Table of contents

Generalities

3D Photo Browser for 3D Users overview
Photo Browser for Digital Camera overview
3D Photo Browser Light overview
Comparative list of the features for the Light / for Digital Camera / for 3D Users version
What's new in release 11.00 of 3D Photo Browser ?
Files formats recognized by 3D Photo Browser
Credits, thanks

Register 3D Photo Browser

License principles
Purchasing a license
Serial number entry
License activation
License deactivation
Information on clear license advantages
License agreement

Contacts

Contacts, technical support

Creating catalogues

What is a catalogue ?
Opening a catalogue
Saving a catalogue
Read only catalogue
Making catalogue for files which are on a CD-ROM

Changing display mode
Increase or decrease the thumbnails size
Filtering displayed files
Editing custom filter

Sorting files
Creating and displaying a custom sort order
Deleting a custom sort order
Group files
Group files by pages

Selecting columns to display in list mode

Scanning computer to automatically create catalogues
Updating catalogue

Using explorer and files with 3D Photo Browser

Generalities

Display the My Computer panel

Deleting selection
Renaming selection
Renaming a set of files

Folders

Opening a folder
Opening parent folder
Folders history
Creating a folder
Moving a folder to another folder

Files

Viewing one or more files with 3D Photo Browser
Opening a file using "Open With..."
Opening a file using "Open With Application..."
Playing an audio file
Editing a file using the fast applications access toolbar
Editing a file in another application using Drag & Drop
Moving a file to another folder
Associated files

Others

Display Directory Size
Status bar icons meaning
Useful mouse and keyboard shortcuts
Command line options

Using favorites

Adding a favorite
Creating a favorite folder
Opening a favorite
Deleting a favorite
Organizing favorites by categories

Editing information

Overview
Information and album
Information and NTFS partition
Information and MP3 files

Information edition panel
Keywords edition panel
Properties edition panel

Export information
Import information

Creating albums

What is an album?
What operations can I do in an album?

Creating an album
Opening an existing album
Deleting an album

Copying files to an album
Deleting files from an album

Opening the directory that contains an album file

Searching for files

Overview
What is a search results and what can I do with it?

Searching a specific file
Search for files in a local network
Defining search criteria

Saving the search results
Opening an existing search results
Updating a search results

Opening the directory that contains a search results file
Open the directory that was opened before performing the search

Tags

Using tags to get access to files properties

Printing Catalogue

Overview
Printer and templates tab
Dimensions tab
Text/Image Position tab
Colors and Borders tab
Images tab
Text tab
Options tab
Print Preview

Slide show

Selecting files to display
Editing text to display
Start and stop the slide show

2D viewer

File menu
Opening / closing an image from 3D Photo Browser
Open
Save
Save As
Print
Rename File
Delete File
Close

Edit menu

Modes & colors
Indexed Colors
Monochrome
Grayscale Image
Contrast
Invert
Gamma Settings
Modify HSL
Replace Color

Modify
Horizontal Flip
Vertical Flip
Rotate To Horizontal or Rotate To Vertical
Rotate 90°
Rotate -90°

Filters

Blur & sharpen
Unsharp Mask
Blur
Gaussian Blur
Median

Add & suppress noise
Add Noise
Despeckle
Noise Reduction
Advanced Noise Reduction

Colors
Equalize
Normalize
Threshold
Solarize

Specials effects
Edges
Random Spread
Emboss
Charcoal
Shade
Oil Paint

Geometry
Offset
Implode
Wave
Swirl

JPEG Lossless
Vertical Flip
Horizontal Flip
Crop
Rotate -90°
Rotate 90°

Update the image thumbnail
Resize
Canvas Size
Crop
Automatic Crop
Undo
Redo

View menu

Images
Next Image
Previous Image
Slides Show

Display the images list
Play a video or an animated GIF
Extract images from a video or an animated GIF
Move
Zoom /2
Zoom x2
Zoom In / Out
Auto Fit On View
Zoom Lock
Actual Size
Fit On View
Full Screen

Changing the layer displayed

3D viewer

File menu
Opening / closing a 3D file in 3D Photo Browser
Save As
Transferring to 3DS Max
Save Scene as Image
Print
Rename File
Delete File

Tools menu
Changing the default point of view used for thumbnails creation
Replacing a thumbnail using a specific point of view

Polygon Cruncher

Navigating in the scene
Pan
Rotate
Zoom

Preferences
General Preferences
Colors and Lights
Textures
Textures Directories

Scenes
Next and Previous scene
Slides Show

Display the scenes list
Show/Hide Objects
Displaying information on objects
Show/hide Materials
Display information on materials
Predefined points of view
OpenGL display mode
Enable Texturing
Enable Vertexs Colors
Fit on Screen
Full Screen

Import images from a scanner or a digital camera

TWAIN Import
WIA Import

Batch command processing

Overview
Select source files
Create and edit a batch command
Select destination

HTML exportation

Overview
Source Files tab
HTML Templates and Destination tab
Images Format and Options tab

Creating HTML templates - Overview
Where should I put the template in order to make it recognized by the application?
How can I check that the template is correct?
3D Photo Browser specific tags and attributes list
Tags to insert files in the HTML pages
Tags to define the kind of generated links and exported files
Conditional tags, loop tags
Redirecting tags when using a set of frames
Tags for linking with the generated pages (table of contents)
Other tags

Screen Capture

Quick Start
Configuration Dialog Box
Running and Exiting
Navigation summary

Capture types

Capture modes

Full screen
Dialog box
Window
Region
Fixed size region
Cropping and adjusting

Capture States

Keyboard-only state
Méthode combinée
Application-live state

Options

Include the pointer
Display information window
Activate capture at startup
Fixed size region settings

Image capture options

File Format

Image file name
Destination directory
Image format

Custom Profiles

Saving Captures

Keep mode active
Capture preview

Video capture options

Video capture overview
Video format
Video options

3D Photo Browser plugins

Internet tools
Send an Email

Internet tools
Lossless JPEG

Video & animation tools
Create AVI File
Create Animated GIF File

File tools
Uppercase/Lowercase File Name
Split a File
Merge Files

Preferences settings

"Catalogues" tab

• Catalogues saving
• Create hidden catalogues files
• Catalogues contents
• Saving quality

"Fast applications access" tab

• Create a fast access
• Delete a fast acces
• Create defaults access
• Fast access parameters

"Display" tab

• Background image
• Icons display and position
• Colors
  • Screen background
  • Thumbnails background and opacity
  • 3D scenes background
  • Text
  • Defaults colors
• Tooltips information
  • Display mode selection
  • Tooltips text
    • Files category
    • Tags insertion
    • Open Wordpad
    • Text importation
    • Width
    • Default text

"Custom display" tab

• Thumbnails size
• Custom display text edition
  • Files category
  • Tags insertion
  • Open Wordpad
  • Text importation
  • Text position
  • Default text

"Extensions and Windows shell" tab

• Add and remove 3D Photo Browser to/from the explorer Open with menu
• Associate 3D Photo Browser to an extension
• Define the application to use with the Open and Open with... command

"Network repository and search" tab

• Gather catalogues in a repository folder in order to perform network searches
• Define a directories list for seaching files

"Other" tab

• Create independent window for viewing
• Copy / Delete / Rename files
• Automatically add directory to favorites
• Use large icons for toolbar
• Minimize 3D Photo Browser in the systray
• 3D Photo Browser hot key
• Select the current language

3D Photo Browser plugin for Lightwave

Using the 3D Photo Browser plugin for Lightwave

3D Photo Browser plugin for 3DS Max

Using the 3D Photo Browser plugin for 3DS Max
Creating thumbnails for 3DS Max files
Importing 3D files in 3DS Max