(Comments) ADD/EDIT/SEARCH TEXT COMMENTS FOR PHOTOS

Click here to show the Text Comments Editing Window.

Sometimes it's nice to add text comments to images so that when you view them later you can see the comments that were added. One very good reason to do this would be incase you are making a CD of photos that you took on vacation. And you plan on sending them to family and friends. It would be nice if they (family/friends) could see the comments you had entered for each photo. That way they get the full story about each photo. Of course they would NEED to look at the photos with THIS program in order to see the text comments :)

HINT: These text comments can also be integrated into the Auto Web Page Gallery Generation wizard.
HINT: These text comments can also be integrated into the Contact Sheets.


TIP: If you need complex information kept for your images, then you might consider using the powerful Photo Jockey DataBase instead.


Now that you have a reason to add comments to your images, we'll show you how to do it.  Here are the steps required in order to add/edit text comments.

Enter Comment Mode:
EASY Method: Click the "Comments" main menu option, then click on the "Enter Text Comments For Photo" menu item.
COMPLEX Method: Go into the "Program Options" window. Then UNcheck the "Auto Size/Show Comment window". Then CHECK the "Show Comments At Bottom" option. OR, You can bring up the Tools Menu and select the "View Comments At Bottom" option. You can also bring up the Main Menu and click the "View" menu item. Then choose the "View/Hide Comments At Bottom" option.

Enter Comment: In the comment panel below your photo, you will see the current text comment for the image or it will be empty. Either edit the current text or start typing to add text.

Save Comment: Then click on the floppy disk button to the left of your comment to SAVE your text comments. The file will be the same as your photo plus ".txt". So, if your photo was "IMG102.jpg" the text comment file will be called "IMG102.jpg.txt".

In the "Program Options" screen there is a checkbox for "Auto Size/Show Comment Window". If it's checked AND there is NO comment for the current photo, then you will NOT see the comment window. If there IS a comment, then you will see the window AND the font size will be adjusted so that you can see the whole comment. If the comment is REAL LONG, then the comment window will have a scroll bar so that you can scroll up/down within the comment.

NOTE: In the "Program Options" window, there is a "Font Selection" button that allows you to choose a font that is used when displaying your text comments.

HINT: There are a few other buttons on that panel that are pretty neat that control the color and size of the text displayed. Also, these files are super small, so don't worry about them taking up a bunch of space. Typical photo sizes are about 200K and typical LARGE text comment files are 1K.

TIP: There is a search button that can used to search ALL of the comments for all of the photos in the current folder. If you forget which photo has a particular comment, now you can find it easily. Click here to show the Comment Search window.

IMPORTING / EXPORTING Comments: There are times when you need to get the comments for your files from another source. This other source is usually from a database program. Also, you may want to take your comments and feed them into another database program. To learn how to do this click here.



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