Album DS users guide REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft Windows Vista or higher until Wind
Album DS users guide REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft Windows Vista or higher until Windows 8, Mac OS X 10.7 ( Lion) or higher until 10.9 (Mavericks) and Adobe Photoshop CS (not recommended but usable), CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 or CC. Album DS is an application that works as a toolbar for Adobe Photoshop, therefore the speed of use is mainly dependent on the resources available for Adobe Photoshop; please optimize Photoshop for a fluent workflow and design experience. INSTALLATION: Windows: • Execute the installer AlbumDS_setup.exe and follow the instructions on it, this will install the application for 32 and 64bits (if a 64bits OS is present) and the basic complements to start using the application; if needed the installer will check for some OS requirements like NET Framework and libraries. • Once finished you will have one shortcut for Album DS (32 bits) and another one for Album DS 64 bits, depending on your Photoshop version you must use on or another. This can be checked at the Photoshop Help – System Info menu option. • Start Album DS using the desktop or menu shortcuts in Windows Mac: • Double click at the disk image file AlbumDS.dmg, this will mount a new volume called Album DS in your Mac. • Drag the Album DS folder from left to right into the Applications folder. If icons view is not enabled in the volume please enable it first. • Close the Album DS volume. • The new Album DS application can be found at the Applications / Album DS folder, you may drag the application into your dock for a faster and easier access. • Start Album DS by double clicking the application at the Applications/Album DS folder or at the dock (if you have already dragged there the app). Common: • After a seconds Album DS will ask you for your Photoshop version, please select it. Make sure to select the correct one, specially if you are using CS5 or CS5.1 because this are different versions. • A welcome / trial window will appear for 7 seconds, click at Start to close it. • If you have purchased a license you must now activate it, to do this please: • Select the Configuration tab • Click at Activate license • Input your activation details ( you will receive them by email) • Click at Request license, the application will connect to our server and validate the license. Please make sure that your firewall or antivirus is not blocking the connection. • Restart Album DS, the welcome window will not appear • Select again the Configuration tab and click at Install add ons • If you have an Album DS DVD please insert it now in the drive. • Select the add ons you want to install (you may select all) and click at Install add ons. • This will install / download the add ons, please notice that a full download is more than 4Gb and will take several hours, please be patient. IMPORTANT: Please select your language at the Configuration tab and set also if you are working in cm or inches, notice that the sample size is in cm and it's preferable to change it to a smaller one if you are working in inches before trying. BACKUP AND REINSTALLATION: It's highly recommended to make a backup of the Album DS folder in Documents into an external drive and copy there also the file AlbumDS.dmg or AlbumDS_setup.exe used for the installation. This way you may easily reinstall the application by • Executing the installer following the steps mentioned at the Installation part. • Restore the Album DS folder from the backup into the Documents folder. • Start Album DS HOW TO PLACE THE ALBUM DS WINDOW Album DS main window has 2 possible configurations: normal and always visible, they are settable at the Configuration tab. The best solution is just to place Album DS and all Photoshop tools in a second monitor leaving the first one for your album sheets and designs. If this is not possible, with the Always visible setting the main window remains visible over any other application, this is the recommended way for the Windows versions but in Mac it may hide Photoshop when clicking on Album DS and therefore we recommend to just place the Album DS window below the Photoshop main window like shown here: SAMPLE ALBUM: Album DS includes a sample album in the Documents/Album DS/Sample folder for demonstration purposes. It's advised not to use this folder for your own designs and albums. HOW TO CREATE AN ALBUM: With Album DS you may create several types of designs, from just collages to single pictures framed or masked or complete albums, in this guide I will call them albums idependently of the type of project. Please notice that designs created using Album DS are standard PSD and JPG files and they may be saved into any place of your computer but Album DS needs one file to control where they have been saved, the pictures used, templates, thumbnails, previews, album size, etc; this file is called album database file and has the .db extension. To create a new album please select the Album tab, then click at New album and select a folder to save the album database file, you must enter a name for this file. Album DS will reuse the data available at the album tab for this new album because it's very common to create similar albums. Now input of modify the album details at the Album tab: • Input a title, customer name and comments. • You may select a predefined album size and also create your own predefined sizes database by clicking at the Predefined button. • Input the album size. Notice that width and height must include any trimming guide. • Central guide is to be used if you need a double guide with a separation in the center, the value to input is the separation. • Gutter, this should only be used if your binder works with splitted pages and needs an extra piece of paper at each part for the binding. Will be used for splitting the sheets. Make sure to click at Save changes to save the modifications in the album database file. Once an album has been created you may reopen it by clicking at Open album and selecting the album database file, Album DS will reload the pictures, sheets, size and other details of this album and show them in their respective tabs. This way you may work at several albums at the same time and reopen one or another when needed. IMPORTANT: I highly recommend to make a backup of the album database file, album sheets and pictures on a daily basis as with any other software. One advantage of Album DS is that sheets are saved independently and even if you loose the album database file you will be able to open the sheets. HOW TO OPEN ALBUMS MADE WITH OLDER VERSIONS OR IF THE DATABASE IS LOST: In case you can't reopen an album or need to open an album made with an older version please follow this steps: • Create a new album and input the size • Drag the picture files into the Pictures tab • Drag the sheets ( PSD files) into the Sheets tab • Album DS will rebuild the relation among them and show them at their tabs. HOW TO ADD PICTURES: To add pictures to an album you only need to drag the picture files ( in JPG or TIFF format) into the Pictures tab of Album DS. Alternatively you may right click the mouse over any picture (or the mouse icon if no picture is available) and select Add pictures from the menu. Album DS creates the thumbnails and previews of the pictures while adding them, therefore it takes some time to complete the process ( a progress bar is provided at the bottom of Album DS). Pictures remain in their original location and used from there while designing, Album DS saves the path of the picture and it can be read at the status bar while moving the mouse over a picture. It's not recommended to add all pictures taken by your camera, it will take more time to be added and only confuses at design time, just make a previous selection to save a lot of time later. HOW TO REMOVE PICTURES: Notice that usually it's not needed to remove any picture because Album DS will mark or hidden the used pictures (depending on the Configuration settings) automatically after saving the sheets. To remove pictures please select them (use CTRL / CMD or SHIFT) for multiple selection and right click the mouse button, then select Remove pictures from the menu. Pictures are only removed from the album database file, they are not deleted from their location. HOW TO SELECT A TEMPLATE: Templates are shown at the Pictures tab, at bottom. At uploads/Litterature/ users-guide 17 .pdf
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