SplashPhoto for BlackBerry User Guide

Edit Dialog

Name: Change the name of the image.
Category: Assign the image to a category.
Notes: Add any additional information.
Crop: Check this box to automatically crop the image and resize it to fit your device’s screen. Leave this unchecked to install the full size image.
Zoom/Crop: Use the slider to adjust the size and cropping of the image. Then click and drag on the image preview to adjust the crop.
Contrast: Use the slider to adjust how sharp the image is.
Brightness: Use the slider to adjust how bright the image is.
Rotate: Click the buttons to rotate 90 degrees in either direction.
Landscape Orientation: You have the option of changing the orientation from Portrait to Landscape.
Previous/Next: If you have selected multiple images, these buttons will move forward or back through the series of images.
Done: Click Done if you have made all of the edits you wish to make for the entire series.
Cancel: This clears any edits you have made to the current image and returns to the image catalog.

Browsing the Desktop Catalog

When you open SplashPhoto Desktop, your handheld user name will appear at the top of the window. If you sync with more than one handheld, you may change users by clicking on the User menu and selecting a different user name.

You can view your images on the desktop a number of different ways. At the top left of the SplashPhoto Desktop window, there are 4 view buttons available:

List View: Displays all of the details of the images in a list. The columns displayed can be changed by choosing Show Columns from the Edit menu.
Detail View: Displays Thumbnail, Name, Category, Dimensions, Size, and Notes. Note: The Detail View is particularly useful for changing an image's category.
Thumbnail View: Displays large thumbnails and the image Name.
Gallery View: Displays small thumbnails only.

These view options are also available from the View Menu.

The pull-down menu in the top right allows you to filter by the Category of the images. You can also select Edit Categories from the pull-down list and add, delete, or change the categories you can select from.

Desktop Preferences

The Preferences for the SplashPhoto Desktop allow you to set a default action for adding images to the catalog. Access the Preferences from the Edit menu.

Set the Category for new images added to the catalog.

Note: The default category are applied to new images when viewing All images. If you are filtering the catalog by a specific category when you add images to the catalog, that category will be applied to the new images.

Set the Orientation for new images. Auto orientation will automatically select the appropriate orientation to match the aspect ratio of the image.

The check box for Resize to fit screen is the same option as in the Edit Dialog. It automatically crops the picture to best fit the handheld screen. Unchecking this will install the full size image.

The check box for Automatically open Edit Images dialog allows you to bypass the Edit Dialog. This is especially useful if you have set a default action for all images and want to have these settings automatically applied to each image without having to preview each image.

Finally, there is a slider to adjust the quality/compression of the JPGs that will be installed on your device. Higher quality means larger image files, requiring more memory on the device which may take longer to display.

Editing Multiple Images

You can select multiple images by shift-clicking or control-clicking them in the catalog, and select Assign Category from the File menu to apply the same category to all of the images. And you can delete a group of images by clicking the Delete button.