(Options) PROGRAM OPTIONS (SLIDE SHOW & OTHERS)

Click here to show the options screen.

Most of the cool slide show effects are done with the Program Options window. In order to get it up, you can bring up the TOOLS Menu and then click "Program Options (Slide Show & Others)". Once you have opened the "Program Options" window, you can change many options.

Below is a list of some of the cool things you can do from there:

Slide Show Options:

Continuous Looping: Check this to control if you want the slide show to start over again after it's shown you all of the photos.

Time Delay Between Photos: Use this to control the amount of time (in seconds) the photos are shown before the next photo is loaded, while playing the slide show.

Transition Effects:

One Selected Transition Effect: You can select a single transition effect so that every image that gets displayed will use this single transition to show the image.

Sequential Effects: As the images are loaded and displayed the next transition in the list is used to show the image. After the last transition is used, it starts back at the first transition.

Random Transition Effects: Select this if you want each photo to use a random transition effect.
Transition Effect List:
This is a pulldown list of all the available transition effects.

Play Music During Slide Show (SlideShow(1-9).Wav): Check this if you want to play music while the photos are being displayed in slide show mode. When the slide show is paused, the music stops as well. The sound file used to play the music should be named "SlideShow1.WAV" and MAKE SURE it's in the SAME folder as the images.
NOTE: If you would like many sound files to be played one after the other, then name them sequentially. For example: SlideShow1.Wav, SlideShow2.Wav, SlideShow3.Wav. If you had these 3 files, then each one would be played in sequence. Once all the wave files are played, then it starts back over again with the first one.
HINT: ONLY 1-9 is valid, so SlideShow10.Wav would be ignored.

Voice Clips Must Play: Check this option, if you want your voice clips to be played while the music is put on hold. After the voice clip plays, the music is continued. If this option is not checked, and the play music option is checked, then only the music files found in the folder are played. Even if some of your images have voice clips, they will be silent. Only the music plays.
NOTE: You need to have the "Play Voice Clip Comments" option checked as well.

Image Display Options:

File Sort Order: This controls the order in which the files appears in the files list. You can sort using any of the following methods:

Random File Order
Checkmarked Files To Front
Checkmarked Files To End
Filename Ascending
Filename Descending
File Extension Ascending
File Extension Descending
PARTial Filename Ascending
PARTial Filename Descending
File Date Ascending
File Date Descending
File Size Ascending
File Size Descending.
Image Dimensions Ascending
Image Dimensions Descending
Camera EXIF Date Ascending
Camera EXIF Date Descending
Camera EXIF Make/Model Ascending
Camera EXIF Make/Model Descending

NOTE: For a detailed description of all sorting options click here.

Rotation Memory: Check this if you want the program to remember which photos that you have rotated. Then when you go back to view them after viewing other images, they will STILL appear rotated :) This memory is lost when you close the program.

Zoom Mode: Check this if you want to see each photo in it's actual size (100% zoom). So, large images would need to be scrolled around in order to view the whole image. There is a zoom slider in this mode so you can view from 12% to 1200% of the actual image size.

Enlarge Photo To Fit Screen: Check this if you want small photos to be enlarged to fit the screen.

Smoothing when sizing to fit screen: Check this if you want the highest quality sizing. So, if an image needed to be shrunk or enlarged to fit the screen, this option will do it in a manner that produces non-jagged images. Very smooth and nice. If you have a slow computer (less than 400MHZ) you may want to turn this option off, because it can slow you down a bit.
NOTE: You can also DOUBLE-CLICK the image to switch from "Zoom Mode" to "Enlarge Photo To Fit Screen Mode".

Cool Stuff Options:

Play cool program sounds: Check this option if you like the cool swishing and camera shutter sounds.

Auto Thumbnail Sliding: Check this if you like the sliding of the thumbnails. When you click an image on the thumbnail list at the top of the program window, it will "slide" into the middle of the screen if it can. That way you can see some images before and after the one you just clicked on.

Background For The Images: Select if you want a charcoal dark matting for each image displayed. You can also select a colored matte background as well, in which the color is auto-chosen based on the colors in the image. You can of course just select black background as well.

Thumbnail Checkboxes: This changes the appearance of the thumbnails that are shown at the top of the main window. Checkboxes will appear so that you can checkmark selected files. Once you have the files checked, then you can perform various operations on them. For example: Delete, Copy, Rename, Move and BATCH operations as well.
NOTE: You can ALSO use the checkboxes that appear in the files list on the right side of the screen.

Show Novice Pop-Up Hints: This allows you to enabled or disable the pop-up tool hint boxes that appear in the program. For more information about pop-up hints, click here.

Comments Options:

Auto Size/Show Comment Window: Check this option if you want the comment window panel to be auto-sized. This means that if NO text comment was found for a photo, the comment panel at the bottom of the screen will NOT be shown. IF, however, there was a text comment file found, then the comment panel will be sized large enough to fit the text comment inside of it.

Show Comment At Bottom: Check this if you want the comments to be shown at the bottom of your screen EVEN if there is no text comment for a photo. This is useful, if you want to ADD text comments for photos. This way, if a photo had no text comment for it, you will still see an empty comment panel that you can enter text into. These text comment files are named "photoname.ext.TXT".

Font Selection: Click this button if you want to use a font of your choice for displaying the text comments.
NOTE: Click here to see how to Add Text Comments to your photos

Play Voice Clip Comments: Check this if you want to play the voice comment file that is associated with the photo, when you view the photo. These files are named "photoname.ext.WAV". You can create these with this program or you can create them with your own sound recording program.
HINT: If you have the "Play Music" option checked, you will need to also check the "Play Voice Clips" option as well to hear the voice clips play during a slide show.
NOTE: Click here to see how to Add Voice Comments to your photos

Show Photo Until Voice Clip Complete: Check this if you want to make sure that the next photo in the slide show is NOT displayed until the voice clip is done. So, if you had a slide show delay time of 3 seconds, BUT a photo had a voice clip of 5 seconds, then if this option is checked then the photo will stay on the screen for 5 seconds to give it time to complete the voice clip.

Saving & Closing Buttons:
You have the standard Apply, Cancel, Close and Default buttons, but there are a couple of unique ones called REVERT and UNDO. This allows you to change all the settings to reflect what the current Photo Jockey settings are. It's useful when you start making a bunch of changes and then decide you messed up and you don't want to close the window and then re-enter the window. Just click the REVERT.

APPLY: This applies any changes to the options that you have made. You will be able to see or hear the affects of the changes by using the main Photo Jockey window WHILE this window is still open.
CANCEL: This closes the options screen without giving you a chance to apply any unsaved changes
CLOSE: This closes the options screen and gives you the opportunity to apply any changes you may not have saved
REVERT: This changes the settings back to the way they were when you first loaded the Program Options screen.
UNDO: This will UNDO the last "APPLY" that you did. If you have done a lot of applies, then you can do a bunch of UNDOs.
DEFAULTS: This sets all the options to default values.






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