PHOTOPHILIA README FILE
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Thank you for using PhotoPhilia! This file contains additional
information that may be not included in the online help.


WHAT IS PHOTOPHILIA?
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PhotoPhilia is intended for viewing, editing, and organizing images.
PhotoPhilia supports 30+ popular image formats, AVI and MPEG
movies. PhotoPhilia Explorer generates thumbnails of various
sizes and appearances and makes it easy to navigate through your
files using Favorites and Bookmarks. Organize your images into
Albums and describe images using comments, keywords, categories, etc.
The Album Manager controls all your albums. Edit your images:
rotate, crop, auto-trim, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen,
emboss, mosaic, posterize and more functions. Search your images
by file name, date, size, keywords, categories, comment and
by the Looks Like criteria. Slideshow with 180+ effects,
transitions, shapes, titles and background music. Automate your
image processing tasks! The powerful Batch Process tool allows you
to build your own scenarios of image processing. Scenarios consist
of image editing functions, file operations and other functions.
HTML Generator generates HTML pages from your image collections
and can produce HTML slideshows with 20+ transition effects and
background music. Convert Wizard converts images into various
formats with a lot of options, Rename Files tool makes it easy
to rename files using renumbering, wildcards, prefix/suffix. Print
your images, thumbnails and entire albums easily with a lot of
options. TWAIN support provides you with the ability of retrieving
images from scanners and digital cameras directly to your albums
and folders.


OBTAINING THE LATEST INFORMATION
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Our web site http://www.pholix.com contains the latest permanently
updated information. In order to receive information about new
releases, updates and other events please subscribe to our maillist.
You can do it at our web site.


INSTALLATION NOTES
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To install PhotoPhilia, simply run the downloaded self-extracting
file PHOLI140.EXE and follow the instructions. Full installation
requires less than 20 Mb free space on your hard drive. And of
course, it is easy to uninstall PhotoPhilia through Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs icon.


FREE TRIAL PERIOD AND REGISTRATION
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PhotoPhilia is shipped as a shareware version with a 30-day free trial
period. The program will work during the trial period from the first
start on the computer. Once the trial period expires, the program
will stop working. PhotoPhilia requires a valid serial number to
continue working after the trial period has expired. To obtain a serial
number you should register the program. For details see Order.txt and
License.txt files.


CHANGES IN PHOTOPHILIA VERSION 1.4
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- Image editing (resizing, cropping, rotating, color effects and filters)
- New slideshow engine with transitions, shapes, titles, attached data
- New Batch process engine: scenarios support
- Rename Files tool
- HTML Generator tool
- Favorites
- New image display modes: Best Fit, Actual Size, Fit to Width/Height, Zoom in/out
- Custom zoom from 1% to 6000%
- Up to 9 images at the same time in the Full screen mode
- Shell custom commands
- Select bookmarked command
- Set as Wallpaper popup menu: center, tile, stretch, remove
- Check for update feature
- Create album by folder command
- Detect broken links command in albums
- New link command in albums
- Filter by file name in Scan for images, Add images and Create album dialogs
- Print border rectangle option for mosaics and albums
- Copying the current movie frame to the clipboard
- Thumbnails for movies now are taken from the frame that is about 1-5 sec from the beginning
- PSP (Paint Shop Pro 6.0) files support
- Fixed reading multipage AWD files
- Correcting inverted AWD files
- 16 bpp grayscale unpacked TIFF (GEL Medical images) support


CHANGES IN PHOTOPHILIA VERSION 1.3
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- Acquiring multiple images from TWAIN devices
- Convert Wizard: the powerful batch conversion tool with various options
- Redesigned Export Thumbnails tool: rich opportunities for sizes and styles
- Rotating and flipping images in Convert Wizard and TWAIN
- Multipage files support (TIFF, DCX)
- Movies support: AVI, MPEG, Indeo, QuickTime (using Windows Media Player)
- WAV, MP3, MIDI as attached sounds, in slideshow (using Windows Media Player)
- M3U and PLS playlists in slideshow
- New 3D thumbnail styles
- Rows and columns number in printing thumbnails
- File comments for JTIF format, EXIF file comments
- Boss key


CHANGES IN PHOTOPHILIA VERSION 1.2
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- Navigation through images in an image frame
- You can use your image collections as a Windows Screen Saver
- Sending images and albums by email
- Image auto size option
- Gamma correction
- Thumbnails cache improvements
- The program now can generate high quality thumbnails
- Thumbnails can be saved directly to the album file
- Loop option in Slideshows
- An opportunity to play attached sound files in all frames
- Finding images by Comment and URL
- Find Looks Like menu command to simplify starting the search
- Comment and URL fields are displayed in tooltips
- Time pick control in the Filter dialog
- The IntelliMouse support in the slideshow and Full screen mode
- Changing selection in lists by rotation of the mouse wheel
- Open the source menu command
- The Image cache now uses a smart algorithm for using the memory
- Full path field in albums
- New albums are placed to the special Album folder by default
- Relink items in albums
- Up One Level menu command in the directory tree
- The middle mouse button in image frames opens Explorer
- File lists now can display an item state
- LRU lists are present in a Quick Launcher
- Open image menu command in Explorer
- Edit/Cut menu command
- Deleting and renaming folders
- Context help


HOW TO CONTACT US
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Pholix Software
Web site: http://www.pholix.com
E-Mail:   contact@pholix.com

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