MAGIX Photo Manager 2007 tutorial

MAGIX Photo Manager 2007 for Windows - from a series of how-to software guides from http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/videos -how to use this free software to manage your digital photos, burn CDs and access online services. What Digital Camera magazine's guide by Karl Foster www.whatdigitalcamera.com

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magix produces a lot of budget software
and photo manager 2007 is so budget is
actually free download from magic stop
calm its windows only as you can tell
from the decidedly windows looking
interface along the top we have a number
of icons you can import data from the
camera export print your own printer
burn CD is a bit of a curio but there's
a slideshow facility and various online
services including print services and a
means to blog join the magics community
or even create your own website now if
you follow that well organized on the
media drive the folder view is actually
rather handy but it's a database view by
which to order images into further
categories and we further devices down
the bottom left here for different views
the current view is a filmstrip view you
see the thumbnails along the bottom and
click on one and a larger version will
appear in the main view got these rather
colorful drummers and what was like a
manic tambourine player at the
right-hand side importing images is a
cinch
although i don't like plugging digital
cameras into computers add much rather
without the memory card and there is
still a card reader it is an income the
thumbnails and see they're reasonably
quick to update you can elect to import
only near images or if you change the
view there's a variety of views you can
freely choose just sort them by name to
a creation date modification date for
that there are checkboxes down the
left-hand side so you can again
cherry-pick just the photos that you
want i'm going to pick about to think
this 38 in here that was looking at here
so i love them and then just import
selected on this icon here
it'll save you from cluttering up the
program with a lot of Deadshot's that
you never get when you're shooting just
yes that when you're shooting a sports
match first marriage is good for
collecting lots of images that are
slightly unusable
so I've little things down to the ones
that turned out really well right after
the database view am going to create a
new folder to accommodate the
photographs will give it a name and the
name of the football team is the old
smoothy football club based in ivy
bridge south Kevin and they won this
match by something like seven mil I know
because I was there
I right click on thumbnail beings of
properties showing the creation date of
the image but the folder we created of
course it's got the wrong date on it you
can change that with the right click
change the year whose icy 2006 April 16
and there it appears under 2006 in the
database view click on the folder icon
brings up a film strip of thumbnails
that they are some interesting action
shots going on one of which is pretty
good so right click for properties and I
think we'll give it a bit of a star
rating I like that one a lot and ratings
click on five stars
click OK to apply and here's a bit of a
pain all of the thumbnails decide they
want to update themselves which could
take a bit of a while if you're writing
in his photographs you kind of course
click underneath a thumbnail apply
rating will give that 14 stars and the
thumbnails update again there's got to
be a way around this somehow we'll try
this view
let's give this set to star Rho the
thumbnails still want to update again
the place to look to get rid of this
particular phenomenon is under options
to explore tab and we'll catch those
thumbnails for a quick update click on
OK go back to film strip here
and that's right this one and the
thumbnails still want to date I had a
word with magix tech support and they
could actually give me an answer as to
why options tends to gray out
thumbnail caching maybe it's peculiar to
this particular version of the program
so that accepted will take a look at
some of the enhancement functions
optimized photo and there's a good
amount of control to be had here
actually compared with some freeware
offerings or two exposures just a
one-click business brightness is
adjustable as his midterm gamma contrast
as a slider for itself
he can mess with the contrast mid-tone
Ganner color temperature and even boost
the saturation to make those red shirts
really seeing out with this slide here
and as a variable level of sharpness
which you don't always get in this kind
of software i don't really need to level
the horizon but maybe useful crop
function at specifically photo size
aspect ratios will try a four by three
landscape just tighten up the
composition associated mark aging the
area double-clicking and snip there it
is ready to print out i'll show you how
easy is to create my photo album by
pressing command data select all the
thumbnails dragging the mode to the left
that comes this a photo album put in a
far name give the album name if you want
to just going to change the year 2006
actually they gave us maybe FC dot album
and then we can watch shoulder the
thumbnails in the film strip updating
again it's as tedious as watching
football so let's head off the burr
island on the south coast at devon and
yet more updating of them as drag a
selection of images into the panel left
gives a name
change the year two thousand five and
houston creation of a new album and they
are the thumbnails and that's a lump of
see there and you can hop between the
different albums just by clicking on
them so back to football and let's see
about exporting the selected images and
you can create export files one by one
created video screen saver or send them
via email will cancel that for now local
printing is of course supported into
swing landscape images around to fit on
the page various options for page layout
and you can print numerous shots to one
piece of paper their CD particular point
it's not supported in MAGIX photo
manager 2007 so makes you wonder why the
icons their slideshow creation meanwhile
is supported and here's one I made
earlier and finally the online services
well possibly the most intriguing of
them is going to be blogging by which
you can affect not only of photography
but you're insane rantings on the rest
of the Internet community and the great
thing about this is it's actually free
as well there you go
all you gotta do is register with the
service so photo manager has a few lumpy
bits like the thumbnail update and lack
of CD burning but my recommendation is
that if you like the layout of the
program you might as well go for the
commercial vision more about which you
can find at Magic start com