(Editing) EDITING AN IMAGE WITH OTHER SOFTWARE

Click here to show the Editor's Configuration Screen.

Although Photo Jockey has the ability to edit your photos with the most commonly needed functions, there may be some editing that you may want to perform outside of Photo Jockey.

Editing functions included with Photo Jockey:

Red-Eye Reduction

Cropping

Cut / Paste Image Portions

Rotate / Flip / Mirror

Rotate Any Angle

Color Adjustments

Sharpening / Smoothing

Resizing

Text Boxes Overlaying

Image Image Overlaying

If you need additional editing capabilities found only in other software, then it's BEST to edit the photos with the edit button found on the Quick Tools panel. The button looks like a pencil tip.

The reason you should edit photos this way is because if you load your editing software separately and edit a photo, Photo Jockey will NOT have the ability to CORRECT the image. So what's the big deal about CORRECTION? Well, if your editing software doesn't see the Exif Camera Information then it won't save the EXIF data when you save the image. This means EXIF data for shutter speed and ISO etc. will be lost. You can of course use Photo Jockey to restore the EXIF Camera Information but it's not automatic. BUT if you load your editing software THROUGH Photo Jockey, then when you are done saving the image and exit back to Photo Jockey, Photo Jockey automatically checks the newly saved file to see if it lost the Exif Data and if it detects that it did, then it automatically restores it.

Now that you are convinced that you should use Photo Jockey to load your editing software such as Adobe, MS Photo Editor, etc., you will now learn how to setup Photo Jockey to do so.

Photo Jockey needs to be configured to know about your photo editing softwares that you will want to use. You will need to go to the Editor's Configuration Setup screen. You can do this by clicking on the EDIT menu from the main menu. Then pick "Editors (Edit Image / Configure Editors)" option. Then pick "Configure All Editors". This brings up the Editor Setup window.

EDITOR'S CONFIGURATION SETUP WINDOW:

DEFINE UP TO 5 EDITORS TO USE:
You can setup up to 5 different editors. In order to setup an editor, just click the BROWSE button and browse your hard drive for the proper EXE program file. For some people, this may seem difficult, so there is a much easier way. Just DRAG & DROP your editor icon from your Desktop, or Quick Launch Bar, or from your START - PROGRAMS files list. You should DROP into one of the 5 slots available on the left side of the configuration window. When you do the drop, Photo Jockey automatically knows where the program is located and the program's name.

You should check the "Quotes Needed" checkbox, unless it's a super old program, then you may want to UN-Check it.

QUICK PICK: This buton allows you to quickly select from the known editors in your system. If the program you want to use is not in the list then you can use the BROWSE method.

SELECT EDITOR FOR EACH FILE TYPE:
As the last step, you can assign each editor to a particular file format. So, for example: You could assign PAINT to *.BMP files and Paint Shop to *.JPG files. You could also assign *.MOV to MovieEdit. This is for added flexibility.

Once you have defined your editors and assigned which file extensions that the particular editors will edit, you are done. So, click "DONE".

AUTOMATIC EDITOR SELECTION
If you click the pencil tip button on the Quick Tools panel then the editor to bring up is automatically determined for you from the choices you selected in the "Select Editor For Each File Type" section of the Editor Configuration Setup Window.

MANUAL EDITOR SELECTION
If you are about to edit a JPG file and you had setup Adobe to edit JPG files, and you do NOT want Adobe to edit a particular JPG file, then instead of clicking on the Edit button (pencil tip), you can click on the EDIT menu from the main menu. Then choose "Editors (Edit Image / Configure Editors)". Then pick the editor you want to use.



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