(Getting Started) WHAT IS PHOTO JOCKEY?

This program allows you to view in a slide show fashion any folder of images that you have. You can also PAUSE the slide show in order to view the images individually. So, in essence, it's a nice image/photo Viewer AND Editor AND Slide Show program all built into one. Photo Jockey can view many graphic image file formats and movie files.

Here are some of the cool things you can do in addition to the standard slide show features that you would expect.

Mouse Wheel Support: If you have a mouse wheel on your mouse, then you can use it to advance to the next picture or go back to a previous picture. It's like a slide show controller..

Screen SnapShots: You can get a quick screen snapshot with one click. After you get the screen snapshot you can Drag & Drop it onto your email attachment area so you can email your tech buddy an image of your screen. This way he might be able to help you out on whatever problems you might be having. Click here to learn how.

Rotation memory: When you view an image that needs rotating, you can click to rotate it. Then, as long as you are in the program, it REMEMBERS the images you rotated. This way when you go back to view those images, they will STILL appear rotated :) The rotation is done in memory and does NOT modify your actual image files. See "Program Options".

Rotate/Mirror/Flip: You can rotate or mirror or flip any photo. Then later you can click the "SAVE" button to save the new photo to disk.

Print Custom Layouts: This allows you to design a print layout. For example: You may want a whole page of wallet sized prints. Or maybe you want to print 3 photos each of which are 4x6 in size. You pick the layout and simply drag/drop photos onto the layout and then print. Of course you can print single photos full page as well. Click here to learn how.

CD-ROM Burning: You can burn a folder of images or you can burn a Web Gallery that you have created with Photo Jockey. Click here to learn how.

Search For Duplicate Images: You can find all the duplicate images in your system. Even if they are not identical files. You can search by image "appearance". Click here to learn how.

Database integration: You can store keywords, notes, categories and more for each of your images. You can later search the database and do batch operations on the found files.. Click here to learn how.

Slide Show Play Lists: You can create play lists that can controls what files are displayed and in what order. Click here to learn how.

Photo Quilting (Mosaics): You can create an image that is composed of a series of thumbnails of various photos. When viewed from a distance, the quilted image looks like another photo that you have selected. It's pretty cool!. Click here to learn how.

Contact Sheets: You can Print Or Save contact sheets of your images. These contact sheets look like a grid of images (thumbnails). You can select how many rows you want. Also there are many features that make this function amazing. Click here to learn how.

View Text Comments: You can view/add text comments for any image. Then when you view that image later, you will see the comment that was entered. See "Program Options"' and "Add/Edit Text Comments". You can also Import/Export these text comments.

Play Voice Comments: You can also play/add voice comments for any image. Then when you view that image later, you will hear the voice file that you had made. See "Program Options" and "Add/Edit Voice Comments". Click here to learn how.

Search Comments: You can search an entire folder of images' text comments for a specific text string. Then you are shown all the files whose text comments contain the text string you searched for. So, if you wanted to search for any comment that had "Paris" in it, you could do that quickly! Use the Tools Menu. Click here to learn how.

Play Music while showing slide show If you burn a CD ROM with photos on it and the Photo Jockey program, you can make the CD ROM play music while it's showing you the slide show of photos. Click here to learn more about the "Music Playing" option.

Recent History: This is a handy feature that allows you to go back to a folder, that you went to recently, quickly without having to browse to the folder again. See Recent Functions.

File Copy/Move/REname/Delete: You can perform file operations to help manage your files. You can copy files to a new folder, or you can delete selected files, or you can REname in very cool ways including SEQUENTIAL renaming! Click on the appropriate buttons on the Quick Tools panel.

Image Format Conversion: You can convert selected files to either (.bmp, .jpg, .gif) files. You can do this on multiple files all at once by using the BATCH mode feature. Click here to learn how to do format conversions.

Unique Sorting Ability: You can sort you filenames list by the standard ways, PLUS you can sort by "Camera EXIF Date Taken" info. You can sort by image dimensions. You can sort by PARTial filename as well which can come in handy.

Drag/Drop: You can drag a folder from your file manager into the Photo Jockey program window. Then the program will have all the images in that dropped folder loaded and ready to view. Or you can drag a file(s) from this program onto the file manager so that you are effectively copying files to the selected folder where you did the drop. This drag/drop is intelligent and allows you to copy the associated text comment and voice comment files as well. You can also drop onto your email program if you wanted to email someone a photo. You can also drop onto a graphics editor if you wanted to edit a photo. You could also drop onto ICQ if you wanted to ICQ someone the photo.

Photo Size Reduction(On Drop): Let's say you want to reduce the size of your photos that you drag/drop onto your email attachment area. This is useful if you have a bunch of LARGE photos and all you want to do is to email your buddies smaller versions of the photos AND you don't want to waste time and space making smaller photos on your hard drive. When you drag/drop you are given the opportunity to make the photos smaller. Click here to learn how.

Easy Browse: You can easily browse from folder to folder without having to go through the standard Windows' browse dialog window. The Folders List panel on the right side shows you what sub-folders exists. So, you just do one-click and poof you are looking at the images in that folder you just clicked on. EASY!

Thumbnail Memory: When you view a folder, a list of thumbnails has to be built. This takes a little time (not much). But as you browse around your system, all the thumbnails made are remembered, so if you go back to a folder that you had viewed just a little while ago, the thumbnails will appear super fast. Keep in mind that this cool feature is limited by your available disk space. So, if you get to where you have only 80MB left, then the thumbnail memory is turned off. Also, when you exit the program, the thumbnails are then forgotten so that you get your temp disk space usage back.

Web Page Gallery Generation: You can automatically generate a web site thumbnail gallery for all the photos in a folder. You can select how many thumbnails appear on a page etc. It generates all the HTML pages and thumbnail files. In addition, you can have the Text Comments that you may have entered for your images also appear on the web pages. Very handy indeed. All you have to do is to upload the folders to your web site, or you can burn them onto a CD ROM to view with any Web Browser (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.). Click here to learn how.

BATCH Web Page Gallery Generation: Web Page galleries are nice to have. But BATCH mode is very helpful if you have a lot of folders that you want to create into Web Page galleries.With just a few clicks you are making web page galleries for lots of folders at once. Click here to learn how.

Puzzles: You can turn any photo into a fun Puzzle to play. From the main menu, you can click on "Puzzle Fun". There are 3 games you can play. Click here to learn how. Click here to Play Puzzles.

Preview Comparison Windows: You can take any image and open it into a Preview Comparison Window. Then if you have at least TWO comparison windows open, you can do a tiled side-by-side comparison of the images magnified. That way you can tell which of the two images are of the best quality. Then you delete the one of lesser quality. Click here to learn how.

Dead Pixel Locator: You can take a black photo from a digital camera and locate any dead pixels if your camera's image sensor is bad. Click here to learn how.

Photo Scanning: Photo Jockey supports any TWAIN compliant scanner. Most scanners are TWAIN compliant. So, you can click a button in Photo Jockey and your scanner software is automatically loaded. Click here to learn how.

Image Editing: These features allow you to improve the image by editing/adjusting certain portions of the image.

Color Adjusting: This allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and more of the entire image or just a portion of the image. Click here to learn how.

Color Swap: This allows you to change a red car to a blue car. Or to make a green sweater darker. Very powerful feature to allow a narrow color range to be adjusted. Click here to learn how.

Gray Scale, Negative, Sepia: This allows you to adjust the photo so that it looks like a Black & White photo, or a negative, or an old style sepia colored photo. Click here to learn how.

Cut/Paste Image Portions: This allows you to cut a portion from an image and then paste it into another image Click here to learn how.

Rotate/Flip/Mirror: This allows you to change the orientation of the image by either Rotating it, or Flipping it, or Mirroring it. Click here to learn how.

Text Boxes: This allows you to add text box overlays to your images. Many options like Shadowing, vertical text, outlined text etc. Click here to learn how.

Image Overlays: This allows you to add company logo image overlays to your photos. You can also do DOUBLE-EXPOSURE effects too. Click here to learn how.

Sharpness: This allows you to enhance the sharpness of the image. Click here to learn how.

Smoothness: This allows you to enhance the smoothness of the image. Click here to learn how.

3-D Perspective / Shear / Special Effects: This allows you to correct perspective problems with photos (tall buildings looking tiny at the top), or to ADD perspective to photos for neat effects. You can also shear, which is similar to TILTING. Also special effects like Emboss and Twist. Click here to learn how.

3-D Appearance: This allows you to enhance the photo's 3-D appearance. Click here to learn how.

Resizing: This allows you to resize the image larger or smaller. When enlarging, Digital Zoom is an option. Click here to learn how.

Crop: This allows you to crop unwanted portions from the image. Click here to learn how.

Red Eye Reduction: This allows you to remove & fix the RED-EYE (humans) or GREEN-EYE (animals) in photos. You can then save your fixed photos to your hard drive. Click here to learn how.

Batch Adjusting: This allows you to take many of the above image adjusting functions and apply them to a whole bunch of images in one step. You select the images you want the batch process to use. Click here to learn how.

External Editors: Photo Jockey has a lot of the common editing capabilities that you would normally want to do. If you have some specific things to do with an image that only one of your favorite editors can do, then you can allow your editing software to work hand in hand with Photo Jockey. Click here to learn how.

This program displays a single folder's worth of images at a time. You can of course easily click on sub-folders to switch the folder you are viewing.



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