User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Unboxing
- Setting up your phone
- Setting up your new phone for the first time
- Transferring content from an Android phone
- Transferring content from an iPhone
- Transferring contacts from your old phone through Bluetooth
- Getting contacts and other content into HTC Desire 500
- Transferring photos, videos, and music between your phone and computer
- Home screen
- Getting to know your settings
- Updating your phone's software
- Your first week with your new phone
- About your phone
- Basics
- Home screen feeds
- Notifications
- Working with text
- Battery
- Camera and Gallery
- Camera
- Gallery
- Personalizing
- Making HTC Desire 500 truly yours
- Changing your wallpaper
- Adding a widget to your Home screen
- Adding apps and other shortcuts on your Home screen
- Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen
- Personalizing the launch bar
- Grouping apps into a folder
- Adding a Home screen panel
- Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds
- Rearranging application tabs
- Customizing the lock screen style
- Hiding missed calls and messages on the lock screen
- Securing HTC Desire 500 with a personal touch
- Phone calls
- Making a call with Smart dial
- Dialing an extension number
- Returning a missed call
- Using Speed dial
- Calling a phone number in a text message
- Calling a phone number in an email
- Calling a phone number in a Calendar event
- Making an emergency call
- Receiving calls
- What can I do during a call?
- Setting up a conference call
- Checking calls in the Call History
- Changing ringtone settings
- Home dialing
- Messages
- Sending a text message (SMS)
- Sending a multimedia message (MMS)
- Sending a group message
- Resuming a draft message
- Replying to a message
- Saving a text message in the Tasks app
- Forwarding a message
- Viewing and saving an attachment from a multimedia message
- Moving messages to the secure box
- Blocking unwanted messages
- WAP push messages
- Copying a text message to your SIM card
- Deleting messages and conversations
- Search and web browser
- Entertainment
- Storage
- Sync, backup, and reset
- Online sync
- Backup
- HTC Sync Manager
- Syncing your media and data with HTC Sync Manager
- Installing HTC Sync Manager on your computer
- Transferring iPhone content to your HTC phone
- Copying or removing media on your phone
- Syncing data between your phone and your computer
- Syncing music, photos, and videos from your phone to your computer
- Syncing playlists between your phone and your computer
- Syncing documents from your computer to your phone
- Getting help
- Reset
- People
- Travel and maps
- Google Play and other apps
- Internet connections
- Wireless sharing
- Settings and security
- Turning Airplane mode on or off
- Turning automatic screen rotation off
- Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
- Adjusting the screen brightness manually
- Playing a sound when selecting onscreen items
- Changing the display language
- Accessibility settings
- Working with certificates
- Protecting your SIM card with a PIN
- Protecting HTC Desire 500 with a screen lock
- Checking your phone's HTC Sense version
- Trademarks and copyrights
- Index
Adding custom photo effects
Are the existing photo effects not exactly what you are looking for? You can make
your own photo effects in Gallery.
You can only add effects to photos that are stored locally.
1. Open the Gallery app.
2. Browse to the photo that you want to edit.
3. Tap the photo, and then tap Edit.
4. Tap Effects.
5. Press and hold the effect you want to customize and drag it to Custom.
You can also press and hold an effect and then drag it to a new location.
6. On the Custom Effects screen you can:
§ Make changes to the effect by adjusting filters such as exposure, saturation,
white balance, and more.
§ Use the slider bars on selected filters to adjust the intensity of the effect.
§ Rearrange filters to modify the effect. Press and hold the filter you want to
move. Then drag it to a new position.
§ Remove filters. Press and hold the filter you want to remove. Then drag it
to Remove.
§ Tap to add more filters and create a more complex effect.
7. Tap Done to apply the effects to your photo.
To save your custom effects for future use, tap Save Preset.
Sending your photos and videos
Send photos and videos to your computer or to another device via email, MMS, or
Bluetooth.
1. Open the Gallery app.
2. Go to the photo album or group of photos that you want to send.
3. Tap Share and then choose how you want to send the photos and videos.
4. Select the photos or videos you want to send and then tap Next.
You can send several photos, videos, or both in an email message. They are added
as file attachments in your email.
5. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish sending your photos and videos.
51 Camera and Gallery