Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Using Help 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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Using Help 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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Contents Back 3 Contents Addendum: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Album 2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Photoshop Album Basics 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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Photoshop Album Basics 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 F C G D H E I The Photoshop Album work area A. Menu bar B.
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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 21 In addition, when you drag a creation or collection onto the find bar, the photos in it are displayed in the photo well, replacing any previous view. A B C D E Find bar expanded with search criteria A. Search criteria B. Click a check box to show search results C. Clear the search and close the find bar D. Close match E.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 22 To view the calendar view, simply click the Calendar View button in the shortcuts bar. To switch to the photo well, click the Photo Well button in the shortcuts bar. A B C D E K F L G H M N O I P Q J Using the calendar view A. Click to select a month B. Click to select a year C. Click to view photos with unknown dates D. Click to select a date E. Click to display calendar view F.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 23 The Tags pane Photoshop Album automatically organizes your photos in the photo well. However, you can enhance your photo organization by attaching keyword tags to them. Tags are a powerful tool for finding and identifying photos, video clips, audio clips, and creations so you don’t have to remember each item’s filename, date, or folder.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Photoshop Album Basics Using Help | Contents | Index Back 24 The Properties palette The Properties palette contains detailed information about a selected photo or media file.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 25 Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Getting photos from digital cameras or card readers The way you get your photos from a digital camera depends on how your camera attaches to your computer. Some cameras come with TWAIN drivers (software made by the manufacturer that allows the camera to communicate with your computer) that must be installed first.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back • Click the Get Photos button Card Reader. • Choose File > Get Photos > From Camera or Card Reader. 26 in the shortcuts bar and then choose From Camera or If you have a WIA-enabled camera, Photoshop Album should automatically detect your camera when you attach it, so you won’t need to click the Get Photos button.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 27 Setting camera or card reader preferences Once you’ve set camera or card reader preferences, you may not have to change them unless you would like to get your photos from a different device. If you have changed the settings and are having trouble getting your photos, try clicking the Restore Default Settings button to return the preferences to the original configuration.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 28 Getting photos from scanners Photoshop Album lets you use a scanner to bring in images of your photos, negatives, and slides. Photoshop Album uses the scanner driver (software made by the manufacturer that allows the scanner to communicate with your computer) installed on your system to get scanned photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 29 4 Choose a file format for the scanned photos from the Save As pop-up menu (see “Working with different file formats in Photoshop Album” on page 39). JPEG is usually the best choice. Photoshop Album selects medium quality JPEG as the default format for your scan. If you choose the JPEG format, you’ll be able to drag the Quality slider.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 30 Getting photos from CDs and DVDs When you get photos from CDs and DVDs, you can choose whether or not to bring the photos onto the hard disk drive of your computer, or leave them on the CD or DVD, known as keeping them offline. A low-resolution copy, or proxy file, of a master photo kept offline is shown in your catalog so you can continue to view the photo in Photoshop Album.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 31 5 If you’re keeping a master photo offline, type in a Reference name for the CD or DVD that will make it easy for you to identify the disc in case Photoshop Album requests it at a later time. It’s also a good idea to write the reference name on the disc or its case. 6 Click Get Photos. Your photos are brought in to Photoshop Album.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 32 Getting photos from your computer When you import photos from your computer’s hard drive, Photoshop Album creates a link to the location of the photos. The original photo files remain in their locations on your computer. If you move a file, Photoshop Album might not be able to find the photo until you reconnect it from its new location (see “Reconnecting to missing files” on page 113).
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Back 33 • To get all the photos in a folder, navigate to the location of the folder and select it. Then click Get Photos. • If you want to get photos stored in multiple subfolders, navigate to the location of the main folder and select it. Select Get Photos from Subfolders, and then click Get Photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 34 Searching for files on your computer Often photos are scattered about in many different locations on your computer. Photoshop Album makes it easy to import photos by searching for all the photos and video clips on your computer and then letting you choose which ones you want to import. Removable media (CDs, DVDs) and network drives (if your computer is attached to a network) are not searched.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 35 5 When the search is complete, the lower area of the dialog box lists all the folders that were found to contain photos and video clips. 6 Click a folder to select it. To select more than one folder, press the Ctrl key and click on another folder name. You can preview the items in a folder by clicking the folder name in the list.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 36 are available to you. You can also refer to the Adobe Web site (http://www.adobe.com/ support/main.html) for the latest information. Make sure your phone saves photos in a file format that Photoshop Album supports; see “Working with different file formats in Photoshop Album” on page 39. To find out what file format is used by your phone, refer to the instructions that came with the phone.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 37 Importing photos using the Online Sharing Service If your mobile phone carrier is an Adobe service partner, you might be able to use Photoshop Album’s Online Sharing Services to transfer the photos from your phone to your Photoshop Album catalog. Note: If your mobile phone stores photos on a removable flash or memory card, use a card reader to transfer the photos to your catalog.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 38 3 Click Search. When the search is complete, the lower area of the dialog box lists all the folders that were found to contain ActiveShare albums. You can preview the items in a folder by clicking on the folder name in the list. 4 Click an album name to select or deselect the album for import. 5 When you’re done selecting or deselecting albums in the list, click Import Album.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index • Back 39 Click Reset to Basic to clear your changes and return to the basic Import Attached Tags dialog box. 4 Click OK. Photoshop Album imports the photos. The tags you selected are attached to the imported photos. New tags appear in the Tags pane under Imported Tags. Note: If the photos you are importing have a very large number of tags attached, a special dialog box appears.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 40 JPEG Commonly used by digital cameras, JPEG is one of the standard formats for displaying images over the World Wide Web and other online services. JPEG is a good choice for e-mailing photos. You can choose the level of compression you want when you save a photo as a JPEG file.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Getting Photos into Photoshop Album Using Help | Contents | Index Back 41 MPEG-1/.mpg MPEG-1 movies are optimized for CD-ROM viewing. MPEG movies are saved in the .mpg format. .mov QuickTime movies are saved in the .mov format. .avi Audio/Video Interleaved format is used for Windows-based movies. 3GPP/.3gp The 3GPP video file format, used by some mobile phones, requires QuickTime 6.3 or later and the QuickTime 3GPP component.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 42 Organizing Photos Making sense of your photo collection Photoshop Album lets you organize, sort, preview, and find your photos and video files. It does this by giving you access to these powerful tools: • The timeline is especially powerful because Photoshop Album automatically organizes photos in the photo well by the date the photo was taken.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 43 Organizing photos in the photo well Photoshop Album automatically organizes your photos in the photo well by their creation date, the batch they were imported in, or folder location. Different views of the photo well and timeline—by date, import batch, or folder location—appear when you choose a view from the Sort menu in the options bar. For more information about the photo well, see “The photo well” on page 21.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 44 To adjust the date and time of a photo or group of photos: 1 Select one or more photos in the photo well. Shift-click to select a series of photos. Ctrlclick to select nonadjacent photos. Then, do one of the following to open the Adjust Date and Time window: • Click the date or time in a thumbnail. The pointer turns into a pointing finger . Make sure that the Details option is selected in the options bar.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 45 Once you click OK, Photoshop Album adjusts the timeline to accommodate the updated photo and writes the new date and time to the photo’s file on disk. Note: In the Adjust Date and Time dialog box, you can also select the Change to Match File Date and Time option. To display dates in the format you’ve specified for your computer, press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 46 For example, you may have family photos located in many different folders on your computer. With Photoshop Album, you can create a Parents tag and attach it to each photo featuring your parents, and then instantly find any photo with that Parents tag, regardless of where the photo is stored on your system. For more information, see “Attaching tags to and removing tags from photos” on page 47.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 47 To create your own tag: 1 Click the New button in the Tags pane and choose New Tag. (For information on creating categories and subcategories, see “Creating categories and subcategories for tags” on page 53.) 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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 48 • Right-click the selected photo(s) and choose Attach Tag, followed by the name of the tag you want to attach. • Click to select a single tag, Shift-click to select multiple tags in a series, or Ctrl-click to select multiple tags. Then drag the tags onto any of the selected photos. • Click to select a single tag, Shift-click to select multiple tags in a series, or Ctrl-click to select nonadjacent tags.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 49 You can also move tags and subcategories in the Tags palette to improve the organization of your tags. For more information on subcategories, see “Creating categories and subcategories for tags” on page 53. To change a tag’s category, name, or note with the Edit Tag dialog box: 1 Select the tag in the Tags pane and do one of the following to open the Edit Tag dialog box: • Click the Edit button in the Tags pane.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 50 4 To change the portion of the photo included in the icon, resize and move the cropping marquee (the dotted outline). To resize, move the pointer to a corner of the marquee; when the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the corner. To move the marquee, place the pointer inside it; when the pointer changes to a hand, drag the marquee.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 51 Organizing tags in the Tags pane Tags are viewed and managed in the Tags pane. All the tags and subcategories you create are displayed along with the ones provided by Photoshop Album. You can create tags under any category or subcategory you want. However, a little advance planning will help you create a set of tags that will work for you in the long run. A B C D E F G H I J K L M The Tags pane A. Tags tab B.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 52 Using the People category, you might create tags under the Family subcategory named “Amanda” and “Bill.” You could then attach these tags to photos with those people in them. If you had a photo with Amanda and Bill in it, you could attach both of those tags to the photo. Later, you could use the tags to look for photos showing either or both of these people.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 53 All photos with the Hidden tag attached are normally hidden whenever you search for photos or when you click the Show All button . If you want to display hidden photos of a specific subject, select both the Hidden tag and the tag for the desired category or subcategory as your search criteria.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index • Back 54 To change the icon a category uses, click the icon you want from the Category Icon list. To add your own category icons to the list, place 20-pixel by 20-pixel images in the shared_assets\caticons folder located in the Photoshop Album folder. • To change the category a subcategory is listed under, choose a category from the Category menu.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 55 Creating and attaching tags based on existing folder names If you’ve already organized your photos into folders before ever using Photoshop Album, you probably don’t want to lose all the organizing you’ve done. Fortunately, with the Instant Tag button, you can quickly create and apply a tag with a folder’s name to all of the items in that folder.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 56 9 Repeat steps 3 through 8 for each folder you want to create an instant tag for. The tag appears in the Tags pane under the category or subcategory you selected and is applied to all items in that folder. Notice that the tag uses the first photo in the folder as its icon. You can change the icon to a different photo, as described in “Modifying and deleting tags” on page 48.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 57 3 If you selected small or medium tags, you can select the Alphabetical Order option to view your tags in alphabetical order regardless of their category or subcategory. 4 Click OK.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 58 In short, you can think of a tag as a marker of photos, and a collection as a container of photos. Use collections to organize your photos when making a creation. Above: Tags display items in one of four preset orders you select, such as by date. Below: Collections display items in the custom order you create. What are collections and how are they used? A collection is a container that you put photos into.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 59 For example, suppose you have photos from your trip to Japan. You could create a collection called “Ten Best Japan Photos” and put your ten favorite photos from that trip into that collection, and organize the photos from tenth best photo to the best photo. You could then show it in an instant slideshow or use it to make a creation based on that collection.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 60 • Click the check box next to the collection. • Drag the collection from the Collections pane to the find bar just above the photo well. Note: Items that have the Hidden tag attached always appear when you display a collection in the photo well. Creating your own collections One of the keys to organizing your photos is creating useful and descriptive collection names.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 61 • Drag the photo in the photo well into the collection in the Collections pane. • Select the photo you want. Then right-click and choose Add to Collection, followed by the collection name. • Drag the collection from the Collections pane onto the photo in the photo well. The photo is now part of that collection.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 62 The photos are part of the selected collections. If this is the first time you have put a photo into the collection, the photo becomes the icon for that collection. If you dragged multiple photos onto a collection, the first selected photo becomes the icon for the collection. To change the icon for that collection, see “Modifying and deleting collections” on page 63.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 63 To remove multiple photos from a collection: 1 In the photo well, select the photos you want to remove from a collection. Shift-click to select multiple photos in a series. Ctrl-click to select nonadjacent photos. 2 Depending on the view in the photo well, do one of the following: • Right-click one of the selected photos and choose Remove Selected Items from Collection, followed by the collection name.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 64 4 To change the portion of the photo included in the icon, resize and move the cropping marquee (the dotted outline). To resize, move the pointer to a corner of the marquee; when the pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the corner. To move the marquee, place the pointer inside it; when the pointer changes to a hand, drag the marquee.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 65 • To move a single photo, drag the photo to its new position. • To move multiple photos, Shift-click to select multiple photos in a series or Ctrl-click to select non adjacent photos. Then drag the photos to their new location within the collection. Dragging a photo from a collection in the photo well; after dragging, the photo appears in its new location.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 66 Viewing information about a photo The Properties palette contains detailed information about a selected photo or media file.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index • Organizing Photos Back 67 Click the General button to view or edit general information: any caption, the name and location of the file, notes, file size, pixel dimensions, duration (for video clips and audio clips), and any audio annotation. To open a window displaying the folder the item came from, click the Folder button at the bottom of the pane. • Click the Tags button file is in.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 68 Captions can be added at any time after you bring photos into Photoshop Album. However, if you plan to use captions in a Photoshop Album creation such as an album, slideshow, video CD, calendar, photo book, Web Photo Gallery, or Atmosphere 3D Gallery, you must add a caption before making your creation. Otherwise, no captions will appear with your photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 69 Adding notes to photos Descriptive notes are an excellent way of identifying a photo and recording information you don’t want to lose about your photos. The Notes text box in the Properties palette lets you enter and view information such as personal reminiscences or anecdotes about a photo. Keep in mind that notes can be viewed only on-screen in Photoshop Album. Note: Notes can be up to 1,023 characters in length.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 70 • To record a caption, click the Record button in the audio window and begin speaking into the microphone set up for your computer. Click the Record button again when you’ve finished your audio caption. You can listen to your audio caption by clicking the Play button . If you’re not satisfied with the recording, click the Record button again to rerecord your audio caption.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 71 To rename files in a batch: 1 Select items in the photo well. Shift-click to select items in a series. Ctrl-click to select nonadjacent items. 2 Choose File > Rename from the menu bar. 3 Type a name in the Common Base Name text box, and then click OK. Note: Keep in mind that if you batch rename an edited or duplicated photo, it is renamed as specified, losing its “_edited” or “-copy” suffix.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 72 • The path, filename, and volume name of the original, full-resolution file (if the original file is stored offline, in other words, left on the CD or DVD) • The path and filename of the original, unedited file (if the file has been edited) • The name of any camera or scanner associated with the batch of imported photos • Any caption you’ve added to a photo • Any notes you’ve added to a photo • The media type—
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Organizing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 73 Specifying the default folder for catalogs Although it is generally not necessary, you can name a different folder in which to store any catalog you create. This flexibility is available in case you expect to create a very large catalog and want to store it on a different disk drive. To specify a different default catalog folder: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences and select Files from the list on the left.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 74 Copying catalogs The Save As option in the Catalog dialog box creates a new copy of your current catalog and then opens it as your new catalog, retaining your old one. This is useful, for instance, if you want to rename your catalog, or if you want to provide a catalog to someone else you know who wants to create his or her own sets of photos and tag organizations but wants to base it on your tag organization.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 75 2 Choose File > Backup from the menu bar. Note: Backup backs up only the currently open catalog. If you have multiple catalogs, be sure to open the one you want to back up. The Burn/Backup wizard appears with the option Backup the Catalog selected. 3 Click Next. If necessary, a dialog box appears and asks whether you want to check for missing files and reconnect them first.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 76 9 If you’re making an incremental backup, locate or insert the media containing the last full backup. Then follow the on-screen directions to insert the media on which you want to make the incremental backup. If the backup won’t fit on the media, Photoshop Album notifies you and asks for additional media as needed. Note: Photoshop Album will give you the option of verifying the disc or not.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index • Organizing Photos Back 77 Choose a speed at which to burn the items. The highest possible speed for your drive and CD/DVD media is chosen by default. If that speed doesn’t work, try progressively lower speeds until you find one that works. 7 After Photoshop Album calculates how many discs are needed for the archive, click Burn. Photoshop Album prompts you to insert writable CDs or DVDs as needed.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Organizing Photos Back 78 • Restore from CD or DVD if your backup files are on either of these media. • Restore from Hard Disk or Other Storage Volume if your backup files are on your hard disk or some other media, such as a flash drive. 4 Select the drive from the list and click Restore.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 79 Viewing and Finding Photos Viewing photos in the photo well Photos, video clips, audio clips, and creations appear in the photo well organized in grids of thumbnails you can resize. The buttons in the options bar help you organize and sort files in the photo well. (See “The photo well” on page 21.) You can also view photos by date, using the calendar view.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 80 At the far right of the thumbnail slider is the single photo view, which shows one photo at a time in the photo well. If Details is selected in the options bar, you can view and edit the photo’s caption or audio annotation in single photo view. A B C D E F G H I Single photo view A. Click to edit date and time B. Scroll to the previous/next photo C. Double-click to open Fix Photo window D.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 81 Sorting files in the photo well Photoshop Album gives you different ways to sort your catalog in the photo well. You can also decide what kind of media files appear in the photo well. Photo Well Arrangement menu in the options bar You can choose from the following sort options: • Date (Newest First) to show the most recently taken or imported photos first.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 82 3 Select Show File Names in Details to display the file name of each photo in the photo well when the Details option is selected in the options bar. Using the timeline to find photos Because Photoshop Album automatically organizes your photos in the timeline, you can view and find photos without ever attaching tags to them. The timeline is divided into years and months.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 83 2 Choose an option from the Photo Well Arrangement menu. (See “Sorting files in the photo well” on page 81.) 3 Do one of the following: • Click and drag the timeline endpoint markers in or out to the range you’d like to view. • Choose Find > Set Date Range. For both the start date and end date, type a year in the Year text box, and then choose a month and day to specify the date range you want to search.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 84 To switch to the calendar view, simply click the Calendar View button in the shortcuts bar. To switch to the photo well, click the Photo Well button in the shortcuts bar. A B C D E K F L G H M N O I P Q J Using the calendar view A. Click to select a month B. Click to select a year C. Click to view photos with unknown dates D. Click to select a date E. Click to display calendar view F.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back • 85 Click the name of the year to display a list of years from which you can choose. A B Choosing a different month in the calendar view A. Click the month to display a list of months B. The list shows which months contain photos 3 Click the day of interest. 4 If there is more than one photo in the day, click the Play button slideshow in the calendar view.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 86 To view photos in the day view: 1 Select the day you want to view and click the Day button . 2 Do one of the following: • To view a photo, click its thumbnail in the column to the right. • To view all the photos for the selected day as a slideshow in the calendar view, click the Play button .
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 87 In the month and year views of the calendar, holidays and events are displayed using special colors. B A Holidays and events displayed in the calendar view A. Examples of holidays B. Examples of custom events You can use the Preferences dialog box to add, remove, and edit events. For more information, see “Setting calendar view preferences” on page 87.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 88 3 Select any holidays you want to note in the calendar view. Click Select All or Select None to note all or none of the holidays. 4 Add, delete, and edit events as desired: • To add an event, click New and enter information in the Create New Event dialog box. • To edit an event, select the event and click Edit. Change the information in the Edit Event dialog box.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 89 2 A list of the photos you’ve printed appears. Double-click an item to see the photos. For more information about printing photos, see “Printing photos at home” on page 154. To find photos by the date they were exported: 1 Choose Find > By History > Exported On. 2 A list of the media files you’ve exported appears, including the dates and times they were exported. Double-click an item to see the files.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 90 Finding photos using tags Photoshop Album has plenty of tools to help you find your photos. By attaching a tag to your photos and other media (see “Attaching tags to and removing tags from photos” on page 47), you give Photoshop Album the information it needs to help you quickly find what you are looking for. When you use tags to find photos, the find bar expands to show you the tags you’ve selected.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 91 To find untagged items: Choose Find > Untagged Items to see all the photos in your catalog that don’t have tags assigned to them. Best matches, close matches, and not matching photos When you search using tags, Photoshop Album ranks the results of the search using the following groups: Best matches These photos are tagged with all the search criteria tags.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 92 Using 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.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 93 Finding photos with the Favorites tag or the Hidden tag The Favorites tag helps you easily find your favorite photos, video clips, audio clips, or creations. When the Favorites tag is attached to a photo, it has preference in searches with the Favorites tag as a search criteria. You’d attach the Hidden tag to photos, video clips, audio clips, or creations that you generally don’t want to view or sort through.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 94 Finding photos by filename, caption, or annotation You can find photos by entering a word or phrase used in the photo’s filename (the name they are saved under), caption, or note. Note: The commands on the Find menu work only in the photo well view or the organize view, and not in the calendar view. To find photos by their caption or note: 1 Choose Find > By Caption or Note.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 95 Setting preferences for instant slideshows You can personalize your instant slideshows by setting slideshow preferences. To set slideshow preferences: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences, and then select Slideshow from the list of preferences on the left side of the dialog box. 2 Choose from the following options: Background Music: Select a audio clip to accompany your slideshow.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 96 To view video clips: 1 Double-click the video clip in the photo well. 2 When the Photoshop Album Media Player appears, click the Play button to start the video. You can click the Pause or Stop buttons during the viewing to interrupt or stop the video. 3 When you’re finished, click the close button Player.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Viewing and Finding Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 97 To find photos used in Web Photo Galleries: 1 Choose Find > By History > In Web Photo Galleries. 2 A list of Web photo galleries appears. Select an item to view the media used in the photo gallery. To find photos used in Adobe Atmosphere 3D Galleries: 1 Choose Find > By History > In Adobe Atmosphere 3D Galleries. 2 A list of Atmosphere galleries appears. Select an item to view the media used in the gallery.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 98 Fixing Photos Fixing your photos Nobody takes perfect photos all the time. Problems with a photo’s orientation, exposure, color balance, and framing are common. Fortunately, Photoshop Album has tools to fix the most common photo problems right within the application. For instance, you can adjust the overall color, contrast, brightness, and sharpness of the photo.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 99 Calibrating your monitor To help your photo editing, your monitor should be calibrated to display colors more reliably. Calibration is the process of eliminating any color cast from your monitor and making the monitor grays as neutral as possible. The result is that what you see on screen more accurately represents what your photos will look like when printed.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 100 name for the profile. When you are finished with Adobe Gamma, save the profile using the same description name. (If you do not have a default profile, contact your monitor manufacturer for appropriate phosphor specifications.) • To use a compact version of the utility with all the controls in one place, select Control Panel, and click OK. This version is recommended only if you have experience creating color profiles.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 101 Fixing photos in Photoshop Album The photos you bring into Photoshop Album may not be perfect. They may need to be rotated, cropped, lightened, sharpened, or otherwise adjusted. Photoshop Album provides a variety of ways to fix your photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 102 Using the Fix Photo dialog box The Fix Photo dialog box lets you make a variety of adjustments to a photo, all within a single dialog box. It provides “before” and “after” previews of the photo being fixed as well as controls for zooming in on and zooming out from the preview, and undoing changes.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 103 To open the Fix Photo dialog box: 1 Select one or more photos in the photo well or a single photo in the calendar view. 2 Call up the Fix Photo dialog box: • Click the Fix button in the shortcuts bar, and choose Fix Photo. • Choose Edit > Fix Photo. • Right-click and choose Fix Photo. • Double-click a photo in the photo well to display just that photo, and then double-click the photo again.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 104 To apply changes and close the Fix Photo dialog box: Click OK at the bottom of the Fix Photo dialog box. To revert to the original photo as it looked when you imported it into Photoshop Album: Choose Edit > Revert to Original from the menu bar. To call up Help while in the Fix Photo dialog box: Click the Help button .
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 105 In photos taken in bright light, shadows are often so dark that they show little detail. You can lighten such shadows using the Lighten Shadows slider. Before and after lightening shadows in a photo To adjust lighting in a photo: 1 Select a photo in the photo well. 2 Open the Fix Photo dialog box. (See “Using the Fix Photo dialog box” on page 102.) 3 Select Fix Lighting. The lighting is automatically adjusted.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 106 Adjusting color in photos The Fix Color options let you adjust the color in photos. The Correct Color slider controls the amount of the color correction and the Adjust Temperature slider adjusts the image tone from cooler to warmer. You can adjust either or both elements to transform the mood and atmosphere of a photo.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 107 Adjusting sharpness in photos The Sharpen Photo option adds clarity to a photo by reducing the fuzziness of the edges of an object. Note however, that because this feature sharpens only the edges of objects, it cannot correct a photo that is out of focus. Before and after using Sharpen Photo To sharpen the edges of objects in a photo: 1 Select a photo in the photo well or calendar view. 2 Open the Fix Photo dialog box.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 108 6 If necessary, move or resize the rectangle in the preview image so the eye is centered inside the rectangle. To move the rectangle, position the pointer inside it and drag. To resize the rectangle, drag any of the resize handles on the rectangle. 7 Click Apply. 8 Repeat steps 4 through 8 for each instance of red eye in the photo.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 109 4 To maintain a certain ratio between the height and width of the cropped photo, choose an option from the Select Aspect Ratio pop-up menu. For example, if you choose 4 x 6, the ratio of height to width is 4 units to 6 units. Note: Don’t confuse the aspect ratio of a photo with its size. Aspect ratio refers only to the relationship between the height and width of a photo, not to its size in inches or pixels.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 110 To apply automatic lighting and color corrections to multiple photos: 1 Select one or more photos in the photo well. 2 Do one of the following: • Choose Edit > Auto Fix. • Click the Fix button • Right click and choose Auto Fix. and choose Edit with Auto Fix. Fixing photos in other applications If you have another image-editing application installed on your computer, you can jump to that application to fix photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 111 • Click the Fix button in the shortcuts bar, and choose Edit with Photoshop Elements (if installed) or Edit with Photoshop (if installed). • Choose Edit > Edit with, followed by the name of the application. • Right-click and choose Edit with, followed by the name of the application. The photo opens in the application you chose.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 112 6 Finish the external editing to make the changes appear in Photoshop Album: • Choose Edit > Finish External Edit. • Select the unedited photo in the photo well. Then right-click and choose Finish External Edit. If you don’t want to keep the edits, choose Edit > Undo External Edit.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index • Fixing Photos Back 113 If you selected multiple photos, choose Edit > Replace Selected Originals with Edited. You can also right-click and choose Replace Selected Originals with Edited. Duplicating photos To create multiple versions of a photo which you can edit differently, you can use the Duplicate command to create a copy of the photo. The copied photo becomes a new file on your system and a new entry in the catalog.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 114 The most common reasons that Photoshop Album may have difficulty finding a file include: • Moving files to a different folder or drive not using Photoshop Album. To prevent this problem, move the files in your catalog with the Move command (see “Moving files” on page 116.) • Renaming a file outside of Photoshop Album.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 115 • Select one or more items with the file missing icon in the photo well. Then choose Edit > Reconnect Missing File. You can also right-click the item and choose Reconnect Missing File from the context menu. • Choose File > Reconnect All Missing Files from the menu bar. It’s not necessary to select the missing items in the photo well. Photoshop Album begins validating all of the items in your catalog.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Fixing Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 116 reconnect. This option has the same effect as deleting the item(s) from the photo well without deleting them from the hard disk. B A C D Reconnecting multiple missing files A. Select one or more missing items from an old folder location. B. Navigate to the new folder location C. Select the folder to search in or file to reconnect to. D. Click Find/Reconnect.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 117 To move files: 1 In the photo well, select one or more items you want to move. 2 Choose File > Move. 3 Click Browse in the dialog box that appears.Then navigate to locate and select the folder into which you want to move the selected items. 4 If you want to move to offline media, such as a CD, a dialog box appears, asking you to insert the media. Do any of the following: • Click OK to proceed.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Fixing Photos Back 118 Copying photos to other applications You can copy photos and video clips from your Photoshop Album catalog to other applications by dragging them or using the Copy and Paste commands. However, Photoshop Album does not track any changes you make to a photo in the other application unless you reimport it. To edit photos in other applications, see “Adjusting multiple photos automatically” on page 109.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 119 Making Creations from Your Photos Sharing your photos with Photoshop Album creations The best thing about photos is sharing them with friends and family. Whether the photos are viewed in an album, in a slideshow, through TV, or on a Web page, it’s a joy to watch people’s faces brighten when they see your photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 120 The Creations Wizard lets you choose from an assortment of template styles. To offer you even more possible styles, Photoshop Album lets you download additional templates from Adobe’s partners. The Creations Wizard guides you through making a creation in six easy steps.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 121 3 In step 4 of the Creations Wizard, add the photos and video clips you want to include in your creation. After you’ve added the photos, you can arrange them in the order you prefer. For more information about adding and arranging photos, see “Adding and arranging photos in your creation” on page 122.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 122 Adding and arranging photos in your creation You add photos and video clips to your creation using step 4 of the Creations Wizard. Once you’ve added the photos you want to include, you can rearrange, duplicate, or remove them. A B C D Adding photos to your creation A. Select a set of photos to display in the dialog box B. Click the box next to each photo you want to include in your creation C.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index • Making Creations from Your Photos Back 123 Click the Include Hidden check box to display items that have the Hidden tag. Hidden items are not displayed in the Add Photos to Creation dialog box unless you click this check box. Note: The photos are displayed and added to your creation oldest first, regardless of the sort order in the photo well. The exception is collections, which have their own custom order.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 124 To rearrange photos in your creation: In step 4 of the Creations Wizard, select one or more photos and drag them to a different position. A yellow line indicates where the photo will be placed when you release the mouse button.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 125 To preview your creation: Click the navigation buttons in step 5 of the Creations Wizard or click the Full Screen Preview button . In the Full Screen Preview, if your creation has multiple pages, they are displayed as a slideshow (even if your creation type is not a slideshow). Control the pace of the slideshow using the on-screen controls. To end the slideshow before it’s over, press Esc.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 126 video anyway, you can suppress the warning by selecting Allow Video to Resize in step 3 of the Creations Wizard. In all other types of creations, only the first frame of the video is included in your creation, and it can be repositioned and resized. To rearrange the photos in your creation: Return to step 4 of the Creations Wizard.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 127 To create an album: 1 Use the Creations Wizard to create an album. For instructions on using the Creations Wizard, see “Making creations using the Creations Wizard” on page 119. 2 When you get to step 3 in the Creations Wizard, use the following options to set up your album: Title Select this option if you want your album to have a title page. Then type a title in the Title text box.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 128 Creating slideshows Slideshows automatically present your photos in the sequence you specify. Photoshop Album slideshows also include a control panel to let the viewer control the playback. Slideshows are an excellent way to share your photos via e-mail or CD. Photoshop Album provides a variety of slideshow templates that are designed to be viewed on computer screens and televisions.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 129 Background Music If you want background music to play during the slideshow, choose a file from the Background Music pop-up menu or click Browse to locate an MP3 or .wav file on your computer. The pop-up menu lists only music files that have been imported into your catalog. If you select a music file with the Browse button, it will be automatically imported for you.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 130 Creating video CDs Video CDs are designed primarily for viewing on a television when played in a DVD player. Video CDs can also be played on a computer if it has a DVD drive and DVD player software compatible with the video CD format. Video CDs are designed for viewing on a television monitor. To create a video CD: 1 Use the Creations Wizard to create a video CD.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 131 High Quality Select this option if you want your video CD to have a higher image resolution. If you select High Quality, your video CD will not include background music or transitions. To use background music or transitions, deselect High Quality. 3 Click Next or step 4 to add photos to your video CD. For instructions, see “Adding and arranging photos in your creation” on page 122.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 132 4 Click next or step 5 to preview your greeting card and customize it by repositioning or resizing the photo. For more information, see “Previewing and customizing creations” on page 124. 5 Click Next or Step 6 and click Print in the Output Options list to print your greeting card. Once the page is printed, fold the page in half, and then fold in half again to finish your card.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 133 Play Audio Captions Select this option to play an audio caption that you previously recorded for the photo in your eCard. For more information on making audio captions, see “Adding audio captions to photos” on page 69. Transition Choose how you want the front page of your eCard to shift to the inside page from the Transition pop-up menu.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 134 Creating calendars Making your own calendars is a great way to enjoy your photos every month of the year. Photoshop Album provides a variety of templates for creating calendars that you can print on your home printer. All you have to do is specify a range of months, and Photoshop Album does the rest for you.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 135 Creating photo books When you want a special way to preserve your memories, consider creating a photo book. You can have your photos put into an elegant hardcover book from a professional publisher. All you have to do is set up your book using the Creations Wizard and then place your order online. You will receive your photo book in the mail.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 136 5 Click Next or Step 6 to publish and save your photo book. For more information, see step 5 in “Making creations using the Creations Wizard” on page 119. Click Order Online under Output Options to have an Adobe photo merchandise partner print your book. Follow the on-screen instructions to place your order. Burning your creation to a CD or DVD You can burn a slideshow creation to a CD or DVD.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 137 Opening saved creations When you click the Done button in the Creations Wizard, Photoshop Album saves your creation for you. Saved creations appear in the photo well along with all your photos. The creations are identified with a creations icon . You can open saved creations at any time to make changes or republish them.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 138 Creating a photo gallery for the Internet Creating a Web Photo Gallery is an easy way to share your photos on the Internet. You don’t have to know anything about HTML programming to create a photo gallery because Photoshop Album does all the work for you.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 139 Font and Size To label your gallery thumbnails, choose Font and Size options in the Captions section, and then select one or more Use options: Filename, Caption, and Date. Use Filename, Caption, or Date Select one or more options to specify the text that appears with the thumbnails.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 140 Creating an Adobe Atmosphere 3D Gallery for the Internet Making an Adobe Atmosphere 3D Gallery is a unique and creative way to share your photos on the Internet. Your photos are placed on the walls of a virtual gallery building, where users can “walk around” in the unique 3D space to view your images.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 141 access to your gallery, simply deselect Enable Chat during the creation process, or password-protect the Web page when you upload it to the Internet. To learn how to password-protect a page, contact your Internet service provider. 5 In the Destination area, select the location where you want to save a folder containing the Adobe Atmosphere 3D Gallery files.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Making Creations from Your Photos Using Help | Contents | Index • Back 142 A Thumbnails subfolder and a ThumbnailFrame HTML file. 11 Copy the contents of the destination folder to a Web server. For information on how and where to transfer the files, contact your Internet service provider. Viewing and navigating the Adobe Atmosphere 3D Gallery Once an Adobe Atmosphere 3D gallery is opened using a Web browser, you can walk around it in a number of ways.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Making Creations from Your Photos Back 143 2 Choose Edit > Set as Desktop Wallpaper. Note: You can also make a Windows XP screen saver from Photoshop Album. Select the photos you want to use and export them to a new folder (give the new folder a name like “screen saver.”) Use the Windows XP Display control panel to create your screen saver using the photos in the new folder.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Back 144 Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Working with photo resolution The size you can print your photo is determined by its resolution, which is measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixels are the tiny squares that make up digital photos. The number of pixels on each side of a photo are known as the pixel dimensions of a photo.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 145 If you have a photo with a low resolution, you can’t increase the quality of the photo by simply making it larger. You’ll end up with a grainy photo, because the pixels are too large. Instead, work with the photo to make it look its best. Try choosing the 2.1" x 2.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 146 Sharing photos using e-mail Photoshop Album does all the work of creating attachments for e-mail by generating a preaddressed e-mail message with attached images or PDF slideshows. Before you start emailing photos and creations, you need to set e-mail preferences (see “Setting e-mail preferences” on page 146), and set up your contact book (see “Setting up your contact book” on page 147).
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Back 147 recipient to have the best viewing experience, or if download speed isn't a big concern (if you and the recipient have a high-speed Internet connection). • Medium to send a good-quality photo. The file size of individual photos will be about average, making this a good selection if you want to send photos without losing a lot of detail. Medium is the setting that works well for most photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 148 If you use the contact book to address your photo-sharing e-mail, then Photoshop Album tracks who you’ve shared each photo with. You can then find photos later according to who you’ve shared them with (see “Finding photos by their history” on page 88). If you prefer, you can type in e-mail addresses in your e-mail system instead of using the contact book. A B C D Contact book A.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 149 E-mailing files When you want to share your photos with friends and family, you can quickly attach images to an e-mail message with the click of a button. If your photos have tags attached, you can include the tags with your attachments, and recipients with Photoshop Album 2.0 can import the tags into their own catalogs when they import the photos.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index • Back 150 Click Add Recipient and type a name and e-mail address for the recipient. If you want to add the recipient to your contact book, select the Add to Contact Book option. When you’re done entering information, click OK. 6 Select Include Tags With Photos to include any tags that are attached to the photo. Recipients who have Photoshop Album 2.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 151 To send a photo, you need to know the e-mail address of the mobile phone. Before sending, you might want to add the mobile phone e-mail addresses of the intended recipients to your contact book. For more information, see “Setting up your contact book” on page 147. To send photos to a mobile phone: 1 Select one or more photos in the photo well or calendar view.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 152 Photoshop Album resizes the photos for viewing on your handheld and generates a PDF file containing the photos. The file is sent to the Adobe Reader for Palm OS software installed on your computer. Adobe Reader might display messages about PDF file; click OK to continue. 5 When Adobe Reader is ready, synchronize your Palm OS handheld. The PDF file is sent to your handheld, where you can view it.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Back 153 Exporting photos When you need to create a copy of a photo for use in a project involving another program, you can export it. The file format you choose depends on how you plan to use the image. Exported images are saved onto your computer’s hard drive. For information on the file formats you can use, see “Working with different file formats in Photoshop Album” on page 39.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 154 6 If you are exporting more than one file, do one of the following: • Select Original Names to use the current name of the photos. • Select Common Base Name and then type a name. Photoshop Album adds sequential numbers to this base name to create names for all the photos being exported.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 155 Use the Print Selected Photos dialog box to choose options for your printed photos. The left side of the dialog box shows the selected photos, and the right side shows a preview of each page of the print job. When you change a print option, Photoshop Album updates the preview. This may take a few seconds, depending on how many photos you’re printing. A B C Three different printing options A.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 156 To specify measurement units for printing: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences, and then click General. 2 Under Measurement Units, select either Inches or Centimeters/Millimeters to specify the units of measurement you would like Photoshop Album to use. This setting determines the sizes you can choose from when you print or crop a photo.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back will fit on a page, you can scroll through the pages using the Forward button Backward button below the preview at the right side of the dialog box. 157 and the • Choose Fit on Page to scale the image to fill the page. Note that if the size of the photo is small, or if it has low resolution, this option may not give you good-quality printed output. • Choose Custom Size to enter a specific size.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 158 Printing a picture package A picture package prints each selected photo in a variety of sizes, similar to portraits purchased from a professional photographer. All you need to do is select the layout you want, and then Photoshop Album fills the page. Each photo you select is printed on its own page (you can’t mix and match photos on one page).
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 159 6 Each selected photo prints on its own page. To preview each page of the print job, click the Forward and Backward buttons below the preview. It may take Photoshop Album a few seconds to update the preview. 7 When you’re done setting options and previewing the print job, click Continue. The Print dialog box appears and displays your current printer settings.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 160 The Print Selected Photos dialog box appears. The left side of the dialog box shows the selected photos, and the right side of the dialog box shows a preview of each page in the print job. When you change a print option, Photoshop Album updates the preview. This may take a few seconds, depending on how many photos you’re printing. 4 Under Layout, select Contact Sheet.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 161 Ordering prints from online services It’s easy to order prints from an online service. Before you order, make sure that your photo’s resolution is good enough so the printed photo looks good (see “Working with photo resolution” on page 144). Note: If you want to have a creation printed by an online service provider, follow the directions in “Ordering from online services” on page 136.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Sharing, Printing, and Exporting Photos Using Help | Contents | Index Back 162 To check for new online services: 1 Choose Online Services > Check for New Services. 2 A dialog box appears as Photoshop Album checks the services for changes. 3 New services are installed on your computer.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Shortcuts Using Help | Contents | Index Back 163 Shortcuts Navigating Result Action Moves selection in photo well, calendar, and creations up/down/left/right Up Arrow/Down Arrow/Left Arrow/Right Arrow Moves up in photo well and creations without changing selection. Page Up Moves down in photo well and creations without changing selection. Page Down Moves selection in photo well and creations to first item and scrolls view to it.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Shortcuts Using Help | Contents | Index Back 164 Zooms in Ctrl + + Zooms out Ctrl + – Views at 100% Ctrl + Alt + 0 Fits in preview window Ctrl + 0 Undoes Ctrl + Z Redoes Ctrl + Y OK Enter Cancels Esc Moves selection area 1 pixel up/down/ left/right (when removing red-eye or cropping) after you use the Tab key to highlight selection area Up Arrow/Down Arrow/Left Arrow/Right Arrow Moves selection area 10 pixels up/down/ left/right (when removing red-eye or cro
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Shortcuts Using Help | Contents | Index Back 165 Back 165 Viewing the calendar Result Action Goes to subset view (day > month > year) +/= Goes to superset view (year > month > day) -/_ Starts automatic sequencing in day view Enter Goes to day view when in month/year view Enter Displays next photo on selected day . Displays previous photo on selected date , Moves to next day/month/year in calendar. ] Moves to previous day/month/year in calendar.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Using Help | Contents | Index Legal Notices Back 166 Legal Notices Copyright © 2003 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe® Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition User Guide for Windows® If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end-user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 167 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Index A Add Event command 86 Add Photos to Creation dialog box 122 adding information to photos 67 Adjust Date and Time command 44 adjusting color 106 date and time of a photo 43 sharpness 107 temperature 106 adjusting lighting automatically 109 Adobe Acrobat 40 Adobe ActiveShare albums 37 Adobe Atmosphere 3D Gallery command 140 Adobe Gamma 99 Adobe PhotoDeluxe 40 Adobe PhotoDelu
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 168 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z BMP file format 40 brightness 105 brightness and contrast 99 Burn command 76 Burn dialog box 136 burning 76 burning a CD or DVD 136 By Caption or Note (find) command 94 By Color Similarity (find) command 96 By Filename (find) command 94 By Media Type (find) command 89 C calendar about 83 viewing mini-slideshows 83 Calendar preferences 87 Events 88 Holidays 88 Use Monday As First
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 169 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z order of photos 124 tag category 49, 53 tag icon 49, 63 tag name 49, 53 tag note 49, 53 Check for New Services command 162 Choose a Recipient for Your Photos dialog box 151 choosing media types to view 81 Clear button 92 Close matches 91 closely matching photos 91 collection icon 80 Collection Order (sort) command 81 collections 42 about 23, 58 changing name or note 63 creating 60
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 170 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Delete Category command 54 Delete from Catalog command 117 Delete Selected Item(s) from Catalog command 117 Delete Selected Items from Catalog command 117 Delete Subcategory command 54 deleting collections from a catalog 63 items from a catalog 117 tags from a catalog 48 the original file 117 desktop wallpaper, using photos as 142 Details option 67, 79, 81 digital cameras about dr
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 171 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Automatically Search for and Reconnect Missing Files 39 Folders for Saved Files 39 Import EXIF Caption 39 offline media 31 Proxy File Size 31, 39 Use Date File Was Last Modified if No EXIF Date Found 39 filenames for edited photos 98 files missing batch reconnect 114 Files preferences Automatically Search for and Reconnect Missing Files 114 Filters options 109 find bar 6, 19, 20,
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 172 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Folder Location command 55 Folder Location view 55 Full Screen Preview button 80, 86, 125 importing multiple photos 32 GIF file format 40 greeting cards, creating 131 G H gamma 99 General options 104 General Preferences Centimeters/Millimeters 108 Inches 108 General preferences Allow Photos to Resize 81 Measurement Units 156 Show Closely Matching Sets for Searches 91 Show File
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 173 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z M N Manage Accounts command 160 managing accounts 160 matching photos 91 Media Player 96 Media Types (view) command 81 media types, viewing 81 menu bar 6, 19 metadata,keyword 38 midtone values 99 missing files batch reconnect 114 reconnecting 113 Mobile Phone preferences 36 Mobile Phone Folder 36 Notify Me if this Folder Has Recently Changed 36 modifying categories 53 modifying
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 174 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z using tags 23, 45 Original view 102 Other category 52 overexposed areas, fixing 104 P Page Setup command 155 PAL video format 136 Palm OS handheld,sending photos with 151 Paste command 118 pasting photos or video clips into other applications 118 PDD file format 40 PDF file format 40 PDF format 150 for sharing photos 121 PDF slideshow 150 for Palm OS handheld 151 People category
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 175 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z picture package 158 pixel dimension 144 pixels per inch (ppi) 144 Places category 52 playing audio 70 PNG file format 40 Portable Document Format (PDF) 12 Preferences command 18, 27, 29, 31, 36, 39, 81, 87, 91, 95, 108, 146, 156 preserving photos and catalogs.
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 176 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z image data 144 pixel dimensions 144 printer 145 working with low-resolution photos 145 working with photos 145 Restore command 77 restoring catalogs 77 Revert Selected Photos to Original command 112 Revert to Original command 104, 112 reverting to original photo 112 Rotate Left button 26, 101 Rotate Left command 101 Rotate Right button 26, 101 Rotate Right command 101 Rotate Selec
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 177 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z support 14 T tag icon 80 Tag Icon Editor 49, 63 Tag Viewing Options command 56 tags 42 about 23, 45 Alphabetical Order option 57 attaching to photos 47 attaching to photos in a specific folder 55 based on folder organization 55 categories 45, 51, 53 changing category 53 changing category, name, or note 49, 53 changing icon 49, 63 creating 46 deleting from the catalog 48, 50, 64 d
Adobe Photoshop Album Help Index Using Help | Contents | Index Back 178 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z using the timeline 82 V video CDs burning 136 creating 130 customizing 130 video clips copying and pasting to other applications 118 QuickTime required 123 selecting 100 viewing 95 View Complete Metadata button 66 viewing EXIF information 66 information about a photo 66 media types 81 photos using full screen 80 video clips 95 viewing photos as instant slideshows 94 choosing a vi