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Image information at a glance
How many details about an image can you add as information until it becomes confusing? The goal was to clearly display all information on an image without having to have a look at the file information or EXIF data. So what is it that is displayed together with an image in Ashampoo Photo Commander 10?
Lets have a look at the left side first (see image below). There you find the following information (clockwise from top-left): the aperture (here: f/5.6), the exposure time (1/50 sec), focal length (55 mm), whether a the image was taken using a flash (here the flash is crossed meaning no flash was used), the type of white balance and the light sensitivity (the so-called ISO value, here ISO 100).
On the right side (see image below) you will find more information on the image file and a histogram. At the top you can see the name of the file and if necessary also the storage location of the image. The second line (from left to right): Image resolution (width x hight, here: 1280×960 px), the file size (here: 257.44 KB) und the date the image was taken (here: Tuesday, April 25th). The third line (from left to right): Bit depth (also called color depth, here: 24 Bpp, 1.2 MP), the resolution in DPI (Dots per Inch, here: 300×300 DPI) and the file format (here: JPG)
The histogram shows you the tonal / color distribution of your image. Red/green/blue are the color channels and grey is the luminance value / grayscale. Just image that every color has a value associated with it – from the value 0 (on the left) to 255 (on the right). The low values on the left represent dark colors, the high values on the right represent light colors. The vertical orientation (the peaks) show the proportion of the colors. In the example image you can find many dark blue tones (blue peak on the left) and many light red tones (red peak on the left). Overall the image will be rather bright and less dark.
The EXIF, IPTC and other data are also only a mouse click away. Just click on the appropriate option (EXIF, IPTC or Common) or click on the arrow on the right (see red arrow) to open the dialog.
Overview of media files – functions
Once you’ve chosen a folder, this bar enables you to navigate between your files and to change the view configuration mode and the sort order. Useful, widespread functions like Copy to or Batch process are also integrated.
With the drop-down lists it is so easy to just display only parts of your media collection (e.g. only images or only audio files). Depending on which options you have chosen, there is a customized preview of the files and most important information on those.
Photo captions feature
Click on the Title or Tags symbol on the left or right to add a description or tag for your images.
Click on the default text and enter your own description. Hit Enter to proceed! In general adding IPTC metadata, titles, tags to your images will simplify detection or grouping of pictures within your photo collection. The batch Edit IPTC metadata insertion tool can be found in the applications Tools menu and is a great way to add tags for a group of images.
Creating a PDF
The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 offers a very simple function to convert your files into the widespread PDF format. Just click on the PDF symbol in the Browser bar. To create pdf-files you need to have Adobe acrobat reader installed on your computer.
Viewing an animated/multipage image file
The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does support not only image files that contain one still image, but also image files that contain many images in one file or even animated files. Common file formats that are supported are Multipage TIF, Windows ICO, Animated GIF, Multiple Image Network Graphics (MNG), Animated Windows Cursor (ANI). The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does detect automatically if a file contains more than one image and accordingly shows the Animation Control bar in its interface. With this Animation Controlbar you can easily navigate through the different pages/frames/images the file may contain. You can start or stop an animation, view the next or previous frame or any specific frame your want and even extract all frames!
Playing a video file
The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does support all common video file formats including but not limited to the famous DivX and Xvid encoded AVI files through the Windows built in DirectShow API, which is a component of the DirectX API, which in turn is a component of the Windows System. Please make sure that have installed the latest, officially available graphics card and audio card drivers installed on your system so that you may enjoy all the formats which are available to your Windows System.
Playing a video file
Above you can see a screenshot of the program playing a video. If you do a right click on the video, a context menu pops up, giving you several options to control the video (Play, Stop, Change Volume, Change Aspect Ratio, …). The same commands are available in the applications Animation menu. You can at any time change the video size in three predefined steps: Alt+1: Show at 50% Alt+2: Show at 100% Alt+3: Show at 200%
The Video Controlbar
As with viewing animated / multi page image files, the Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does show a Video Control bar too when playing a video file, but this time an extended version.
(from left to right) Play/Pause – Stop – Trackbar – Previous Frame – Next Frame – Volume – Mute on/off – Codec Info- Extract Frames
File information for a video file
On the left below is a screenshot of the file information dialog, showing you the used codec (audio/video) of the video file. The button “Copy Information to Clipboard” enables you to copy the whole file information to the clipboard and to paste the information then into a text processing application.
Playing an audio file
The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does support all common audio file formats including but not limited to the famous MP3 file format through the Windows built in DirectShow API, which is a component of the DirectX API, which in turn is a component of the Windows System. Please make sure that you have installed the latest, officially available audio card drivers installed on your system!
Playing an audio file
To the left you can see a screenshot of the program playing an audio file. If you do a right click on the audio interface, a context menu pops up, giving you several options to control the audio stream (Play, Stop, Change Volume). The same commands are available in the applications Animation menu. The Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 does display special tags (information about the audio file) automatically when found in MP3 files! The available controls let you play/pause or stop the audio stream. The vertical track bar lets you adjust the volume.
On the left below is a screenshot of the file information dialog, showing you the used audio codec of the audio file. The button “Copy Information to Clipboard” enables you to copy the whole file information to the clipboard and to paste the information then into a text processing application.
Hint: If you are new to help systems like this one move on to the chapter Getting Help.
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