Toolbar
The following commands are available to use with feature and are located on the Photo Albums window ribbon bar:
Got to toolbar's commands group description: Collection | Albums | Images | Tools
Collection - Buttons for adding elements to photo albums collection tree
Add Category
Add a root category to a collection tree view. A root category is a top level category on tree.
You can add sub categories or albums to the root categories.
Sub Category
Add a sub category to a selected category or sub category. A sub category is a child category, you can add as many sub categories as you wish wish and build your albums categories tree.
Add Album
Add a new album card to your albums collection. New album is empty and you can add your photos from disk using commands from Albums / Files menu.
Edit
Edit menu. This menu contains a few buttons for editing elements on collection tree.
Rename
Puts selected items on collection tree into an edit mode; you can rename an album or category.
You can also click on big button icon to do the same or press F2 key on your keyboard
Delete Selected Element
Deletes selected element from collection, if you select a category then the category along with all belonged albums will be deleted too.
Clear Collection
Clear the entire collection, deletes all categories, albums and its photos.
Albums
Your albums list. You can select quickly an album to view
Photos
Your photos list. You can select quickly a photo to view. This list show only photos from selected album, if you wish to see all your photos simply click Show All Images button from Photos / View menu
Albums - Buttons for adding elements to albums, viewing and editing albums.
The edit menu has the following buttons:
Delete Selected Album
Delete selected album along with its photos
Cut
Cut the selected album on collection tree, later using the Paste command you can move it to another category
Copy
Copy the selected album on collection tree, later using the Paste command you can copy it to another category
Paste
Paste an album selected by Cut or Copy command into a selected category or sub category
Paste Album Image
Paste picture from clipboard to currently selected album card on My Albums page. Use for supplying album cover
Load Album Image
Loads picture from selected file in File Browser to currently selected album card on My Albums page. Use for supplying album cover
Files
The Files button provides two functions in one. It acts as independent button and also has a drop down menu which from you can select other commands to execute.
Primary function of this button is to add files to an album
When you click on this button then selected image files from File Browser will be added to selected album.
Add Files From Disk To Selected Album
Add selected images from disk to current album. Works in the same way as button above.
Add Folders As Albums
Add images from selected folders and creates albums for every folder. Albums will be named after folder name.
Add Files From Disk - Create New Album
Add selected images from disk and create at once a new album. You can also select a folder and album with folder name and files within will be created
Add New Files To Selected Album
Add from selected folder in File Browser only those image files that does not exist in selected album
Tips:
You can drag folders with your images from File Browser and drop them onto a category or sub category item.
After dropping new albums will be created automatically. Each album will be named after dropped folder name.
Also you can drag image files from File Browser and drop them onto an album on collection tree or drop them on Album label on Album card
After dropping, new photo cards will be created automatically.
Tools
Tools menu has the following buttons:
Set Password
You can protect an album from viewing by others by setting an album password.
The password protection makes sense when you need to protect some albums and you have your images stored within the software database only.
In other cases anyone can view pictures just by browsing the disk.
When you store certain pictures into a software database then only advanced user can extract them from the database file.
The password itself is stored within a database as well but is encrypted.
Please remember your password. You will not be able to recover it or view your images if you forget it!
Remove Password
Removes password protection from current album, you must confirm with your password to remove.
Synchronize Selected Album
Synchronize selected album's photos with selected folder files in File Browser. If photo files does not exist on disk then photo will be removed from album. If file on disk is does not exist in album then will be added to album as new photo.
The photos that are permanently stored in software database will not be synchronized.
Search & Update Paths
Searches selected folder in File Browser for selected album files and updates photos paths if necessary. Use it to update album when you have had moved your image files on disk
Photos - Buttons for viewing and editing images
Edit
The edit menu has the following buttons:
Paste Image From Clipboard
Paste an image from clipboard into currently selected album
Cut
Cut the selected images, they will be moved to another album after use the Paste command
Copy
Copy the selected images, they will be copied to another album after use the Paste command
Paste
Paste images into selected album that was selected by Cut or Copy command
Select All
Selects all photos on the Photos page
Delete Selected
Delete selected photos on the Photos page
Delete All Images
Delete all images from current album
Export To Disk
Export selected photo from database to disk, a photo must be stored within software database first
The View button provides two functions in one. It acts as independent button and also has a drop down menu which from you can select other buttons.
Primary function of this button is to view selected photo in viewer
When you click on this button then selected photo on Photos list will be shown in one of software picture viewers.
You can view images in main software Picture Viewer or built in viewer.
To set which viewer you want to use go to Tools menu and under Options menu check or uncheck "Show images in main Picture Viewer" check mark
View Photo
Shows selected photo in selected picture viewer. Work in the same way as button above.
You can view photos in main software Picture Viewer or in built-in into a Photo Albums window.Select in options below which you want to use.
Show Album Images
Shows all images from selected album, use it if you need to reload or refresh the album images, for example after use of Show All Images.
Normally album images are shown automatically when you select an album by mouse click.
Show All Images
Show all images that are in your database. Images will be loaded into a Photos viewer. Please note that if you have a lot of images this may take a while.
Slideshow
This is a check mark button. If you click it once then becomes checked and starts images slideshow. When you click on it again it will stop the slideshow.
To specify how long image should be shown you can set the time interval in Tools menu, under Options change the value in "Slideshow interval" editor
Tools - miscellaneous commands
Print
Print menu
Print Image
Prints selected image
Albums List
Prints albums list
Photos List
Print photos list
Options
Options menu
Store images in database
If checked then images will be stored into a software database file.
When you adding images from disk to your albums then images are just linked to the files on your disk.
Home Multimedia Library provides a database that can store within the physical files form the disk.
When you adding files from disk into a database the files on disk will not be deleted.
Encrypt images in database
If checked and adding images to album then images will be encrypted and then stored into a software database file.
These images will not be protected by password, only our program can decrypt it and it will done in-the-fly
This option adding an additional layer of security, just only in case when your database with image files is stolen.
If you want to store encrypted images and have them protected by password, encrypt them first using our Sprintbit File Manager program.
Load last photo albums
If checked then last viewed photo album will be loaded when you open Photo Albums window
Show images in main Picture Viewer
If checked then images will be shown in main Picture Viewer, if not then they will be shown in picture viewer built-in within Photo Albums window
The difference is that the built-in viewer has image basic edit functionality enabled, but all are the same.
Database priority when showing images
If checked then program will try to show first selected photo on Photos from a database, if image does not exist in database then it will be loaded from disk.
Confirm items deletion
Confirm before deleting items from collection. If you check this option then any time you attempt to delete a category, album or photo form collection then you will have to confirm your action.
Slideshow Interval
Sets the slideshow interval value to specify how long the images are being displayed
Search
Start the search photos database for photos, you can specify the search criteria at Search page