User manual ACDSEE ACDSEE 2009 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] Photo Manager 2009 The easy way to organize and share your photos. Getting Started Guide ACD Systems International 2008 All rights reserved. Notice of Liability The information in this document is distributed on an "As Is" basis, without any representation or warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, title or fitness for a particular purpose or use. While every precaution was taken in the preparation of this document, neither the author nor ACD Systems shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly in connection with the use or inability to use the instructions contained in this document. ACD Systems reserves the right to make changes to this document without notice. Copyright and Trademark Notices ACDSee Photo Manager Software and documentation was designed, programmed and is Copyright © 1994-2008 ACD Systems International Inc. [. . . ] You can also select multiple images, right-click, select Set Categories and then click the category you want them to belong to. In the file list, select and right-click the images you want to remove. In the shortcut menu, click Set Categories, and then Uncategorize All Selected Items. You can use the same method to assign a rating to your images that will help you instantly locate your best images. Using Auto Categories If you have hundreds or thousands of images, more than one camera, and photos or images created by more than one person, you need Auto Categories. make, model) is added to photos automatically by your camera, but you can add to this in the Properties pane where any database data you add is also added to Auto Categories. For example, if you have photos or images created by many different people, you can add them as Author to all the images they created. Display and select all the photos or images created by a certain person in the file list. Select all the images and click View | Properties to open the Properties pane. Click the Database tab and in the Author field, type the name of the photographer, or designer of the image. To find out how to use the Batch Set Information tool to apply Authors to multiple files, read Adding database and EXIF information to multiple files in the ACDSee 2009 help file. 26 | ACDSee 2009 Getting Started Guide 5. Now when you open Author under Auto Categories, you will see all the authors you entered in a list. You can use this in combination with your Categories to find images by category and author. Using keywords You can assign keywords to your images that describe where they were taken, the people in them, the special event at which they were taken, or any other word or phrase that helps identify the image, its subject and its place in your collection. Then, when you search for specific keywords, you can quickly find all of the images in your collection with a certain feature or subject matter. When you enter keywords, they are automatically added to the keywords auto category. So you can find all the images with a particular keyword by clicking the keyword. If you added author and categories, you can refine your search by clicking an author name, keyword and category. ACDSee uses a master keyword list to prevent duplication and misspellings, and improve search results because you can edit the list. Also, if you change a keyword in the master list, ACDSee automatically updates all of the images you assigned it to. In the Browser, select an image in the file list, and then click View | Properties to open the Properties pane. You can use the Properties pane in ACDSee to add or edit database information for any image or media file. If you select more than one image in the file list, any information you add to the Properties pane is added to all the files. You can't use punctuation in keywords, but you can add more than one keyword by separating them with a space or a comma. To add the same keyword to another image, select the image in the file list, and then click the Keyword Picker button beside the Keywords field on the Properties pane. Organize and Find | 27 4. In the Keyword Picker window, select the keyword you want to assign from the Available values list, and then click Assign. To add new keywords while in this window, click the Edit List button, which opens the Keyword List Editor where you can edit, remove, and add keywords to the master list. [. . . ] Review your choices, and then click Next to begin backing up your database and files. When the Database Backup Wizard is complete, click Finish to return to ACDSee. Consider burning a copy of the backup file to CD or DVD just in case you ever have a hard-drive failure. 7. 9. If you add or remove images from a disc that you have already added to ACDSee as a Photo Disc, you can update the information stored in the database. [. . . ]