The image archive is a sophisticated organizational tool for your picture collections with a wide variety of management functions.
Choose Insert from the File menu or open the Windows Explorer.
Locate your images on your local disk or network drive.
Select one or multiple images and drag them either to the image archive workspace or to a folder in the folder pane.
The image archive will store pictures in the best available quality, based on the limits defined in the Preferences menu.
For illustrated step-by-step instructions, use the QuickStep function Load Images.
To locate an image by name or descriptor values, click the Search button on the folder pane.
To move images between archive folders, simply open a second folder view using one of several techniques:
Choose StudioLine Explorer from the File menu and navigate to the image archive.
Press the Explore Image Archive button on the toolbar.
Choose New Instance from the File menu to open another StudioLine instance in image archive mode.
Then click on any of the images and drag them between folders.
To create a copy of an image, choose Create a Copy from its context menu. Copying an image allows you to define different cutout areas or apply other image tools against different variations of the same image.
Click the right mouse button over an empty spot of the image archive workspace.
Choose Sort from the Context Menu.
Choose the Descriptor by which the images in this folder should be sorted.
New images are inserted at the proper location for the sort criteria that has been defined.
If no sort criteria has been defined, then the location can be controlled by the user. If a new image is dropped on a closed folder, it will be appended at the bottom. If a new image is dragged on the workspace, it will be inserted where it was dropped.
Some images could logically belong to more than one folder. An image shortcut allows you to include references to the same image in any number of other folders.
Select an image on the workspace.
Choose Create a Shortcut from its context menu.
Open the StudioLine Explorer for Image Archive to locate other folders.
Drag the image to any other image archive folder.
To irreversibly delete folders, images, copies or shortcuts, drag the respective object to the Trash Can.
A list of other functions can be viewed by clicking the right mouse button on a folder, on a workspace object or on the workspace background. The respective context menu will open. Then press the F1 button on your keyboard to view the appropriate section of the Reference Guide.