A1-Photo Jockey 4.04

This document contains the following:

  1. The purpose of the program.
  2. How to install the program.
  3. How to get help for the program.
  4. The status of the program 
     (Public Domain, Freeware, or Shareware).
  5. The distribution status of the program.
  6. How to contact the author in the event of questions or problems.
  7. Latest history of changes, more recent changes are nearer the top



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====== CHAPTER 1: The Purpose of the program =======
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This program has 11 distinctly different functions. 
For more info:  www.photojockey.com/info.html
                www.photojockey.com/help/help.html

    1. Image Viewer
    2. Image Editing
    3. Auto-Web-Page Generation
    4. Photo Printing
    5. General file management
    6. Image Comparison management
    7. CD-ROM Burning capability
    8. Photo Quilting (Mosaics)
    9. Searching for duplicate images
   10. Database integration
   11. Scanner support


IMAGE VIEWING:
All the standard features you have come to expect, 
plus these additional viewer features.


1. View RAW files produced by higher end digital cameras
   that save in a RAW format. Like Canon, Nikon Fuji etc.
2. Cool VCR like controls
3. Mouse Wheel support
4. Screen Snap Shots
5. Rotate / Mirror / Flip
6. Text comments for each photo
7. Voice comments for each photo
8. Contact Sheet saving
9. Drap & Drop to and from Photo Jockey's main window
10. Size reduction on DROP into email attachment
11. Puzzles for having fun with your photos
12. Cropping
13. Resizing
14. Batch operations
15. You can crop and do various image edits before 
    printing, without the need of saving to a temp file
16. Wall Paper creation for Desktop Background
17. Slide Show Play Lists to control which files and in
    what order they get displayed


IMAGE EDITING:
1. Color adjusting (brightness, contrast, gamma, 
   saturation etc..)
2. Cut / Paste regions from one image to another
3. Text boxes can be added to images
   Great for copyright text
4. Company logos can be added to images
   Great for copyright logos
5. Sharpening & Smoothing
6. Resizing
7. Red-Eye removal
8. 3D Perspective / Shear / Fish-Eye / Special Effects
9. Color Range transformation (Turn a red sweater into
   a blue sweater easily) Make blue skies bluer etc..
10.Rotating by any angle.
11.Adjust MULTIPLE settings (brightness, contrast, 
   gamma, etc.) with ONE apply. That way you don't 
   lose detail on burned out bright areas like clouds.


AUTO-WEB-PAGE CREATION:
Ever have a bunch of pics that you would like to stuff
onto a web page(s)?
Then this feature is made just for you! In a matter of 
a couple of clicks it makes all the thumbnails and HTML 
pages for you. You can choose from pre-defined layouts, 
OR you can customize your web pages with a template.


PHOTO PRINTING:
1. Custom Layouts: Allows you to design a print layout. 
For example: You may want a page full 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. 
You can crop and edit the photo before printing WITHOUT 
having to save the edited version to a temp file.

2. Print Contact Sheets


GENERAL FILE MANAGEMENT:
1. Sequential file renaming
     File_001.jpg
     File_002.jpg
     etc..
2. Move/Copy/Delete files easily


IMAGE COMPARISON MANAGEMENT:
1. You can compare 2 images to see what the differences
are. It shows you what's been added and subtracted from
the 1st image to result in the 2nd image.
2. You can locate your Dead-Hot-Stuck-Weak pixels in your
digital camera's image sensor easily.


CD-ROM BURNING:
You can select a folder or folders to burn to a CD/DVD. 
You can also have Photo Jockey burned on the disk so that
it comes up as the viewer of images when the CD is 
inserted into the CD drive. You can burn Web Galleries
created with Photo Jockey as well. You can also burn 
regular files for backup purposes as well.


PHOTO QUILTING (MOSAICS):
You can take a photo and reproduce it so that it's 
comprised of a series of mosaic thumbnails. These 
thumbnails are all from a single folder that you choose 
to use.


SEARCHNG FOR DUPLICATES:
You can search by image appearance too.
You can search any drive(s), or a specific folder.
When searching for image appearance, you can specify 
how close in appearance the images must be to be 
considered duplicates.
You can specifiy that color images can match black & white
photos if they seem to be the same photo.
You can exclude specified folders from the search.
You can find dups even if they are rotated/mirrored or
flipped from each other.
You can also find duplicate images that are COPIES of 
each other. So, if you re-download photos from your camera
and forgot that you already had them on your system, this
feature will find them all and allow you to easily clean
them off your system.


DATABASE INTEGRATION:
Each file can have a Category, keywords, notes and
more stored in a database. You can search for files that
match on various field values. These can be integrated 
into the web-page creation so that your notes can appear
for each image in the web-page.


SCANNER SUPPORT:
You can use your scanner to scan images or documents 
into Photo Jockey. You can then save them to your drive
in what ever format you want. 

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====== CHAPTER 2: How to install the program =======
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You can install Photo Jockey as follows:

1. Go to download web site for Photo Jockey:
   www.photojockey.com/download.html
    a) Download the PJSETUP file into a temp folder
       that you create. You can name the folder with a
       name of your choice.
    b) Double-Click on the PJSetup file to RUN IT
    c) Follow the instructions in the PJSETUP program until
       installation is completed
    d) Delete the PJSETUP file and temp folder you created
       NOTE: If you placed PJSETUP file in your Windows
       TEMP folder, then of course DO NOT DELETE the folder
    e) That's it, your done!  :)   SIMPLE!


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====== CHAPTER 3: How to get help for the program ======
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After you run the program, you can click on the HELP menu,
then click on the HELP submenu item. This displays the help 
file from your local drives. 

If you want to view the HELP files from Internet, just go
to www.photojockey.com/help/help.html



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====== CHAPTER 4: The status of the program ======
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This program is SHAREWARE and if you want to get the full 
functionality of the program, you need to register it. 
The BASIC registration fee is $20. 
The PRO registration is $49. 
If you want to see the differences between BASIC and PRO,
go to www.photojockey.com/register.html




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====== CHAPTER 5: The distribution status of the program ======
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This program can freely be distributed to other BBS's or web sites, 
PROVIDED that NO changes are made to the distributed files. 

The distributed file is:
    PJSETUP_###.EXE
Where ### is a number. For example (PJsetup_261.exe, or PJsetup_300)



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====== CHAPTER 6: How to contact the author ======
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In the event of questions or problems, you may contact the author at:

tech@smatters.com

We also have a web page that has Common Questions & Answers at:

www.photojockey.com/qa.html





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====== CHAPTER 7: Latest history of changes ======
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History of changes:

10/22/08 Version 4.05
1. Minor memory leaks <very small>
2. Fix to the Monitor program so that you won't get a disk error if you don't have a floppy drive in your system
   Also, <some> FAST systems would cause the Photo Jockey Monitor to get an "Access Violation". This is now fixed
   no matter how fast your processor is.

09/02/08 Version 4.04
1. MAJOR improvements
2. VISTA compatible
3. Short-Cuts support
4. Scanner support
5. Multiple editing adjustments with ONE apply. For example: You could increase the brightness
of a cloudy sky, then reduce the contrast in ONE operation. That way you don't have clouds that
have burned out (solid white) areas. You get to keep the detail.
6. Better Folder TreeView panel that shows ALL of your drives instead of the current drive.
   You can also DRAG & DROP to & from the folder tree view. Which means you can copy or move files
   around on your system WITHOUT having to open up an Explorer File Manager window.
7. Contact sheets can how be reordered, via drag & drop, so that they appear in the order that you want them. You
   can also put custom text comments at the bottom of each thumbnail in the contact sheet.
8. The Image/TextBox overlay function now allows you to use a selectable database entry to be 
   used as the text for the overlay. Very powerful when used in BATCH mode. IE: You can create a
   series of annoted images with DISTINCT captions.
9. Many little bug fixes
10.Image editing cloning feature vastly improved to handle transparency
11.Image/TextBox overlay has improved transparency.
12.Better auto-color balance logic
13.Better enlarging and printing logic. When printing the image is automatically enlarged to 
   fill the entire logical printing area INSTEAD of allowing the printer driver to do the enlarging.
   This produces smoother and sharper printed images, because most, if not all, printer drivers do a
   poor job of up-scaling. Granted, if you have LARGE images printing on small paper, you won't see
   a difference unless you look very close or use a magnifying glass, but for larger prints or for
   small images, you will see a dramatic difference.
14.Movies now play in slide show mode, instead of being skipped.
15.More RAW images support. You can even do simple Contrast, Brighness, Gamma, Noise Reduction VERY FAST
   while in the Raw Image Adjusting window. No more wasting time to re-load the image after making a 
   single change.
16.Better duplicate image searching support. It now can find COPIES of images/movies, so that if you
   downloaded duplicates from your camera, then your system gets filled with wasted space by duplicate 
   files. We can now find these and allow a simple procedure for cleaning up your system.
17.Folder preview window allows you to hover over a folder in the Folder Treeview window and then it
   pops-up a preview window that shows you a sample of the images that are in the folder. It also shows
   folder statistics
18.Folder panel and File List panel now have FORWARD and BACKWARS buttons. So, just like a web browser,
   you can bounce back & forth between several of your images or several of your folders for quick access.
   See, if you are looking at two images that are not next to each other in the files list, then it becomes
   a chore to keep reselecting the files. The Forwards/Backwards buttons make this a single click operation.
19.The Folder TreeView window allows you to drop a file(s) anywhere in that window. And as you hover over a
   folder name, it will EXPAND it so that you can see any subfolders that may exist. Very handy and very 
   similar to the way the Explorer File Manager works.
20.Preview windows can now do Drag & Drop too.
21.Enhanced the SlideShow CD-ROM burning function to store the thumbnails for the images and or movies
   burned on the CD. This allows Photo Jockey to load the thumbnails strip much faster.
22.Added a file monitor system. It runs in your system tray and monitors file or folder renames and moves
   and copies that are performed outside of Photo Jockey. That way, the PJ database can update any filenames
   that were renamed AND were in the database. This keeps database consistency. It also updates thumbnail cache
   favorites list, recently used list and other components that should be updated. If they DONT get updated, 
   then you won't "hurt" anything, but you will be less efficient because those file will have to rebuild their
   thumbnail image and the Recently used list won't work for entries that have been renamed. 


06/22/07 Version 3.03
1.Several minor bug fixes
2.Minor feature improvements

06/22/06 Version 3.02
Improvements:
1. BETTER DUPLICATE IMAGES SEARCHING:
Mirrored folders are now ignored to eliminate the chance oi reporting 2 files as duplicates when in fact the 2 files are actually the SAME FILE being referenced by 2 different aliased paths.
3. BETTER SEQUENTIAL RENAMING:
4. DATABASE orphan resolver:
Keeps database in sync even if you rename files/folders from outside of Photo Jockey.
5. DATABASE backup/restore:
There is now a new menu item called "Database BACKUP". It keeps up to 3 sets of backups
for your database.
6. DATABASE - copy/paste:
PASTE is powerful because you won't have to RE-TYPE a bunch of data fields to get data 
from one record into another!
7. DATABASE verify improved:
The VERIFY function was SUPER fast, but did not fully test the integrity of the database.
It now fully tests the database and if ANYTHING is wrong, you will know about it and then
of course you can do the compact function to fix it. The verify function is now not quite
as fast, but is still relativlly quick.
8. DATABASE import improved:
The Database IMPORT function now allows you to import records and leave current database
fields alone while at the same time importing others.
9. BROWSE MENU:
The browse menu now has "Network Folders" as an option, so that you can quickly jump
to a folder on your network.10. HOME FOLDER:
10. HOME FOLDER:
Home folder now has 2 choices (Load / Set) instead of just Set.
11. COLOR ADJUST:
Better Copy/Paste in the color adjusting window.
12. RESIZE:
There is a new option called "Only Adjust Dimensions" checkbox. This will NOT resize
the image to fit the new dimensions.
13. BATCH Function:
There is a new option in the BATCH function to allow you to customize the "_Adjusted"
text string that gets appended to files created by the batch process.
14. RECORD VOICE COMMENT:
This feature has been enhanced allow for voice clips LONGER than 60 seconds.
Bug Fixes:
1. Minor bugs.


03/12/06 Version 3.01
Improvements:
1. New look & feel. Nicer looking controls
2. Database integration. You can have keywords, notes and categories
   entered for each file. This database can be searched quickly. You
   can also, import or export.
3. Color Range adjustments. You could take a blue sweater and make it 
   green without it looking un-natural. You can make blue skies bluer,
   green trees greener etc... Very unique.
4. Shadows/Highlights adjustments. Only shadows get darker or only 
   bright areas get brighter.
5. RAW photos can now have special adjustments per camera model so that
   you could make FUJI images appear brighter, and Canon images appear
   a little more red etc...
6. Added a Favorites menu for your favorite folders
7. Added a Home folder so that you can control what folder is loaded by
   default when Photo Jockey loads.
8. Web-Page creation enhanced to allow database entries to show up in
   the web pages created. For example: You could have the NOTES field 
   integrated into the web pages.
9. Better Folders list in the upper right corner. Instead of a list of
   folders, there is now a folder TREE that you can select from.
10.Added ON-HOLD window. You can collect photos from various folders 
   and stick them into the on-hold window for later processing (printing,
   moving, copying, etc..)


05/05/05 Version 2.65
Improvements:
1. MORE RAW IMAGE SUPPORT:
   Many more digital camera RAM formats supported in this version. 
   For example: Canon EOS IDs Mark II & FUJI RAW photos that 
   normally appear rotated 45 degrees are now displayed properly.
2. FASTER JPG CONVERT:
   When you drag & drop from Photo Jockey onto a folder or an email program, 
   there is an option to convert the dragged files into JPG files AND to 
   make them SMALLER. If you are dropping RAW or JPG or PCD images and 
   you are reducing the size of the images by at least 50% then the 
   reduction process is MUCH FASTER now.
3. FASTER WEB PAGE WIZARD COPY:
   When you create a Web Page from Photo Jockey. You basically copy 
   the images from your folder into a new web gallery folder. 
   You have the choice to reduce the images in size.. If your folder 
   contains RAW or JPG or PCD images and you are reducing the 
   size of the images by at least 50% then the reduction process 
   is MUCH FASTER now.
4. CACHING IMAGES:
   This allows you to cache images, so when you go back to look at an 
   image you viewed recently, it will appear real fast. This is great 
   when viewing large images that take a long time to load. You can 
   control the cache settings from the "Options" main menu.
   NOTE: This is especially useful if you are viewing images 
   from a slow drive like a CD-ROM or Network drive.
5. CHECKMARKING FILES:
   It was annoying that when you checkmarked files it would spend 
   the time to load the image. If you wanted to check a bunch of 
   files, this would be time consuming. So, now when you checkmark files, 
   they become checked but are NOT loaded to view.
6. AUTO SCROLL THUMBNAILS:
   The auto scrolling is better now. It used to be that image properties 
   were scanned in the background even while the auto-scrolling 
   was taking place. This produce a slower looking scroll. Now the 
   scanning is put on hold until the auto-scroll is done scrolling. Auto 
   scrolling occurs when you select a thumbnail image and it scrolls to 
   the middle of the window. NOTE: Auto scroll is now DISABLED as you 
   checkmark files. This is better for most purposes. So basically, auto scroll 
   only works when you click on the thumbnail (NOT) in the checkbox area.
7. BETTER RAW IMAGE EXIF DATA:
   The JPG images taken with a digital camera have Exif Camera information 
   inside of them. This contains info like, the camera make, model, 
   date photo taken, ISO, shutter speed etc... The RAW images taken with higher end 
   cameras don't make the Exif information publicly available :( BUT, I've 
   been able to extrract out the Exif info for many of the various RAW formats. 
   And if it's a type that can't be extracted, then I'm at least able to get 
   the make, model and date info. So, now when you move your mouse over a 
   RAW image in the files list or thumbnail list, you should now see the 
   Exif information displayed in the file properties popup that appears.
8. THUMBNAIL CACHING:
   Just like the file caching makes bouncing back & forth quicker, 
   there is now thumbnail caching. This makes it so that if you change 
   the thumbnail size, then the rebuilding of the thumbnails in the 
   new size will go MUCH FASTER!!!!
9. BETTER TIFF SUPPORT:
   More TIF files are now viewable than in previous versions.
10. NEW SORT OPTIONS:
   You can now sort the files list by  "CAMERA MAKE/MODEL"
11. SEARCH FOR DUPLICATE IMAGES:
   You can now find all duplicate images in your system. You specify where 
   you want to search, Photo Jockey does the rest. You can also search for 
   duplicates that LOOK like other images. This is called searching by 
   image appearance. When searching, you can indicate that you only want to 
   find dups of tagged files in the aea being searched. This is useful if 
   you have a main folder where you keep all your photos and periodically 
   you move in new images during your house keeping. It's very useful to know 
   that the images you are moving in are NOT DUPLICATES of what is already in there.
12. New BUTTON BAR that is configurable. It contains a list of all common functions for
   easy access to these functions.
13. 3D Perspective / Shear / Fish-Eye / Special Effects adjustments. You can correct perspective problems in 
photos, or add perspective for neat effects.

Bug Fixes:
1. Fixed tiff logic to view more tiffs.



05/05/05 Version 2.64
Improvements:
1. CDROM BURNING:
You can now use Photo Jockey to BURN CDs. You can burn either a disk of:
     Current images & movies
     Any Folder images & movies
     Any Folder ALL FILES
     Web Galleries (created with photo jockey)
These disks you burn can be made to AUTO-RUN, so that the end user just 
needs to stick the disk in and poof up comes either Photo Jockey to play 
the images or movies, or your web browser to show the web galleries. 
You can burn multiple copies and verifies the burn. You can erase CD-RW 
disks as well. This function REQUIRES XP/2003 to be installed on your 
system. You can even burn just selected (checked) files.

2. File Properties Info boxes:
These pop-ups appear as you move your mouse over the images in the 
thumbnails list. They NOW show CAMERA MAKER (in case the camera model 
is not enough info for you).

3. Novice Hint boxes:
These are pop-ups that are yellow boxes with helpful hints that have a 
close button and optionally a checkbox. They no longer stay ON TOP OF 
other applications that you may be running. And they no longer stay on 
the screen even after you minimize photo jockey.

4. Enable/Disable Pop-Ups:
You can now disable or enable the various pop-ups. This is because 
sometimes they might be annoying to the advanced user. There 
are 4 types:

     1. Novice Hint Boxes
     2. Slide Show Controls (VCR Buttons)
     3. Tool-Tips
     4. File Properties Info boxes.

You can temporarily disable ALL pop-ups or re-enable with ONE CLICK of 
the red round button located on the files list panel. In the "VIEW" menu, 
you can "Configure Pop-Ups Like (Tool-Tips, Novice Hints, File Properties 
& VCR Buttons)" to individually turn a selected pop-up (on, off, off-always).

5. Printing Function:
ADDED THE PRINT function to the common tools tool bar.

6. Auto-Hide main menu:
Add the "Enable/Disable Auto-Hide Main Menu" menu option to the 
main menu's "VIEW" menu. Use this if you don't like the auto-hide feature.

7. Drag/Drop JPGConvert Options:
You used to only have 4 jpeg quality options, now there is a 
"custom quality" option where you can select a quality from 10 thru 90. 
This allows you to fine-tune the quailty of images being made smaller 
via the drag/drop.

8. Comments Menu options:
There are now IMPORT/EXPORT functions. So you can export all your 
comments in a folder to a single export file. You can them import 
it into some database program if you want. Also, there is an IMPORT 
function that allows you to import your comments if you had maintained 
your comments for filenames in some other database program. Of course 
you would have to EXPORT in that other database program first :)

9. Slide Show Controls (VCR Buttons):
There is now a minimize/maximize button on the window. The is so that 
you can control the size of the VCR buttons.

10. Improved Sequential Rename:
Enhanced the Sequential renaming feature so you can FORCE the number
of digits in the output numbers. For example: If you had 18 files and 
selected a starting number of "1". Then the numbers would be:
    1
    2
    3
    ..
    17
    18
As you can see, if you sorted by filename, then you would be out of 
sequence :( Because the "17" starts with a "1". But by forcing digits 
to 3, then output would be
    001
    002
    003
    ..
    017
    018
So in this case the sequence is kept!!!!

11. Photo Quilting: (Photo Mosaics):
You can now take a photo and reproduce it from a mosaic of 
thumbnails. These thumbnails come from a selected folder of your 
choice. This is like the famous Lincoln poster. Up-close, 
it looks like a bunch of war scenes, and from a distance it 
looks like Lincoln.

12. File Type Association:
You can now make Photo Jockey the default viewer for various 
file types like *.bmp, *.jpg, *.gif. That way when you DBL-CLICK on 
those file types in the windows' file manager, 
then Photo Jockey will display the image.

13. Slide Show Play Lists:
You can now create Play Lists to control WHICH files and in 
WHAT ORDER the files from a folder are displayed. You can have 
many play lists per folder. Play lists can be useful to 
save disk space so you don't have to make copies of your images 
to a new folder, just create a play list with those files 
in question. So, instead of creating folders like "Best Pics" 
or "Funny Pics", you can have all your images in ONE folder, 
and then just create various play lists.



Bug Fixes:
1. Fixed some minor cosmetics.
2. Fixed PRINTING problems. If you ever saw blocks of area on a 
printed page that were blank and should have contained portions
of an image, then your problem is now solved. It appears that 
Windows printer drivers don't follow the specs down to the tee :(
3. Fixed problem with NetMeeting for XP. This program resets the 
monitor when it loads and exits. So, if you load Photo Jockey then
start NM, PJ will not be able to function. If you load NM, then 
load PJ, then EXIT NM, then PJ will not be able to function. This 
problem is now FIXED.


01/20/05 Version 2.63

Improvements:
1. Better auto-hide menu under all situations. Full screen or 
   normal viewing mode etc...
2. The extensions FILTER (funnel button) now has a "Flip All Checkmarks" button.
3. The THUMBNAILS at the top and the FILES LIST at the right
   now has an AUTO-POP-UP properties information box as you  
   pass the mouse over each filename. That way you get a quick 
   overview of the properties (resolution, date, time, size) of each file. 
   Optionally, if you have photos from a digital camera, 
   it will tell you shutter speed, F-Stop etc...
4. Now supports ANIMATED GIF files. The animation player also 
   has a speed control slider. If you move the animation player from it's original 
   position on the screen, then you can click on another 
   gif animation file and it will popup a NEW player. That way you can have 
   MANY animations playing all at once.
5. Added a lot of Novice Tips that you can disable later or turn back on 
   if you forget how to use the program. That way if you are a casual user, 
   you can see the tips on what you need to do, and if you are an expert, 
   you can turn the annoying tips off :)
6. Better MultiMonitor Support.


11/10/04 Version 2.62

Improvements:
1. Better auto-hide menu under all situations. Full screen or 
   normal viewing mode etc...
2. The extensions FILTER (funnel button) now has a "Flip All Checkmarks" button.
3. The THUMBNAILS at the top and the FILES LIST at the right
   now has an AUTO-POP-UP properties information box as you  
   pass the mouse over each filename. That way you get a quick 
   overview of the properties (resolution, date, time, size) of each file. 
   Optionally, if you have photos from a digital camera, 
   it will tell you shutter speed, F-Stop etc...
4. Now supports ANIMATED GIF files. The animation player also 
   has a speed control slider. If you move the animation player from it's original 
   position on the screen, then you can click on another 
   gif animation file and it will popup a NEW player. That way you can have 
   MANY animations playing all at once.
5. Added a lot of Novice Tips that you can disable later or turn back on 
   if you forget how to use the program. That way if you are a casual user, 
   you can see the tips on what you need to do, and if you are an expert, 
   you can turn the annoying tips off :)
6. Better MultiMonitor Support.


Bug Fixes:
1. Fixed JPGConvert issue: This is the feature that allows you to 
   resize images that you have just drag/dropped.
   Great for dropping onto email attachment areas. 
   Well, when MOVIE files are also being dropped,
   it used to give an error upon resizing the movie file, now it's fixed to just skip it. Because you can't resize a
   movie file like you would a photo.
2. Fixed some minor memory leaks. You probably wouldn't notice them 
   unless you were using the program continually 24/7 for about 30 days :)


10/15/04 Version 2.61

Improvements:
1. Added MORE RAW photo formats. ( These are from high-end digital cameras) 
2. Much FASTER RAW thumbnail decoding (sometimes 2-3 times faster) 
3. Musch FASTER RAW thumbnail & Full image decoding when images are 
   located on a network drive. (Used to be real slow) 
4. Less memory consumption while decoding RAW 8K instead of many MB. 
5. The Main Menu is now designed to be AUTO-HIDE. 
   This means that as you move the mouse away from the main menu, 
   it will just go away. Then as you move the mouse back up to where
   the menu normally is, it will re-appear. 
6. There is now a new button on the Files List panel. 
   It looks like a green film strip. Clicking this will start a 
   FULL SCREEN slide show. 
7. If you press the DELete key, it will act as though you clicked on 
   the TRASH CAN button in photo jockey. 
8. Added a FILTER FILE TYPES setup screen. There is a new button that 
   looks like a Funnel on the files list panel. Click it and you can 
   configure what file types Photo Jockey will display. 
9. Added a tiny button above the filenames in the fileslist to control the
   sort order. You can sort from the main menu as well and the Options 
   window too.
Bug Fixes: 
1. Fixed REVERT button on the Color Adjustment window so that 
   it's disabled until you click APPLY. 
2. Fixed bug: When Photo Jockey is maximized and then closed, 
   the next time you run Photo Jockey, it attempts to keep the
   SAME screen size, so naturally it loads up and is FULL Screen. 
   BUT, I also had logic that looked to see if it was full screen and if
   it was, then the title bar and menu bar would be hidden. 
   This makes the user feel lost. So, it's fixed to where the title bar 
   and menu bar will STILL be visible.
3. Fixed bug: If you run a slide show on a folder that has photos 
   and MOVIE files. Then it would play the movie files for a few
   seconds and then continue on with the next file in the list. 
   NOW it's fixed so that it skips any movie file in the list and 
   goes to the next PHOTO. 


10/01/04 Version 2.6

1. Added Smoothing feature in the Sharpening function.
2. MOVIES: Added *.ASF and *.WMV movie files.
3. Color Adjusting window now has 100 levels of
   UNDO and REDO, only limited by available temp disk space.
   And now there is a REVERT button too.
4. Added registration code.
5. Added Wall Paper Creation

09/01/04 First release