PicturePerfect Users Guide

Picture Properties

There are two dialogs that allow you to change how each picture is displayed. You can find them under Picture, Properties, Basic and Picture, Propertied, Extended.

Here's the Basic Properties dialog:

Here's the Extended Properties dialog:

You can control the appearance of each picture using the following settings:

• Image file
• Transition Effect
• Scaling
• Caption
• Slide Show Time
• Search Keywords

To Change the Image File:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Basic from the menu.
2. Enter the name of the image file, or tap Browse for Image File.

The image file name is relative to the folder where the album file resides. For example, if your album is in \My Documents\Pix, and the image file is "\My Documents\Pix\photo.jpg", the image file name should be simply "photo.jpg". This allows you to move folders that contain album and image files.

Transition Effects

When moving from picture to picture, PicturePerfect lets you choose from a variety of special effects, including wipes, fades and dissolves. To set a transition effect:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Basic from the menu.
2. Choose a transition effect.

If you choose Use Default, then the effect chosen under Album, Settings, Global Defaults will be used for this picture.

You can also make all transition effects go faster or slower from Album, Settings, Preferences.

Scaling

PicturePerfect gives you several options for scaling:

• As Is -- this does not do any scaling, and displays the picture pixel-for-pixel.
• Fit Display -- this scales the image so that the display shows the entire image with a minimum of wasted space.
• Best Quality -- the image is scaled for minimal loss of quality, but some parts of the image may be cropped.
• Use Default -- use one of the above scaling options from Album, Settings, Global Defaults.

To change the scaling:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Basic from the menu.
2. Choose a scaling option.

Captions

Each picture has an optional caption. When you first create the album, the caption is the file name without the extension. You can modify the caption as follows:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Basic from the menu.
2. Edit the caption.

You can also determine where the caption displays in full-screen mode, or have captions hidden as follows:

1. Select Album, Settings, Preferences from the menu.
2. Select an option under Full-screen mode caption location.

Slide Show Time

When playing a slide show, you can set the duration for each picture (amount of time each picture displays) as follows:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Extended from the menu.
2. Enter the duration in milliseconds (1000 milliseconds = 1 second).

If you enter 0, then the duration used is the one under Album, Settings, Global Defaults.

Search Keywords

You can add keywords to each picture for use when using Picture, Find. To add or modify keywords:

1. Select Picture, Properties, Extended from the menu.
2. Enter the keywords.

Note that both the caption and search keywords are used when searching via Picture, Find.

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