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Photo Album
To clarify, this system does not create pictures. It creates index to existing pictures and organizes them into digital albums. The pictures are never copied from their original folders. The photo album consists of 6 screens. Each screen (file) holds 20,000 records and each record may have an index to 1 to 27 pictures. Unless you have a powerful PC, it is recommended that you limit each file to 2,000 records or less. You can have over 80 files per GenRe directory. When you login to GenRe Software, click the [Help] icon and read subject Picture Organizers for info on indexing pictures.
Assistant Window This window tells you what to do as you go from one screen to another. The window automatically deploys for demo versions. For production versions, it is activated via the Help icon.
Family Trees The family tree screen organizes family pictures. The sample shows the parents, up to seven children, with their names and birthdays. You can modify the screen to add more information and pictures, change colors, dimensions, fonts, etc.
Creating Records Click the [Help] icon and read subject Data Entry and topic creating records. Also, read topics create button, modify button and delete button. Assigning Photos To Records Read about subject Data Entry and topic pictures for instructions on how to add pictures. Single-Picture Screen for Landscape Photos This screen is designed to hold individual landscape photos.
Twenty check boxes are activated for this screen. Rename the boxes to your own categories or events so you can use them, for example, to retrieve photos you took during an event. One list box is also active. You can also use it for categories. Read subject Data Entry, topics check boxes and list boxes for details on how to create these screen objects. Single-Picture Screen for Portrait Photos The next screen is for portrait photos. Notice how a landscape picture shows: the full picture is shown skewed, with its sides compressed.
To show the picture in its original aspect and dimensions, click on the picture. It is shown in in full screen mode:
Then click on the picture to return to the screen. Multiple Pictures Per Screen The next screen has (an index to) 27 portrait photos.
Only one program, pictures data entry, is used for creating many screens. You configure screens by clicking the [hammer] icon and flipping to program design mode. For details, read subject Picture Organizers, Designing. The designer panel includes a [Group Pix] command for moving pictures around as a group instead of moving them one by one. To use this command, you must first click a picture so that its details appear on the panel. In the example, Picture1 is clicked. Then you click [Group Pix]...
...to reveal the group commands.
Clicking [Tile] shows a window from which you select a template of how pictures are to be arranged on the screen:
Select a template and click [Apply]. Then use the designer buttons to tweak the screen. Mixed Picture Sizes This screen stores photos with different aspects and dimensions. Instead of fitting all photos into pre-defined dimensions, there is an option to resize individual photos. This applies to photos assigned to primary pictures 1 and 2 only. The auxiliary pictures are not included. To alter the size of the current picture, click [Special] and select [Resize pictures 1 & 2].
The picture designer is displayed. Make the changes and close the panel to apply the changes back to the screen...
When the record that holds the picture is deleted, the specific dimensions are also deleted. You may also reset dimensions back to pre-defined sizes by going back to Special Commands and [Resetting pictures 1 & 2]. Showing Records (Photos) Recursively You can display a group of photos recursively instead of manually retrieving them one by one. For example, you may want to show the pictures from your last vacation. Recursion shows the first photo for a few seconds, goes the next and until the last photo. At the end, it loops back to the first photo. For details, read subject Picture Organizers and topic recursion. Recording a Group of Pictures in One Go Discussed in web link Indexing a Bunch of Pictures. Deleting a Bunch of Records The records are deleted but the actual photo files are retained. Use the Batch Menu>Delete Records program.
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