects with your images. Create slide shows with music to make your images look more interesting. Decorate your Windows desktop by creating wallpapers using your favorite images. More so, make your own screen savers. Creating a slide show Photo Explorer’s Slide Show Storyboard is where you bring together images and plan out the sequence of how they will appear. -
Page 20: Viewing A Slide Show
User Guide Delay sets the length of time an image stays on- screen before displaying the next image. Control manually with keyboard or mouse, when selected, allows you to control the slide show. Advanced lets you choose more display options and add sounds to the slide show. -
Page 21: Other Fun Projects You Can Create
Other fun projects you can create Photo Explorer allows you to create unique and interesting projects for your desktop. You can access these tools in the Browser’s Tools menu: Wallpaper Use your favorite image as your Windows desktop wallpaper. Here’s how: 1. -
Page 22: Working On The Internet
With Photo Explorer, you can share your images and multimedia files over the Internet. Upload images to iMira.com, send files by e-mail, or include image collections and slide shows on your Web page. Photo Explorer also allows you to easily retrieve image, sound and video files from the Internet. -
Page 23: Creating Thumbnails For The Web
Creating thumbnails for the Web A cool way of sharing images is to put them on your own Web page. In Photo Explorer, you can create simple Web pages in just a few minutes, complete with an index of thumbnails and pages for displaying images. -
Page 24: Scanning The Web For Images
User Guide 3. Click the Page tab to design the layout for your Web page. Click the Advanced tab to adjust the timing for automatically displaying images. 4. Click OK to generate the HTML files (or a self-extracting EXE file). Scanning the Web for images Photo Explorer makes it fast and easy to download files from the Web.