Browsing the Desktop Catalog

When you open SplashPhoto Desktop, your user name will appear at the top of the window. To change users, click the User menu and select the user.

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, Location, Dimensions, Size, and Notes. Note: The Detail View is particularly useful for changing an image's location or 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.

In the top middle of the application window, there is a pull-down menu from which you can filter by the Location of the images.

• All: Displays all images in all locations.
• Internal: Displays images installed to the handheld’s internal memory.
• <Memory Card Name>: Displays images installed on a handheld external memory card.
  Note: SplashPhoto will catalog images stored in the following locations on the memory card:
  • DCIM/SplashPhoto -- this is where SplashPhoto stores its images on a memory card.
  • DCIM -- this is where digital cameras typically store images on a memory card. This is also where a Palm device will install images if you install them using the Palm Install tool.
  • PALM/Images -- the Sony Clie will install images to this directory if you install them using the Palm Install tool.

The top right pull-down 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.

Authorize Albums: In order to upload and download photos with your Picasa, Flickr or Facebook account, you need to authorize the albums.

• Select Album->Authorize Albums.
• You will see the current authorization status of each of the albums.

Once you Authorize your Picasa, Flickr, and/or Facebook accounts, a SplashPhoto5 album is created in your Web Album.

You will be able to upload and download photos to and from the Web Albums on both your desktop and your device (data connection required).

Step 1: Select Album->Authorize Albums. Click on the ‘Not Authorized’ button alongside Picasa.

Step 2: Enter your Picasa Google account details in the dialog and select Authorize.

If you have entered the correct login details, your Picasa album status will show "Authorized."

Congratulations! You have authorized SplashPhoto to use Picasa to upload and download photos.

Note: If you see an Authorization failure, please go to http://picasa.google.com/pwa.html and check if the login details are correct.

Upload Photos to Web Albums

Once you Authorize your Picasa, Flickr, and/or Facebook accounts, a SplashPhoto5 album is created in your Web Album.

To upload any photo from SplashPhoto Desktop, right click on it, and select Upload To -> Picasa/Flickr/Facebook.

Selected photo will be uploaded to the SplashPhoto5 album in the Web Album.

To open the SplashPhoto Conduit, do the following:

1. Click the HotSync® Manager icon in the Windows system tray and select Settings (or Custom) to open the Settings dialog.
2. If you are using Palm Desktop 6.2 or later, you need to click "Applications" next.
3. Double click the SplashPhoto entry in the Conduit list. The SplashPhoto Conduit Dialog appears.

There are 4 possible settings:

• Synchronize the files: This is the default setting for SplashPhoto and synchronizes the catalog on the handheld with that on the desktop. Changes to the desktop catalog will be changed on the handheld, and vice-versa.
• Desktop overwrites handheld: The handheld catalog will be overwritten by the desktop catalog. This is useful if you have accidentally deleted a picture from the handheld, but it still resides on the desktop.
• Handheld overwrites desktop: The desktop catalog will be overwritten by the handheld catalog. This is useful if you have accidentally deleted a picture from the desktop, but it still resides on the handheld.
• Do nothing: No synchronization will take place in SplashPhoto.

Set as default: Check this box if you want to keep the synchronization setting to which you are changing. Leave this unchecked if you want the settings to revert to Synchronize the files after one HotSync® operation (recommended).

Using SplashPhoto on the Handheld

On the handheld, launch SplashPhoto from the Applications Launcher by tapping its icon.

Toolbar

At the bottom left of the SplashPhoto window, there is a toolbar.

• Use the wrench button to access Preferences.
• Use the Camera button to open the Camera to capture an image. On devices lacking a camera, the Slide Show button will be at the center.
• Use the Slide Show button to Start a Slideshow. On devices lacking a camera, the Slide Show Preferences button will be at far right.
• Use the Left and Right arrow buttons to cycle through Views.

Views

You can view your images on the handheld using SplashPhoto's five different views:

List View

List View: Displays the Name, Category, and Size of image in a list. The columns displayed can be changed in Preferences. Detail View: Displays Thumbnail, Name, Category, Location, Dimensions, Size, and Notes. Note: The Detail View is particularly useful for changing an image's location or category. Thumbnail View: Displays large thumbnails and the image Name. Gallery View: Displays small thumbnails only. Tree View: New in SplashPhoto 5, displays a hierarchical view of images by Location and Category.

Detail View

Thumbnail View

Gallery View

Tree View

Tap the camera icon to capture a photo within SplashPhoto. The camera function is only supported on the following devices that have a built-in cameras:

• Treo and Centro devices
  
• Zire 72
  
• Sony Clie NX70, NX73, NX80, NZ90, UX-40, UX-50, TJ-27, TJ-37, TH-55. Clie users must install a separate PRC for the camera to function, which you can download here.

Set the default image quality and resolution in the Camera Preferences dialog, which you can access from the Prefs menu in any of the browser views.

In the top middle of the application window, there is a pull-down menu from which you can filter by the Location of the images.

• All: Displays images in all locations.
  
• Internal: Displays images installed to the handheld’s internal memory.
  
• <Memory Card Name>: Displays images installed on an external memory card. Note: SplashPhoto will catalog images stored in the following locations on the memory card:
  • DCIM/SplashPhoto -- this is where SplashPhoto stores its images on a memory card.
    
  • DCIM -- this is where digital cameras typically store images on a memory card. This is also where a Palm device will install images if you install them using the Palm Install tool.
    
  • PALM/Images -- the Sony Clie will install images to this directory if you install them using the Palm Install tool.

The top right pull-down in any of the catalog view windows 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.

To view a full screen image, press the center nav button or simply tap on an image from List, Tree, Thumbnail, Gallery, or Detail views. Page through the images by using the nav pad.

Press the center nav button or tap the screen again to exit back to one of the catalog views.

To access the Image View Options Menu, press the menu button or tap near the top of the screen.

There is a different menu available from Image View mode which looks like this:

• Image Details -- Displays the Image Details dialog.
  
• Note -- Opens the Note dialog where you can add or edit the note field for the image.
  
• Zoom -- Displays the full image and brings up the Pan and Zoom controls.
  
• Delete Image -- Deletes the image from the catalog.
  
• Send Image -- Sends the image via IR Beaming, Bluetooth, SMS, or email, if available.
  
• Send to Picasa/Flickr/Facebook -- Uploads the image to the selected service assuming it is Authorized.

In the Image Details dialog you can review and modify the image attributes.

• Name -- Use this field to rename the image.
  
• Category -- You can assign each image to one of the user-definable categories.
  
• Location -- You can change the location of the image.
  
• Resolution -- Displays the resolution of the image.
  
• Size -- Displays the file size of the image.
  
• Date -- Displays the date the image was created.
  
• Private: Check this box to mark the image private. It will be hidden if Security settings are correctly set.
  
• Delete -- Deletes the image.
  
• Note -- Click the Note button to add additional information about the image in the Notes field.

Enter zoom mode by either selecting Zoom from the Options Menu or using the Zoom In hardware button.

Entering Zoom mode displays the image at 100% of its size. If there is not enough memory available to decode the image and display it at 100%, it will be displayed as large as memory will allow.

There are roughly 2-8 zoom levels, depending on the size of the image and size of your display. You can Zoom by tapping the + and - buttons on the screen and Pan the image by dragging the stylus on the image.

You can use the hardware buttons for zooming in/out and panning. The buttons differ depending on whether or not your Palm has a 5-Way-Nav-Pad as follows:

Non-5-Way-Nav-Pad:

5-Way-Nav-Pad:

Tap the screen to exit the Zoom mode and return to the browser view.

Tap the Slide Show icon to start a Slide Show. All of the images currently in view will be displayed in the Slide Show and the Slide Show will start from the currently selected images or the beginning if no image is selected. Images will be displayed according to your Slide Show Preferences.

Stop the Slide Show by tapping the screen.

The Image View Options Menu is also available during Slide Show mode.

• Duration: Tap the pull-down menu to select the length of time you would like each image to display during a Slide Show. You can set the duration to Manual as well, and use the up/down hardware buttons to page through the images as you please.
  
• Effect: Select from the following Slide Show transition effects: Cut, Dissolve, Wipe, Push, or Random.
  
• Auto-run while charging: Check this box to have SplashPhoto automatically start up and run when you place the handheld in its cradle.
  
• Show slides in random order: Check this box to display images randomly rather than sequentially during a Slide Show.
  
• Show progress bar: Check this box to display a small progress bar at the top of the screen whenever an image is being loaded and doesn’t load immediately (this may occur on older handheld devices).
  
• Play Music: You may check this box if you have the ability to play music files on your handheld.

To play background audio while viewing a Slide Show you must have one of the following: Pocket Tunes 3.0 or later installed, AeroPlayer 5.0 or later installed, or a Zire 72. If your system meets one or more of these requirements, you can choose to play audio in the background while viewing a Slide Show.

SplashPhoto scans for music in the following folders on external memory cards:

• /Audio
• /MSAudio

Tap the Music button to display the Music Picker dialog. There you can set the volume and select which songs to play.

To display the Options Menu, return to the browser and tap the toolbar at the top of the SplashPhoto window.

• Run Slide Show : Starts a Slide Show according to your Slide Show Preferences.
  
• Categorize All -- Allows you to change the category of all images that are currently in view. For example, this could be very useful to assign all the unfiled images to a category.
  
• Move All -- Allows you to move all images currently in view to and from external memory cards. For example, you could move all images on internal memory to an external memory card.
  
• Delete All -- Deletes all images currently in view.
  
• Refresh -- SplashPhoto maintains a Cache File, which speeds performance when viewing images. Sometimes the cache file can become out of sync, causing errors to occur in SplashPhoto. If you are experiencing problems with viewing images, select this menu command to refresh the cache file.
  
• Security -- Opens the Security dialog where you can hide or show images marked Private.

You can access Preferences on the handheld by tapping the Preferences button on the toolbar.

• Sort By: Tap the pull-down menu to select a different image detail to sort by. Tap the A-Z to reverse the sort order.
  
• List View Columns: Check the boxes of the image details you would like to have displayed in List View.
  
• Auto-rotate uncropped images: On devices with rectangular screens, rectangular images will be automatically rotated to fit the screen if this box is checked.
  
• Use as default viewer for JPGs/BMPs/GIFs: Check this box to choose SplashPhoto as the application that opens whenever a JPG/BMP/GIF file is opened on your handheld (e.g., when opening a JPG attachment in an email message).

Access the Caption Preferences dialog by tapping the menu button or the top left of the screen and selecting Caption Preferences from the Prefs menu.

Here you can turn on/off captions which will display details when in full screen display.

Select the details you would like to display and select the color in which to display them.

You can mark an image as Private to hide that image from view. Mark an image private either in the SplashPhoto Desktop or in the Image Details on the handheld.

To hide images marked Private:

1. Open SplashPhoto and choose Security from the Options menu in any of the catalog views.
2. Change the Current Privacy to Hide Records and tap OK.

Note: All images marked Private will remain hidden until you change the Security setting back to Show Records.

SplashPhoto 5 has the ability to upload and download images to/from Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook.

It is easier to authorize these services via the SplashPhoto Desktop, but it can be done on the handheld as well, with the exception of Facebook. Facebook can only be authorized via the SplashPhoto Desktop, but then you can synchronize the authorization with the handheld application and use the upload and download services in SplashPhoto on the handheld.

When you select Authorize Albums from the Albums menu, SplashPhoto will display the authorization status of each of the services. To authorize a service, tap the Not Authorized button next to it.

To authorize SplashPhoto with your Picasa account, tap the Not Authorized button for Picasa in the Authorize Albums screen.

The dialog to the left will be displayed, where you need to enter your User ID and Password for Picasa.

Then tap Authorize and SplashPhoto will communicate with the Picasa server to confirm the authorization.

To authorize SplashPhoto with your Flickr account, tap the Not Authorized button for Flickr in the Authorize Albums screen.

You will be warned that your web browser will be opened. Tap OK to continue.

The Flickr login screen will be loaded.

Enter your Yahoo! ID and Password, and check the box for Keep me signed in.

Then tap the Login button.

After Flickr confirms that you have successfully authorized SplashPhoto 5 to be used with their service, you can exit the browser and return to SplashPhoto.

When you have returned to SplashPhoto, tap the OK button to confirm the success of the authorization, and SplashPhoto will show the status as Authorized.

To upload an image to a web album, first you must authorize that web album. To upload an image:

1. Tap an image to view it full screen.
2. Press the menu button or tap the top of the screen to open the Image View Options Menu, and select Send to Picasa/Flickr/Facebook.
3. SplashPhoto will connect to the selected service and you will get a confirmation if the upload was successful. At this point the photo is available online in the SplashPhoto album/set.

1. The first screen you will see is a list of albums/sets available in the selected online photo service.

Select an album/set and tap View.

2. The next screen you will see is a list of the photos available in the selected album/set.

Select and image and tap Details to see the type, size, resolution, and any associated notes.

Tap Download to begin downloading the image.

3. You will be able to assign a new name to the image if you wish, as well as choose a Location to which the the image will be saved.

4. SplashPhoto will let you know when it has completed downloading.

Tap OK, and then you can close out of the the download system to view your photo, or continue downloading other photos.