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Zoner Photo Studio X

7Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................
7
Minimum System Requirements..........................................................................................................................................................
7
Warning..........................................................................................................................................................
7
Installing the Program..........................................................................................................................................................
8
Uninstalling the Program..........................................................................................................................................................
8
Troubleshooting..........................................................................................................................................................
8
Supported Formats..........................................................................................................................................................
9
Keyboard Shortcuts..........................................................................................................................................................
11
Contact Information..........................................................................................................................................................
15
Copyright..........................................................................................................................................................
15

The Interface

17

The Navigator..........................................................................................................................................................
17
The Viewer..........................................................................................................................................................
18
Histogram..........................................................................................................................................................
19

The Manager module

20

Information..........................................................................................................................................................
20
Browser Mode..........................................................................................................................................................
20
Preview Mode..........................................................................................................................................................
22
Map Mode..........................................................................................................................................................
22

The Develop Module

24

Tools
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25
The Side Panel..........................................................................................................................................................
26
Non-destructive editing..........................................................................................................................................................
29

The Editor Module

30

Editor Tools..........................................................................................................................................................
30........................................................................................................................................................
Home
31........................................................................................................................................................
Move and Transform
31........................................................................................................................................................
Crop and Rotate
31........................................................................................................................................................
Straighten Lines32........................................................................................................................................................
Selection Tools
33........................................................................................................................................................
Gradient Filter
34........................................................................................................................................................
Red Eye Reduction
34........................................................................................................................................................
Retouching Tools
35........................................................................................................................................................
Drawing Tools
36........................................................................................................................................................
Placement Tools
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Effect tools
37
Layers..........................................................................................................................................................
38
Working with the Selection Border..........................................................................................................................................................
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The Editor’s View Menu..........................................................................................................................................................
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Lossy JPEG Compression and Lossless Operations..........................................................................................................................................................
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The Create Module

44

Video
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46

Acquiring Pictures

48

Import..........................................................................................................................................................
48
Acquire from Scanner..........................................................................................................................................................
49
Acquiring Pictures from the Windows Clipboard..........................................................................................................................................................
50
Screen Capture..........................................................................................................................................................
50
Acquire Pictures from PDF..........................................................................................................................................................
51
Extract JPEGs from File..........................................................................................................................................................
51
File Formats..........................................................................................................................................................
51
The RAW Format..........................................................................................................................................................
52

Edits, Effects, and Enhancements

54

The Universal Interface for Editing Functions..........................................................................................................................................................
54
Editing Pictures..........................................................................................................................................................
55........................................................................................................................................................
Rotation and Flipping
56........................................................................................................................................................
Resize56
Resampling
Methods.....................................................................................................................................
57........................................................................................................................................................
Content-aware Resize
57........................................................................................................................................................
Canvas Size
58........................................................................................................................................................
Canvas and Borders
58........................................................................................................................................................
Specific Crop58........................................................................................................................................................
Place Text
58........................................................................................................................................................
Place Image
59........................................................................................................................................................
Change Color Depth59........................................................................................................................................................
ICC Profiles
59........................................................................................................................................................
Convert File60........................................................................................................................................................
Convert to Web JPEG
60........................................................................................................................................................
Quick Filter
60
Enhancing Pictures..........................................................................................................................................................
61........................................................................................................................................................
Quick Fix61........................................................................................................................................................
Levels61........................................................................................................................................................
Curves62........................................................................................................................................................
Enhance Colors
63........................................................................................................................................................
Enhance Color Temperature
63........................................................................................................................................................
Enhance Exposure63........................................................................................................................................................
Sharpen64........................................................................................................................................................
Blur64........................................................................................................................................................
Remove Noise65........................................................................................................................................................
Fix Chromatic Aberration
65........................................................................................................................................................
Barrel distortion66........................................................................................................................................................
Vignetting
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Line Spacing
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Effects..........................................................................................................................................................
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Grayscale70........................................................................................................................................................
Mix Channels
70........................................................................................................................................................
Gradient Map
71........................................................................................................................................................
Custom71........................................................................................................................................................
Variations
71........................................................................................................................................................
Envelopes
71........................................................................................................................................................
Borders72........................................................................................................................................................
Cartoon72........................................................................................................................................................
High Pass72........................................................................................................................................................
Plug-In Modules
73

Information

74

Variable Text..........................................................................................................................................................
74........................................................................................................................................................
Editing Variable Text
74
Data Import/Export..........................................................................................................................................................
80........................................................................................................................................................
Generate Lists
80........................................................................................................................................................
Importing and Exporting Descriptions
80........................................................................................................................................................
Scan for Keywords
81
Managing Information..........................................................................................................................................................
81
Digital Signatures..........................................................................................................................................................
81........................................................................................................................................................
Adding Digital Signatures81........................................................................................................................................................
Verifying Digital Signatures81........................................................................................................................................................
Remove Digital Signature
82
Ratings..........................................................................................................................................................
82
Labels..........................................................................................................................................................
82
GPS..........................................................................................................................................................
82........................................................................................................................................................
Working with the Map82........................................................................................................................................................
Remove GPS Data
83........................................................................................................................................................
Location83........................................................................................................................................................
Cooperation with Google Earth
83
Image Information..........................................................................................................................................................
83
Statistics..........................................................................................................................................................
84
Batch Assign Information..........................................................................................................................................................
84
Search and Replace..........................................................................................................................................................
85

Organizing Pictures

86

The Catalog..........................................................................................................................................................
86
File Operations..........................................................................................................................................................
86
Stacking..........................................................................................................................................................
88
Sorting..........................................................................................................................................................
88
Filter..........................................................................................................................................................
88
Searching..........................................................................................................................................................
88
Backups of Originals..........................................................................................................................................................
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Batch Rename..........................................................................................................................................................
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Tips for Batch Renaming
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Compare Images..........................................................................................................................................................
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Sort Pictures..........................................................................................................................................................
91
Synchronize Folders..........................................................................................................................................................
91
Find Duplicate Files..........................................................................................................................................................
92

Creating Special Outputs

93

Panoramic Ratios..........................................................................................................................................................
93........................................................................................................................................................
Panorama Tips
94
3D Images..........................................................................................................................................................
95
Exposure Blending HDR..........................................................................................................................................................
95
HDR via Tone Mapping..........................................................................................................................................................
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PDF Slideshows..........................................................................................................................................................
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Removing Noise using Multi-exposures..........................................................................................................................................................
97
Removing Moving Objects..........................................................................................................................................................
98
Aligning Pictures..........................................................................................................................................................
98

Sharing and Publishing99

Printing a Single Picture..........................................................................................................................................................
99
Send by E-Mail..........................................................................................................................................................
99
Upload to Zonerama..........................................................................................................................................................
100
Export..........................................................................................................................................................
101

Program settings

102

Appearance..........................................................................................................................................................
102
General..........................................................................................................................................................
102
Display..........................................................................................................................................................
103
The Catalog..........................................................................................................................................................
103
Thumbnails..........................................................................................................................................................
104
Thumbnail Descriptions..........................................................................................................................................................
104
Editor..........................................................................................................................................................
104
Preview..........................................................................................................................................................
104
Compare Images..........................................................................................................................................................
105
Integration..........................................................................................................................................................
105
Color Management..........................................................................................................................................................
105
Information..........................................................................................................................................................
106........................................................................................................................................................
Custom Information
107
Labels..........................................................................................................................................................
108
RAW Format..........................................................................................................................................................
108
Helper Programs..........................................................................................................................................................
108
Signing Certificates..........................................................................................................................................................
108
Other
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108
Filters..........................................................................................................................................................
109
Plug-In Modules..........................................................................................................................................................
109
GPS Settings..........................................................................................................................................................
109
Video
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Second Monitor..........................................................................................................................................................
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Backups of Originals..........................................................................................................................................................
110
Media Server..........................................................................................................................................................
110
Advanced..........................................................................................................................................................
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Zoner Photo Studio X
Introduction
Thank you for choosing Zoner Photo Studio. This program is the latest in a long line of successful digital photo
software. It contains the latest digital image processing technology and many new features.
We firmly believe that Zoner Photo Studio will become an irreplaceable aid for you in your photography work.
We wish you many successes in your endeavors with digital photography and more!

ZONER Inc.

Minimum System Requirements
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7* / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (32 or 64 bits)
Processor: Intel or AMD with SSE2 support
Memory: 2 GB RAM
HDD: 390 MB free disk space
Resolution: 1200 × 800 or higher* On Windows 7, the following updates must be installed: Service Pack 1, Microsoft’s Platform Update for Windows
7, and .NET Framework 4.5

System Requirements for Advanced UsersWork with large photographs, panoramas, and documents with multiple layers places especially large demands on acomputer’s memory. For these situations, we recommend at least 4 GB of RAM and a 64-bit version of Windows.
For comfortable work in these situations, we also recommend a relatively high-performance processor. Zoner PhotoStudio can take advantage of multi-core processors—if it detects multiple cores, it automatically divides up tasks andcalculations among them. It can also use a graphics card to speed up operations that demand a large amount ofcalculations. For more information, see Advanced.
Last but not least, we recommend a higher-than-minimum monitor resolution.

Warning
Unlike some photo managers that work through a database of pictures rather than the picture files themselves, Zoner
Photo Studio works directly with the files on your computer and on any devices attached to it. This means you canstart working with your pictures immediately and that they are not trapped "inside" Zoner Photo Studio, but it alsomeans that you can erase these files and make irreversible changes to them. Therefore you should always keep inmind the first rule of digital photo processing:

Always work with copies of files, and back up of your originals frequently!
For safer work with your photo collection, take advantage of these features:
Backups of originals
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Installing the Program
Before installing the program, make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements and that you
have administrator rights on your computer.

64-bit version
The Zoner installer contains both a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version of Zoner Photo Studio. It automatically chooses
which version to install based the version of Windows you are using. A shortcut for Zoner Photo Studio is then placedon the Desktop and in the Windows Start menu. The program's 64-bit version shows x64 in its title bar when it isrunning.

64-bit version – Advantages and Limitations
The 64-bit version speeds up work with the program and makes it possible to work with larger pictures. On the other
hand, some program functions do not work in 64-bit mode and thus are unavailable. Even the 64-bit version of the
program does not enable work with 64bit 8BF plug-ins.

Uninstalling the Program
To uninstall Zoner Photo Studio, use the Windows Control Panel. The exact steps for reaching the Control Panel andfor using it to uninstall a program vary among Windows versions.

Troubleshooting
If you run into any trouble while using Zoner Photo Studio, the first thing you should do is to make sure that you areusing the latest build of the program. (One build is one "small version," as opposed to the "large version" changes
that require an upgrade purchase to move between. Each new build makes the program more reliable, andsometimes adds enhancements as well.) To check for a new build, use Help | Check for Update... inside theprogram.
If you are using the latest build, then please study the frequently asked questions list at http://www.zoner.com/
support, where you may find a solution based on the experience of the Zoner Software support team.
If you do not, then please contact ZONER Inc.. Please do your best to provide all information relevant for solving the
problem. This includes the program version, edition, and build, your operating system, any special settings you use,etc. Please describe the exact steps that preceded the error or the problems in your work with Zoner Photo Studio.
To contact technical support easily, use Help | Contact Technical Support....This automatically opens a technicalsupport form, which can send a message to the Support team automatically. The message can optionally include
information on the operating system used, its configuration, and some important files. This information is very
valuable to the Zoner Software support team, as it can help uncover the cause of the problem.
Please also feel free to write to support with your suggestions on how we could improve and expand the program.
Many of the features that you see today are thanks to suggestions from people like you!

Technical Support
You can also find support contacts and forms on the Zoner website: http://www.zoner.com/support
For telephone support, call 1-770-573-3059 on Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 16:00 pm, Central EuropeanTime.

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Supported Formats
Zoner Photo Studio X can read the following formats:

Bitmap Formats
ZPS – Zoner Photo Studio
PSD, PSB – Adobe Photoshop Image
JPEG – File Interchange Format
GIF – Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
PNG – Portable Network Graphics
PCD – Kodak Photo CD
BMP – Windows Bitmap
PCX – ZSoft Image FileTGA – TrueVision Targa
ICO – Windows icons
RLE – Windows Bitmap
WPG – WordPerfect Graphics (bitmap)
DIB – Windows Bitmap
BMI – Zoner Bitmap Image
PSP, PSPIMAGE – Paint Shop Pro
CRW, CR2 – Canon RAW
DNG – Digital Negative ("Adobe RAW")
MRW – Minolta RAW
NEF – Nikon RAW
ORF – Olympus RAW
PEF – Pentax RAW
ARW, SRF, SR2 – Sony RAW
MEF – Mamiya RAW
ERF – Epson RAW
RAW – other RAW formats
THM – JPEG thumbnail
HDP, WDP – HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo)
JP2, J2K, JPC – JPEG 2000 Codestream
PNM, PPM, PAM, PBM, PGM – "portable bitmap" format group
WBMP – "wireless" format
3FR – Hasselblad RAW Image
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DCM – DICOM Image
KDC – Kodak Digital Camera Image
RAF – Fuji RAW
FFF – Hasselblad RAW ImageRWL – Leica RAW Image
MPO – Multi-Picture Object
CS1 – Sinar RAW Image
JXR – JPEG XR
SRW – Samsung RAW Image
HDR – Radiance HDR Image
To expand the range of bitmap formats that is read-supported, install their WIC codecs (e.g. the WebP codec).

Multimedia Formats
Video files – ASF, AVI, M1V, MJPEG, MOV, MP4, MTS, WMV. Install MPlayer to expand the range of supported
formats to include: 3GP, DIVX, DV, DVR-MS, FLV, M2T, M2TS, M2V, M4V, MKV, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPV,
MQV, NSV, OGG, OGM, OGV, QT, RAM, REC, RM, RMVB, TS, VCD, VFW, VOB.
Audio files – AAC, AIF, AIFF, AU, MP3, MPA, RMI, SND, WAV, WMA© 2017 ZONER Inc.

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Keyboard Shortcuts
Global Shortcuts
Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab Changes the active tab
Ctrl+F4

Closes the active tab

F11, F12

Fullscreen (various modes)

Ctrl+M

Preferences

F1

Help Topics

F2

RenameF3

ViewerF5

RefreshF6Show/Hide Navigator

F8Show/Hide Side Panel

F9Show/Hide Filmstrip

Shift+Alt+C

Copy to Folder

Shift+Alt+M

Move to Folder

1- 5Rate picture0

Remove rating

Shift+1- 9

Label picture

Shift+0

Remove label

Basic image edits (Manager and Editor)
Ctrl+L

Rotate Left

Ctrl+R

Rotate Right

Ctrl+Shift+R

Specific Rotation

Ctrl+Shift+W

Specific Crop

Ctrl+E

ResizeCtrl+Shift+E

Content-aware Resize

Ctrl+W

Canvas Size

Ctrl+Shift+T

Place Image

Ctrl+T

Place Text

Ctrl+Shift+B

Canvas and Borders

Ctrl+Q

Quick Filter

Shift+Alt+Q

Apply last batch filter

Image enhancements (Manager and Editor)
Ctrl+0Quick Fix

Shift+L

Levels

Shift+C

CurvesCtrl+1

Enhance Colors

Ctrl+2

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Ctrl+3

Enhance Exposure

Ctrl+5

SharpenCtrl+6

Blur

Ctrl+Shift+N

Remove Noise

Ctrl+Shift+A

Fix Chromatic Aberration

Ctrl+Shift+D

Barrel distortion

Ctrl+Shift+V

Vignetting

Ctrl+Shift+LLine Spacing

Ctrl+G

Grayscale

BrowserBackspace

Up One Level

Esc

Deselect All

Num *Invert Selection

Num /Advanced Selection

Num +Add to Selection

Num -Remove from Selection

Ctrl+Shift+K

Search and Replace

DeleteDelete file or folder

Shift+Delete

Delete file or folder; skip Recycle Bin

Ctrl+Shift+C

Copy Picture to Clipboard

Ctrl+C

Copy file or folder

Ctrl+X

Cut file or folder

Ctrl+V

Paste file or folder

Ctrl+A

Select All

Ctrl+I

Invert Selection

Ctrl+F

Quick Search

Ctrl+O

Sort Pictures

F7

New folder

Ctrl+Shift+M

Send by email

Ctrl+Shift+F

Convert File

Shift+Enter

Image Information

Alt+Enter

File properties

Ctrl+K

Batch Assign Information

Ctrl+Shift+Q

Batch Rename

Ctrl+J

Compare Images

Ctrl+Q

Batch filter – settings

Shift+Q

Apply last batch filter

Tab

Switch focus between the Browser and the Navigator

Shift+Tab

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EditorCtrl+NNew ImageCtrl+Del

Delete file

Ctrl+Shift+Del

Delete file or folder; skip Recycle Bin

Del

Delete selected area from the picture

Ctrl+O

Open file

Ctrl+S

Save file

Ctrl+Shift+S

Save asQ

Quick EditsF

Quick Filters

A

Home

V

Move and Transform

C

Crop and Rotate

K

Straighten Lines

M

Rectangular Selection

O

Elliptical Selection

L

Lasso

N

Polygonal Lasso

A

Magnetic Lasso

W

Magic Wand

Shift+Q

Selection Brush

Shift+G

Gradient Filter

R

Red Eye Reduction

S

Clone Stamp

U

Iron

E

Effect BrushJ

Healing Brush

I

Dodge

Shift+I

Burn

B

Paintbrush

G

Fill

Shift+B

Gradient

Y

EraserT

Place Text

Shift+T

Insert Symbol

Shift+S

Place ShapeD

Place Line

Shift+F

Tilt-shift Effect

Shift+R

Lens Flare

X

Morphing Mesh

Shift+X

Deform

Ctrl+A

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Ctrl+Shift+I

Invert Selection

Esc

Cancel selection (if any)

Ctrl+C

Copy image

Ctrl+Ins

Copy image

Ctrl+V

Place Image

Shift+Ins

Place Image

Shift+Enter

Image Information

Arrow keys

Move selection or cropping frame

SpacebarTemporarily switch to panning mode (where you can click and drag to shift the view)

Num +Zoom inNum -Zoom out

Num 0

Zoom to Fit

Num *Normal Size (1:1)

Num /Zoom Lock

Home

First FileEnd

Last File

Page Up

Previous file

Page Down

Next File

Shift+P

Pre-print color preview (if color management is active and a printer profile has been set)

Shift+O

Show blowout (overexposure)Ctrl+Shift+H

Advanced Histogram

Ctrl+Z

Back

Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+Shift+Z

Redo

Ctrl+P

Print

The other shortcut keys for individual Editor tools are listed by the descriptions of the tools, e.g. for Crop and Rotate.

Editor – mouse wheel
rolling over an image – zoom the picture in/out, or switch to the next/previous picture (depending on yoursetting in View | Preferences | Editor | Mouse Wheel Action).
rolling over a scrollbar – scrolling (when the whole picture does not fit on the screen)rolling with Shift – changes the radius for brush-type tools
rolling with Ctrl – zoom in/out
holding down while moving the mouse – pan (scroll) image

DevelopCtrl+Shift+X

ExportDel

Delete file

Ctrl+Z

Back

Ctrl+Y

Redo

Ctrl+L

Rotate Left

Ctrl+R

Rotate RightA

Quick Fix

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C

Crop and Rotate

K

Straighten LinesG

Gradient Filter

R

Radial Filter

B

Filter BrushJ

Healing Brush

Ctrl+C

Copy Settings to Clipboard

Ctrl+V

Paste Presets from Clipboard

Ctrl+S

Save Settings

Contact Information
ZONER Inc.
3902 Henderson Blvd
Suite 208-187
Tampa, FL 33629
USAe-mail: support@zoner.com
http://www.zoner.com/

Copyright
Development Team
Dušan Doležal, Petr Grolich, Aleš Hasala, Ladislav Matula, Pavel Minár, Petr Minár, Martin Sliwka, Vojtech Tryhuk,
Jan Vancura.

Acknowledgments
Zdenek Bulín, Jan Kovarík, Jaroslav Mejstrík, Ludek Švehla

Zoner Photo Studio X—Help
You can print out any part of the Help that you wish, but only for personal use, unless given further permissions by
ZONER Inc.. This Help, and printed copies of it, are protected by copyright and cannot be distributed without
permission, neither commercially nor for free. No part of the Help may be copied, published, or transferred by anyother means, including electronic or photographic record, without written permission by ZONER Inc..
The information here is provided without guarantee; it can change without notice and cannot be considered binding forthe manufacturer. ZONER Inc. assumes no liability for eventual errors or imprecisions that the text may contain.
Revision: 1

Software: © 1994—2017 ZONER software, a.s.
Documentation: © 2001—2017 ZONER software, a.s.
Illustrations and photographs: © 1999—2017 ZONER software, a.s.
All rights reserved.

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Zoner Draw and Zoner Photo Studio are registered trademarks of ZONER Inc.; Windows is a registered trademark ofMicrosoft Corp. Other marks used in this text may also be registered trademarks of their owners.
JPEG import and export filter—Copyright © 1991-2000, Thomas G. Lane—Copyright © 1991-1998, Independent
JPEG Group, Copyright © 2003-2010 by Guido Vollbeding
PNG import and export filter—Copyright © 1998-2010 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
TIFF import and export filter—Copyright © 1988-1997 Sam Leffler—Copyright © 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
ZLIB compression and decompression library—Copyright © 1995-2013 Jean-Loup Gailly, Mark Adler
dcraw—Copyright © 1997-2011 by Dave Coffin
HD Photo DPK—Copyright © 2005-2007 Microsoft Corporation
JasPer—Copyright © 1999-2007 Michael David Adams
Thin Plate Spline 2D point morpher—Copyright © 2003-2005 Jarno Elonen
JPEG XR Reference software—Copyright © 2008-2010 ITU-T/ISO/IEC
minizip—Copyright © 2010 Gilles Vollant
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives—Copyright © 2002-2011, Intel Corporation. – All Rights Reserved
SpiderMonkey JavaScript Engine
Development consulted with prof. RNDr. Miloslavem Druckmüller, CSc.
Little cms—Copyright © 1998-2005 Marti Maria
Adobe XMP Software Development Kit—Copyright © 2000-2013 Adobe Systems Incorporated
Template Numerical Toolkit—National Institute of Technology, USA
Adobe DNG Software Development Kit—Copyright © 2006-2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated
SQLiteSnowball—Copyright © 2001, Dr Martin Porter© 2017 ZONER Inc.

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The Interface
The interface of Zoner Photo Studio is made up of four main modules: Manager, Develop, Editor, and Create. To
switch among them, use the buttons at the top right of the program. The left side of each module contains the
Navigator, the middle is a display area, and the right side contains the Side Panel, with tools for work in the current
module.
Currently-open tabs are listed at the top left. Switching modules does not open a new tab. To open a new tab, either
click the “plus” button next to the tabs and choose a module, or instead click a module’s button while holding down
[Ctrl].
The Manager module is for browsing and organizing photos. It has several display modes. One mode is active at atime. These modes are: Browser, Preview, Map, or Compare.
The Develop module serves for non-destructive editing.
The Editor module serves for advanced edits and work with selections.
The Create module serves for producing creative outputs based on your photos.

Click the Menu button to display the main menu for the current module. To make the main menu always visible, use
View | Menu.
Use the icons and other buttons at the top right of the window to access Notifications, Help, your Zoner Account,settings for a Second Monitor, and Fullscreen.

The Navigator
Use the Navigator to set what in shown in the Browser or the Filmstrip. The Navigator is divided into these sections:
Favorites – this section shows folders that you’ve added to your Favorites, so you can access them quickly. To
add a folder to Favorites, drag and drop it from the Browser, or use its right-click menu.
Catalog – this section shows the contents of the Catalog, with pictures organized by folder, date, keywords, or
location. For more information, see the chapter on The Catalog.
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see the chapter named Upload to Zonerama.
Mobile Photos – use this for quick access to photos that you’ve uploaded from your phone using Zoner PhotoStudio for Android,
Facebook – use this to access your Facebook photos.
OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox – if you have one of these file synchronization services installed, then you
can use the Navigator to quickly access your local folders for synchronized files and work with them from within the
program.
This PC – this section (whose name can differ depending on your version of Windows) shows the complete folder
hierarchy on your computer.
Network – use this section to access other computers on your local network.
Click Import at the bottom of the Navigator to show a screen for copying or moving photos directly from a camera or
memory card. For information on how Import works, see the topic named Import.
Double-click a section’s title bar to expand or collapse it.
When you switch folders by, for example, selecting one from Favorites, the Navigator does not automatically expand
the subfolders in the folder tree. An "arrow" icon appears at the right end of the nearest selected item in such cases.
Click this icon to expand the folder tree out to the target folder.

The Viewer
Use the Viewer to quickly view pictures at full size.
If you have set Zoner Photo Studio to be integrated into Windows, then double-clicking a picture in Windows
launches the Viewer.
To reach the Viewer from the Manager in ZPS, press [F3].
Control the Viewer using the toolbar buttons, the mouse, or the following keyboard shortcuts:right arrow, [Page Down] - next picture
left arrow, [Page Up] - previous picture[Home], [End] - first/last picture in a folder[Spacebar] - automatic slideshow; to set the slide duration, go to the Viewer's Settings.
[+], [Num +], rotate mouse wheel upwards - zoom in[+], [Num +], rotate mouse wheel downwards - zoom out[Num *], [,] - 1:1 zoom
[Num 0], [.] - Zoom to Fit[Z], left-click - switch between 1:1 and Zoom to Fit[Num /] - Zoom Lock[L], [R] - rotate picture[Shift+O], middle-click - blowout display[Del] - delete file[I] - show a header with file information[F] - fullscreen[Enter] - switch out from Viewer to Zoner Photo Studio[Esc] - close Viewer© 2017 ZONER Inc.

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Histogram
A histogram shows how many pixels in a picture are at each of its possible brightness levels. Its horizontal axis
represents the scale of possible brightness values, usually either for the picture overall or for a single color channel.
Its vertical axis represents the pixel frequency in the picture for each of these values.
If the histogram shows too many pixels on the left (that is, in the dark tones) and not enough on the right, then the
picture is probably underexposed. If most values are on the right, the picture is probably overexposed. In most cases,
a normal photo should make use of the whole range of the histogram.
Histograms are only truly useful for pictures with 24-bit, 32-bit, or 48-bit color, or for grayscale pictures. (However, any
picture in a modern photo format will use one of these color types anyway.)
Right-clicking on a histogram will show a context menu where you can switch among several display modes:
Brightness, brightness plus channels, channels, red channel, green channel, or blue channel. You can also set thehistogram to half size or full size, and choose between a light or dark histogram background.

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The Manager module
The Manager is the foundation for organizing photos in Zoner Photo Studio. The Manager's menus (available under the
Menu button) are organized by what step in the typical photo workflow they represent - Acquire, Edit, Information,
Organize, Create, Publish and View. Other chapters will cover these functions.
The Manager has several display modes: Browser, Preview, Map and Compare. To quickly switch to Preview mode,
double-click a picture. To quickly switch back, double-click the picture's preview.
To work with these modes and with the Manager layout overall, use the View menu or the toolbar in the top center
part of the Manager.
The left side of the Manager contains the Navigator, and the right-hand Side Panel shows pictures' information.

Information
This version of the Side Panel displays information (metadata) for the picture selected (highlighted) in the Browser.
The top part of Information shows a histogram and basic information for the selected picture. Below this is a bar withfrequently used tools. The bottom part of Information shows information on the number of items in the current Browser
listing.
The information is organized into groups by type. To set what information is shown, click the gear-wheel button at thebottom left of the Information panel. This shows the Information Settings window. Use it for showing and hiding
various information types. This window has buttons for saving and loading your settings.
You can edit some types of picture information here directly (unless the picture file is read-only). To save these edits:click the Save button at the bottom right of the panelpress [Ctrl+Enter] while in an editing box in the panel. This saves the edited information and selects the next
picture in the listing. This makes tagging a series of pictures easy.
switch to another file in the Browser.
If multiple files are selected in the Browser, then the Rating, Label, Title, Description or Keywords can be batchedited for all of these files. Keywords are a bit exceptional here. If pictures with differing keywords are selected, anasterisk appears before any keyword that is not contained in all files. Erase the asterisk to make that keyword besaved to all files.
If multiple files are selected, then the panel shows the Batch operations section, providing access to several
functions for batch work with images, such as batch renaming.
If a selected picture contains GPS coordinates, then ZPS automatically determines the text description for thelocation: Location, City, State/Province, and Country Code. You can browse pictures by these location texts
using the Location View section of the Navigator. This function requires an Internet connection. This information is not
written directly to the files; it is stored in the Catalog instead. Text descriptions of locations are only written to files
when one of these items is edited manually. To batch-store locations in files, use the function named Write Location
to Files.

Browser Mode
The Main Menu
The Manager's functions are divided into several menus based on where they fit in the photo workflow. These menus
are: Acquire, Edit, Information, Organize, Publish, Create, and View.
The main, middle area in the Browser lists the contents of whatever location has been selected in the Navigator. By
default, it displays them in a mode called Thumbnails.
To change how the Browser's file display mode, click Display Mode in the Browser's navigation toolbar, or click any
blank area in the Browser listing and then use the right-click menu. To modify the display of thumbnails and theirinformation, use Settings | Preferences... | Thumbnails and Settings | Preferences... | Thumbnail Descriptions.
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pictures, copy and move them via drag and drop, etc., do what you would normally do in Windows.
When organizing photos, the best route is sometimes to use a second Browser pane. To do that, use View | Two
Browsers Stacked / Side by Side. To switch from one Browser to the other, click inside the other Browser. The
listing in the Navigator automatically changes to match the active Browser: whatever location you visit in the Browser
automatically becomes selected in the Navigator.
When thumbnails are loading in the background, an hourglass appears by the mouse cursor.

Thumbnails Mode
This is the default mode. Browser panes in this mode show thumbnails (small previews). Other information may also
be shown alongside the thumbnails.
The thumbnails show icons indicating the presence of picture information (metadata) and other facts about the
thumbnailed pictures. Moving from the top left corner of each thumbnail, the icons refer to photographic picture
information, other picture information (name, author, description, etc.), keywords, audio notes, a backup of thepicture's original version, a backup of its information, its digital signature if any, GPS data, and online/offline status.
Double-click any of these icons to bring up a window showing information related to them.
Along the bottom, a thumbnail can have a Windows shortcut symbol, denoting that you are working with a shortcut toa file, not the "real" file. At the bottom right, any rating and/or colored label that the picture may have are shown.
The program can display several lines with picture information (time, shutter, etc.) under each thumbnail. You canconfigure this under Settings | Preferences | Thumbnail Descriptions.
For faster browsing, the program makes use of thumbnails stored inside of pictures (e.g. in their EXIF information)and of thumbnails stored ("cached") on disk after your first visit to a folder. Cached thumbnails are loaded in during
your next visit; this is much faster than re-generating them.
Rotate the mouse wheel while holding down [Ctrl] to change the thumbnail display size.

Details Mode
Details Mode always shows a row of column headers at the top, similar to its namesake in Windows. Using the rightclick menu for these column headers, you can add or remove columns for a variety of picture information. Clicking
and dragging a header moves the whole column to another position. Just clicking a header sorts the file listing by thatcolumn's information type. Clicking it repeatedly toggles between an ascending sort and a descending sort. The arrownext to the column name indicates ascending/descending.
The backgrounds of the files in the listing have different colors depending on the files' types. You can turn thisbehavior off if desired: go to Settings | Preferences | Display | Highlight to distinguish bitmap/vector/video/
sound. Wherever possible, the program shows a thumbnail for a picture next to the mouse cursor as you run the
cursor over that picture.

Tiles Mode
This mode is similar to Thumbnails mode, but includes extra information to the right of the thumbnails. This isespecially practical for long texts such as descriptions. The column width is set automatically based on thumbnail
size and the width of the Browser window. To change settings for the Tiles display mode, use Settings |Preferences | Thumbnail Descriptions.
If the description shown for a thumbnail is wider than the space available for showing it, then at the right of thedescriptions area, a scrolling arrow is shown. You can also scroll description text by middle-clicking the area with thedescription and dragging in the desired direction.
Rotating the mouse wheel while holding down [Ctrl] changes the thumbnail display size.

Displayed File Types
Normally, the program displays all files in all supported graphics, audio, and video formats. To show a broader or
narrower range of file types, use Settings | Preferences | Display.

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Preview ModeUse this mode to rapidly preview the picture that is currently selected (highlighted) in the Filmstrip. To quickly inspect
the picture’s details, zoom in using the mouse wheel. By default, pictures are shown at the “Fit to Window” zoom
level. Click and hold the left mouse button to show the picture at 100% zoom. Then drag the picture to pan it.
Release the button to automatically return to “Fit to Window” zoom.
You can also change the zoom level using the buttons on the toolbar above the preview area, or using the usual
shortcut keys. The toolbar contains these controls:
A zoom slider to smoothly zoom in or out
Normal Size (1:1) [Num *] – sets the zoom level to 100%
Fit to Frame [Num 0] – fits the whole picture in the preview
Fit Shorter Side [Num .] – fits the picture’s shorter side; the picture can then be scrolled in one direction only;
useful e.g. for viewing panoramas
Zoom Lock [Num /] – makes the zoom level stay the same when you switch pictures
Synchronize Zoom – only available when Preview is showing multiple previews; synchronizes the zoom level
among previews

Showing Multiple Files
When multiple files are selected in the Filmstrip, Preview shows them all. Up to 9 pictures can be previewed at once.
Run the mouse over a picture to show these other controls:
top left – pin file
top right – remove file from selection
bottom left – rate picture, temporarily rotate right/left, delete picture
bottom right – colored labels
By default, zoom-level changes are synchronized among all previews shown; to turn this behavior off, use thecorresponding button on the toolbar.

Pinning a Picture
Pinning pictures is useful e.g. when you are selecting the best photo out of a series you’ve shot. When a picture ispinned, it is shown in the left preview, and the next picture is selected. Then use the keyboard to switch to otherpictures and compare them with the pinned picture.
When another picture is pinned afterwards, it is shown on the left in place of the original pinned picture. Click thepinning icon at the top left again to unpin the picture.

Map Mode
Use this mode to make the Manager show an online map. Use this map to browse pictures by GPS location, orassign locations to them.
When the current folder contains GPS-tagged photos, red tags are shown on the map. Blue tags, meanwhile, areshown for files selected in the Filmstrip below the map. Clicking a tag selects the corresponding photo in theFilmstrip. If a tag represents more than one photograph, then the number of photographs it represents is shown.
Double-click a tag of this type to zoom in on the map.
To assign GPS coordinates to photographs easily, drag and drop them from the Filmstrip onto the map. To change
coordinates for a photo already on the map, click and drag its tag.
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Fit Map to All Pictures in Folder - click this for a map display zoomed out just enough to fit all the pictures in thecurrent folder.
Fit Map to Selected Pictures - click this for a map display zoomed out just enough to fit all the currently selectedpictures.
Display tags for - use this to set whether the map displays tags for selected files only, or all files in the folder.
Track selection - use this to make the program automatically zoom in or out as needed to fit the currentlyselected GPS-tagged files into the display.

Assigning GPS Coordinates from a Track Log
Zoner Photo Studio can work with track logs in the GPX format. If the track log is in the same folder as the pictures, it
is shown on the map automatically. To load a track log from any folder, not just the photo folder, click the Load
Track Log from File button at the top of the map. When a track log is shown, log information is displayed – thetimes for the first and last item in the log. A time shift setting is also shown; use it if the track log was created in adifferent time zone than the one you are in currently. Pictures with no GPS coordinates assigned that were taken
between the start and end times for the track log are marked with gray markers on the map. Click the Assign button
to assign GPS coordinates to either all appropriate files, or the currently selected ones.

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The Develop Module
Use Develop for non-destructive edits to pictures, both in RAW format and in other bitmap formats. Develop has thesame basic layout as the other main sections of the program. That is, the left side contains the Navigator, the preview
in the middle shows any changes set up for the current picture, and the Side Panel on the right shows a histogram,basic picture information, a toolbar for work with basic functions, and controls for work with Presets and for fine-tuning
the settings for individual edits. At the bottom beneath the preview is the "Filmstrip." To hide any of these three panes
or show it again, click the thin gray bar at its outer edge.

The Picture Display
Use this preview to visually double-check edits while you work. To zoom in or out, use the mouse wheel. Single-leftclick to switch between two key zoom levels: 1:1 and Zoom to Fit. Alternatively, use the slider above the picture
display, or use the items in the View menu. To turn on blowout highlighting, click the button for this in the histogram
window at the top right. For RAW images, normally a low-quality preview is quickly shown as you shift the editing
sliders, and then the full-quality preview is shown a little later. Use Full Quality Preview in the View menu to force
full quality for the preview even during editing.

The Side Panel
Use the controls in the right side of the window to check and change the development settings for the current picture.
The controls here are divided into groups. When any setting in a group is changed, a checkmark and an arrow button
appears in the group's header. Use the checkmark to deactivate that whole group. Click the arrow button to return thesettings in the group to their defaults.
The contents of the Side Panel can vary depending a given picture is in RAW format or in another bitmap format. For
non-RAW formats, some groups are absent and some controls are inactive. If a RAW image has been edited in anolder version of Zoner Photo Studio, then the controls here change in order to reflect that older version and to ensurethat the picture is developed correctly.

Presets
Edits made to a picture can be saved as "Presets." Click the Save button here to show a window for naming yournew preset, and then a second window for setting which settings groups will be stored. Turn on Changed Items Only
to save only those settings that have been changed from their defaults. In this case, when the preset is later applied,
only the saved settings will be affected; the others will remain unchanged.
You can work with the settings for the current picture using the commands in the Settings menu under the main
menu:
Copy to Clipboard - this copies the current picture's settings to the Clipboard
Paste from Clipboard - this pastes settings from the Clipboard into the current picture
Save Preset - this saves the current settings to a preset with a name of your choice
Paste Current Settings to All Files – applies the current settings to all files in the folder
Make Current Settings the Default - use this to create your own custom default settings. These areautomatically applied to pictures when they are first loaded into Develop.
Restore Default Settings - use this to restore the default settings.
Stored Presets are listed in the Side Panel, in the group named Settings. Move the mouse over a preset to see asmall preview how it will affect the picture. Click a preset to apply it.

Copying Settings to Multiple Pictures
To apply settings to multiple pictures at once, mark those pictures in the Filmstrip, right-click one of them, and thenin the right-click menu, use the item named Apply Current Settings. You can also use the Browser's right-clickmenu for work with settings.

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Saving Changes
You don't need to save changes, or confirm them while you work. They are saved automatically when the next picture
is loaded, when you switch out of Develop, or when you exit the program. To make advanced edits that are notavailable in Develop, switch to the Editor. However, changes in the Editor are not non-destructive, and it will no longer
be possible to use Develop to modify the original edits. Therefore, we recommend that you save the picture under a
new name in the Editor rather than saving it back to its original name.

Adjusting Batches of Pictures
Non-destructive adjustments can also be made to multiple selected pictures at once. The following functions andsettings are available: Automatic enhancement, Crop, White Balance, Exposure, Color. However, since each picture
may have different settings, the settings are applied relative to a picture’s existing settings. Thus during batch
adjustments, the values are added together with the existing settings for individual files.

Tools
To switch among the Develop module’s tools, use the buttons on the top panel. Clicking a tool shows settings for that
tool; clicking it again hides them. To apply a tool’s settings, click Apply or press [Enter]. To go back to the settingsfrom before you activated the tool, click Cancel or press [Escape]. To restore any tool to its default state, click thearrow icon at the top of the tool.
If the tool works with a mask, then a mask list is shown towards the top of the Side Panel. Click an item to set amask to work with. To add a new mask, click Add Mask. To Delete a mask at any time, click the button with thetrash-can icon to the right of the mask list or in the right-click menu for a mask. That menu also contains items toRename or Duplicate a mask. Use the checkbox next to a mask’s name to disable or re-enable it. Hover the mouseover a mask’s name to temporarily highlight the mask in blue in the picture. To display a mask permanently, use theMask button at the top of the panel.

Rotate and Crop [C]
Use the Crop controls to set a fixed aspect ratio for the cropping rectangle. The default is Current Aspect. You canchoose from several predefined ratios of sides in the list, or enter a ratio numerically. Next to the drop-down list, there
is a button for adding your frequently-used ratios of sides to a list.
Use the Rotation control to rotate a picture to a precise angle numerically. Next to the slider, there is a button for
setting the picture’s horizon [H] – click it and draw out a line in the picture, and the picture will be rotated so as tomake that line horizontal (or vertical, if it is closer to the vertical). The Crop Marks menu contains a list of marks thatcan be shown in the preview area. To quickly toggle among marks, press [Tab].
Press [X] to flip the cropping frame’s ratio of sides, thus changing the orientation of the crop (between landscape andportrait).
Press [Shift+A] to stretch the cropping frame to the largest size supported by the picture’s orientation—if thecropping frame’s current orientation does not match the picture’s orientation, its orientation is changed to match.

Straighten Lines [K]This serves primarily for correcting converging lines in a picture. To perform this correction, either use the sliders in
the Side Panel or work directly inside the picture, by dragging out guidelines to match the lines in the picture that you
want to straighten. A maximum of two vertical and two horizontal lines can be placed. The program automaticallystraightens the picture as you add lines. However, you can safely reposition the lines afterwards. To remove lines,
right-click or press [Delete].
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one gradient filter is already automatically added to the picture. To reposition it, click and drag anywhere in the
picture. The direction dragged sets the filter’s angle of rotation. The length dragged sets the length of the gradient.
Both values can later be changed with the mouse. After a filter has been dragged out, it can be adjusted using thesliders on the right.

Radial Filter [R]
The Radial Filter works similarly to the Gradient Filter, except that the filter mask is defined by an ellipse that canthen be adjusted.

Filter Brush [B]Use the Filter Brush for local adjustments to settings as with the previous filters. Make brush strokes to set where
the adjustments go. To erase part of the mask, switch to Remove from Mask mode. Switch to this mode using theBrush Parameters section. The brush can have different settings in each mode—to prevent this, turn on Shared
Brush Settings.

Retouching Brush [J]Use this to retouch away image defects, using either a clone stamp or a retouching brush. To set the source areaused for retouching, hold down [Ctrl] and click in the picture. Alternatively, the program can choose a source area
automatically. With default settings, each left-click creates a new brush stroke. Switch to Add to Mask or Remove
from Mask mode to edit the current brush stroke. To switch modes temporarily, hold down [Shift] or [Alt]. The brush
can have different settings in both modes—to prevent this, use the Shared Brush Settings option.
To select individual brush strokes, click the source or target mark. Both the source and target can be repositioned.
You can change the brush type later. When a given stroke is made up of only a single mouse click, you can also
later change its other brush settings.

The Side Panel
The settings here are organized into groups. To expand or collapse a group, click the arrow in its header. Right-clicka group’s header to see a list of all groups. Uncheck any group in the list to hide that group. Some groups containsections that start out collapsed. Click the arrow next to such a section’s name to expand it. When any setting in agroup is changed, a checkmark and an arrow are shown in that group’s header. Click the checkmark to deactivatethat whole group. Click the arrow to restore the settings in the group to their defaults.
Double-click the name of any setting to restore its default value.

Auto-Enhance
Click the Auto button [A] on the toolbar to automatically enhance exposure and colors. It makes theseenhancements by changing settings; you can then also change these settings yourself at your leisure.

White BalanceWhite Balance – this control lets you choose from among several predefined values. The default setting here
corresponds to the one stored in the picture by the camera.
Eyedropper – use this to set white balance using an eyedropper. Click with the eyedropper on a pixel in thepreview that should be neutrally-colored. The program then balances the picture so that pixel has a neutral color.
Temperature – this lets you control white balance by shifting the picture on the blue-yellow axis.
Tint – this lets you control white balance by shifting the picture on the green-purple axis.
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protection is activated.
Contrast – controls the overall contrast of the final picture.
Lights – controls the amount and intensity of light tones in the picture. When you move Lights into the negativevalues, blowout protection is automatically activated.
Shadows – controls the amount and intensity of dark tones in the picture.
Clarity – changes local contrast at contours in the picture.
Dehaze – dehazes a hazy picture or adds haze to a picture.
Automatic – click this button to make Zoner analyze your picture and set suitable values in the Exposure group.

Controls for "ZPS 16" processing (see the Processing group):
Underexposure method – this sets the method by which the program handles the missing information for thebrightest areas when darkening the picture. This setting is utilized when you bring Exposure into the negative values
and when you apply HDR to bright areas. It offers three methods:
Linear – mainly useful for portraits. It darkens the picture in a natural way. In overexposed areas, it grays the
picture. This method takes no special steps to stop blowout (loss of detail from overexposure). To create detail inoverexposed areas, use the Lights control.
Vivid Colors – this method is useful for landscape photographs. It preserves brightness in areas with blowout, andnon-linearly darkens the brightest areas, while increasing their contrast and saturation.
Contrast – this method works similarly to Vivid Colors, but it does not increase colors' saturation, and it increases
the contrast for a smaller range of brightnesses.

Controls for the ZPS 17 process:White point – sets the brightness level that should become pure white in the final picture.
Black Point – sets the brightness level that should become pure black in the final picture.
In the ZPS 17 process, the Exposure sliders are organized in such a way that moving them into positive values
always brightens the picture, while negative values always darken it.
Blowout protection tries to reconstruct the picture in places where detail has been lost in one or more color channels.
This brightness reconstruction is relatively good, but because color information in such places has been lost, the final
color may not match the original picture.

Color
The Grayscale checkbox sets whether the picture will be processed in color or in black and white. The contents ofthe panel change based on your setting here.
Controls for color images:
Hue – this lets you shift colors by adjusting hue.
Saturation – this lets you set color saturation.
Vibrance – this lets you set color saturation in a way that respects the existing saturation of colors in the picture– low-saturation colors are affected more.
Color correction – use the slider in this section for mild HSL-mode color correction. For greater convenience you
can use an eyedropper to set what color to shift.
Controls for black-and-white images:
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values that are normally used for grayscale conversion. In Automatic, use the Toning slider to control the channel
sliders indirectly. Watch the main preview window to judge the best value to use.

Tone Curve
Use the tone curve for fine control over the brightness levels in a picture. You can edit the curve by dragging thehandles on it to new positions; these set the path that the brightness curve should take. To add new handles
anywhere on the curve, click in the place where you want to add the handle. Right-click over a handle to delete it.
The horizontal axis shows input brightness values. The vertical axis shows output values. The curve must always becontinuous, so you cannot move points completely freely. Shifting the curve’s endpoints changes the input values forthe white point and black point, just as if you were using the Levels function. By shaping the curve into an S-shape,
you can make complex adjustments to the picture’s contrast.
Starting from the ZPS 17 process, brightness can be set independently for the red, green, and blue channels.

Sharpen
This works the same as the Unsharp Mask within the editing window for Sharpen.

Noise Reduction
Noise Reduction – this sets the amount of noise reduction in the picture's brightness element.
Col. noise reduction - this sets the amount of noise reduction in the picture’s color element.
Suppress color stains – use this to eliminate large color stains that remain after removal of colored noise.

Effects
Vignetting
Strength – use this to set the effect's strength.
Radius – use this to set how quickly the picture brightens/darkens inward from the corners.
Unlike antivignetting, vignetting in ZPS is only applied after a picture is cropped.

Add GrainThis works like the Editor’s Add Grain filter.

HDR
The controls here are identical those for the HDR function in the Publish menu.

Lens
Lens Profile
Use the Lens Profile controls to apply Lens Correction Profiles (LCP). These serve to automatically correct geometricdefects, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Zoner does not supply any such profiles, they can be downloaded forfree on the Web for certain lenses. Select a profile and then use the Warp, Chromatic aberration, and Vignetting
options to set what defects will be corrected using the profile.
Manual Correction
Expand this section to show controls for manual correction of optical defects:
Barrel Distortion – this sets the amount of barrel distortion correction applied.
Antivignetting – use this to either suppress unwanted darkening at the edges of a picture (i.e. vignetting) or to do
the opposite – to add such darkening e.g. in order to emphasize content in the middle of the picture.
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the color channels towards each other, you will fix the defect.

Camera Profile
Use these settings to apply a DCP profile to a picture. These profiles correct colors and tonality. Although Zoner
Photo Studio does not include any such profiles, they can be downloaded for free on the Web for certain cameras.

Processing
Zoner Photo Studio X uses a new RAW development process. But for better compatibility it also enables developmentof pictures using the process from older versions. When an image is loaded, the program automatically detects which
version the picture was processed in, and the appropriate processing is set automatically, ensuring that the picture
will be processed the same as it was in the original version. The processing version used can be changed later at any
time.

Non-destructive editing
When you are working in the Editor, all changes are applied to a picture's image data directly, and when the picture
is saved, these changes are stored in the picture file, irreversibly changing the picture. Non-destructive edits, on theother hand, leave the picture's source data unchanged; all that is saved is a list of the individual changes, and theseare only applied afterwards, at the moment when the picture needs to be saved. Even saving only records this list ofchanges to disk, leaving the original picture untouched. Thanks to this, you can change the list of edits later at any
time, or even remove them all to go back to the original picture.
For non-destructive editing, use Develop. There is no need to confirm or save changes when you are done editing;changes are automatically saved when you move on to the next picture, switch to a different section of the program,or exit the program. The remaining sections of the program automatically reflect any changes to a picture that you
have made in Develop. Thus if you'd like to work on a picture with advanced tools that are not contained in Develop,
just open it in the Editor and continue working. When you need to make use of a picture outside of Zoner PhotoStudio, and you have used non-destructive edits on the picture, you must export the picture by clicking Export, whichapplies the changes you've made and saves the picture to a location of your choice in a format of your choice.

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The Editor Module
Use the Editor for advanced picture edits. The Editor supports work with Layers.

Editor Tools
Use the mouse-based tools in the Editor to make precise edits to individual pictures. These tools are grouped
together in the Side Panel. Activating a tool makes the Side Panel display options and settings appropriate for that
tool. One tool, no more and no less, is always active at a time.
After using certain tools (e.g. Crop), you need to Apply or Cancel their effects by clicking the Apply or Cancel
button, or pressing the [Enter] or [Esc] key
To return any tool to its default state, click the arrow icon in the header of the tool’s settings. For some tools, you
can save their settings as presets and load them in later. To do so, use the diskette (for saving) and the list of saved
presets (for loading) in the Side Panel.

The Editor Tools and Their Shortcuts
Home

P

Healing BrushJ

Move and Transform

V

Dodge

I

Crop and Rotate

C

Burn

Shift+I

Perspective

K

PaintbrushB

Rectangular Selection

M

Fill

G

Elliptical Selection

O

Gradient

Shift+B

Lasso

L

EraserY

Polygonal Lasso

N

Place Text

T

Magnetic Lasso

A

Place Symbol

Shift+T

Magic WandW

Place Shape

Shift+S

Selection Brush

Shift+Q

Place LineD

Gradient Filter

Shift+G

Tilt-shift Effect

Shift+F
Shift+R

Red Eye Reduction

R

Lens FlareClone Stamp

S

Morphing Mesh

Iron

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HomeHome is the default tool. When Home is active, the Side Panel shows operations that are relevant for the active layer:
For bitmap layers – a list of the filters that can be used on bitmap layers
Object layer – settings for the placed object – text, symbol, shape, or line
Adjustment Layer – settings for the Adjustment Layer
You can move the mouse over a picture’s preview to zoom in or out. Left-click to switch between the Zoom to Fit
zoom level and 1:1 (100%) view. If a magnifying glass is shown instead of the mouse cursor, then clicking andholding the left mouse button will pan the image at 1:1 zoom; when the left mouse button is released, the picture
returns to Zoom to Fit mode.
You can also zoom and pan the picture in the following ways:[Space] – temporarily switches into the above-described method for zooming and panning the image.
rotating the mouse wheel – zooms the picture in or out
clicking the mouse wheel – pans the picture

Move and Transform
Use this tool to move and transform the active layer. The active layer’s edges and handles are highlighted. Click anddrag inside the layer to shift it; click and drag outside it to rotate it. At the edges of the layer and at the handles,
operations vary based on your choice of Mode in the Side Panel. The following modes are available:
ResizePerspective
DistortThe settings panel also displays the layer’s Position and Size, options for the layer’s alignment within the
document canvas, and its Rotation.

Crop and Rotate
Crop and Rotate
Use this tool to crop and rotate a whole picture document, including all of its layers.
To crop a picture in the Editor, use the Crop tool [C]. To activate this tool, click its button in the toolbar in the Side
Panel. Click in the picture with this tool and then drag to draw out a cropping frame. Everything within this frame willremain after the crop.
You can force the cropping frame to have a fixed ratio of sides, or even an entirely fixed size. The fixed ratios of sides
are, above all, an easy way to crop to classical printed-photo sizes. Fixed sizes are good for things like desktop
wallpapers. Several frequently useful ratios and sizes are automatically provided in the drop-down list for this tool. To
define your own custom crops, click the gear icon.
Use the Free ratio item to crop freely with no restrictions to the cropping frame. Current aspect matches thecropping frame’s ratio to the picture’s existing ratio of sides. Use Fixed aspect to set a fixed ratio of your choice. As
always with fixed ratios, in practice this means that as you draw out one side of the rectangle, the other changes tomatch. Use Fixed size to enter your own choice of fixed size.
Click Swap values (the button between the two size or ratio boxes) or press [X] to easily swap the values for theratio of sides, to switch between a landscape crop and a portrait crop.

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Press [Ctrl+A] to stretch out the cropping frame to the largest size supported by your choice of fixed aspect, even if
it needs to swap the ratio of sides to reach that size.
Use the Rotation control to rotate a picture to a precise angle. Alternatively, rotate the cropping frame by clicking
outside of the frame and then dragging. Click the button next to the slider to start working with the picture’s horizon[H]. Then drag out a line within the picture to make ZPS rotate the picture so that your line lies straight on thehorizontal (or the vertical if appropriate).
Click an item in the Crop Marks list to display crop marks.
Turn on the Delete cropped pixels option to make the program delete any image data that lies outside the cropping
frame on all bitmap layers. With this option turned off, cropping only sets the document’s canvas.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Arrow KeysMove cropping frame

Ctrl+Arrow Keys Quick-move cropping frame
Shift+Arrow
Keys

Resize cropping frame

Ctrl+A

Select the largest area in the picture that fits the picture’s orientation and the cropping ratio
setX

Flip the cropping ratio

H

Align Horizon

Esc

Cancel the crop

Enter

Apply the crop

Straighten Lines
Use this tool for corrections to the geometry of the entire document, including its layers. It can be used e.g. for:aligning a horizon
straightening receding lines
fixing perspective
To make your corrections, either use the sliders in the Side Panel or work right inside the picture by dragging out
guidelines alongside the lines to be straightened. A maximum of two horizontal and two vertical lines can be entered.
As you add the lines, the program automatically performs the straightening needed, but the lines can be repositioned
later at any time. To delete a line, right-click it or press [Delete].
Completely straightened lines can look unnatural; use the Intensity slider, if needed, to soften the correction.
Use the Rotation control to rotate a picture to a precise numerical angle. Beside the slider there is a button for
setting the picture’s Horizon [H] – click this button to rotate the picture so that the line you place is horizontal (orvertical, if it is closer to being vertical)
Leave the Crop option active to have the program auto-crop after straightening. The auto-crop is automatically sized
so as to cover the largest possible area in the picture possible without adding transparent (empty) areas in thecorners. To resize the cropping frame, drag its corners and sides. To reposition it, drag its center. To rotate it, dragoutside of it.
Click an item in the Crop Marks list to display crop marks.
Leave on the Delete Cropped Pixels option to remove all image data on all bitmap layers that falls outside thecropping frame. With this option turned off, cropping merely shrinks the document’s border to fit the cropping frame.

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Selection Tools
There are several Editor tools for creating a selection, a part of a picture to which the program's edits and effects
should be applied. You can also copy the selection and paste it into another picture.
A selection can take on any form from a simple rectangle to a collection of areas as complicated as you would like.
You can compose a selection using any combination of the selection tools.
The selection process always has a "selection mode" that affects how your actions affect the selection. It starts in"normal" mode. Normal mode creates a new selection each time you drag out a rectangle, click the magic wand,etc. Use the options toolbar button named Add to Selection if you want your new selection(s) to instead be added
to the existing one. To just enter this mode temporarily, hold down [Shift]. (A plus sign will appear by the mouse
cursor.) If you want to do the opposite - to subtract your new selection(s) from the existing one - turn on Remove
from Selection or hold down [Ctrl] during your work. (A minus sign will appear by the mouse cursor.) Mode
Intersection or hold down [Ctrl] and whether or not to [Shift] while making the new selections. (An x will appear by
the mouse cursor.)
The Blur control on the options toolbar for all these tools sets how edits will behave when they reach the edges of theselection: with a blurred border, effects will gradually lose intensity - "fade" - towards the edge. Click Invert orpressing [Ctrl+Shift+I] deselects all selected areas of the picture and vice versa.
You can erase your whole selection by pressing [Esc].

Rectangular Selection
To activate the Rectangular Selection tool, use the Editor's Selection | Rectangular Selection [M] command or the
toolbar button. Use this tool to select areas that can easily be defined using one or more rectangles. After activating
the tool, you click and drag out a rectangle to make the selection. If you hold down [Shift] while making yourselection, it will be a square. If you hold down [Ctrl] then clicking will set the center of the rectangle rather than its
top left corner.

Elliptical Selection
To activate the Elliptical Selection tool, use the Editor's Selection | Elliptical Selection [O] command or the toolbar
button. Use this tool to select areas that can easily be defined using one or more ellipses. After activating the tool,
you click and drag out an ellipse to make the selection. If you hold down [Shift] while making your selection, it will bea circle. If you hold down [Ctrl] then clicking will set the center of the ellipse rather than the top left corner of therectangle that contains it.

Lasso
Use the Lasso tool to enclose a complex area by hand. To activate the Lasso tool, use the Editor's Selection |Lasso [L] command or the toolbar button. After activating the tool, you click and drag with the mouse to enclose thedesired area. If you do not enclose it completely, the program will add a straight line between the starting and ending
points to finish the job.

Polygonal Lasso
Use the Polygonal Lasso tool to select any area that you can easily enclose using a collection of straight lines. To
activate this tool, use the Editor's Selection | Polygonal Lasso [N] command or the toolbar button.. After activating
the tool, click in the picture and then gradually "click around" the desired area. If you ever want to undo your lastclick, press [Backspace] or [Delete]. To finish the enclosing shape—the polygon—you can either double-click orjust use a single-click that is close enough to the starting point. (The mouse cursor will change when you are closeenough.) When you hold down [Alt] while selecting, you will temporarily switch from the polygonal lasso to themagnetic lasso.

Magnetic Lasso
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with a high contrast between the two sides of the edge. The program will seek such edges and automatically snap
the selection to them. To activate this tool, use the Editor's Selection | Magnetic Lasso [A] command or the toolbar
button. Your actual workflow with this tool is the same as with the polygonal lasso. Use the Sensitivity option sets
how far away from your lines the program should look for edges in the picture. The Line smoothing option affects theshape of the selection line; higher values give a "smoother" line, but may also make it poorly copy complex edges. If
you hold down [Alt] then you will temporarily switch to the polygonal lasso.

Magic WandTo activate this tool, use the Editor's Selection | Magic Wand [W] command or the toolbar button. Use the Magic
Wand to select areas similar to the place where you click. Similarity is checked based on your settings for
Comparison mode (RGB, Brightness, or Hue) and based on your setting for Tolerance. Use the Continuous
option determines whether the selection will "spill" out into all similarly-colored areas in the whole picture, or just one
continuous area. To use the tool, click on a spot within the similarly-colored area that you want to select.

Selection Brush
Use the Selection Brush [Shift+Q] to create a selection by "painting" it. The settings are similar as for the
Paintbrush tool—you can set the Radius, Density, Blur , and Spacing. This tool offers two modes—one for adding
to, and one for subtracting from the selection. To switch modes, use the buttons in the Options toolbar. To
temporarily switch modes during your work, press and hold down [Ctrl]. To quickly check which mode you are in,look for the "+" or "-" by the mouse cursor.

Refine Selection
The Refine Selection function is available for all selection tools. Use it to take a rough selection, e.g. when selecting
a picture’s foreground, and make it precise. These controls include three settings:
Radius – sets the area within the picture in which this function will seek contours to use for refining the selection.
Contrast – sets the selection’s final contrast – the larger the contrast, the sharper the borders between theselected and unselected area.
Smoothing – adds mild smoothing to overly sharp contours in the selection.
When working with this function, it’s helpful to take advantage of the various Selection Display modes.

Gradient Filter
This tool creates an effect similar to the physical gradient filters that you can place on a camera lens.
To add a gradient filter, click and then drag in the direction that you want the gradient to lead. You can then use yourmouse to change the gradient’s position, direction, and width. You can also Flip the gradient using a button in theSide Panel. Click the color button to set the gradient’s color.
You can also set the Opacity of the gradient filter and the Mode via which it is blended with the picture. The default
mode here is Multiply.
The settings for a gradient can be saved under a name of your choice for later reloading.
To apply the gradient filter, click Apply or press [Enter]. To avoid applying the filter, click Cancel or press [Esc].

Red Eye Reduction
To eliminate red eyes in photos, use the Editor’s Red Eye Reduction tool. To activate it, click the Red Eye
Reduction [R] button in the main toolbar.
This tool works like the Paintbrush, but instead of drawing normally, it removes any red color that you draw over. Set
the tool’s size, then click and draw to edit the eye area. If you misclick, just undo your steps: Edit | Undo [Ctrl+Z].
It’s easiest to fix red eyes when you are zoomed in on a picture.

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For more advanced red eye reduction, use Advanced mode. In this mode, you can choose a different color for
reduction than the usual red or white. Use the eyedropper to pick it. This is useful for fixing animal-eye problems.
You can set the tool’s Radius, its color Tolerance, the amount of Darkening of the retouched area, and Blurring(fading-out towards the outside of the tool). You can use a tablet with this tool just like with the other retouching tools

Retouching Tools
The Clone Stamp
Use the clone stamp to "paint" one part of a picture onto another. Usually you will be doing this because you want tocover up something using a background texture from some area with a similar background, but no foreground. Sometypical things covered up this way are telephone wires and pimples.
The Clone Stamp [S] is on the Editor toolbar.
After activating the tool, press and hold down the [Ctrl] key (the mouse cursor changes to a crosshairs) to set thesource area for cloning. After that, the tool will start cloning the source area ("painting" with it) wherever you click or
drag with it. The Radius sets how large an area of the picture is transferred, Opacity is the maximum allowed
amount of transfer (achieved by repeatedly using the tool over the same part of the picture), Density is the amount of
the picture applied during one use of the effect over a part of the picture. In Aligned mode, the source area will
always move with the target area. When this mode is off, the source will always return to the original point when you
let go of the mouse button and then start "painting" again.
Spacing sets how often the tool should be applied. You set it as a percent of the brush size. Thus with small values,
the tool will be applied during even the tiniest motion of the mouse, while with a value of 100%, it will be applied only
once per full brush length.
Blur The Blur value sets how the tool will behave at the brush edges.
Use the Mode to set how the cloned part of the picture blends into the original picture.

Iron
Use the Iron to iron out fine details, like in portrait photography. To activate it, use the toolbar button named Iron [U].
The settings for Radius, Opacity, Density, Blur and Spacing work the same as they do for the other tools, e.g. theClone Stamp. The Smoothing setting determines the effect's strength.

Effect Brush
Use the Effect Brush tool to "paint on" local picture edits. To activate it, use the toolbar button named Effect Brush[E].
What precisely this tool does at a given moment depends on which Effect: option you have set: brightness, gamma,
contrast, saturation, or sharpening. It also depends on your setting for Strength. The other settings, like Radius,
Opacity, Density, Blur and Spacing work the same as they do for the other tools, e.g. the Clone Stamp.

Healing Brush
Use the Healing Brush [J] to remove minor scratches and distracting spots and replace them with material from thehealthy, "clean" part of the picture. Work with this tool as you would with the Clone Stamp while keeping in mind
that this tool does not transfer the source region itself, but just its texture, which is adapted to the target area as you
apply it.

Dodge
Use the Dodge [I] tool to easily brighten a part of a picture. Use this tool’s setting to set the Range of tones that thetool works with – lights, midtones, or shadows. Strength sets the strength of the brightening. Leave the Protect
Tones option active to make the program preserve the picture’s colors during dodging. Hold down [Alt] to temporarily
switch to the Burn tool.
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Burn
The Burn [Shift + I] tool has the same settings as Dodge, but is used for darkening the picture. Hold down [Alt] totemporarily switch to the Dodge tool.

Tablet Support
Zoner Photo Studio supports work with a tablet for all of its retouching tools. Clicking the Tablet Settings button will
open a window where you can ask the program to vary one option based on the pen pressure that the tablet
measures as you draw. The options you can affect using pen pressure are as follows: Radius, Opacity, Density,
Blur, and Spacing. Of course, all this only apply if the current tool actually has the given option.

Drawing Tools
PaintbrushUse the Paintbrush tool [B] to paint color onto a picture. This tool’s most basic option is its brush color. To change
it, click the colored rectangle (this calls up a color mixing window) or use the eyedropper to choose a color from thepicture itself. The other settings, like the Radius, Opacity, Density, Blur, and Spacing work the same as they dofor the other tools, e.g. the Clone Stamp. Use the Mode setting to set how the color painted on by the brush isblended into the original picture.

Fill
Use the Fill tool [G] to fill an area with a color of your choice. The program sets the fill area based on its similarity to
the spot you click. It judges similarity based on the Mode setting (RBG, Brightness, or Hue) and the chosen
Tolerance. The Continuous option determines whether the fill will “spill” out into all similarly-colored areas in the
picture, or just one continuous area. To use the tool, click on a spot within the area that you want to fill.

Gradient
Use the Gradient tool [Shift+B] to add a multicolored gradient to the picture. The gradient is defined by two points.
To create the gradient, left-click in the picture to set the first point, and then drag to set the second point. Click
Gradient in the Side Panel to adjust or add the gradient’s colors and transparency. Scale sets how sharp thegradient is; Offset shifts the start and end of the gradient relative to the two points set. Three Types for gradients areavailable—linear, radial, and angular. There are also Opacity and Mode settings that control how the gradient isblended with the picture.

EraserUse the Eraser [Y] to erase part of the picture. The Radius, Opacity, Density, Blur, and Spacing settings work thesame for this tool as for other tools. Erased parts of a picture are transparent.

Placement Tools
Use any of these tools to add a new layer of the given type. To change the settings for the added layer, use theHome and Move and Transform tools. You can add Effects to any object layers (shape, line, etc. layers) you add.

Place Text
To activate the Place Text [T] tool, click its button on the main toolbar. Click with this tool in the picture to set theposition of the top left corner of the text frame. Use the box in the Side Panel to add the Text. There are also settings
here for the text’s Font, Size, and Line Spacing. Other settings here make the text Bold, Italics, or Underlined.
For multi-line text, the Left, Center, and Right buttons set the text’s alignment. Use the Anti-aliasing setting toconfigure or turn off anti-aliasing for the text.

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Place Symbol
Use the Place Symbol [Shift+T] tool to place symbols. It works similarly to the Place Text tool, but places a single
symbol instead of text. The Side Panel shows settings for this tool. The drop-down list here shows these choices:
The last symbols used
Symbol groups – e.g. arrows, math symbols, etc. The symbols displayed are grouped by font.
All symbols – shows all available symbols. The symbols displayed are organized by font.
Individual symbol fonts – these each display only the symbols contained in the selected font.
The available choice of symbols depends on the fonts installed in your operating system.

Place ShapeUse the Place Shape [Shift+S] tool to add a new layer with a shape to the picture. Click and drag to set thelocation and size of the frame, and the placement of the shape's guidepoints. The Side Panel shows settings for thistool, including these options: Shape, Pen Color, Pen Width, and Fill Color. To reshape a placed shape, drag theguidepoints on it – for example for an arrow, you can change the arrow’s head or width.

Place Line
Use the Place Line tool [D] to add a new layer with a line to a picture. Use the mouse to add, reposition, and selectnodes in the line. Press [Delete] or [Backspace] to remove the last node added. Double-click any node to deletethat node. To close off a curve, turning it into a polygon, click the first point in the curve or click the Close checkbox.
A closed curve can be filled with a color. There are also settings here for the Pen Color, Pen Width, Fill Color, andLine Ending.
More information
Layers
Editing the Selection Border
Creating a Selection

Effect tools
Tilt-shift EffectThis tool is most often used to make a scene look like it contains a miniature photographed under a macro lens.
There are also many other uses for tilt-shift, for example achieving low depth of field just like one could using an
actual tilt-shift lens.
Use the guidelines shown over the picture to set which parts of the picture will be sharp, and which blurred. Click anddrag in the picture to set the position and angle of the horizon line. This line defines the center of the area that will bein focus. To quickly set up and position a level horizon line, just click where it should be. To change the position or
angle later, click and drag the whole line (position) or move the guidelines (angle). The shorter lines that run parallel tothe horizon line set the breadth of the area that is in focus and the width of the transition between the focused andblurred parts of the image. To reposition these lines, click and drag them or set their positions numerically using thecontrols in the side panel (enter them as a percent of the image's overall dimensions).
If the picture contains light sources, then to get the most faithful simulation of bokeh, that is, of areas outside thedepth of focus, blur these light sources as needed. To do this, use the settings named Reflection threshold andReflection intensity. When using tilt-shift to make objects look like miniatures, you can make the effect more lifelike
using the controls named Brightening and Saturation.
Use the High Quality option to maximize the fidelity of the blurry areas, at the cost of slowing down calculations.

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taken against the light. This filter is most useful for emphasizing the existing lens flare in this kind of shot.
Click in the picture to set the point where the light source is "hitting" the imaginary lens. The various elements of thiseffect cross through the center of the picture. You can configure their size, color, and intensity.
Size sets the size of the effect’s visual elements. The best size to use depends on the picture’s resolution.
Hue changes the effect’s tinting within the available spectrum.
Saturation sets the intensity of the colors for all of the elements shown.
Lightness sets how strongly the flare is emphasized in the picture.
Use the settings from Light spikes through Additional halos to set which flare elements are shown.

Morphing Mesh
Use the Morphing Mesh to distort a picture, or to straighten out an already distorted picture.
Click Create Mesh to place the morphing mesh atop your picture. The mesh is represented as a grid of dots; movethe dots to adjust the mesh. The picture under the mesh "liquefies" and reacts to deformations of the mesh. To add apoint (a node) to the mesh, double-click on the place to add the point. To remove a point and its associated lines,
select it and click Remove Point in the Side Panel. Use the Remove Mesh button in the same place to remove themesh. However, this only removes the mesh, not the deformation that it caused.

DeformThe Deform tool works similarly to the Morphing Mesh, but for this tool, it is not necessary to work with a mesh.
Move the mouse cursor over the picture, click, and drag to locally deform the image.
Use the Strength setting to set the intensity of the deformation. Use the Radius setting to set how large an area isdeformed. Other deformations besides shifting are available; to set the type of deformation, use Effect. Unlike forshifting, these types of deformation do not require click-and-drag. Just click and hold down the left mouse button overa spot to repeatedly apply the selected effect to it. The Restore effect is special; draw with it to undo deformation,
locally restoring the original image.

LayersDocuments in the Editor can have multiple layers. Layers are used for advanced image editing. To work with layers,
use the controls in the Layers group at the bottom of the Editor’s Side Panel, where the layer list is. Right-click a
listed layer to show a menu for working with that layer. All the operations available for layers can also be accessedfrom the Editor’s Layers menu.

Working With Layers
To set the active layer, click its name in the list. The active layer is highlighted in blue in the list.
The basic parameters for a layer are its Opacity and its Mode, which sets how the image from this layer is blended
with the image below it.
Show/hide a layer by clicking the eye icon in the layer list. Hold down [Ctrl] while clicking a layer to quickly show or
hide all the other layers.

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You can move and transform a layer using the Move and Transform tool.
There are several ways to add a layer:
Add Empty Layer – this adds an empty bitmap layer; you can draw onto it using the Brush or Fill tools, or selectpart or all of the empty layer and use either of two items in the Selection menu – Fill or Stroke.
Place Colored Layer – adds a new bitmap layer filled with a color of your choice.
Paste – adds a new bitmap layer with the contents of the Clipboard.
Paste from File – Shows a dialog for choosing an image file. After you choose a file, that file is added as a new
bitmap layer.
Place Text – adds text as a new bitmap layer. Use the settings in the Side Panel to adjust its parameters.
Place Symbol – adds a text symbol as a new layer. Use the settings in the Side Panel to adjust its parameters.
Place Shape – adds a shape as a new layer. Use the settings in the Side Panel to adjust its parameters.
Place Line – adds a line as a new layer. Use the settings in the Side Panel to adjust its parameters.
White Balance, Exposure, Colors, Levels, Curves – These each add an Adjustment Layer – a settings layerthat affects one or more of the other layers in the document.
You can also Duplicate a layer, Delete it, or Rename it. To change the order of layers, drag and drop them inthe layer list.
For layers that contain an object (text, a symbol, a line, or a shape), use Rasterize to convert the layer to a bitmap
layer. This is useful because filters and effects can only be used on bitmap layers. However, rasterized objects
cannot be edited as objects (for example, rasterized text cannot be edited).
Use the following commands to merge layers:
Merge Down – the active layer is merged with the one right below it in the list, creating a new bitmap layer.
Merge Visible – merges all visible layers into one bitmap layer. The invisible layers will remain unmerged.
Merge Layer – merges all layers into one bitmap layer.

Adjustment Layers
Adjustment Layers are settings layers for lossless edits. Five kinds are available – White Balance, Exposure,
Levels, Curves, and Color. There are two basic routes for adding these layers:
Clicking on the icon for adding an adjustment layer in the filter list next to the name of the filter (in the Home tool) –the layer is added above the active layer and is linked with this layerusing the Layer | Add Layer menu item or the toolbar under the layer list – the Adjustment Layer is added above
the current layer and affects every layer below it in the list. Drag an Adjustment Layer onto a different content layer
at any time to link it to that layer. Drag it above/below another layer to unlink it.
The settings for an Adjustment Layer can be changed within the Home tool at any time after the layer’s creation.
A mask can be added to any Adjustment Layer, and Opacity and a Mode can be set for it.

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Layer Masks
Each layer can have a Mask, which sets which parts of the layer are visible, and which parts hidden (i.e. transparent).
The mask is grayscale—a black mask color hides the layer (makes it transparent), while white reveals it. The best
way to draw onto the mask is with the Paintbrush tool, but the other tools and filters will also work on it. To draw on
the mask, first click the mask symbol by the layer you want to work with. The icon for the active part of the layer—
the image or the mask—is outlined in the layer list. The lock icon between the layer icon and the mask sets whether
or not the mask is bound to the layer, which has an effect when you are using Move and Transform
Functions for work with the mask:
Reveal All – adds a mask to the layer; this mask reveals the whole layer. You can then use e.g. a black
Paintbrush to hide part of the layer.
Hide All – adds a mask to the layer; this mask hides the whole layer.
Reveal Selection – adds a mask to the layer; this mask reveals only the currently selected part of the image.
Hide Selection – adds a mask to the layer; this mask hides the currently selected part of the image.
Invert Mask – hides whatever the mask was showing, and vice versa.
Add Mask to Selection – creates a new selection by adding the mask to the current selection.
Subtract Mask from Selection – creates a new selection by subtracting the mask from the current selection.
Intersect Mask with Selection – creates a new selection from the intersection of the mask and the current
selection.
Remove Mask – removes the layer mask.
Disable Mask – temporarily disables the layer mask. Use the same command to re-enable the layer mask.
Holding down certain keys while clicking the mask provides quick access to certain functions:Ctrl – Set mask as selection
Ctrl + Shift – Add mask to selection
Ctrl + Alt – Remove mask from selection
Ctrl + Shift + Alt – Intersect mask with selection
Shift – Disable mask
Alt – Show mask only

Layer Effects
Various effects can be applied to layers. These can later be changed at any time. To show the dialog for setting up
effects, use Layer | Effects... in the Editor menu, or the right-click menu for a layer, or the toolbar under the layer
list. The following effects are available:
Shadow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Inner Glow
OutlineBevel and Emboss
Satin
Color Overlay
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To save effect settings or load them back in later, use the Presets controls at the bottom of the window. To copy andpaste effects among layers, use the right-click menu for a layer, or the toolbar under the layer list.

The ZPS Format
An Editor document, including its layers, can be saved to a file in the ZPS format. During saving to any format otherthan ZPS, the layers have to be merged into a single layer, and thus no later edits to layers are possible.

Working with the Selection BorderTo reach the Editor's functions for editing the selection border, visit the menu named Selection. The selected part ofa picture lies within a border (normally shown as an animated dashed line). You can copy the selected part of apicture to the Windows Clipboard and then paste it into another picture. Most of the Editor's tools, filters, and effects
work with the selected part of a picture. If there is no selection, they affect the whole picture.
Besides the commands for editing the selection border there are also several others here:

Edit Selection
There are several things you can do with a selection: stretch it/shrink it, give the selection outline an emphasizedborder with a size of your choice, or blur the selection; this is good for "softening" the selection borders. Enter thenumbers for these settings as numbers of pixels. When Automatic Preview mode is active (the padlock icon),changes are previewed immediately.

Selection Display Modes
Selection display modes are useful for advanced work with selections. These make it easy to check whether or not
you’ve selected the part of the picture that you wanted. To switch among selection display modes, use Selection |Selection Display in the menu or use the toolbar towards the top of the Editor’s Side Panel. Several options areavailable:
None – the selected area is only outlined with an animated dashed line
Cover Unselected – the unselected part of the picture is tinted red
Cover Selection – the selected part of the picture is tinted blue
Black and White – the unselected part of the picture is pure black; the selected part is pure white
Selection Only – only the selected part of the picture is shown, on a transparent background
Selection Only—On White – only the selected part of the picture is shown, on a white background
Selection Only—On Black – only the selected part of the picture is shown, on a black background
Use Show Selection Outline to hide or show the selection border. This can be useful when, for example, previewing
the output of editing tools full-screen in the Editor. The mask display and selection outline settings return to theirdefault settings when you move to a different picture: that is, the mask is not shown and the selection outline isvisible.

Stroke Selection
Use Selection | Stroke to fill the border of the selected part of a picture with a Color of your choice, in a way definedby the Mode and Opacity. You can also set the pen Width and its Position.

Fill Selection
Use Selection | Fill to fill the selected part of a picture with a Color of your choice, in a way defined by the Modeand Opacity.

Fill with Surroundings
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selection containing the material to be retouched out of the picture, then press [Shift+Delete]. This function fills theselected area with fragments based on the picture, making the area blend with its surroundings as well as possible.
Because the algorithm for filling in an area has high processing demands, this function is recommended for small
areas only. When a large area is selected, especially in a high-definition image, the process can be extremely slow.

Crop Selection
This function crops the picture based on the selection. This produces a rectangular crop containing the entire
selected area (even if the selection is not rectangular).

Save Selection
This saves the current selection (to PNG by default) so that you can later read it back in using Load Selection.

Load Selection
This loads in a selection (not its contents!) from a file. You can add the loaded selection with the current one,
subtract it, or use its intersection. You can also set its position in the picture.

The Editor’s View Menu
Show Blowout
To temporarily highlight blowout and underexposure in the picture, use View | Show Blowout [Shift+O] or click theicon with the sun symbol in the Histogram section of the side panel.
In regions with blowout, one or all color elements have reached their maximum values. No room to go higher meansno room for variation, so regions with blowout lack detail. Overexposure is actually not the only cause of blowout; italso will appear in regions with strong light sources, like the sun or a fire. Blowout does not automatically mean a bad
photo, though multiple and large regions with blowout do mean a bad photo. In some places, blowout is inevitable (e.
g. reflections off of shiny objects). Blowout highlighting is informational only. It makes no sense to, for example,
darken a photo just so that Zoner Photo Studio stops highlighting blowout in it: the detail has already been lost, so
darkening won’t restore it.
Zoner Photo Studio can highlight eight different types of blowout: blowout in the R, G, and B channels, combined RG,
RB, and GB, RGB (places where all three elements have blowout), and summary blowout, where even though there isno blowout in the individual channels, their sum exceeds a certain threshold. You can choose to have areas without
blowout be displayed in grayscale or in color. Areas with blowout are shown in saturated colors representing theaffected channels: red for R, green for G, blue for B, yellow for RG, purple for RB, cyan for GB, and bright yellow for
RGB. Summary blowout is displayed in medium yellow.
Zoner Photo Studio can also call attention to underexposed areas – overly dark places lacking detail. These places
are displayed in bright sky blue.
You can change how blowout is highlighted using Settings | Preferences | Other | Display of blowout andunderexposure. For more on this, see the topic about the "Other" section of the program preferences.

Pre-Print Color Preview
The View | Pre-Print Color Preview option [Shift+P] has no effect unless you have turned on color management
Settings | Preferences | Color Management | Use color management) and selected a printer profile. Thisfunction translates the picture using the color profile that the printer would apply during printing, and displays theresult on-screen.

The Show Blowout function and the Pre-Print Color Preview function behave similarly. They
only change the way the picture looks on-screen. For all other purposes (e.g. when saving),
the program works with the original source picture. Also, these functions turn off
automatically when you switch among pictures.

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Lossy JPEG Compression and Lossless
Operations
JPEG compression, defined by an ISO norm in 1990, was developed for the purpose of efficient storage ofphotographic data. Lossy compression (such as JPEG) takes advantage of the human eye's imperfection and stores
data with a certain loss of information, thanks to which it achieves much higher compression than losslesscompression does. The mentioned imperfections include for example a greater sensitivity towards large changes thanfine details, and towards brightness changes than color changes. JPEG takes advantage of this to reduce the size ofcolor information by recalculating color channels to a lower resolution (subsampling). The amount of detail preservedby JPEG is configurable, and is measured by a "quality level" on various scales; Zoner Photo Studio uses a scalefrom 1 to 100. Higher values mean less distortion and a larger output file. Smaller values mean more distortion and asmaller output file. JPEG compression settings affect only the picture's quality and file size. Its size in pixels remains
unchanged.
Choose compression levels based on how you plan for the picture to be used. Use values from 30 to 60 to maximize
size saving. Use values from 70 to 80 for usual purposes, e.g. for pictures published on the Internet. Use values from80 to 100 for desktop publishing. Although higher values give more detail, this relationship is not linear. Values above
90 give nearly imperceptible improvements while markedly increasing file sizes.
Because of rounding errors in calculations, and in some cases due to color subsampling, JPEG compression causes
quality less even when you use a quality value of 100. Therefore, JPEG compression is inappropriate for pictures that
require absolute precision (pen drawings, line drawings, etc.). However, for photographs, it is invaluable, since withproper settings, the changes to a picture are imperceptible. The JPEG Group also created an ISO standard forlossless JPEG compression, but this standard is unused. It is outdated today, since the more modern PNG standard
generally gives better results than lossless JPEG.

Lossless Operations
It is sometimes necessary to rotate pictures because they were taken in portrait orientation (with the camera turnedon its side). Every time you open, edit, and resave a picture with JPEG compression, some detail is lost. Therefore,
Zoner Photo Studio enables lossless transformations wherever possible, that is, for mirroring pictures and for rotatingthem by 90 degrees.
Lossless transformations are only possible for those JPEG images that have both dimensions divisible by a numberthat can in turn by obtained by multiplying the basic JPEG-block size (8) and the color channel sampling values (1 or2). This number determines the size of the blocks used for performing JPEG compression. The typical samplings are
2:1 in both directions, or 2:1 in the horizontal direction only. Typical block dimensions are 16 × 16, 16 × 8 and 8 × 8.
Cameras normally produce photos with dimensions that are multiples of these values, and thus for uncropped,
unresized photos, the above-mentioned transformations are always lossless in Zoner Photo Studio .
The program's behavior when these transformations are performed on photos whose sizes do not meet thisrequirement depends on a setting in Settings | Preferences | General: either the picture is cropped to meet therequirement, or the transformation is lossy rather than lossless.

Lossless transformations are only possible for operations performed from the Browser.
By its nature, work in the Editor involves decompressing a picture and then recompressing
it before saving.
To eliminate unneeded quality losses when resaving in the Editor, use high JPEG compression quality values suchas 90 to 95. To set what values are used automatically, use Settings | Preferences | General To set the value
manually while saving, use "Save As" and then the control offered during the saving process. To avoid quality loss
altogether, use a format with lossless compression, like PNG or TIFF. If you need support for EXIF picture
information, do not use PNG: it does not support it.

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The Create Module
Use the Create Module to present your photos to the world. Use the first five sections in this module to create source
materials for printing—either home printing, or orders for professional printing. Use the last section to create video
presentations in the mp4 format. Before using the Create module, we recommend that you browse to the folder withthe photos you will be presenting in your creation.
All of the printing sections have similar controls. After you pick a section, the photos from the current folder areautomatically added to a print template. You can move photos as needed by clicking and dragging them. You canalso remove all photos by clicking the button above your choice of template, add pictures manually with the mouseby dragging and dropping them from the Filmstrip, or add photos from other folders.
Multi-page printing modes (canvas prints, calendars, and print jobs) have two display modes – Pages and Preview.
To switch among these modes, use the Pages and Preview buttons in the top toolbar alongside the zoom slider andthe 1 : 1 and Zoom to Fit buttons.
In Preview mode you can use the mouse to change the position, size, and rotation of the photos you’ve placed.
Clicking a particular photo displays eight handles around it. Use them to change the photo’s size and rotation. Clickand drag the photo itself to pan the part of the photo (the crop of the photo) that gets used. Use the buttons at the top
left corner to rotate a picture by 90 degrees, automatically place photos, and confirm picture placement. When using
Preview mode in the Collage and Canvas Print sections, you can click and drag to reposition the dividers between
pictures. You can also switch among pictures using the controls at the bottom edge of the area with the print
template.
Under the Side Panel, under the symbol for the section you’re in, there is a drop-down list. Use this list to choose
your paper format for printing. Beneath this are these buttons:
Save saves the project under a name of your choice for later re-use. Saved projects can later be re-loaded ordeleted on the base page of the Create module.
Print outputs your creation on your printer at home.
Export to PDF exports your creation to PDF. In the PDF export dialog you can add various text information to the
PDF, set the JPEG quality level for the photos it contains, and have them subsampled to a selected quality level.
For future full-quality printing we recommend a resolution of 300 DPI.
Export saves each page as a separate bitmap image. Use the settings for this function to set the target folder andto define the output filenames and the counter used for them. The pictures’ size can be set either via DPI or directlyas specific physical dimensions.
Order starts the process of ordering a professionally-printed product based on your template. Your printing data issent off to a company that manufactures such products. During the process you will need to fill out a shipping andinvoicing address and make your payment in a browser window. After the product is readied, it is sent off to yourchoice of delivery address. To complete the order successfully, you must be connected to the Internet.
Warnings Before Production of Physical Products
Certain printing functions have specific restrictions caused by their future physical production that can cause
certain parts of a photo to be partially hidden. The calendars, for example, are ring-bound at the top. For photobooks, there’s the spine region, which will affect any photo printed as a two-page spread. Canvas prints have
similar areas at the edges; these are folded back over the frame in the final product. We recommend that you
don’t put any important parts of a picture in these areas!

Photo Books
Use this mode of the Create module to create professional-quality books with glossy covers containing pictures andtext of your choice.
Three basic photo book formats are available:
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After selecting one of the pre-made templates, adjust the paper settings if needed. The photobook you order must
contain no less than 24 pages and no more than 100. The first and last pages have no facing pages. There aresettings for the Paper background, such as its color, the frame width, and the grid width. You can also change
the settings for the inner frame. All changes are immediately reflected in the preview of your printed product.

Calendars
Four calendar formats are available:
A4 (8.27" × 11.7") one-monthA4 (8.27" × 11.7") two-monthA3 (11.7" × 16.5") one-monthA3 (11.7" × 16.5") two-month
Custom...
Use the Custom format to set dimensions to match the paper in your own printer attached to your computer, either
based on a list or manually.
Use the Content settings to select the calendar’s Year and Starting month, the Language (which sets the namesof the months and days), and the First day of the week. Adjust the calendar’s look using the settings for Font,
Text color, and Background color, the Background transparency, and whether or not to add a Title page. Next
are settings for showing day names and setting their Text color and forcing them intoUppercase. Special day
settings control how holidays are displayed. Use them to set holidays’ Text color and whether or not they should
be displayed in Bold text.

Canvas Prints
These are pictures printed on canvas and stretched out on a wooden frame just under 2 cm (3/4 inch) thick.
Six formats are available for canvas prints:
40 × 30 cm (16" × 12") – landscape
40 × 30 cm (16" × 12") – portrait
60 × 40 cm (24" × 16") – landscape
60 × 40 cm (24" × 16") – portrait
90 × 30 cm (36" × 12") – landscape
90 × 30 cm (36" × 12") – portrait
Use the Templates section to set the number of photos in the final canvas print. Click and drag the dividing lines tomove them. Use the Style section to set the overall look of the final product. In the first of the styles shown, thepicture continues out past the front of the canvas onto its four edges. The other styles apply various frames aroundthe front side instead.
This is followed by paper settings, similarly as for the other products above.

CollageUse this product to easily create a collage of photos fitting a predetermined format:
A4 (8.27" × 11.7") landscapeA4 (8.27" × 11.7") portrait
30 × 30 cm (12" × 12")
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Google+ – cover photo
Twitter – cover photo
Custom...
The choice of settings here is similar as for the other products above.

Print Photos
Use this section of the Create module to order photo printing or to print photos on your printer. The following sizes areavailable:
10 × 15 cm (4" × 6")
13 × 18 cm (5" × 7")
15 × 20 cm (6" × 8")
15 × 23 cm (6" × 9")
15 × 30 cm (6" × 12")20 × 30 cm (8" × 12")23 × 30 cm (9" × 12")30 × 30 cm (12" × 12")30 × 40 cm (12" × 16")30 × 45 cm (12" × 18")30 × 61 cm (12" × 24")
Custom...
Use the settings here to set the Print Layout, the Image Placement method, and the pictures’ Image Rotation.
There are also settings for the Grid Width, for printing Crop Marks to make it easy to cut photos out with scissors,
and to tell the program the Paper Color.

Contact Sheets
Use the Contact Sheets printing type to print out sheets with rows and columns of pictures. Use the settings here to
set how many rows and columns, and to set the size of the spaces between pictures. There are also settings to add
a header and footer for the sheets if needed, to add captions above/below pictures, and to set the paper color forindividual pictures. Click Save Project towards the top of the Side Panel to save contact sheets for later use.
The headers, footers, and captions can utilize the program’s feature called variable text. Use variable text to fill
captions, etc. with metadata (picture-information) text stored inside of pictures. To edit text, click Preview at the top
middle to switch into Preview mode, and then click a text box on the page.

Video
Use this function to create a video slideshow out of your pictures or videos. It can include transition effects and asoundtrack. The video is saved in an MP4 file. Its image component is stored in H.264 format, and the sound in AAC.
Use the buttons at the bottom of the Video interface to instantly add all the pictures and videos (or just the selectedones) in the current folder to the video. Another option is to add the pictures or videos by dragging and dropping themfrom the Filmstrip. Use drag-and-drop to change files’ order as well. To remove a picture from the timeline, use thepicture's right-click menu.
To adjust settings for the video overall or for how individual files are displayed, use the items in the Side Panel. The
Resolution, Quality, and FPS settings affect the whole video file – higher values mean higher quality, but also alarger file that takes longer to save. Background Color is used whenever a picture’s ratio of sides does notcorrespond to the video’s ratio of sides. Click “+” to add soundtrack files. MP3, WAV, and AAC files can be added.
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Click “ ” to delete soundtrack files. To change the order of sound files, click and drag them. The soundtrack is
automatically muted at the end of the video. Use the Timelapse Deflicker option to resolve flicker problems intimelapse videos. These problems can occur because shooting timelapse source stills in Automatic mode can leadto varied exposures for these stills. That causes an unpleasant flickering effect when the stills are played back inquick succession; this option eliminates that effect.
Use the Parameters section to fine-tune the display of individual files. Changes you make here are instantly applied
to all currently selected files. Transition effect sets the method to be used to display a file. The Pan&Zoom
settings set up a special transition method that pans and zooms pictures as they are shown, and set the effect’s
strength. Fit pictures sets whether pictures should be “letterboxed” if needed to fit the frame (Fit to Frame) or instead
stretched to fill the frame and cropped (Fill Frame).
Time per picture sets the amount of time for which each picture is shown. The first part of this setting sets a
number of seconds for which to show the picture; the second part sets a number of frames for which to show it. The
overall photo display time is the sum of the number of seconds, plus the number of frames divided by the FPS
setting. For timelapse videos, we recommend setting the number of seconds to zero and experimenting with thenumber of frames and the FPS setting. Click Fit Length to Soundtrack to set all pictures’ display times so that thevideo length matches the length of the current soundtrack.
Use the settings in the Video Clip Duration section to set the beginning and end of video playback. Click Trim Video
Clip to set the beginning and end of a video visually using sliders under the video preview. Use Volume to set thevolume for an included video clip.
Split a video clip by clicking on the scissors icon shown by the marker for the current position in the video.
Use the button at the top of the Side Panel to save a Preset based on your work in progress so that you can restore
your settings later at any time. (Your most recent settings are stored automatically.)Your video is created in the background so that you can keep working in the meantime. To see its progress, checkthe Notifications – see the bell icon towards the top right.

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Acquiring Pictures
Import
Use the Import module to copy or move pictures from a camera or memory card onto your computer. It also offers
tools and options that help you organize your photos right as you download them.
Some digital cameras support USB Mass Storage. No special driver is needed to support this connection mode,
and a camera connected in this way behaves like an ordinary disk, with its own letter. Other manufacturers do
not support this technology, but do support another called WIA (Windows Image Acquisition). While not as
convenient as USB, WIA will still get your pictures onto your computer. Some WIA cameras require that youconnect in PTP/MTP (Picture Transfer Protocol/Media Transfer Protocol) mode. For more information about
connecting your camera in PTP/MTP mode, see your camera's manual. RAW files are not always visible in PTP/
MTP mode. This depends on whether or not the camera manufacturer, or more precisely camera drivers, support
the Windows version you are using. The core rule is that whatever is visible in Windows is visible in Import.
Use Acquire | Import... in the Browser or click the tab for the Import Module to display this module, which shows
thumbnails of the pictures on your camera or memory card in the main area and import settings on the right.
To include a picture in the import, leave it selected (checkmarked). To exclude it, deselect it. To select or deselect all
pictures shown, use Select All or Deselect All. To set where the selected items are copied or moved to, use theTarget section.
The Import Module's settings are divided into the following groups:

SourceUse the box here to select the camera or other source from which pictures will be copied or moved. Click Browse to
set a folder of your choice as the Source to import from. It may be on any drive the computer can reach, including on
a CD, USB stick, removable drive, etc. To control whether or not folders beneath the selected folder are imported,
use Include subfolders. For extra convenience, turn on Show Import module automatically on attachingcamera or inserting card. For removable devices (like cameras or memory cards), you can turn on automatic
copying of pictures right after the device is turned on or a card is inserted.

Target
Use this to set the folder into which pictures are imported. Either enter the path to this folder manually, or choose an
existing folder on disk using Browse. Turn on Create subfoldersto create one or more subfolders for the imported
pictures. For a single new subfolder, enter its name. For automatically-named subfolders based on picture-taken
dates, use formatting strings to sort pictures into subfolders based on their date taken, date of import, author, and/or format. Automatically named subfolders are especially useful when importing pictures taken over multiple days. To
add formatting strings automatically, right-click in the box or click the small black-arrow button to the right of the box
and use the menu this displays. Subfolder examples:•

Vacation - all pictures are imported into a subfolder named "Vacation."•{Y}-{M}-{D} - pictures are copied into subfolders named by the date they were taken, e.g. "2012-09-30". If
pictures were taken on multiple days, they are imported into multiple subfolders, one for each day.
•{Y}\{M}\{D} - pictures are copied into a structure of subfolders organized by picture-taken date. The top folder
will contain year folders, beneath them will be month folders, and beneath those, day folders, e.g. "2012\09\30"•{YY}-{MM}-{DD} - pictures are copied into a single subfolder named after the date of import, not the date they
were taken.
To visually double-check what folder structure will be created, use the Preview. Click the individual subfolders todisplay their contents in the thumbnails listing. Use the checkboxes to control what subfolders get imported. To
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Make backup copy
Use this to make Zoner automatically create a backup copy of your imported pictures, and set its location. For thisbackup, Zoner uses the same subfolder structure as for the main copy.

Automatically Add Information
Use the controls here to make Zoner auto-tag pictures with Title, Author, Copyright, and/or Keywords information
during import. For more on this subject, read the chapter on Information.

RenameFiles can be auto-renamed during import. The settings here are the same as for Batch Rename. This section alsooffers renaming via Search and Replace.

OptionsIf your camera stores information about how it was held during a shot, use the checkbox here if desired to Rotate
images to respect EXIF orientation. Use Import non-duplicate pictures only to prevent re-importing of photos
that have already been imported. The item named Mark images as read-only makes the program give imported
photos the file property called "Read-only". This protects them from being accidentally changed or overwritten. Turn
off Load thumbnails to make import start up faster, although without thumbnails it can be hard to choose pictures
for import. However, for cameras that store thumbnails in their EXIF information, Zoner Photo Studio uses these, so
display of thumbnails is very fast.

Acquire from Scanner
Use this function to acquire pictures from scanners via the TWAIN and WIA interfaces. To access this function, use
Acquire | Acquire from Scanner... in the Manager, or File | Scan... in the Editor. (Note that when scanning fromthe Editor, the scan is always then opened directly in the Editor.)
Use the control at the top of the window to select an image source: TWAIN or WIA. For TWAIN, there is also a
Native mode option. Use it to switch your scanner to a mode where it is in control of the whole scanning process. In
this mode, the scanner composes the final scan and hands it over to the program when it is done. If you are not using
this option, then communication with the scanner takes place in advanced mode instead. In advanced mode, theprogram communicates with the scanner during the whole process and assembles the final picture itself. This method
saves memory (no temporary image is needed) and usually speeds up scanning. Advanced mode is at its mostuseful when you are working with large pictures and/or professional scanners. Normally you really only need to know
about the two modes because of their use in troubleshooting: often scanning problems disappear if you simply switch
modes here.
When not scanning from the Editor, use the bottom of the window to set what is done with scan output. The options
are Open picture in Editor, Save picture to disk and Save Pictures to PDF. When you are saving directly todisk, Target folder sets where scanned pictures are saved. To set how the program names these picture files, use
the File name control, where you can take advantage of the program's Variable Text feature and modify filenameswith a counter. Click Format to set scans' file format. During scanning to PDF, the settings for the name of theoutput PDF are the same as above. Click PDF Options to display a window for adjusting the settings of the output
PDF. During scanning to PDF, a window appears to show how many pictures have been brought in. Use the buttons
in this window at any time to finish the PDF file or cancel scanning. Each picture scanned into the PDF is stored
on its own page, and it has the dimensions that were set for it by the TWAIN or WIA interface.
In some cases Scan Images can be used to acquire pictures directly from a camera. However, this approach has
downsides.

The scanning interface hands the program only the picture itself. EXIF and similar picture
information is lost.
Also, when the picture is then saved in JPEG format, quality-harming lossy compression is
unnecessarily applied to it an extra time.
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If the camera contains pictures in JPEG format, then the TWAIN acquisition process "unpacks" those JPEGs anddelivers only the pictures inside to Zoner Photo Studio. If Zoner Photo Studio saves the pictures to JPEG withdifferent settings than the camera used (and it is almost certain that it will), then the final file will unnecessarily either
grow (without gaining any new useful information) or shrink (and lose detail in the process). For these reasons, werecommend that you use the Import function instead wherever possible.

Acquiring Pictures from the Windows Clipboard
The Acquire | From Clipboard... function opens the contents of the Windows Clipboard in the Editor.
The Clipboard is where information goes when you cut or copy it in Windows. To place part of a picture in the
Clipboard, select that part of it and then use e.g. [Ctrl+C]. That part of the picture is then placed in the Clipboard
and can be pasted elsewhere in the picture, or in a completely different picture using e.g. [Ctrl+V]. You can also
send a screenshot to the Clipboard by pressing [Print Screen].
If the Clipboard contains a picture, then you can use the Acquire | From Clipboard Browser menu item to open a
new Editor window and paste the picture into it. To then save the picture in a format of your choice, use File | Save.

Screen Capture
Use the screen capture function to take what is on the screen and place it in a file. This function is useful for
preparing pictures for computer manuals, discussing software problems with companies' support staff, and anythingelse where a picture of what's on the screen is worth 1,000 words.
Pressing [PrintScreen] in Windows will already capture the screen for you, at least in a basic way. It places theresulting "screenshot" in the Windows Clipboard. If you instead press [Alt+PrintScreen] then only the current
window will be saved. Zoner Photo Studio can save the current contents of the screen directly to a file, or open
them in the Editor. You can even capture the mouse cursor, which a normal screenshot will not achieve.
To turn screen capture mode on and off, use Acquire | Via Screen Capture... in the Browser. Before the mode
actually turns on, you will come to a window where you can adjust screen capture settings.
When screen capture mode is active, a special icon is shown in the Windows system tray (at the bottom left of thescreen, next to the clock). Right-clicking on this icon will exit screen capture mode, or resume screen capture mode
if you have paused it.

Screen Capture Mode
The Capture whole screen using PrintScrn option to capture the whole screen. Use Capture active windowusing PrintScrn to capture only the window of the program that is "active" within Windows.
(That is, the one you are "working with" at a given moment -- it will generally have a brightened title bar.) A
window can include many subwindows and toolbars. For example, even the Window taskbar includes the Start
button, some toolbars, buttons for running programs, etc. You can capture these independently if desired.
The Capture highlighted window using left-click option, you can narrow down your screen capture to a single
window or a single part of a single window. Everything that will not be captured is dimmed. The part that will be
captured looks normal (and thus is "highlighted" in comparison). During this screen capture type, pressing [Esc]temporarily turns off the dimming, which you can then turn back on by pressing [PrintScreen]. The screen capture
itself is performed by left-clicking. The right mouse button, meanwhile, is reserved for showing a menu with options
relative to the mode. Use the last option, Capture window under cursor using PrintScrn to capture windows orparts of windows without viewing highlighting of them while you are preparing to take the screenshot.

In practice, the [PrintScreen] key may be marked PrintScrn, Prnt Scrn, Prt Scr, Prt Sc, etc.

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used; Default to currently active folder fills in the folder shown in the Browser. You can also have the program Openfolder when finished. To individually name files before saving them, use the Always ask for filename option. To let the
program name them, use Name files automatically. The automatic filenames consist of a prefix of your choice and acustomizable counter. You can set the first number in the counter (Start), how many numbers to go up by each time
(Step), and a minimum number of digits to force with leading zeros if necessary (Digits).
To capture the screen at regular intervals, use Time-lapse screen capture and enter the Interval under Interval. To
exit time-lapse screen capture mode, press [Esc] and to renew it, press [PrintScreen]. During it, an animated icon
appears in the Windows system tray.

Options
You can choose whether not to Include the mouse cursor. Use the Include window shadow option to capture
the shadows that show around windows in when you have support for this active in Windows Vista or Window 7.
Force solid background color eliminates any window transparency (and shadow, outside of Windows XP),replacing it with a forced background color of your choice. This is only supported on Windows XP and Windows
Vista. You may have tried at some time to capture a window and found that noisy bits of the surroundings annoyingly
showed through in the transparent corners or in Vista's new shadows. This option is the solution to that.

Acquire Pictures from PDF
Use this function to acquire bitmap pictures stored within PDF files. The function stores JPEG-compressed picturesas JPEG files, and other pictures as PNG files.
This function only examines the part of the PDF that is needed in order to extract the pictures. Since that means that
only the PDF file's picture data storage area is check, this function can acquire pictures even from a damaged,
otherwise unusable PDF file (e.g. one badly downloaded from the Web). Because this method is used, the pictures
are extracted exactly as they are stored in the PDF, and so they can have e.g. a different rotation than the one seen
when viewing the PDF. For pictures with JPEG compression and CMYK color, you may want to use the Convert
CMYK JPEG files to RGB option, since PDF stores pictures with CMYK color in a way that is incompatible withmost programs. (Color information is stored in them in reverse.)
The PDF format can widely vary. Thus, this function has certain restrictions.

It only supports pictures within the following limits:colors: palette colors with 2, 4, 6, or 8 bits/pixel, or RGB or CMYK color.
compression: only ASCII85, LZW, ZIP, JPEG, and JPEG2000.

This function does not support:
acquiring pictures from files with copy-protected content
acquiring pictures less than 5 pixels wide or highExtract JPEGs from File
This function looks for JPEG signatures in any file you choose, and if it finds such a signature followed by valid data,then it extracts that data and saves it to an external file. Use this function to acquire JPEGs stored in a file of yourchoice, e.g. the JPEG previews from RAW files.
Use the Do not create copies of JPEG files option to prevent the function from creating duplicates of JPEG files if
you accidentally use it on them.

File Formats
You can save to the following formats:
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JPEG — only True Color and grayscale color depths are supported; compression is lossy (more compression =more loss of detail); great for photos
PNG* — a modern, universal format; has lossless ZIP compression (better than LZW); can use a palette but does
not need to; does not support EXIFTIFF* — a classical DTP format; supports the most options of all the formats (LZW/ZIP/JPEG/RLE compression or
no compression; palette or no palette; CMYK colors)
TGA — a historical format
BMP — the standard Windows image format; normally uncompressed; most picture software supports it
PCX — historical format; RLE compression; only useful for simple line drawings
JXR*, HDP – quite new formats; advanced versions of their "parent" JPEG; support 48-bit color depth*save pictures to these formats to preserve transparency.

JPEG
Progressive – the picture will be saved in such a way that it can be displayed (at reduced quality) before it is doneloading. This is only useful for the Web, and only for large pictures and/or audiences with slow connections.
JPEG compression – special lossy compression developed for efficient storage of photographs. The morecompression, the more damage to the picture (loss of detail). However, you can get quite good compression without
visible damage. For high-quality photos use 90 and above; for previews, you can use lower values like 75.
Compression damage varies depending on the nature of a picture, so if you are trying to walk the line on compression
vs. quality, be sure to preview each individual picture, not just one. For more information, see Lossy JPEG
Compression and Lossless Operations.

TIFF
This classical DTP format supports a wide range of color depths, color models, and compression types.

RAW
RAW files store unprocessed ("raw") data from camera sensors. RAW is actually not one format, but a variety offormats with this kind of data. RAW files have greater color depth than JPEG (48 bits), they do not suffer quality loss
from compression like JPEG does, and they offer you a chance to achieve better white balance, etc. than yourcamera can when it comes time to produce JPEGs or TIFFs. (You cannot just leave pictures in RAW, because RAW
files cannot be printed/published.) On the other hand, it takes time and skill to get better outputs from RAW files than
you would if you just left the work to the camera.

The RAW Format
Almost all professional cameras, and most hobby cameras, let you store pictures in the RAW format. RAW files
contain unprocessed ("raw") sensor values obtained straight from the camera sensors, and usually also a JPEG
preview. To turn the sensor values into an actual picture, you must use a converter, a special program that does the
RAW conversion work that the camera would normally do instead. The convertor interpolates the sensor values("demosaics" them), performs white balancing, and sets the picture's saturation, contrast, brightness, andsharpness.
One advantage of acquiring pictures from RAW is that it lets you "do the camera's work better than the camera."
Another is that you are working with a picture that has not yet suffered lossy JPEG compression even once. A third
is that RAW files generally contain more than just the 8 bits of color depth that JPEG supports.
However, work with RAW has its downsides as well. First, while it is usually discussed as if it were a single format,
each RAW file actually contains one out of many "real" formats—RAW "subformats"—on the inside. These vary not
only among manufacturers, but even sometimes among individual camera models. Furthermore, no manufacturer todate has publicly released documentation for "its" RAW format. No documentation means, among other things, noway to write to the format, so RAW is read-only.

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Besides the formats of individual camera manufacturers, Zoner Photo Studio also supports DNG (Digital Negative),
Adobe's universal RAW format. Meanwhile, Adobe has created a program, named Adobe DNG Converter, to convert
between the individual RAW subformats and DNG. This program can be downloaded from their website for free. When
you install this converter and set the path to it in Zoner's Preferences, and enable its use, you gain the ability todirectly process every RAW file the Converter supports. If the Converter is up to date, this means practically every
RAW file. You can then use the RAW module with its numerous settings to develop photos from all RAW files, withthe photos being converted to DNG in the background as an intermediate step with no action needed from you.
Adobe periodically updates Adobe DNG Converter so that it can support formats from the latest camera models.

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Edits, Effects, and Enhancements
The program's editing windows are available from both the Editor and the Browser. Unlike the Editor, the Browser
enables batch editing—editing of multiple photos at once. If you select multiple files and visit an editing window in
the Browser, you are making a batch edit.
If not even one file is selected, then you cannot perform direct operations (rotation and flipping), but the ones that leadto an editing window are still available—in this case, they apply to every file in the current folder.

Edits you make in the Browser are always irreversible: the change is saved to file
immediately!
So here as always: edit copies of your pictures, not the originals.

The Universal Interface for Editing Functions
Zoner displays most editing functions in one single interface, that is, one single way of presenting controls to you.
This interface is presented in one of two fundamentally-different ways, depending on which of the program's modules(main parts) you are using when you access a function. When you access it from the Manager, this interface isshown via a window. When you access it from the Editor, the interface "loses" its preview areas (your changes arepreviewed right inside the picture), and it is displayed in the Side Panel.

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The Filter Window in the Browser
The top part of the window contains a toolbar with buttons for changing the preview's zoom level and for showing/hiding a histogram, over/underexposure ("blowout") highlighting, and file information, as well as for changing thepreview layout. Histogram displays can be moved around freely within previews.
Image previews occupy most of the filter window. By default, both "before" and "after" previews are displayed side byside, but you can also choose a vertical layout, or hide the "before" or "after" preview. Click the mouse wheel totemporarily show the contents of one preview within the other preview.
When a picture's preview is zoomed in far enough that it does not fit inside its preview pane, click and drag it to set
which part of it is shown. The sizes of the preview panes change depending on the size of the window. That is,
resizing the window also resizes the previews.
When a filter window includes one or more eyedropper buttons, you can click an eyedropper button and then select acolor from inside a preview.
If slow refreshing of the previews is slowing down your work, then turn off Automatic Preview (using the "lock"button) and then manually refresh preview panes as needed by clicking Preview. The "Outdated Preview" text
displayed over a preview pane with a "stale" preview disappears as soon as you do a manual refresh.
When you leave any filter window, its size is stored, as well as the settings for blowout and histogram display and forAutomatic Preview. Thus the "universal" parts of the window will look the same on your next visit. The remaining
settings are stored separately for each editing filter.

Using Filters from the Editor
The Editor automatically previews the results of editing filters you use, right inside the picture. In this previewing
mode, the Editor is partially blocked—you can only resize the Editor, change its display (the zoom level and blowout
and histogram displays), and edit the selection mask.
All of a given filter's options are shown in the Side Panel. The bottom of the Panel contains Apply and Cancel
buttons. Click these to make the filter's effect permanent, or to cancel out of it. Click the button next to these two toquickly show how the picture looks without the filter.

Batch Operations
During batch operations (editing of more than one file at a time), the filter window contains a column on the left with
thumbnails for all of the files that the edit will affect. You can browse among these thumbnails so as to "test" how theedit in question affects them. To remove a picture from the list of pictures to process, click its thumbnail and thenclick Remove. To apply an edit to the active picture only, click Apply. To apply it to all pictures in the batch, click
Apply to All. Click Cancel to cancel the whole batch operation.

Saving Filter Settings as Presets
You can save the settings for any filter as a preset with a name of your choice and later reload that preset (that set ofsettings). Additionally, whenever you apply an edit, the settings you use are automatically saved to a preset named<Last used>. The settings stored in the <Last used> preset are automatically loaded in the next time you use thegiven editing window. Use Save Preset and Delete to create and manage presets. You can have as many as you
wish. Click Default Preset to quickly load the preset named <Default>, which contains the given filter's "factory
settings."
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Rotation and Flipping
Rotating Left, Right, or by 180°
In the Browser, select all the pictures to rotate and use Edit | Rotate Left [Ctrl+L], Rotate Right [Ctrl+R] or Rotate& Flip | Rotate by 180 °. The edit is made immediately to all selected pictures. When you use this function from theBrowser on JPEG images, it is, when possible, lossless. The menu items for this function are the same in the Editor
as in the Browser.

Specific Rotation
In the Browser, select the pictures to be rotated to a specific angle and use Edit | Rotate & Flip | SpecificRotation... [Ctrl+Shift+R]. The menu item for this function is the same in the Editor as in the Browser.
You can set which Background color is used to fill out the empty spaces in the corners after you rotate.

Flipping Pictures
To flip (mirror) a picture in either the Browser or Editor, use Edit | Rotate & Flip | Flip Horizontally or Flip
Vertically. When you use this function from the Browser on JPEG images, it is, when possible, lossless.

Adjusting Rotation via EXIF
Some digital cameras have a special sensor that can detect the camera’s orientation during a shot and store thisdirectly inside of a photo. In certain PC programs, the photo is then shown unrotated. In Zoner Photo Studio, thephotograph is rotated based on this flag automatically. To ensure the photos are correctly rotated in every program,select them in the Browser and use the Edit | Rotate and Flip | Adjust Rotation via EXIF menu item. Wheneverpossible, this operation is lossless.

Rotating to an Orientation
Use this function to rotate a picture or pictures to an orientation - either landscape or portrait. You can choose thedirection of the rotation. This function is available in the Browser under Edit | Rotate & Flip | Rotate to
Orientation.... Whenever possible, this operation is lossless.

Setting the EXIF Orientation Flag
This function is available in the Browser under Edit | Rotate & Flip | Set EXIF Orientation Flag... Use it to change
the rotation flag that advanced digital cameras record in pictures' EXIF information. This function does not change thepicture itself.

ResizeUse this function to set a picture's size in pixels. You can also use it to set a physical size if you first tell the
program a desired number of dots per inch (DPI) for the picture.
To resize a picture, use Edit | Resize... [Ctrl+E].
To set the Width and Height to resize to, enter them in the box. Normally they are set in pixels, but if needed, use
the controls to set them in percent, centimeters, millimeters, or inches instead. Digital pictures' actual dimensions
are always in pixels, so sizes in centimeters, millimeters, or inches are relative to a dots per inch (DPI) value. Use
the DPI control to set this value. It tells printers, etc. how many pixels should be used per inch during printing,display, etc. The appropriate DPI setting to use depends on how the resized picture will be used. For screen display,
96 DPI is fine. For print, at least 150 is recommended. The best choice of DPI also depends on specifics like printerquality, paper quality, etc.
Leave the Keep proportions option on to make the program automatically set one dimension (width/height) basedon your value for the other one, so that the picture isn't distorted. To enter Width and Height independently, turn thisoption off. Sharpen reduces the harm caused by the loss of information involved in shrinking a picture. (Major
shrinking can cause a loss of detail, and mild sharpening can lessen this problem.) To set the method used forresizing, use Method.

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If multiple pictures are selected, you can restrict the function so it only shrinks or only stretches pictures, using thecontrol named Mode.
Save image only saves disk space by stripping away any EXIF or other picture information that may be in the
resized pictures.

Resampling Methods
There are very many ways to resample a digital picture—to redraw it using more or fewer pixels, either permanently orjust on-screen. These methods differ in how they decide on values for the pixels in the new version of the picture, andin how many pixels in the original are analyzed for such decisions. There is no "silver bullet" - each method has its
advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on what is being resampled, and why.
One way in which resampling methods differ is the "sharpness" of the output picture. When you are shrinking
pictures, some methods, like bicubic and supersampling, lead to a mildly blurry image. Thus it is a good idea tomildly sharpen after resampling in such cases.
Nearest neighbor - the simplest and fastest method; it does not use any interpolation, but rather evaluates eachof the original's pixels on their own; a bad choice for photos, but irreplaceable for technical drawings with hairlines.
Bilinear - the simplest kind of interpolation; uses the relative sum of the four nearest pixels; fast and generally
good when shrinking a picture.
Bicubic - relatively advanced interpolation; uses the 16 nearest pixels; interpolates values along a cubic curve;
suitable for both stretching and shrinking (if the picture is sharpened afterwards).
Hermite - another type of interpolated curve; uses the four nearest neighboring pixels.
Bell - gives a very "soft" image; useful for pictures with noise.
Mitchell - an excellent combination of speed and quality; uses the 16 nearest pixels; has a "self-sharpening"
effect.
Lanczos - processor-intensive; pixels are interpolated using a special curve simulating the real dissemination of
information; 36 pixels from the original are used per output pixel; has a strong "self-sharpening effect"; most usefulwhen stretching pictures; can cause unaesthetic grid-like artifacts during shrinking due to the sharpening effect.
Supersampling - designed only for shrinking pictures; uses the weighted average of all the pixels that are lost
during shrinking. Generally gives the best results for photos, because it works with all pixels in a photo. Can sufferfrom unsharpness, but this can be solved by mild sharpening afterwards.

Content-aware Resize
Use this function to make the program resize a picture by adding/removing rectangular areas in a "content-aware"
way. Content-aware resizing goes easy on content-filled, "important" parts of the picture, while deforming harder-tonotice, "unimportant" parts. This is useful when you want to change a picture's ratio of sides without having to either
deform it or perform a crop that may remove important parts. Content-aware resizing resizes the picture and canchange its overall ratio of sides, while leaving its important parts untouched.
To use content-aware resizing, go to Edit | Content-aware Resize [Ctrl+Shift+E].
Set a width and height and the program will analyze the picture to find its important regions, the ones that should
be preserved. It then uses that analysis as a basis for choosing rectangles to add to/remove from the picture to bringit to the desired size. Quality sets the speed and precision of this analysis.
Click Mark Regions... to "inform" the program about which areas (e.g. faces or signs) should definitely keep their
original proportions, and ones that may freely be distorted (e.g. skies or unbroken backgrounds), if auto-detection
doesn't treat them properly.
Note that the program treats these regions only as very strong suggestions, not as an iron rule. Thus in extreme
cases, when other unimportant areas have "run out," the above-mentioned deformation rectangles can leadthrough even the areas you have marked as important.

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Canvas Size
This function resizes a picture by cropping it or adding a colored border.
To reach this function, use Edit | Canvas Size [Ctrl+W].
If the Relative is not checked, then the Width and Height values determine the picture's size. To set the new size
via the increase/decrease in size, rather than setting the new size directly, use the Relative option. (To set a
decrease in size, use a negative value.) To set where to "anchor" the whole operation, use the Image alignment
control. Increasing the canvas size adds a border around the picture. Click Color to set its color using the Windows
color picking window. Click the eyedropper to set the color by clicking a color in the picture.

Canvas and Borders
Use this mode to give a picture a frame made up of up to three rectangles with a color of your choice, in several
modes:
Use the Edit | Canvas and Borders [Ctrl+Shift+B]. menu item in both the Browser and the Editor for this.

Choosing a Mode
The Frame mode increases the size of the picture by the size of the frames, and thus always preserves all picture
data. The Preserve size mode covers the original picture with the frames on all sides, and thus preserves the original
size of the picture. The Preserve ratio option covers the original picture with the frames in such a way as to preserve
the original ratio of sides.

Entry Method and Units
When you use the Canvas and borders entry mode, you can add an inner or outer frame neighboring the border you
set. The width of these frames may never be larger than that of the border. If you set a larger width, the border will
adjust automatically. If you choose Three lines, then you will enter three lines with various widths that will surroundthe picture.
You can enter their widths directly as pixels, or as relatively, in percent. Entering them in relative terms is very usefulwhen you are doing batch work, not all photos have the same size (e.g. due to cropping), and you want the frames tohave a unified look.
When you check the Symmetrical option, you will be working directly with the width for one side only; the othersides will be calculated automatically.

Specific Crop
Use this to crop whole batches of pictures at once using predefined criteria.
To reach this window from the Editor or Browser, use Edit | Specific Crop... [Ctrl+Shift+W]
Use the Height and Width fields to set the crop size in pixels. Use the square of dots to anchor the crop to acorner, side, or the middle. Use Preserve ratio to ensure that the cropped version of each picture will have the sameratio of sides as the original did.
Use the Ratio of Sides dropdown to set the crop to a fixed size in pixels or a fixed ratio of sides. Click Swap
Values (shown between the two sizes or ratios) to swap the two values, switching the crop from Portrait toLandscape or vice-versa.

Place Text
The most common use for the Place Text function is adding a copyright watermark to a photo, or adding descriptive
text near one of its edges.
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transparency. You can set the text's size either absolutely (in pixels) or relatively (in percent of the picture's size).
Besides static, fixed text, you can make use of the program's Variable Text feature in this window. This featureenables you to make use of information about a picture, so you can e.g. store the time a photo was taken inside thephoto. If you have never worked with Variable Text before, we strongly recommend that you read the Variable Text
topic before beginning work with it.

Once you have added text to a picture and saved that picture, the change is irreversible—
the text cannot be changed or removed afterwards.

Place Image
This function is most often used to place a small logo (a watermark) or the photographer's signature in a photo.
To reach this function, use Edit | Place Image [Ctrl+Shift+T] in the Browser or Editor.
In the window, you choose which picture to place, its Position, its Rotation, its Indentation away from its baseposition, whether or not to Use transparency stored in overlaid image (relevant when placing GIF and PNG
pictures) and if desired an overall Transparency. There is also a Use as watermark option via which you can use
the placed image as a mask with a shadow; use the Light source control to affect the shadow's direction.
If the picture is too large, then you can use the If needed, shrink overlay to fit option, or Resample it to a certain
percentage of its original size.

Change Color Depth
Use this command to convert a picture between 48-bit color (3 × 16 bits) and classical 24-bit color (3 × 8 bits). You
can also use it to convert pictures to 8-bit or 16-bit color.
A 48-bit color depth can express vastly more colors than 24 bits: 224 = 16,777,216 different colors, while 248 =
281,474,976,710,656 colors. Although this difference is not visible to the human eye (the human eye can distinguish"only" about 10 million colors), it does manifest when a picture undergoes digital processing, because many moredetails are available.
For example, during major brightening of a strongly underexposed photograph, formerly "almost black" areas may
flow into a single color. This is caused by the fact that only a narrow portion of the histogram was used in the original
picture. If, however, the source picture is stored at a 48-bit color depth, then there is a much higher chance that eventhis reduced portion of the histogram will be wide enough for the pixels in this area to have differing values, so thatfiner color transitions remain after brightening.
The disadvantages of 48-bit color depth are larger file sizes, the limited number of programs that support this color
depth, and a restricted choice of formats. (Within Zoner Photo Studio, you can only save with 48-bit color depth do
the TIFF, PNG, and HDP formats—the JPEG format does not support 48-bit color depth.)

ICC Profiles
Assigning an ICC profile
Pictures in the JPEG and TIFF formats can contain an ICC profile. An ICC profile is a description of how to interpretthe colors in a picture. Different output devices (like a screen, or a printer) store colors in different ways, typical forthe given device. Storing an ICC profile enables all devices that you work with to show your picture in exactly thesame way, as long as they support color management and they are correctly calibrated. If a picture has no ICC
profile, you can assign one to it, using Edit | Other | Assign ICC Profile... By assigning profiles to pictures, you
ensure that pictures taken in a color space other than sRGB will be interpreted correctly. After you choose a profile,
you can set how the operation will treat pictures that already have an ICC profile. If the Overwrite existing profiles
option is checked, then old profiles will be overwritten by new ones. Adding a profile does not transform the colors
inside the picture data itself.
This function depends on color management being active in the Color Management section of the program
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Convert to Profile
This function converts picture data to the color space of the selected profile using the method selected underReproduction. The Perceptual method is offered at first, and is Zoner's recommendation. When you perform this editin the Editor and then save the picture, the changes are irreversible.

In the Browser, meanwhile, this is like all other edits always irreversible: the change issaved to file immediately!
So here as always: edit copies of your pictures, not the originals.
This function depends on color management being active in the Color Management section of the program
preferences.

Convert FileUse this function to batch-convert picture files to another format.
A typical example is conversion of photos that you have scanned in in TIFF format into JPEG files for use on theWeb. If your pictures are stored in JPEG format and you wish to do a large number of edits on them, and it isimpractical to make these changes using the Batch Filter or during a single Editor session, then it can be a goodidea to convert them to TIFF before the changes. The TIFF format is very useful when you are going to edit
pictures, because you can save and re-save pictures to TIFF without any loss of quality, and you can use ahigher color depth than in JPEG.
Use Edit | Convert File Format [Ctrl+Shift+F] in the Browser to reach this window. It is unavailable in the Editor(but see below).
There is a drop-down menu on the left side of the window where you can choose what format to convert to. Dependingon that format, other settings are displayed at the bottom, such as compression type and color depth.

The right side of the window contains three menus for managing color conversion and one controlling how picture
information will be saved.
The Image information menu sets whether all picture information, EXIF information only, EXIF information only
minus a thumbnail (preview), or no picture information will be saved. If you use any setting other than "All" here, thepicture and the color profile will automatically be converted to sRGB.
If the picture is open in the Editor, you can save it in any of format that you could convert it to. To do so, use File |Save As... [Ctrl+Shift+S]. In this window, you can both choose a format and give the file a new name and move it toa new path (folder).

Convert to Web JPEG
Use this function to save a picture in JPEG format with an output file size of your choice.
To set your desired output Size in kilobytes, use the slider or enter it numerically. You can also set limits for thecompression quality and other JPEG compression settings—sampling, the progressive format, and optimized
encoding.
You can also convert the picture to grayscale and choose whether or not to save space by omitting EXIF text
information, a preview, and the ICC color profile from the picture.

Quick Filter
Use the Batch Filter to make multiple edits at once to one or more pictures. Use it in the Editor to make them to asingle picture, or in the Manager to make them to multiple pictures.
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that is, functions for editing pictures and processing picture files. (File-related filters are only available when you've
opened the Batch Filter from the Manager.)Thus you can, for example, use a single visit to the Batch Filter to shrink a picture, sharpen it, brighten it, give it
a white border and a black frame around the border, add a copyright watermark, and then rename it. The
renaming filter offers the same settings that are available when you use the function named Batch Rename.
The right side of the window shows settings for the individual filters, grouped together into sections. The title bar ofeach section includes a checkbox. Use that checkbox to include the section or exclude it. The title bars also each
include a button for restoring default settings and a button for displaying a menu. This menu contains commands forremoving the given filter, re-ordering filters, and adding a new filter. At the right end of each filter's title bar is an arrow.
Click it to collapse or expand the whole filter. The top right of the Batch filter window has buttons for adding andremoving filters.
Use the Save button at the bottom right to save Presets for the Batch Filter under names of your choice. To quickly
run the Batch Filter with a saved preset of your choice, use Edit | Apply Batch Filter.
Two of the filters, Convert File and Renaming, have a few restrictions as a natural result of what they do: each ofthese filters can be used only once, they can only be used in the order Convert, Rename, and they must be the lastfilters in order. These filters do not make sense to use from the Editor, so they are ignored if you have called up the
Batch Filter from there. There are no restrictions on the output path you can use, and relative paths such as "..
\backup" are allowed. If the path in question does not exist, it will be created.
You can apply edits to one picture at a time, or apply them all at once to all the pictures in the batch. (The column on
the left of the window lists the pictures in the batch.)
For more information on the individual edits offered here, see the topics concerning them.

Enhancing Pictures
Quick FixThis function automatically fixes a picture based on its available picture information and on an analysis of the picture.
It does not interfere in matters of exposure level. This function is good for quick batch edits.
You can reach it via Edit | Adjust | Quick Fix [Ctrl+0] in the Browser, and via Adjust | Quick Fix in the Editor.
There are no settings for this function. It performs automatic contrast stretching, local contrast enhancement (and insome cases sharpening), saturation editing, and noise reduction with the help of the picture's EXIF information.

LevelsThe Levels tool is an important tool for correcting the brightness levels in a picture. You can use this function to, forexample, change a picture's "black point" and "white point" using a histogram. You can also use it to lighten or
darken the midtones of a picture—to perform gamma correction.
To reach this window, use Edit | Adjust | Levels [Shift+L] in the Browser, or Adjust | Levels in the Editor.
Besides manual editing, you can also use it for automatic edits via the window's Automatically correct colors
option. In the left part of the window, you can see a histogram preview and settings for manual edits. The Channelmenu lets you choose which color channel to edit. RGB means the brightness channel. You can configure all thesesettings separately for each channel. The most basic settings when adjusting levels are the input and output levels
and the gamma-correction coefficient. The gamma correction slider is located between the input values and output
values. It determines colors' brightness in the midtones. All five values can be entered either directly using a numberin the corresponding field, or visually, by clicking and dragging the corresponding triangle under the histogram and thebrightness scale.
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generally gives the most useful white and black points.
When you turn on automatic mode, input levels for the individual channels are set automatically. When you use
Automatic contrast, they are set the same for all channels. When you use Automatic levels, they are set for eachchannel independently. Automatic contrast "stretches" the brightness of the whole photograph to the maximum
values, while Automatic levels "stretches" individual colors separately, and thus can change the picture's tinting. You
can sometimes take advantage of this to remove tinting from a picture. The Target colors and cutoffs controls sets
what colors to map the lightest and darkest areas to. The cutoffs aspect of it sets how much of the histogram should
be cut off on the left and the right to ensure that the actual effective white and black points are used, rather than oneof a few unrepresentative pixels that lie beyond them.

CurvesLike Levels, curves serve for correcting tone range and color balance.
They will help you to perfect pictures' tone range and a exposure, especially if they were taken under extreme
conditions.
You can call up this function using Edit | Adjust | Curves [Shift+C] in the Browser menu or Adjust | Curves in the
Editor menu.
Work with curves is more demanding than work with levels. On the other hand, it lets you very precisely set theindividual color channels in the picture. While the Levels filter only lets you affect the range of input and output levels
and gamma correction, in the Curves filter, you can set the shape of the conversion function (shown as a curve for thesake of visualization) almost at will. The horizontal axis shows input values. The vertical axis shows output values.
The Channel menu lets you choose which color channel to edit. RGB means the brightness channel. You canconfigure all these settings separately for each channel. To get a better idea of how the individual RGB channels are
responding, it can be good to turn on Show color elements. The Linear option determines whether an interpolation
curve should link the nodes you add to the curve, or a series of straight lines should link them instead.
Click Select pixel in image if you would like to use a pixel from the picture itself to set the color for the current
node. If you hold down [Shift] at the same time, a node with this color will be added to the curve.
You can easily edit the curve using the mouse. Clicking anywhere on the curve between the red endpoints will add a
new node to the curve. You can click any node on the curve to then move it to another position, using either drag-anddrop, the arrow keys, or direct editing via the Input and Output fields. If you right-click on a node, you can delete that
node. You can also select a node by left-clicking it and then pressing [Del]. You can keep on deleting nodes until the
only two nodes left are the red endpoints. Click Erase Curve to restore the original "curve" for the selected Channel.
That curve is formed simply by a straight line leading from the top left to the bottom right. If the curve is erased for allcolor channels, then the picture will stay unchanged. Clicking Automatic Contrast or Automatic Levels will erase
the current curves within the R, G, and B channels and set up new ones corresponding to each button's purpose. To
control the sensitivity of these automatic settings, use the Cropping controls (separate for Lights and Shadows).

Tips
Shifting the endpoints will change the input values for the white point and black point, just as if you were using theLevels function.
Moving the nodes horizontally to the positions where the histogram for the RGB channel "begins" and "ends" willcause an effect similar to using Automatic Contrast within the Levels filter: the brightness of the whole photo will be"stretched" to the maximum values.
Moving the nodes horizontally to the positions where the histogram for the R, G, or B channel "starts" or "ends"
causes an effect similar to when you are using Automatic Levels: the individual color channels throughout the photowill be "stretched" to their maximum values. If each channel is edited using a different curve, then the picture's
tinting will change.
If you wish to influence shadows, create and move nodes on the left sides. If you wish to influence lights, work on
the right side.
Moving a node you have created down on the curve or to the right will darken a part of the tones in the picture.
Moving a node up or to the left lightens part of the tones in the picture.
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But to get the most contrast for a photo, create an S-curve. This will slightly darken part of the midtones, while"stretching out" the remaining midtones and light tones.
In practice, using the Curves tool well simply requires experience. There are no particular settings that can berecommended universally, because each photo has different tonal characteristics and requires specific edits. To gain
the experience mentioned above, you mainly need to keep using the Curves window and pay a close eye to thepreview pane and to changes in the histogram.

Enhance Colors
Use this function to adjust a picture's colors, brightness, and contrast. To call up this function, use Edit | Adjust |Enhance Colors... [Ctrl+1] in the Manager or use Adjust | Enhance Colors... in the Editor.
This function offers: controls for editing the R, G, and B color channels, hue, saturation, vibrance, and lightness, andbrightness and contrast, as well as a gamma correction control.
The Mode (Normal, Lights Online, Shadows Only) and Preserve colors controls affect gamma correction only.
Preserve colors ensures that colors' hues will not change even after major brightening, so that the picture will notstart to look "washed-out." During edits to color channels, this option ensures that the picture's overall brightness will
be preserved.
This window also contains a function for Automatic Contrast.

Enhance Color Temperature
You can use this function to manually correct pictures that are suffering from tinting due to bad white balancesettings during picture-taking.
To reach this window, use Edit | Adjust | Adjust Color Temperature… [Ctrl+2] in the Browser window, or Adjust |Adjust Color Temperature… in the Editor menu. You can define the color temperature by setting a neutral color orby entering a color temperature.
By manually setting a neutral color lets you set a "gray" point. This is a pixel that should have no tinting after theedit. You cannot use for this purpose a point suffering from maximum blowout (a pure white pixel), because no color
shift can be determined on the basis of pure white.
You can set a lighting temperature using two sliders. The first slider is for shifting colors based on the picture's
current lighting temperature, from blue to yellow. The second slider is for correction from green to purple.

Enhance Exposure
Use this function to adjust a picture's brightness and contrast.
To access it, use Edit | Adjust | Enhance Exposure... [Ctrl+3] in the Manager or Adjust | Enhance Exposure... in
the Editor.
Exposure - use this to correct exposure by up to +/-3 EV.
Contrast - use this to control the picture's overall contrast.
Lights - use this to darken light areas in the picture.
Shadows - use this to lightens dark areas in the picture.
White point - tones brighter than this level are converted to pure white.
Black point - tones darker than this level are converted to pure black.
Clarity - use this to change local contrast at contours in the picture.

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Sharpen
This function can at least partially repair a picture that suffers from blurring. It is a good idea to use this function after
resizing a picture.
To reach this function, use Adjust | Sharpen... [Ctrl+5] to sharpen pictures. The most important option in thiswindow is the sharpening type.
Simple sharpening is a quick way to sharpen fine details in certain situations such as after you have shrunk apicture. For this type, you can choose an effect strength and whether or not to use the Brightness method.
Unsharp mask has its roots in film-camera technology. It sharpens only highly visible edges and borders. For thistype, you can choose an effect strength, a radius, and a threshold, and toggle the Brightness method.
Gaussian sharpening is a method for removing Gaussian blur. For this method, you can choose an effectstrength, a radius, and noise suppression.
Overall sharpening gets rid of overall blur in a picture. For this method, you can choose an effect strength, aradius, and noise suppression.
Soft sharpening sharpens a picture's fine details while suppressing rough structures, making it useful for
sharpening e.g. portraits. You can adjust the effect strength.
The Brightness Method setting means that the filter will only be applied to the picture's Lightness element within the
HSL color model. This prevents the shifts in color that can otherwise happen around borders when you are sharpening
strongly.

Differences Among Sharpening Methods
The various sharpening methods have considerably varying effects on pictures. While the Unsharp mask sharpens
mainly highly visible edges in a picture, the other methods always sharpen the whole picture, thus emphasizing alldetails. In practice this means that in low-quality photos - whether they suffer from noise or excessive compression the Unsharp Mask is the most advantageous of the methods, since the remaining ones would overly emphasize theless attractive parts of the picture.
Use the unsharp mask method to eliminate unsharpness that arose while taking the picture, scanning, etc. Thismethod is very appropriate for photographs because it uses the details of the picture itself for its decisions. The basic
idea behind this method is simple. A blurred copy of the original picture is created, and then that copy is "subtracted"
from the original. The new copy that results from this has highlighted edges. This new copy is then "added into" theoriginal. The Radius sets how much the mask is blurred, so its size is very important. Too high a value will cause
oversharpening, which will show up as bright (or even shining) contours around any edges in the picture. The
Threshold determines how different two brightness values should be before they are treated as an edge. A value of 0means that the effect will be used on all pixels in the picture. If the effect overly emphasizes noise, then werecommend that you experiment with values in the range from 2 to 20.
The Gaussian sharpening and Overall sharpening methods are designed to remove concrete types of blurringusing what is called a convolution matrix. The Overall type can rescue pictures damaged by unsharpness during
picture-taking itself. Gaussian sharpening helps pictures that became blurred during processing - e.g. during
shrinking. Radius sets how much of each pixel's surroundings will be included in calculations. A larger radius will be
subjectively perceived as a much stronger sharpening effect. The Noise suppression can prevent oversharpening
without preventing sufficient sharpening.
When you shrink a picture using supersampling, this causes overall blurring, not Gaussian, but this is somewhatof an exception. Blurring that arises during picture-taking tends to lie on the border between Gaussian and overall
blurring.

Blur
This function offers several methods for blurring photographs, both to enhance them photographically and for artistic
purposes.
To reach this window, use Edit | Adjust | Blur… [Ctrl+6] in the Browser, or Adjust | Blur… in the Editor.

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The filter offers six types of blurring: Fine, Gaussian, Overall, Directional, Rotational, and Zoom. The first type is goodfor creating weak blurring. For a stronger effect, use Gaussian or Overall. The other blurring types have some extra
settings. For Directional blurring, you can set the Direction. For Rotational and Zoom blurring, you can set the X andY Center of the blurring. (You can also select the center directly from the picture, using an eyedropper.) The firstslider, Strength, is shared by all blurring types. The High quality option increases the precision of calculations at
the price of increased time for calculating the blurring.

Remove NoiseTo remove noise from a photograph, use Edit | Adjust | Remove Noise... [Ctrl+Shift+N]. Zoner Photo Studio's noise
removal function can be used to remove both the noise typical for long exposure times (sometimes called "hot pixels"
noise; called "salt and pepper" in the program) and additive noise. Both of these removal types can also be applied at
the same time.
Remove "salt and pepper" noise - for this type of noise reduction there is just one control; use it to set the Noisetype in the picture.
Remove additive noise - with default settings, when you are removing additive noise, you can use the Brightness
and Colors sliders to set the noise reduction level independently for the picture's brightness and color elements.

Advanced
Use Advanced to display the more advanced noise-reduction controls, intended for experienced users.
For better, though slower, noise reduction, or vice-versa, use the Quality setting.
Besides making global changes using the Brightness and Colors sliders, you can also selectively adjust the amountof noise reduction for individual colors or image brightness levels. For this, use the controls under Local correction,by color and Local correction, by brightness. The core of each of these controls is a color or brightness gradient,beneath a curve with several nodes. Drag the nodes to reshape the curve and thus increase/decrease noise reduction
for individual colors/brightness levels. Click anywhere on the curve between existing nodes to add a new node. To
delete a node, press [Del]. Use the eyedropper to select a color or brightness level directly from the picture.
Very strong noise in a picture often creates distracting color stains that persist even after noise reduction. Use Color
stain removal to eliminate this problem. Choose the intensity of color stain removal carefully. Too much intensity
leads to excessive loss of detail in the image.
To reduce noise smartly, so that noise is removed as much as possible, but only a few details are lost, the program
must determine the picture's noise level correctly. Therefore, a rather detailed noise analysis is performed before
noise reduction starts. However, in some cases this analysis can still guess the noise intensity level incorrectly,
causing either incomplete or overly-aggressive noise reduction. In such cases, under Image noise intensity ,change the detection method to Set manually and adjust the detected noise intensity. It can be adjusted
independently for colors and brightness. We recommend setting both noise reduction sliders to 100% and adjusting
the noise intensity while watching the preview, until the intensity is at a level where noise reduction is strong, but lossof image detail is still acceptably low. Then put the noise reduction level sliders back to the values you want.

Just after you call up the noise reduction filter, it analyzes the noise in the picture and thenruns noise reduction. This process can take a long time on large images. However,changing most settings does not demand running the process again, and so is significantly
faster.

Fix Chromatic Aberration
To repair photos with this defect, use Edit | Adjust | Chromatic Aberration... [Ctrl+Shift+A] in the Browser. In the
Editor, use Adjust | Chromatic Aberration....

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Chromatic aberration can have any of several causes; one cause is different refraction of rays of light withdifferent wavelengths. Its effect in pictures is to give places with high contrast a purple, or occasionally green or
blue, blurred contour. Zoner Photo Studio provides an easy-to-use tool for remedying this defect.
When there is no chromatic aberration in the center of a picture and it becomes gradually stronger towards theedges, you can fix it using the "Red-green" and "Blue-yellow" sliders. By using these to "push" the color channels
towards each other, you will fix the defect.
But if the chromatic aberration manifests itself in another way or if the mentioned controls are not enough to suppress
it, you can turn on the Desaturate a particular color controls. These let you selectively suppress colors in the
picture, with a tolerance level of your choice.

Barrel distortion
You can fix photos suffering from barrel or pincushion distortion using Edit | Adjust | Barrel Distortion[Ctrl+Shift+D].
Barrel and pincushion distortion are frequent lens defects that have unpleasant effects on photographs of architecture
and objects with straight edges. Use the slider here to set how strongly the photo's contents should be "pushed in" or"pushed out." When correcting barrel distortion, the Auto-crop option here is quite useful. You can set a quality
level for this function; this sets what algorithm is used by the function. The low-quality but fast Nearest neighbormethod is good while seeking the right amount of correction to use. The high-quality but slow Bicubic method isbest once you are ready to apply the correction.

You should remove barrel or pincushion distortion from a picture before making any otheredits to it(and especially before cropping it or correcting collinearity or perspective).

Vignetting
To remove vignetting from a picture or add vignetting, use Edit | Adjust | Vignetting… [Ctrl+Shift+V] in the Browser
or Adjust | Vignetting… in the Editor.
Vignetting is uneven exposure throughout a photo, with darkening towards the corners. Typical causes ofvignetting are add-on lenses and filters for wide-angle lenses, and low-quality lenses.
When Automatic mask mode is active, the brightness correction mask is created automatically based on the
picture.
When it is off, the mask is created based on the Radius setting, which sets how quickly the picture darkens towards
the corner. This second antivignetting mode is only useful for uncropped pictures, because it always places thecenter of the correction in the center of the picture. Use the Effect strength slider to set the amount of vignetting to
add or remove. (To add vignetting, use negative values.)Line Spacing
This window helps you fix problems surrounding interlacing, a common phenomenon in pictures obtained from video.
Digital cameras and other video equipment work, for historical reasons, with interlaced pictures. Such picture
contain two "fields"—half-pictures—that can each come from different scenes, especially if the source video
sequence contained a large amount of motion. The first field is stored in the odd rows of the picture; the second
field is stored in the even ones. lf the scene is static, without movement, then the picture has full resolution, andno deinterlacing is needed. (The same applies for pictures taken from classical film video, which also usuallycontains two fields in each picture.) If the scene changes fundamentally between frames, then the picture willcontain two fundamentally differing fields. The vast majority of camera stills are somewhere inbetween: someparts are moving; others, static.
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Interlacing window, or press [Ctrl+Shift+L].
Zoner Photo Studio can help you adjust and fix photos containing interlaced fields. Different methods are the rightsolution for different pictures—sometimes you will want to only deinterlace a part of a picture; sometimes you will
even want to use different (de)interlacing tools for different part of a picture!
Blended clipping—this method is the one generally recommended. It tries to intelligently join both fields in areas
without motion, so as to increase the picture's final resolution. In areas with motion, the program needs advice on a"preferred" field that should be kept (and the other thrown out).
Blend fields—this method joins both fields into one picture. In places with motion, the picture will be "double" andblurry.
Interpolate field—only the preferred field will be used for calculations; the other field is thrown out and replacedwith lines determined via interpolation.
Duplicate field—only the preferred field will be used for calculations; the other field is thrown out and replaced withlines determined via duplicating lines from the preferred field.
Subsample field—only the preferred field is used. Instead of filling in lines between it, it is shrunk using
interpolation (subsampled), so that the ratio of sides in the final picture remains correct. The resulting picture will
have 1/4 the resolution of the original.
Swap fields—This method is not a deinterlacing method at all. It swaps the two fields instead. This is useful
because some programs erroneously save fields in the opposite of the correct order. Swapping solves this.
The Prefer first field checkbox sets which of the two fields is the "preferred" one. The right setting for this checkbox
will vary from case to case.
Joining threshold—this sets the minimum amount of difference that is judged to be motion when you are using
Blended clipping. If you set it too high, then blended clipping may not catch and remove all interlacing artifacts inthe picture. If you set it too low, you will effectively be needlessly reducing the picture's resolution, because more of
the non-preferred field will be thrown away and replaced via interpolation than is necessary. We recommend values
from 10 to 25.
Test brightness, not color—motion detection when using Blended clipping is based on differences in either color
or brightness for each pixel in the first and second field. Detection based on color is most useful for drawn pictures orother scenes with large areas of one color (above all animated films). Brightness-based detection works well for partsof a picture with transparent elements (like television graphics, or logos).

You should de-interlace a picture before making any other edits to it(and especially before resizing it).

Effects
To apply artistic effects to pictures, use the Editor's Effects menu, or in the Browser, use Edit | Effects.

Edits that you make in the Browser are applied to files directly; you cannot undo them unless
you have backed up their original versions!
Always back up originals before work with them.

Old PhotographThis is a popular effect for both photos and film. It is sometimes also called "sepia." There is a slider here for setting
the "age" of the picture.
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Grain to switch from a monochrome grain to a multicolored grain.
Use Edit | Effects | Add Grain... in the Browser or Effects | Add Grain... in the Editor for this.

Explosion
This effect looks as if you were viewing the picture through smoked glass. There is a slider here for setting the effectstrength.
Use Edit | Effects | Explosion... in the Browser or Effects | Explosion... in the Editor for this.

Oil Painting
This effect makes a picture look as if it had been painted with a brush. There is a slider here for setting the effectstrength.
Use Edit | Effects | Oil Painting... in the Browser or Effects | Oil Painting... in the Editor for this.

Waves
This makes a picture look as if it were reflected on a water surface with circular waves. There is a slider here forsetting the effect strength.
Use Edit | Effects | Waves... in the Browser or Effects | Waves... in the Editor for this.

Pencil Drawing
This makes the picture look as if it had been drawn using colored pencils. There is a slider here for setting the effectstrength.
Use Edit | Effects | Pencil Drawing... in the Browser or Effects | Pencil Drawing... in the Editor for this.

Pixelization
This lowers the quality of a picture by making it "blocky." You can set the size of the pixels (the blocks).
Use Edit | Effects | Pixelization... in the Browser or Effects | Pixelization... in the Editor for this.

EmbossThis effect makes a picture look as if it has been stamped into a mold. With the Desaturate option active, it will also
be drawn in just a single color. Use the sliders here to set the effect strength and the direction from which light isshining on the picture.
Use Edit | Effects | Emboss... in the Browser or Effects | Emboss... in the Editor for this.

Detect Contours
This effect seeks out high-contrast edges. There is a slider here for setting the effect strength.
Use Edit | Effects | Detect Contours... in the Browser or Effects | Detect Contours... in the Editor for this.

Negative
This inverts the values in the color channels, creating a negative of the picture.
Use the Edit | Effects | Negative... in the Browser or Effects | Negative... in the Editor for this.

Dynamic Thresholding
Ordinary thresholding is a process that converts a picture to black and white. Dynamic thresholding is too, but unlike
in classical thresholding where a pixel is considered as black beyond a certain threshold, this function uses thesurroundings of each pixel for its evaluation. Thanks to this fact, dynamic thresholding can give good results even in
pictures with large brightness variations. You can change the feel of this function's output by adjusting the dynamic
Threshold and Surroundings.
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Use Edit | Effects | Dynamic Thresholding... in the Browser or Effects | Dynamic Thresholding... in the Editor for
this.

Soft Contours
The Soft Contours effects sharpens a picture's fine details while suppressing rough structures, making it useful for
sharpening e.g. portraits. This filter includes four controls for four different levels of fineness of detail. Raising the value
for a control raises the contrast for details with that level of fineness, while lowering the value lowers the contrast.
Increasing the contrast for sufficiently fine details sharpens a picture, while decreasing the contrast for rougher details
softens hard shadows while still leaving fine details sharp.

Damaged PhotographThis function alters a photograph to imitate damage caused by time (e.g. yellowing and faded corners) andmishandling (e.g. scratches and smears).
Use Edit | Effects | Damaged Photograph... in the Browser or Effects | Damaged Photograph... in the Editor for
this.
This function has Advanced and Basic versions. The Basic version offers a single slider; use it to set the desired levelof damage. Use Advanced settings to switch the interface to the advanced mode, where each type of damage canbe set independently. Click Random with Same Settings to change the shapes and positions of the individual
image defects. Click New Random Settings to set the individual sliders to random positions.

TextureUse this function to make a photograph look as if it had been painted onto a texture.
Use Edit | Effects | Texture... in the Browser or Effects | Texture in the Editor for this.
Use Texture to set the type of material whose texture is simulated. Use the Intensity slider to set how visible thetexture is.

Tone Mapping
Use Tone Mapping to work with a single picture in a similar way as when working with HDR. Use the settings here to
influence local contrast and emphasize details in light and dark areas.
Use Intensity to set how strongly the tone mapping affects surrounding pixels. Compression determines how
strongly the whole HDR dynamic range will be represented in the final output. Use Light to suppress lights andshadows effects. To set color intensity, use Saturation. Use Gamma to shape the gamma correction curve. The
White Color and Black Color settings determine the "cutoff" percentages for the effect. Lights Intensity andShadows Intensity set how strongly the effect is applied in the picture's lights/in its shadows.
The settings here are the same as for Create | Tone Mapping HDR in the Browser.

Tilt-shift EffectThis function provides access to the same effect as using Tilt-shift Effect in the Editor. However, the position andangle for the center of the area in focus must be entered numerically. Unlike in the Editor, the effect can be applied
here to multiple pictures at once, which is useful for e.g. time-lapse photography. This filter and the Tilt-shift tool arecompatible with each other. To get the most use out of this compatibility when working with e.g. a time-lapse series,
open one picture in the series in the Editor, use the Tilt-shift tool to set up the effect visually using guidelines, finetune the other settings, and then save all the settings as a Preset. Then select the series' remaining pictures in the
Browser and use Edit | Effects | Tilt-shift Effect, load the stored Preset, and click Apply to All.

Shift Colors
Use this function to slightly adjust selected colors present in a picture. To set the color to edit, click the eyedropper
and then click a spot with that color inside the picture. The color you clicked is added to the color list. You can thenedit its Hue, Saturation and Lightness. Normally, your changes also affect colors surrounding the color you
change. This is done in order to avoid sharp transitions. However, if a color is selected in the list but no edits havebeen made to it, then it is immune to this kind of color change. To start changing the color-shifting settings for acolor, click that color in the list. To remove a color from the list, click Remove color from list. Shift Colors affects© 2017 ZONER Inc.

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pixels with the selected color regardless of their locations. To shift colors in only a part of a picture, select that part ofthe picture before using Shift Colors.

Grayscale
To convert a color picture to shades of gray (a black-and-white photo), use this function. You can influence themethod used, to guarantee perfect grayscale pictures with good contrast.
Some color contrasts will disappear after conversion to grayscale (e.g. the difference between green and blue orred), making the result look especially "gray" compared to a color picture. An elegant solution to this is colorchannel-based grayscale conversion, which can give you a picture with good contrasts even in cases like this.
To use this function, go to Edit | Effects | Grayscale [Ctrl+G] in a Browser window, or Effects | Grayscale in an
Editor window. This window offers you several methods for converting to grayscale. They affect how the individualcolor channels will be processed:
Grayscale—uses all channels in a fixed ratio that corresponds to the typical way that the human eye perceives
light. This is a useful method for most photographs.
Desaturation—this removes the color elements from the picture.
Advanced—this uses a complicated conversion method. The results are comparable with the first method, butmore demanding on your computer.
Average of channels—the average value among all color channels is calculated for each pixel.
Maximum of channels—this uses the color channel with the highest value.
Minimum of channels—this uses the color channel with the lowest value.
Red channel—this uses the red channel only.
Green channel—this uses the green channel only.
Blue channel—this uses the blue channel only.
Custom—the channels are used in the ratio that you set under Source channels. This method gives the mostopportunity to choose which elements should receive how much emphasis. Turning on Normalize will ensure thatthe sum of the percentages will be an even 100%.

Mix Channels
This effect changes a picture's tinting by assembling colors from the original color channels in a new relation to eachother.
Work with RGB channels is especially useful when repairing defective pictures with misassembled channels, foradvanced color balance adjustments, and for reconstructing the colors in infrared photographs. For infrared
photography, due to extremely strong exposure of the red channel, we recommend conversion to black and white, orswapping of the red and blue channels, for a more natural feel.
To reach this window, use Edit | Effects | Mix Channels... in the Browser, or Effects | Mix Channels in the Editor.
The first three items in this window's Channel menu set what channel's output should be affected by the sourcechannels listed below the menu. Offset gives a flat strengthening/weakening of the whole channel. Setting thechannel to Grayscale switches the whole window into grayscale mode. Unlike the Grayscale function, it enables
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Gradient Map
Use this function to tint the picture towards a pair of colors of your choice. The input picture is first converted
internally to grayscale. All output colors are mapped to shades in that "hidden" grayscale step.
You can reach this function using Edit | Effects | Gradient Map in the Browser, or Effects | Gradient Map in the
Editor.
The darkest shades in the picture will receive the color on the left of the gradient; the lightest shades get the color on
the right. You can set the endpoints of the gradient by clicking the buttons at the two ends of it. You can add othercolors of your choice in the middle of the gradient. To do so, either double-click the gradient or click Add. To change
a color on the inside of the gradient, select the marker for it and then click Active. You can also move the marker toa different place inside the gradient. Clicking Erase will erase the selected color from the gradient; Erase All will
erase all colors inside the gradient, leaving only those at the two ends.

CustomVery advanced users can use the custom filter to apply a customizable convolution matrix to a picture.
Use Edit | Effects | Custom… in the Browser or Effects | Custom… in the Editor to reach this function.
The principle behind this function is actually quite simple at its core. The matrix contains 5×5 coefficients, which set
how the value of each individual pixel in the future picture will be calculated. Each coefficient multiplies the brightnessof the given pixels during processing. The value stored directly in the middle of the matrix represents the value that isused directly for the given pixel itself. The other coefficients are used for processing this pixel's surroundings. For
example, the coefficient at the top left is used to multiply the brightness of the pixel two pixels up and to the left fromthe given pixel; all 25 coefficients are used in a similar manner. The resulting values are summed together one byone, and then their sum is divided by the Divisor value. You can have its value Set automatically by the program tothe sum of all coefficients. The Shift is then added to the result of the division, and the result is the final brightness
value sent to the given pixel. The whole calculation is repeated for every pixel in the picture and for each of the threecolor channels.
The function's practical use depends on what matrix you use. For example, a high positive value in the middle andnegative values in its immediate surroundings cause sharpening of a picture, doing the inverse blurs it. Using the Shiftvalue, you can lighten or darken the whole picture by a specified amount.

Variations
Use the Variations function to edit a photo's brightness and tinting "visually"—by viewing variations of the current
picture and picking the best one.
To reach this function, use Effects | Variations in the Editor.
The preview at the far left shows the original picture. Use the three pictures directly to its right to lighten and darken
it. Use the six pictures to the right of those to change its tinting. The column for lightening and darkening includes theoriginal for comparison. The hexagon for tinting also includes the original for comparison. To edit the picture's colors,
click the preview with the new look that you desire. To return to the picture's original look without leaving the window,
click the preview of the original.
Use the slider at the top right to change the effect's Strength to any of five levels from Small to Large.

Envelopes
You can find the Envelopes function under Edit | Effects | Envelopes...in the Browser, and under Effects |Envelopes... sets what path (folder) is shown when using the Editor's Save As... window.
Use Envelopes to give your photos stylish frames. These frames can have any of several dozen predefined shapes,
such as hearts, bubbles, etc. Zoner Photo Studio can set the envelope's background color and the sharpness of thetransition into the envelope. It can also do a "fading" crop into the envelope.
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can move the envelope around the photo and resize it. The crop receives the color you set under Color. The
borders can be made blurry, by increasing the value for Blur.
Postage Stamp —Use this to add a postage stamp border that goes around the picture or fits into it. You can set
the stamp's color, background color, and width, and a position and rotation for its shadow.
Puzzle —Use this to divide a picture into puzzle pieces with a pen width, pen color, and percentage of missing
pieces of your choice.
Filmstrip —makes the picture look like a frame in a filmstrip.
Notebook paper —makes the picture look like a piece of notebook paper.

Custom Envelopes
You can create your own envelopes in addition to the ones already provided. Envelopes "crop" pictures based onmasks that are saved in one of the system folders of Zoner Photo Studio – the Envelopes folder. Black-and-white
envelopes are defined using a GIF-format picture with a size of 1024 × 768 pixels and a preview (also in GIF format)
with a size of 60 × 45 pixels. Color envelopes are defined using a picture in the PNG format, with alpha channeltransparency, and another picture for the preview (also a PNG file), with the same sizes as above.
Give the files that make up your custom envelopes numeric filenames following the existing pattern in the Envelopes
folder. Your envelopes will then automatically appear in the program's list of envelopes. Zoner Draw (a separate
program also by Zoner Software) is one very good program for preparing custom envelopes. The Envelopes folder
contains a sample Zoner Draw file (envelope.ZMF) to help you prepare custom black-and-white envelopes.

Borders
Fading Borders
If you want to "fade out" the edges of a picture, you can use Edit | Effects | Fading Borders.... In this window, you
set either a single fade width for all sides (if the Symmetrical option is on) or set them separately for all four sides.
The Transparency setting determines how strongly the picture will be made transparent at its borders. You can also
set the color of the background that the picture will be placed upon.

Soft Shadow
The Soft Shadow effect makes pictures seem to float above a background. To reach this function, use Edit | Effects |Soft Shadow. You can set the horizontal and vertical offset for the shadow in pixels. The Blurring setting determines
how strongly the edges of the shadow are matted. Transparency affects how the color obtained from mixing the
Shadow color and Background color will be finalized.

3D Buttons
Use Edit | Effects | 3D Buttons... to reach this window, where you can make pictures look like buttons by lightening/
darkening their edges. These buttons will have a 3D look.

CartoonUse this filter to make a picture look like a cartoon. It detects and emphasizes the picture's main outlines, andsuppresses the rest.
When applying this effect, the program first smooths the picture - how strongly depends on the Smoothness. Then it
redraws the picture's major contours, using lines with the requested Thickness. To control how intensely lines areadded to the picture, adjust the Strength.

High Pass
High Pass is similar to the frequency filters used in electronics. It eliminates low frequencies while keeping highfrequencies. The result is a final image where high-contrast areas are kept as-is, while the rest is replaced with 50%
gray. How this based effect is harnessed depends on the Mode setting.

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Radius sets to what extent this filter is applied to nearby pixels. Raise this value to make contours more visible. The
best value to use here depends on the picture’s resolution.
Switch the Mode setting to Overlay to increase the picture’s local contrast in dependence on the radius setting.
The Soft Light mode emphasizes details in the picture.
The Normal mode simply displays the high-pass output, where low-contrast areas are replaced with 50% gray.
Use the last of the settings here to set whether or not to Preserve edges and the Intensity for this. In Preserve
edges mode, the transitions at edges in the image have less contrast, and contours at these transitions aresuppressed.

Plug-In Modules
To use plug-ins compatible with Adobe Photoshop (8bf plug-ins) within Zoner Photo Studio, use the Editor's Plug-ins
menu. Plug-ins are external picture processing "filters"—functions—that you can use on the current picture.
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Information
Most digital cameras can save supplementary information into JPEG-format pictures, including things like shutter
speed, exposure time, whether or not a flash was used, focal length, etc. This information is stored under a standard
named EXIF (EXchangeable Image Format). Twenty pieces of camera-settings information are stored on average.
Meanwhile, EXIF can also store text descriptions, keywords, ratings, GPS data, and more.
EXIF is not the only standard for storing picture information. There are two others: IPTC and XMP. The IPTC standard
was created mainly for authorial descriptions of pictures and communication between photographers and publishers.
Adobe's XMP is the most open and modern of the three standards, and can include custom information.

Metadata
The more technical name for what we call "picture information" is metadata. "Metadata" means "information
about information" - in this case, about the set of information that makes up the picture itself. Most metadata forphotos is text metadata, telling about where, when, how, etc. the photo was created, and perhaps also how it
should be used. You can take advantage of metadata to organize your picture archive so that you can later
quickly and efficiently find the photos that you are looking for. Besides text information, digital photos can also
contain audio notes, color profiles, previews, and other binary data.
In Zoner Photo Studio As mentioned above, avoids the term "metadata" in favor of the phrase "picture information."
Picture information can be managed from the Information menu in the Browser, or the File menu in the Editor. The
Image Information window is a quick and easy way to add textual picture information.
Zoner Photo Studio supports all three picture information standards: EXIF including its latest version, 2.3 (EXIF Print),
and XMP.

Variable Text
Variable text is text that can include a series of codes that tells the program to include not a fixed piece of
information, but instead a certain kind of information about a picture—its output can "vary." You can mix ordinary
unchanging text and these codes freely within variable text. The program evaluates the codes, examines the picture's
picture information, and fills in the relevant text. Each code must have exactly the form listed below, and must be
enclosed in {curly braces}. However, any place where you can use variable text offers either a menu or an entire
window that can take care of both of these requirements for you.
For example, the variable text

{PATH}{NAME}.{EXT} Dimensions: {W} x {H}might lead to this for a particular picture: E:\Photos\Photo.JPG Dimensions: 1209 x 984{PATH} is replaced by the path to the file, "E:\Photos\," {NAME} by the filename, "." is kept as-is, {EXT} is replacedby the filename extension "JPG," " Dimensions: " is kept as-is, and {W} and {H} are replaced by the picture's widthand height.
To reach the window for adding these codes, click the small button with the triangle next to the text field where youwant to use variable text. The left part of this window lists all the available variable-text codes. After you select a codeand click Add, the code will be inserted at the position of the text cursor. The precise format of the code can varydepending on your settings under Include descriptor, Separator, Time and date format, and Uppercase/lowercase.
If you are willing and know how, you can also modify variable text directly without using this window.

Editing Variable Text
Meanings for the Individual Fields:
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Total picture count in series; can only be used in file lists andslideshows{PAGE}The number of the page on which the picture will be printed{PAGES}

Total number of pages{TIME}

Current time (e.g. at the start of generating a gallery){DATE}

Current date

{NAMEEXT}

Filename with extension{NAME}

Filename without extension{EXT}

File extension{PATH}Path to file

{FS}

File size{TC} or {PT}

Created (Picture taken){TM} or {TA}Last changed (Last opened)

{W}

Width

{H}

Height{BPP}

Bits per pixel{IS}

Data size{C}

Compression{CM}

Color model

{DPI}

DPI

{A}

Author

{T}

Title

{K}

Keywords{D}

Description{AUD}

Audio Note

{FLASH}

Flash

{ET}

Exposure length{F}

Shutter{FL}

Focal length

{ISO}

ISO

{CAM_MAXAPERTURE}

Maximum aperture{CAM_FOCALLENGTH35MM}

Focal length (EQ 35mm){CAM_DIGITALZOOM}

Digital zoom

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{CAM_EXPOSITIONADJUSTMENT}

Exposure balancing{CAM_EXPOSUREMETERINGMODE}

Exposure measuring mode

{CAM_EXPOSUREMODE}

Exposure mode

{CAM_WHITEBALANCE}

White balance{CAM_MODEPSMA}

Exposure program{CAM_ORIENTATION}

Camera orientation{CAM_SHARPNESS}

Sharpen{CAM_CONTRAST}

Contrast{CAM_SATURATION}

Saturation{CAM_GAINCONTROL}

Gain control{CAM_PHOTOENHANCEMENT}

Picture Enhancement{CAM_SCENECAPTURETYPE}

Type of captured scene{CAM_LIGHTSOURCE}

Light source{CAM_FLASHDETAILED}

Flash, detailed{CAM_LENSNAME}

Lens used{CAM_FOCUSMODE}

Focusing mode (that is, automatic or manual){CAM_FLASHENERGY}Flash energy{CAM_FLASHBIAS}

Bias (balance) of flash{CAM_SCENETYPE}

Scene type

{CAM_SUBJECTDISTANCE}

Distance to subject{CAM_SUBJECTDISTANCERANGE}Distance mode (macro, etc.){CAM_COLORPROFILE}

Name of picture's color profile (if present){CAM_CAMHWMAKER}

Camera manufacturer{CAM_CAMHWMODEL}

Camera model{CAM_CAMERASW}

Software{CAM_FIRMWARE}

Firmware version{CAM_CAMERASERIALNUMBER}

Camera's serial number{CAM_CAMERAOWNER}

Camera owner{CAM_LONGITUDE}

Longitude{CAM_LATITUDE}

Latitude{CAM_ALTITUDE}

Altitude{IMG_PICTURERATING}

Picture ratings{IMG_ISSIGNED}

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Picture has text picture information - yes/no{IMG_COLORSPACE}

Color space (sRGB etc.){IMG_QUALITY}

JPEG compression quality for original of picture{IMG_COPYRIGHTEDITOR}

Editor copyright{IMG_COPYRIGHTPHOTOGRAPH}

Photographer's copyright{IMG_CATEGORY}

Category{IMG_SUPCAT}

Supplementary category{IMG_CAPTIONWRITER}

Author of picture's description{IMG_AUTHORPOSITION}

Author's position{IMG_CITY}

City{IMG_STATE}State/Province{IMG_COUNTRY}Country{IMG_COUNTRYCODE}Country code

{IMG_LOCATION}

Position{IMG_CREDIT}

Credits{IMG_PHOTOSOURCE}

Source{IMG_HEADLINE}

Header{IMG_SPECIALINSTRUCTIONS}

Instructions{IMG_TRANSREF}

Link to origin{IMG_URGENCY}

Urgency{IMG_LABEL}

Labels{IMG_PICTURERATING}

Rating{USRF#xx}

The contents of custom information field #xx

Web Galleries Only
{GPSLINK}

By default, this is a link to a web map

Only during filtering of the Catalog view
{RT_SEARCH_RANK}

Number of times search text appears in file

{RT_SEARCH_GPSDISTANCE}

Distance from GPS coordinates sought

If the #S modifier is in a field and that field is not the last one, then a text separator will automatically be written after
the text. Normally this is a comma and a space: ", " For example, for a photo with the title "Photo," the code
{NAME#S}{D} will be translated into "Photo, description" if the photo has a description, or just "Photo" with noseparator otherwise. To use a different separator than the standard one, you can define your own using e.g.
{NAME#S:"; "}Most fields have predefined field descriptors, e.g. {NAME} "Name: " etc. You can include these descriptions
automatically, by adding #P at the end of a code. For example, {NAME#P} is expanded into "Name: Photo.jpg." You
can use such descriptions without worries even for codes that may not give any output, because if there is no output
for a code for a given picture, no description will be shown either.
If the predefined description does not meet your needs, you can define your own. To do so, use the technique
illustrated below: {NAME#P:"My name: „}.
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Other ways to extend fields
Modifying the size indication for the {FS} and {IS} fields{FS}automatically{FS#FM:A}

automatically{FS#FM:B}

bytes{FS#FM:K}

kilobytes{FS#FM:M}

megabytes{FS#FM:G}

gigabytes{FS#FM:A-}

automatically (without units){FS#FM:B-}

bytes (without units){FS#FM:K-}

kilobytes (without units){FS#FM:M-}

megabytes (without units){FS#FM:G-}

gigabytes (without units)

Modifying the internal separator for {IID_KEYWORDS}{K#IS:";"}

custom internal separator (default is ",")

Default value{TC#DV:"Unknown"}"Unknown" value to show if the selected field cannot be used

{TC#DV}„?“

Modifying character case
{NAME}

unchanged (standard behavior){NAME#C:U}force uppercase{NAME#C:L}

force lowercase{NAME#C:C}

make first letter in each word uppercase, make the rest lowercase

Suppress the actual code output{???#DO}

suppresses the writing of the code output itself. Just the name of the field is used instead.
For example: {NAME#DO#P} "Name:"{???#DO:ONLYIFVALID}

only gives output when the given code is valid for the given fileTime and date formatting{TC#F:S}

short date format (e.g. 9/30/2008 1:45 AM for the United States){TC#F:L}

long date format (e.g. Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:29:29 AM for the United States){TC#FD:S/L}

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hHour without leading zero, 12-hour cyclehhHour with leading zero, 12-hour cycle

H

Hour without leading zero, 24-hour cycle

HH

Hour with leading zero, 24-hour cyclem

Minutes with no leading zeromm

Minutes with leading zerosSeconds with no leading zero

ss

Seconds with leading zerotSingle-character a.m./p.m. indicater - A/Ptt

Multi-character a.m./p.m. indicator - AM/PM{TC#FD:"date format"}d

Day of the month, with no leading zerodd

Day of the month, with leading zero

ddd

Three-character day-of-week indicator

dddd

Full name of day of the week

M

Month number, with no leading zero

MM

Month number, with leading zero

MMM

Month as a three-character shortcut

MMMM

Full name of monthyYear as last two digits, with no leading zeroyyYear as last two digits, with leading zero

yyyyYear as all 4 digits

All month names, day names, and other language-independent texts are replaced based on your regional andlanguage options in the Windows control panel.
Examples of use:
Variable text:{TC#FD:"ddd',' MMM dd yy"#S:"; "}{TC#FT:"hh':'mm':'ss tt"}

result:Tue, Sep 30 08; 10:29:29 AM

Formatting GPS coordinates{CAM_LONGITUDE}

Degrees° Minutes' Seconds" Direction (49° 33' 30" S){CAM_LONGITUDE#F:same as CAM_LONGITUDE, but with no parametersN}{CAM_LONGITUDE#F:Degrees° Minutes' Seconds" Direction, with decimal precision (49.00° 33.00' 30.00" E)
S}{CAM_LONGITUDE#F:Degrees° Minutes', with decimal precision (+49° 33.500')
M}{CAM_LONGITUDE#F:Degrees as a floating-point number (e.g. 49.5583333)
D}

When you are preparing Web galleries, you can also specify which files should be used when the program is "mining"the data to use in the codes. This can be useful with, for example, date information: wanting to publish the time when
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a picture reached the gallery is different than wanting to publish the time when the picture file reached your gallery. If
the variable text codes are written in uppercase letters, the original picture on disk is used as the source. If they are
written in lowercase letters, then the picture located on the web is used as the information source.
You can chain modifiers one after the other. Example of use: {NAME#C:U#P}. If a code does not make sense in thecontext where it is used, it is ignored.

Formatting options for codes used to set Tiles and Thumbnails texts<b>, </b> —start and end of bold text<i>, </i> —start and end of italic text
<br /> —new line (can be used in combination with {_E#T:"<br />"})<alb>, </alb> —start and end of text that you want to receive automatic line breaks (e.g. in Tiles mode)<a href="http://www...">, </a> —active link...

Data Import/Export
Generate Lists
Use Information | Data Import/Export | Generate Lists in the Browser menu to create a text file with a list of files
and information about them, in a form of your choice. After choosing files, you select an output type and prepare
variable text.
Use the Folder names control to set whether and how folder names will be included in the output. If the output
includes both files and folders, then folder names will be preceded by three asterisks. Unlike filenames, you cannot
affect the processing of folder names using variable text.
When you turn on Generate HTML table, the function will generate a Web page, with your data placed in a simple
table, suitable for import into other programs and for processing. Wherever you include the code {TAB} among yourtext, this will add a new column.
Use the Save to file option to have the list be saved to a file of your choice instead of just to a temporary folder. The
filename can include either an ordinary absolute path or a relative path like "..\list.txt").
If Save to file is turned off, then after you close the window, the list is saved to a temporary folder and is opened inyour computer's associated viewer for text files or web pages. By default, these will be Notepad and Internet Explorer
respectively.

Importing and Exporting Descriptions
Some programs generate and save simple one-line file descriptions in special, and quite non-standardized, files
located in the same folders as the files being described. These files are generally have names like descript.ion,
0index.txt, files.bbs etc. Use Information | Data Import/Export | Export Descriptions and Import Descriptions tocreate such files or to bring the information from such files into pictures' standard picture information. During export,
you can choose whether to use the Title or Description field as the description.
If the pictures already had description files, these will be overwritten by your export. If you check the Preserve
remaining files' descriptions box, then the descriptions for any pictures in the folder that were not selected will be
kept as-is; otherwise, they will be thrown away.
If you turn on Give exported file Hidden attribute, then the file will receive the Hidden file attribute. This will makeit invisible to most programs.

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Scan for Keywords
Use Data Import/Export | Scan for Keywords to use the keywords that are already in your pictures as raw material
for building or supplementing the keyword list contained "inside" Zoner Photo Studio.
As relates to actual individual pictures, Zoner Photo Studio does not maintain their keywords in a database of its
own; it stores keywords directly inside image files, in their EXIF data. This way, pictures will not lose their keywords
no matter where you move them, and any EXIF-aware program can process their keywords.
We recommend that you use this function when, for example, upgrading from previous versions of Zoner PhotoStudio. This way, Zoner Photo Studio will have a complete list of the keywords you have used in the past, and willoffer them in all of its windows where you can search keywords or add them.

Managing Information
Remove EXIF Data
Use Information | Manage Information | Remove EXIF Data to remove all information from a picture file, including
any color profiles. The actual picture itself is unaffected by this function.

Set Date using EXIF
Use Information | Manage Information | Set Date using EXIF... to change pictures’ file creation dates to match
their EXIF picture-taken dates. This lets you sort pictures based on when they were taken even in programs thatcannot use EXIF information.

Digital Signatures
Digital signature technology helps to verify the origin and completeness of a picture. The author (or owner, or
administrator, etc.) signs the picture and thereby places his signature in the picture file, as well as a description of
the picture's characteristics.
Signed pictures are differentiated in the Browser listing via a ribbon icon. You can verify a signed picture at any time,for example by double-clicking its ribbon. Although a signed picture can still be changed, it is easy to discover that it
has been changed.
Digital signature technology does not protect a picture from unauthorized publication.

Adding Digital Signatures
Use the Browser's Information | Digital Signature | Add Digital Signature menu item to add to a picture asignature and a "fingerprint" of the picture's current contents. This information describes the state of the picture at thetime of signing, and is used when you wish to verify the digital signature. Signing makes use of the signing certificatethat you have specific under Settings | Preferences [Ctrl+M], in the Signing Certificates section.

Verifying Digital Signatures
Use the Information | Digital Signature | Check Digital Signature command to verify that a particular signed
picture is still the same as it was at the time of its signing. You can also perform this operation by clicking the"ribbon" digital signature icon shown on a picture's thumbnail.
Go to Settings | Preferences [Ctrl+M] and then the Signing Certificates section for options governing theverification of digital signatures. Verify that certificate has not been revoked: this option requires that you beconnected to the Internet, so if you are not connected non-stop, it can be best to turn it off. The Only checkrevoking for signature certificates prevents the whole certificate hierarchy from being checked.

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Remove Digital Signature
Use Information | Digital Signature | Remove Digital Signature to remove a digital signature from a picture.

Ratings
Use ratings to store information on photographs' quality. Picture ratings are shown as stars on photos' thumbnails in
the Browser and the Filmstrip. Naturally, ratings are purely subjective, but they will help you find your best pictures
later.
Ratings run from 1 to 5. To rate a photo, use:
keyboard shortcuts: [1] through [5] in the Manager, Viewer, or Editor. To remove a photo's rating, press [0].
the Information pane in the Manager or the Rating and Label toolbar in the Viewer and Editor.
the rating buttons in the Descriptions Pane.
the Information | Image Information [Shift+Enter] window - use the tab named Description.

Ratings, once added, are useful in various parts of Zoner, e.g.:
Quick Search [Ctrl+F]
Filter and Search windows - use the tab named Notes
Organize | Selection | Advanced Selection

LabelsUse the Labels feature to add colored labels to your pictures, to help sort them by a system of your own.
To add labels to pictures, use the Descriptions Panel, or use the Information | Image Information [Shift+Enter]window's Descriptions tab. Alternatively, use the Browser's Information | Label submenu or the [Shift+1] through[Shift+9] hotkeys. To remove any existing rating from the picture, click None or use the keyboard shortcut [Shift+0].
The label (if any) for a picture is indicated in its Browser thumbnail, by an icon at the bottom right. Right-clicking thaticon calls up a menu where you can change the rating or remove it (the "-" item).
To set which colors are used for labels, use Settings | Preferences | Labels. Here you can define up to 9 custom
labels or choose colors used in other programs. Label information is stored within a picture's XMP-type picture
information.

GPS
Zoner Photo Studio lets you work with longitude, latitude, and altitude. You can assign coordinates to pictures here,
and display their coordinates on a map as well. You can have the program batch-assign coordinates from a GPS
device's tracklog, or assign them by hand using an online map.
The coordinates are recorded to both EXIF and XMP picture information, so that you can process them and work withthem in many other programs, not just Zoner Photo Studio. Some of the Web galleries you can make in the program
can also show pictures' GPS coordinates on a map.

Working with the Map
All operations for work with GPS coordinates are available both directly within the Manager’s Map mode, and via theGPS section of the Information panel.

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Remove GPS Data
Use this function to remove all information about GPS coordinates and altitude from a file.
To call up this function, use Information | GPS | Remove GPS Data... in the Manager.

Location
The Location is a text description for GPS coordinates – Country, State/Province, City, and Place. This data is
obtained automatically if a file has GPS coordinates assigned to it. Pictures can then be quickly visually sorted
based on Location in the Catalog – for example, you can show all the photos from one country or place at once.
Locations are not automatically written to files directly, to avoid unwanted modifications to files. To make the programsave this information directly to files, use Menu | Information | GPS | Write Location to Files... Select folders
before using this function to apply it to the files in all of the selected folders, including their subfolders. To remove thisdata from files, use Menu | Information | GPS | Remove Location from Files...

Cooperation with Google Earth
You can display all the GPS-enhanced pictures in a folder, or all such selected pictures, in Google Earth by using
the Browser menu item named Information | GPS | Show in Google Earth... . The pictures in Google Earth aredisplayed as thumbnails above the areas where their coordinates lie. After you click a thumbnail, a large version of
the picture is displayed, along with its title and description, if such information is stored in the picture.
Use Information | GPS | Show in Google Earth (Advanced)... in the Browser to create a KML or KMZ file that you
can then immediately view in Google Earth. GPS coordinates and the title and description of the picture are written to
the KML file. The KMZ file also contains a thumbnail for each picture.
Create KML/KMZ files, then show in Google Earth immediately opens the file you created in Google Earth.
Create KML/KMZ files, then save them to disk enables you to name and save the file.
The For KMZ archives, include large previews option adds both thumbnails and larger pictures for viewing to the
KMZ file. If you do not check this option, Google Earth will show you only marked picture-taken locations, with no
thumbnails.
You can add picture information of your choice to pictures' Title and Description fields using the program's variable
text feature. Normally, the Title {T} and Description {D} fields are chosen here. (You can set the contents of these two
fields using, for example, the Browser's Descriptions Pane.
KML (Keyhole Markup Language), supplemented by KMZ (Compress Keyhole Markup Language), is a standard
for storing GPS, descriptions, and pictures for use in Google Earth, Google Maps, and other geographicalprograms and websites.

Image Information
Use the Image Information window to view, add, and edit information (metadata) contained in a picture.
To display this window, use Information | Image Information in the Browser, or press [Shift+Enter] in the
Browser, Editor, or Viewer.
The top of this window shows a preview and the picture's filename, file size, bit depth, and date of creation and of lastchanges.
Under the preview is a menu for choosing what type of information to show. To the right of the menu, there are icons
you can use to show various information types, and one to show your position on an online map. To set a
particular map, use the program preferences.
Use Description to edit the picture's title, author, copyright, and description, and the description's author. You canalso edit the picture's rating and its label. These fields are most often useful during archival and publishing.
Use General Information to work with all available information about the camera's settings when the picture wastaken (EXIF information and some, but not all, MakerNotes).

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Use Keywords to add and remove keywords for a picture via two buttons: << and >>. Click >>> to add a keyword
including the categories above it. Click Add to edit the keywords tree rather than the picture's keywords.
Use Origin to edit detailed information about the picture's origins (location, city, etc.). Transfer information and theright way to use it are defined by the IPTC standard, which is designed for electronic communication between an
editor and a journalist or professional photographer.
This information is always stored in the standard EXIF, IPTC, and XMP fields. Other programs can read it back infrom there.
Use Custom Information to edit XMP information fields that you can define yourself.
All of the information in all sections except for Audio Note can be copied to the Clipboard.

Statistics
Using this function, you can show statistics on pictures' picture information (shutter information, film sensitivities,
titles, keywords, etc.) for a folder or for selected photos.
To show statistics, use Information | Statistics... in the Browser. In the top section, choose which picture
information Field you wish to analyze. You can also choose a Graph type and a Sorting method. Underneath thegraph, you can also choose how many values it shows. Click OK to close the statistics window.

Batch Assign Information
Use this function to add or change picture information, including ratings, keywords, and picture-taken dates, formultiple photos at once.
To edit photos' picture information, use Information | Batch Assign Information... [Ctrl+K] in the Browser. Batch
assigning information is efficient when you need to change the picture information for many pictures at once. To edit
the information for just a single picture more conveniently, use Image Information.
This window's settings are divided out over six tabs. To quickly deactivate/reactivate a tab, and thus the settings onthat tab, use the checkbox next to its name.

The values in all checkmarked tabs are used - not just those in the visible tab!
Each text field must also be activated (checkmarked) before use. Next to the text fields are arrows for automaticallyinserting variable text into the field. Use the variable text feature to make use of information from one field (or from thepicture's file properties) in another field. (For example, to automatically fill pictures' Titles with their filenames, use{NAME}.)

If you turn on a field but leave it empty, then that field's contents will be erased in all of thepictures in the batch!
Use the Basic Information tab to edit pictures' titles, authors, copyrights, descriptions, and description authors. You
can also batch-assign ratings and labels here.
Additionally, you can batch-assign pictures' location with fields for place, city, state/province, and country.
Use the Keywords tab to assign and remove keywords in batch with the aid of the program's keywords tree. Use
Remove All to remove all picture keywords (even words that are not listed in the program's keywords tree). This
option removes the entire contents of the keywords field, even for example spaces and other characters that cancause problems.
Use the Date and Time tab to set pictures' date and time or shift them by a certain amount. Set date values using
the calendars that become active when you click Set picture-taken time and date and Shift date. Use Shift dateto push times and dates forward or backward by a given amount, e.g. to go back and change the time zone in which
you took a group of pictures.
Use the Custom Information tab to batch-add or batch-edit custom information types for pictures outside of what isnormally available.

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Use Change IPTC encoding to UTF8 to change the way IPTC blocks are stored so that extended character sets
are in better agreement with the standard. However, for now, photo programs widely ignore the standard and do notrecognize it. Therefore, Zoner Photo Studio does not use it by default and it can only be activated in this window.
Use Write data only where it is not already present to restrict the changes' effects to empty fields. This makes it
easier to apply batch information edits when some pictures in a batch already contain information.
Presets work the same in this window as elsewhere: you can store all of your settings for the whole window as apreset so you can reuse them later. The presets controls are at the bottom left, no matter what tab you are in. To fillin the fields in this window using the information in an existing picture, click Read in from Picture.... Click Apply to
run the operation on all selected pictures. Click Cancel to exit without changing any pictures' information.

Search and Replace
You can use this function to replace one piece of text with another within picture-information fields of your choice.
This function is useful when, for example, you have entered some information incorrectly, or to replace information in
one language with information in another language.
To reach this window, use Information | Search and Replace… [Ctrl+K] in the Browser.
This opens a window for batch edits of all textual picture information in the selected pictures, via search-and-replace.
Use the column on the left to choose which text items in the photos to Search in. Use the Find and Replace fields
to indicate what text should be replaced with what other text. Use Whole words only to set whether or not toreplace text when the contents of the Find field in the text not as a separate word, but rather as a part of a word.
The Match case option determines whether or not capitalization differences should be ignored. The Approvechanges one by one option sets whether replacements should be automatic, or whether you will monitor the wholeprocess picture-by-picture instead. When this option is turned on, the Search, Replace, and Replace All options
become active so that you can use them to confirm each replacement. Use the Apply button (and the Apply to All
button if multiple pictures are selected) at the bottom of the window to do the actual replacing and resaving of themodified files.

The Search and Replace makes changes to text information within files themselves, andthese is no Undo for this function.

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Organizing Pictures
The Catalog
The Catalog is the starting point for easy work with your photo collection. It is available in the Navigator in every
module of Zoner Photo Studio. When a folder is added to the Catalog, Zoner starts automatically indexing thumbnails
and information for the pictures in that folder. This is done in the background while you work. While Zoner is indexing,
it shows a blue gear wheel in the Navigator's Catalog section. To manage indexing, click that wheel and then use theitems in the menu that appears.
Because the Catalog stores thumbnails and metadata for your pictures, it’s the foundation for fast browsing when
you’re in the Navigator’s Catalog section, and it is also the foundation for Quick Search.
The Catalog offers these sections:
Folder View – a list of the folders that you’ve added to the Catalog. To work with your cataloged folder settings,
visit Settings | Preferences... | Catalog.
Calendar View – here photos are sorted into virtual folders by the dates when they were taken.
Keyword View – in this view, photos are sorted by keyword. Click and drag a keyword here to move it among
categories. To turn a keyword into a category, drag at least one other keyword onto it. Click a keyword to view allof the pictures with that keyword. To assign keywords, drag and drop them onto your pictures. You can also tag
pictures by dragging and dropping those pictures onto the keywords instead.
Location View – in this view, photos with GPS data are sorted by the text description of their location into a fourlevel tree based on the following data: Country, State/Province, City, Place.

Quick Search
Press [Ctrl+F] or click the search box above the Navigator to activate Quick Search. This function is only available
for files that have been added to the Catalog.
The Quick Search pane contains several controls:
Text – enter the text to find here. ZPS starts searching immediately once you begin typing. You can tell the
program to Search in all text related to pictures, or in certain kinds only—e.g. keywords, the path to the file, its
description or its location.
Rating — use these controls for rating-based searches, in any of three modes: Equal To, Less Than, and Greater
Than.
Label — use this to search based on one or more of the various colored Labels that you can give to photos.
GPS — use this to find pictures by GPS coordinates. Use the buttons here to get coordinates from the selectedpicture, a different picture file, or a map. After setting the coordinates, set how far away from them Zoner should
look, using the Radius.
Including subfolders – use this option (available in the Browser only) to find pictures in both the current folder andits subfolders.
Click the button at the end of each row of Quick Search controls to return that row to factory settings. Combine
multiple conditions to see only files that meet all of those conditions.
The current search, including its search conditions, can be saved to your Favorites.

File Operations
Zoner Photo Studio behaves similarly to the file browsing tools in Windows itself.
Overview of basic file operations:drag-and-drop copying and moving of files*
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copying (creating) Windows shortcuts
creating new folders
deleting files and folders
renaming files and folders
displaying files' Properties windows

Right-click menu
When you right-click on a file in the Browser, a context-sensitive menu appears, similar to the one that appears when
you right-click a file in Windows' own file-browsing tools.

Selecting Files
Selecting files in the Browser works similarly to how it does in Windows overall. There are some extra methods forselecting files provided under Organize | Selection. Use Organize | Selection | Advanced Selection [Num /] toselect files by criteria. The available criteria are: Existing filename, Rating and Labels. The way that file selection
works depends on the selection mode you have chosen. They are: Select, Add to Selection, Remove from
Selection and Refine Selection.. The Add to Selection and Remove from Selection modes can be quickly
reached from the Browser using shortcut keys: [Num+] and [Num-].

Deleting Files
In the file deletion window, use the Options button to show settings for deleting related files. Use All files withdiffering extension when, for example, deleting JPEG/RAW file pairs. Used by accident, this option can easily leadto erasing of needed files, so it is automatically turned off when moving to a different folder.

File Tree Versus Database
Most programs for working with digital photos choose one of two basic approaches to working with photos - classicalbrowsing of the disks on your computer, or browsing of databases of indexed files. Each of these methods has its
advantages and disadvantages in certain situations. Zoner Photo Studio tries to provide the best of both methods. For
ordinary work with pictures, you do not really need a database. But for detailed work with, above all, external(removable) media, you can take advantage of a picture database.

Advanced File Operations
Zoner Photo Studio enables you to queue up multiple file moving, copying, etc. operations at once. Each suchoperation can be in any of three states:
Running —the files are actively being copied/moved. Only one file operation is ever in this state at one time.
Paused —You must place an operation into this state manually. An operation will never take place as long as it
still is in this state. You can remove it from this state and return it to the queue.
Queued —Operations enter this state when a new operation is added for processing—that operation automaticallyenters the Running state, and the previously Running one enters the queue. Any operation waiting in the queue canstart running immediately if you intervene to make this happen.
As is hinted above, the operations queue works on a "last in, first out" basis. You have two ways of intervening here:
Letting an operation waiting in the queue jump to the front of the queue. Other operations will automatically start up
after it has finished.
Pause the currently running operation—this makes the "youngest" operation in the queue start running
automatically. You can place a paused operation back in the queue, after which it will start up automatically once
its turn in the queue comes up.

Basic Organizing Tasks
The Organize menu contains commands for use in navigating, archiving, and organizing your photos (and othermultimedia files). This menu contains commands for creating new folders and albums, for work with the Media
Archive feature, for work with the Windows Clipboard (copying, pasting, etc.), and for selecting files (Select All,
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inverting the selection, or selection by various other criteria).

Stacking
Use Stacking to keep your photo collection visually tidier. To work with photo stacks, use the commands available in
the toolbar for the Information panel, or in the right-click menus for thumbnails in the Browser, or from the main
menu: Organize | Stacking. After selecting a group of photos in the Manager, use Create Stack. Stacked photos
are listed as a single item, and a stack can be worked with as if it were a single photo. At the top right of each stack
is a number indicating how many photos are in the stack. Click it to collapse or expand the stack. To visually
represent the stack using a different photo than the first one in the list, select the desired photo and use Set as Main
File in Stack. To unstack files, select at least one file in the stack and then use Unstack.

Sorting
You can sort the files in a folder by their attributes—their names, file sizes, extensions, types, and dates. You canalso set your own custom sorting, or use advanced sorting, that is, sorting based on EXIF picture information. You
can set sorting type in the Browser's right-click menu (the Sort by item), in the Browser's main menu under
Organize | Sort by, using the Sort by button on the toolbar, or using column headers, if you have activatedOrganize | Sort by | Show Header.
Custom sorting—in this mode, you can sort pictures freely, by dragging and dropping their thumbnails to theintended places in the sorting order. The first time you switch to custom sorting for a folder, whatever sorting order
you are currently using for that folder is retained. You can then drag the picture to the position that you need. The redline between pictures while you drag indicates what the dragged picture's sorting position will be if you drop it at agiven moment. You can cancel custom sorting for a folder at any time using the right-click menu. If you rest themouse cursor over an edge of the thumbnails window during your drag-and-drop work, the display will scroll so thatyou can see what is beyond that edge.
The sorting method has an effect on the speed of the program. Sorting by EXIF information requires that EXIF
information be read for each file in a folder before that folder can be displayed. For this reason, sorting by name is thefastest.

FilterWhen you want to see only the kinds of files that interest you during browsing, and there is a "technical" way todefine what you want, use the Filter. Any files that do not meet the conditions you set will be temporarily hidden.
The Filter window lets you set exactly the same kinds of conditions as you can set for the Search function. The
conditions are divided into tabs (sections). You can disable an entire tab at once using the checkbox by its name.

Note that filter conditions in checkmarked tabs are used even if those tabs are not currently
displayed!
You can filter by full or partial filename, date of creation, date of last changes, size, name, author, description,
keywords, technical details like shutter speed, or GPS information.
To turn the filter on and off, use Organize | Filter... or the Filter button on the main Browser toolbar.

Searching
To search for photos in selected folders and their subfolders, use Organize | Search...
This window divides the search conditions you can use into four types. The conditions are divided into tabs
(sections). You can disable an entire tab at once using the checkbox by its name.

Note that search conditions in checkmarked tabs are used even if those tabs are notcurrently displayed!
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information (shutter, exposure time, ISO, exposure compensation, flash, focal length) and by similarity of color to aselected photograph. In the GPS tab, you can search by a geographical location. To set the location to search by,use the map or choose a picture whose coordinates the program will use. You can use conditions ("contains"/"does
not contain") and logical operators (AND and OR) to modify searches for textual picture information.

Backups of Originals
The first time a photograph is changed (e.g. resized, rotated, or even rated), Zoner Photo Studio automaticallycreates a backup of the original version of the photo. This way, if a photo is inadvertently changed and degraded, it ispossible to go back to the original version. In Zoner Photo Studio, this is called a backup of the original.
Backups of originals are not visible in the Browser as files. Where a backup exists for the original version of aphotograph, an blue-arrow icon is shown on its thumbnail. Double-click this icon to restore it to its original version.
Right-click this icon to call up a menu; use this menu to restore from the backup or delete the backup. To work withthe backup of a picture's original from the main menu, use the items under Organize | Backup of Original.... Use
this menu both to access the above-mentioned functions, and to back up a picture manually. Use this when for
example you plan to edit a photo outside Zoner Photo Studio, and therefore it will not automatically be backed up as
you edit it.
Backups of originals are stored in the Backups folder. Use the program preferences to see the size of this folder,delete its contents, and change its location. For best performance, the backup should be in a location that has plentyof space, and that the computer can access quickly (ideally on the same disk where your photo collection is
located). You can also turn off automatic backups completely.

Batch Rename
Use this function to batch rename pictures, with the option to make use of their picture information.
Cameras give pictures fairly meaningless names made up of some letters and a number. That number may be a
picture's position in a folder, its position in all the pictures you have ever taken, etc. In any case, it is of little usefor organizing or publishing.
You can rename a single file in the same way as in Windows: select the file and then click on it (after a pause) orpress [F2].
You can also select a whole group of files and rename them in the window that appears when you use Organize |Batch Rename... [Ctrl+Shift+Q] in the Browser.
In the Filename box, you can compose the pattern by which the new names should be formed. This pattern canmake use of a limited version of the program's variable text feature and/or a counter.
Existing filename

{N}

Year

{Y}

Existing extension

{E}

Month

{M}

Author*

{A}

Date

{d}

Title*

{T}

Hour

{h}

Counter{C}

Minute{m}Second{s}*information from the picture information field of the same name

The code for including the existing filename can be supplemented with information on which part of that filename toinclude; for example {N5-8} would include the fifth through either character. The date that is filled in is either the file's
date of creation or the date of last changes.
Besides normal absolute paths, you can indicate the output path using a relative path such as "..\backup"—in thisparticular example, the folder would be automatically created one level above the current folder.

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Use Remove accents, replace spaces if you wish to place files on the Web or some other environment where
spaces or accent marks could cause technical problems.

Tips for Batch Renaming
The most commonly used combinations of variable text used for batch renaming are described below.

Filenames Based on When Pictures Were Taken
This kind of renaming is useful when bringing together pictures taken on multiple cameras, when using photos for
documentation, and when archiving photos.
Variable text (date as filename): {Y}-{M}-{D}-{h}-{m}-{s}-{C}

Filenames That Include a Counter
Using a counter at the beginning of a filename is a good way to ensure that the custom sorting you have set within
Zoner Photo Studio works even outside of it.
For the counter—{C}—you can set a starting value, a step (how much to go up each time), and the number of digitsthat should be guaranteed by adding zeros at the beginning of the number if necessary ("001," "002," etc.)
Variable text (to add a counter just before a filename): {C}-{N}

Filename Making Use of Picture Title
You can use this technique to make files' contents clear from their filenames. Although just renaming the files byhand would do almost the same, the variable text cited below also includes a counter, so you do not have to order the
pictures alphabetically. A name like this is useful when publishing photos on the Web, sending them by email,sharing them, etc.
Variable text (counter, contents of the picture's Title, then Author fields): {C}-{T}-{A}
You can freely mix variable-text codes and ordinary text—for example "{C} Chicago vacation" to get names like "01
Chicago vacation."
If you do not have a serious reason to do otherwise, do not change the file extension (which is normally set to "{E}").
If you change a picture's extension, it can "disappear" from the Browser.
This is because Zoner Photo Studio (and Windows itself) determines the format of a file based on its extension, and,depending on your program preferences, Zoner Photo Studio may show only certain pictures and hide all otherformats. If you do accidentally change a picture's extension (e.g. from JPG to JPG001) and it disappears, turn on thedisplay of all files under Settings | Preferences | Display and use renaming to change the extension back.

Compare Images
Use the Compare Images function to view multiple pictures at once in order to select the best ones from among
them. To access Compare Images from the Browser, use View | Compare Images [Ctrl+J].
The way that the Compare Images space is divided up depends on the display mode: One preview, Two previews,
vertical, Two previews, horizontal, Three previews, vertical, Three previews, horizontal or Four previews.
One of the previewed pictures is always the active picture. It is framed with a red rectangle. This picture can becopied or moved to another folder, or deleted from disk. Click another picture's thumbnail to make it active instead.
You can also move among pictures using the Previous File and Next File buttons. These automatically skip overfiles that have already been displayed.
The other functions govern the contents of the preview panes—zooming in and out, showing/hiding a picture's
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labels and picture ratings.
You can also use the mouse wheel to quickly display a picture from one pane in another pane. In two-picture mode,
you can click the mouse wheel over any part of a preview and, until you release the mouse wheel, the other preview isshown in place of that preview. The other preview receives a blue frame around it. In modes with more than two
pictures, setting the "other" picture is more complicated. You need to hold down the mouse wheel in a place that
corresponds to what the position of the desired picture would be if the active preview were divided into sections in thesame way that the overall preview space is divided into sections. For example, if you are using the "Three previews,
horizontal" mode, then each preview is divided into three sections side by side, and clicking in, for example, theleftmost third of the picture displays the picture from the leftmost preview pane in the active pane.
Use the settings in Settings | Preferences | Compare Images to set how mouse wheel scrolling works here and what
information is shown under pictures.

Sort Pictures
This is a wizard for sorting photos on a disk or in a folder into an new, organized folder structure in a few easy steps.
Use Organize | Sort Pictures [Ctrl+O] to reach this function.
The first step includes a drop-down menu where you can choose a disk containing files to organize. You can also
instead choose a particular folder, using the Browse...
You can also choose a picture sorting method. There are three standard options here representing common waysof organizing pictures into folders by their picture-taken dates. These differ in the number of different levels of folders
are created. The Custom option enables you to set your own choice of how many levels and what to base them on(e.g. pictures' times and date, shutter speeds, authors, focal lengths, etc.), with the help of the program's variable
text feature. Clicking the arrow button here takes you to a window that largely automates the process of work withthis feature. To indicate a subfolder, use the "\" (backslash) character.
At the bottom of the window for this step, you set the folder to which the sorted pictures should be copied. To
continue to the next step, click Next.
In the second step of the wizard, you can choose whether, besides sorting bitmap images (photos and graphics), you
would like to also find and sort vector-graphics files (files from Zoner Draw and saved print jobs from the Print andExport wizard), videos, and sounds. You can use the Only sort files larger than option to filter out very small
pictures (like miniatures and banners). To continue to the next step, click Next.
In the third step, you can see the picture folders that were found and are marked for sorting. Here you can deselectfolders that you would like for the program to not sort. Click Finish to finish the wizard and start the actual sorting of
the selected folders. If you are not ready to do this yet, click Previous.
This function is useful when you want to reorganize an existing photo archive (set of photos) or create a new one. You
can add further pictures to an archive in a variety of ways, e.g. using the Import function, which also provides for somebasic sorting of pictures into folders.

Synchronize Folders
The Synchronize Folders function helps you maintain a copy of photos from a chosen source in a chosen target
location. It works in two steps. First the contents of the Source Folder and Target Folder are compared, and theprogram recommends a list of file copying/deletion actions to be made for synchronization. Then after confirmation
and any desired changes, these synchronization actions are actually taken. The recommended synchronization
actions can differ based on the selected Synchronization Method. Symmetric means that a successful
synchronization copies files from the source to the target and vice versa so that after synchronization, they both have
all the files that were in either the source or the target at the start. Asymmetric comparison is one-way: only source
files missing from the target are marked for copying. Asymmetric, Delete in Target is similar, but also deletes fromthe target anything not in the source.
A proposed synchronization action is listed for each item in the operations column. An arrow means copying in that
direction. An X means deletion. An equals sign means the files are the same (this is only shown when Hideduplicates is not checked). A "not equal" sign is shown for files that differ, but for which no action will be taken.
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copied (for the Symmetric method) is decided based on which copy was changed more recently.
The Synchronize button starts the actual copying and/or deleting of files. To have the opportunity to view and, if
desired, to disallow operations one-by-one, turn on Confirm file operations.
Run the mouse cursor over a folder name to see a bubble showing the full path to the folder. Run the mouse cursor
over a file name to see the full path to the file plus its date of last changes and its size. For files that exist in both thesource and the target, information about their comparison is shown in bubble help above the Operation field. A shortsummary of the planned synchronization is displayed under the file list.

Find Duplicate Files
Use this function to find photo files that contain identical data, and thus are needlessly taking up space on disk. Set
the search location and then press Search. Finding and comparing files requires intensive disk access, so use thisfunction when the computer is not doing other tasks.
When this process completes, Zoner shows a listing, with duplicate files grouped together into sets, distinguished bycolor. To mark a file, click the checkbox by its name, or use one of the alternative ways described below. Right-click
any listed file to show a context menu. This menu has items to show picture files' Properties and Image
Information. This menu also contains items to Mark All Duplicates in This Folder or in the folder and its
subfolders. Use these to quickly mark all unneeded picture files in a folder. Use the buttons here to move all marked
files to the Recycle Bin or a folder of your choice.
To prevent data loss, the program does not let you mark all duplicates in a set - at least one must stay unmarked.

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Creating Special Outputs
Panoramic Ratios
Use Create | Panorama to turn a group of photos into a panorama.
The source pictures must have been taken with a certain amount of overlap, so that they can be joined properly. In
this function, you prepare your source pictures and configure settings using a wizard, and then the program handles
the rest automatically. In the first step, you choose the pictures from which the panorama will be assembled. In thenext steps, you configure (if needed) various settings to ensure that the panorama is assembled correctly.

Sorting the Pictures
After the pictures are loaded, they are analyzed, and the program tries to guess the panorama type and the order ofthe pictures. In this step, you can either accept the program's guess or select a different panorama type or a different
order for the source pictures. Use the buttons for these changes; to re-order pictures, you can also use drag-anddrop. When you are dragging a picture, its outline is displayed, and a vertical line shows where its new position will
be if you drop it.

Joining Pictures
At the end of this step, the actual joining of the pictures into a panorama takes place. However, you must first enter
the focal length of the lens that was used to take the pictures. The program also guesses this value automatically,
but here again you can set it manually. This is recommended for experienced users only. Pictures from digital
cameras generally have focal length information stored in their EXIF data. However, this is usually the relation
between the true focal length and the size of the camera's sensor. To compose a panorama, meanwhile, you need toknow the focal length equivalent for 35 mm film. To get this equivalent focal length, you multiply the actual focal
length by a certain factor, which is the ratio of the diagonal of a 35mm film field to the diagonal of the sensor. Click
Determine to open the Determine Focal Length window. In this window, you enter either the multiplication factor
or the sensor size of the camera with which the pictures were taken. (The sensor size should be mentioned in thecamera's manual.) Once you click OK, the equivalent focal length is determined automatically and meanwhile themultiplication factor is also saved, so that for all future pictures from the same camera, the equivalent focal length isdetermined automatically. If the picture's EXIF data does not include focal length information, then the Determine
button is grayed out and the focal length equivalent must be entered directly.
To start the actual assembling of the panorama, click Join. Once the panorama has been assembled, the Next
button becomes active, enabling you to continue to the next step of the wizard.

Edit Connections
In this step, you can manually correct the automatically-determined joining points between source pictures. During
automatic joining, the program finds, for each pair of neighboring pictures, points contained in both of those pictures.
Then it uses these pairs of points to calculate any eventual shifting and rotation of the pictures against each other. If
any of the joins is less than ideal, then click the red framed area enclosing that join.
This displays a window showing the pair of photos that meet in the given join. Each of the shared points that define
the join is shown for each of the two pictures. The points are color-coded by pair. You can use the mouse toreposition these points, or enter new points by clicking in the places where you want them. (The program tries toautomatically find the position of the paired point in the other picture.)
You can erase a point by clicking the Erase Point button or pressing [Del]. Click Delete All Points to erase all
shared points. For correct joining, you need at least two points; the maximum you can enter is 12 shared points. To
make your joins as precise as possible, use as many points as you can, and distribute them evenly throughout thejoin area. Also, emphasize places with high contrast (objects' corners, etc.). If the Optimize point position option is
active, then it is enough to enter the position of a shared point only approximately; the program then seeks out an
optimal position for it.
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panorama as a whole, use the mark at the right edge.

Crop
Because the source pictures are usually variously shifted against each other, the final panorama generally needs
cropping. In this step, you can enter the cropping borders, although the program tries to guess a suitable crop
automatically. The program's guess is the crop displayed when you enter this step.

Finalizing
After you click Next in the cropping step, the panorama is assembled at full size and then the last step in the wizard
is displayed. In this step, you can Save... the panorama to a file, or use Open in Editorto open it in the Editor,
where you can finalize it.

Panorama Tips
Photos taken using a wide-angle lens often suffer from barrel distortion, which makes it more difficult to correctly
join them, and also often causes ugly breaks within what should be straight lines. You can counter this problem byusing a larger focal length in the panoramas wizard than the one that was actually used when taking the source
pictures.
When manually fine-tuning your joins, enter primarily points in the middles of the transitions between pictures.
Also, emphasize places with high contrast (objects' corners, etc.).
Keep in mind that the final image can be relatively large, and this means large memory requirements. For example,
a panorama containing 10 pictures from a 6-megapixel camera has, assuming 30% overlap between pictures,roughly 22,000 × 2000 pixels, and occupies over 130 MB of memory (!) if it is perfectly flat, and even more if it isnot. Therefore you need to ensure that the computer on which you compose the panorama has enough memory. If
you do not need to have the panorama at a large resolution (if you will not be printing it), we recommend that you
assemble it from reduced-size copies of the original files. This significantly lowers the process's memory demands,
making the work of assembling the panorama much faster.

How to Take Pictures for a Panorama
The individual pictures should be taken using a lens with a large focal length. Source pictures from wide-angle
lenses (and especially zoom lenses) often suffer from barrel distortion, making it impossible to precisely join them.
If you cannot use a lens with a larger focal length (because you cannot get far enough away), it is a good idea to atleast take pictures with the camera turned on its side. (You will need to take more source pictures, but they will beeasier to join.)
While taking pictures, you should be turning the camera around the center of its optical apparatus. If you do not doso, then the individual pictures will each be taken from a slightly different angle. This too makes joining moredifficult (especially for close objects). This requirement can only be met completely using special tools, but evenjust placing the camera on a tripod will help considerably. When taking pictures by hand, it is practically
impossible to meet this demand, and thus it will also be impossible to join your pictures with complete precision.
During picture-taking, the camera should rotate around its vertical axis only. Once again, the easiest way toachieve this is using a tripod. (The ideal is to keep the camera straight using a level. Tripods often have a level builtin.) When taking photos by hand, just try to rotate the camera on only one axis.
The overlap between pictures should be from 30 to 50%. If it is smaller, then it can be difficult to find points shared
between neighboring pictures, and it also becomes necessary to join pictures towards their very edges, where lens
defects are the most apparent, making the seams between pictures much more noticeable. The program does notexpect overlap greater than 70-80%, and so larger values can cause bad joins.
If there are no great changes in lighting conditions throughout the scene you are capturing, it is a good idea to use
exposure locking. If, however, the lighting conditions differ significantly among pictures and some of them could
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algorithm generally does a good job of evening out such differences, joins between pictures can be quite
noticeable. If your camera enables it, then we recommend in any case that you manually set white balance.

3D Images
Use Create | 3D Images... to create stereoscopic pictures that are viewable in 3D with the aid of special equipment.
To create such pictures, you need two special source shots that are then joined into a single 3D picture.
Creating source pictures is fairly simple, and you do not need any special tools—you just take two shots of thesubject from two slightly different angles. When taking the second shot, you move the camera by about the
distance between an average pair of eyes (around 2 1/2 inches: 6-7 centimeters).
After you choose the two source images, Zoner Photo Studio tries to Find Shared Points. Using these points, it
tries to compose the 3D image precisely even in cases where you turned, raised, or lowered the camera between thetwo shots. To delete any improperly detected shared points, select them and click Delete Selected Point or press[Del]. To delete all shared points, click Delete All Points. To add new points, click on the previews. The most points
you can add is 12.
It is important to ensure that the left photo is on the left and the right photo is on the right. If the photos are switched,
the final picture will not look 3D. If you do need to swap them, you can do so using the button named Left < — >Right.
The second step of the wizard is where the 3D image is actually created. Choose a 3D image type to set what
method will be used to deliver depth information. The Anaglyph type stores depth information in the individual color
channels. Viewing an anaglyph in 3D requires glasses with colored filters. The next type is JPS/PNS, which is basedon placing the left and right source picture right next to each other; the resulting double-width image is then encoded
to JPEG (JPS) or to PNG (PNS). Applications that support this format can determine the file format based on theextension and divide it into the two source pictures. The last type is MPO, which is the de facto standard for storing
stereoscopic pictures and is supported by a wide range of devices (cameras, 3D televisions, etc.).
For the Anaglyph image type, there are also four anaglyph types available. Black-and-white makes the program
convert the source pictures to grayscale and then from grayscale to the target colors. The remaining three methods
create color anaglyphs. Color retains all colors. This may work poorly if the image contains large bright-red areas. To
create aesthetically pleasing anaglyphs of scenes with such red areas, use Half-color, which weakens the redchannel by an amount of your choice. To weaken the red channel further, use Optimized. Then use the Red
Channel Level slider to set the amount of weakening.
Use the arrow buttons to manually correct the positions and rotations of the pictures against each other. Use thebutton in the middle of them to cancel your manual adjustments. To ensure that unjoined edge regions are removed
automatically, leave the factory setting for Crop. Use the preview pane to preview the result. PNS/JPS and MPO
images are only viewable in 3D using special software. To preview 3D images in these formats when that software is
not at hand, force an anaglyph-style preview using the Preview Type control.
In the last step, save the 3D image or, for anaglyphs, open it in the Editor for further edits if desired.

Support for the MPO, JPS, PNS, and BMS Formats
For source pictures in normal image formats, two source files are always necessary, but some specialized formats
can contain both source pictures in a single file. In this case, just select that one file, and the program will read both
source pictures automatically.

Some persons with vision defects do not see anaglyph-type 3D pictures in 3D.

Exposure Blending HDR
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This function helps solve the problem of the limited dynamic range of camera sensors. Because of this limited
range, digital cameras cannot satisfactorily capture scenes with large differences in brightness, like a dark forest
beneath a bright sky, or a dark room with light pouring in from a window. Since a photograph cannot capture ascene with such a large exposure range in a way that captures details in all parts of the scene, the photographer
is forced to "sacrifice" details in either the light or the dark areas. But if the photographer can take three pictures
identical except for their exposure - underexposed, overexposed, and "medium" - they can take advantage of
HDR. Zoner Photo Studio can then use the most detailed areas from each shot to put together a new picture.
HDR pictures are normally composed from three shots, but sometimes two are enough, that is, either normal +underexposed (to capture lights), normal + overexposed (to capture shadows), or under/overexposed. After selecting
source pictures in the Browser, use Create | HDR via Exposure Mapping... to start the wizard. To fix any mistakes
you might have in your selection, use the wizard's first step. In the next step, the pictures are automatically aligned.
Double-check the alignment and manually fix it here if needed. For advice on checking and fixing alignment, see theHelp section for Aligning Pictures , as this function contains a similar window.
Use the next step to set which picture is properly exposed, which is underexposed, and which is overexposed. The
program will try to order the pictures automatically. However, you can also reorder them by dragging and droppingthem. In the next step, the HDR picture is actually created. You can use several settings to influence how it willlook.
The various settings are separate for lights and for shadows, but their meaning is the same for both. Use Transition
threshold to set the brightness level beyond which a pixel in the underexposed/overexposed picture is copied intothe "medium" picture. However, this threshold need not be a sharp one; pixels from the source pictures can bephased in gradually. To set the width of such gradual transitions, use Transition smoothness. However, even withthis sort of smooth transition, the border between the original and the changed part of the picture can be quite visible.
You can alleviate this by using what is called an unsharp mask to blend the edit into the surrounding pixels as well.
You can change the mask's unsharpness using Mask blurring. The last setting is Intensity, which sets the ratio
between the original picture and the one being copied in.
Use the buttons in the last step to save the final HDR picture to file or open it in the Editor so you can continue
editing it.

HDR via Tone Mapping
Use Tone Mapping HDR to combine several photographs with varying exposure ranges into a single picture via tone
mapping. Unlike Exposure Blending HDR, it enables work with an unlimited number of source pictures.
This function helps solve the problem of the limited dynamic range of camera sensors. Because of this limited
range, digital cameras cannot satisfactorily capture scenes with large differences in brightness, like a dark forest
beneath a bright sky, or a dark room with light pouring in from a window. Since a photograph cannot capture ascene with such a large exposure range in a way that captures details in all parts of the scene, the photographer
is forced to "sacrifice" detail in either the light or the dark areas. However, if the photographer prepares several
shots that are identical except for their exposure levels, tone mapping HDR can be used. Zoner Photo Studiothen uses the most relevant parts out of each of these images and assembles them together to create a new
HDR image, to which tone mapping is then applied.
An unlimited number of source pictures can be used for tone mapping HDR. After selecting source pictures in the
Browser, use Create | Tone Mapping HDR. To create an HDR image, the program must know the exposure value(EV) of each source picture. Darker pictures have lower exposure values than light ones. The exposure value is taken
automatically from EXIF using the data for aperture, exposure time, and ISO. If there is not enough data available forthat, the EV must be entered manually. Click Set to set the exposure value difference between pictures.
Alternatively, a separate exposure value can be entered for each picture. In the next step, the pictures areautomatically aligned. Double-check the alignment and manually fix it here if needed. For advice on checking andfixing alignment, see the Help topic named Aligning Pictures, as that function contains a similar window. In the next
step the HDR image is actually created, and tone mapping is initialized. Various settings are provided there for
influencing the final output.
Brightness Method works exclusively with the Brightness value. Use this method to maximize the suppression of
picture's lights and shadows. It lightens dark regions and darkens light regions. Contrast method works with
contrast values in the area around a given pixel. This method emphasizes details and leaves the original distributionof light and shadow in the picture intact. Use the settings here for fine-tuning.
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Use Intensity to set how strongly the tone mapping affects surrounding pixels. Compression determines how
strongly the whole HDR dynamic range will be represented in the final output. Use Light to suppress lights andshadows effects. To set color intensity, use Saturation. Use Gamma to shape the gamma correction curve. The
White Color and Black Color settings determine the "cutoff" percentages for the effect. Lights Intensity andShadows Intensity set how strongly the effect is applied in the picture's lights/in its shadows.
In the last step, you can either save the final HDR picture to file or open it in the Editor, where you can continue
editing it.
Note that one possible and even attractive use of tone mapping HDR is the creation of HDR from one single image(typically JPEG or RAW).

PDF Slideshows
PDF slideshows are a very good way to share photographic presentations. They can be used even if your audience
uses a Macintosh or Linux computer. Unlike "self-launching" presentations, this is a safe format - no program code istransferred, and thus the risk of transferring viruses among computers is minimal.
At their core, PDF slideshows are standard PDF files that contain one full-page photograph per page. During
slideshow generation, you can set the way each photo (page) in the slideshow will be displayed. This means theTransition effect used and the amount of time to Show (the) image for – these can be set individually for each
picture. Click Apply to All to apply the selected effect and display time to all pictures. You can also give the whole
document a unified effect display time (Show effect for) and you can set a soundtrack. The soundtrack can be in
the MP3, WAV, MIDI, AIFF or AU format. When possible, use MP3, because of its advanced compression.
For your audience to see your slideshow as intended, they need to have Adobe Reader 6 or higher on their computer.
(It is unlikely that they will not.) Older versions of Adobe Reader and other PDF viewers (e.g. GSView) will display thephotos only, without the transition effects and the soundtrack.

Removing Noise using Multi-exposures
When taking pictures in insufficient light and without a tripod, it's usually not possible to use a very long exposure
time, and a high ISO is usually needed too. This leads to photos with a lot of noise. If, however, you have taken
several such photos in a row, you can use this function to combine them into one picture. The program averages their
pixels, reducing noise. When taking the source pictures, make sure to move the camera as little as possible,
because even a small change in its position can cause quite large changes to perspective, making it difficult to alignthe pictures so they can be sharpened. Cameras' functions for taking quick series of pictures are very useful here.
About 4-6 shots is best. With fewer, the noise reduction is smaller than it could be. With more, the risk of nudging
the camera during the series is greater.
After selecting source pictures in the Browser, use Create | Join Multi-exposures | Remove Noise... to start the
wizard. To fix any mistakes you might have in your selection, use the wizard's first step. In the next step, the pictures
are automatically aligned. Double-check the alignment and manually fix it here if needed. For advice on checking andfixing alignment, see the Help section for Align Pictures , which contains a similar window. In the next step, thesharpened picture is generated. Use the settings here to influence the results.
Use Crop to crop away edge areas where the source shots have not perfectly overlapped. Small shifts of the camera
between pictures are normal for shots taken by hand, so pictures need to be aligned. This process is not always
perfect, so edge areas may be blurred. Use the Sharpen option to eliminate this blurring. If some objects havechanged position between shots, use the option named Remove differences between pictures and if necessary
use the Amount to remove slider to fix the problem. Use the lowest slider level that works, because higher levels
can mean less noise reduction: with strong reduction, in pictures with a high degree of noise, the noise can bemistaken for a change in the picture, and thus not reduced. But areas that contain removed differences between
pictures always receive less noise reduction than other areas. This option can also be useful even when a scene
contained no moving objects. If the camera position shifted heavily between shots, it can be hard for the program toalign them well. Use this option to eliminate e.g. doubled contours caused by poorly aligned source pictures.
In the last step, you can either save the final picture to file or open it in the Editor, where you can continue editing it.
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Removing Moving Objects
Use this function when you want to photograph a certain object, but other objects that you do not want in the picture
keep moving around it—for example a monument surrounded by tourists. Prepare for this function by taking picturesof the object at several time intervals. Then use the function to join them into a single picture. For each part of the
final picture, the function only uses the part of the picture that best matches the other pictures. Therefore, when
taking your source pictures, make sure that for every area in the picture's subject, there are at least two shots wherenothing is blocking it. Although shots from a tripod work best, you can also shoot by hand—the function straightens
them out before starting. We strongly recommend using exposure locking and manual white balance for your source
shots.
After selecting source pictures in the Browser, use Create | Join Multi-exposures | Remove Moving Objects...tostart the wizard. To fix any mistakes you might have in your selection, use the wizard's first step. In the next step,
the pictures are automatically aligned (straightened). Double-check the alignment and manually fix it here if needed.
For advice on checking and fixing alignment, see the Help section for Align Pictures , which contains a similar
window. In the next step, the final picture is created. Use Blur edges for smooth transitions between parts takenfrom different pictures. Use Duplicate Objects to bring all the removed objects back into the final picture. Use thistechnique for creative images where e.g. a single object in a photo is in several different places in the picture.
With poor source materials, the final output can sometimes contain scraps of the objects that were removed. Usemanual correction to handle this. In the place that you wish to adjust, drag out a frame, and in the next step of the
wizard, choose which source picture to use for the area in the frame.
In the last step, you can either save the final picture to file or open it in the Editor, where you can continue editing it.

Aligning Pictures
Use this pictures to align several pictures of the same object taken without a tripod. After selecting source pictures in
the Browser, use Create | Join Multi-exposures | Align Pictures... to start the wizard. To fix any mistakes you
might have in your selection, use the wizard's first step. In the next step, the program tries to find points shared
between the different pictures, and to use these to align the pictures. The pictures are always aligned to the first one
in the series. The left part of the window contains a list of the pictures in the series. Click a picture other than the firstone in order to select the picture and to check its alignment in the preview pane on the right. Use the buttons under
the preview to toggle the display in the preview pane between the aligned picture, the first picture, and the one
overlaid above the other.
If no shared points could be found for a given picture or it is badly aligned, edit the shared points manually using Edit
Shared Points. During shared point editing, the right part of the window shows the two pictures and their sharedpoints aside each other. Click a spot in either picture to add a shared point. The program automatically adds its
equivalent to the other picture. Click and drag a point to move it. To delete a point, press [Delete] or click Delete
Selected Point; click Delete All Points to remove all shared points. To help check alignment during editing, use thebuttons on the right to see how the program has overlapped the pictures. Click Save Added Points to exit editing
and align the picture based on the newly added shared points. Click Cancel Shared Point Editing to restore thestate before you started editing.
Use Crop to crop away edge areas where the source shots have not perfectly overlapped.
Use the last step of the wizard to save the final picture, add a useful suffix to the names of the individual files, andchoose a folder and format for saving the files.

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Sharing and Publishing
There are several options available for publishing pictures.
Share – a sharing button is available in the Side Panel’s toolbar when you are in the Manager, Develop, or the
Editor. Use it to instantly share pictures via Facebook, Twitter, an emailed link, or a physical postcard.
The Create module – use this module to create physical products and send them off for production: PhotoBooks, Calendars, and Canvas Prints. This is also the place for creating Collages or Print Jobs. Besides theprofessional printing options for selected products, all of these products can also be printed out on your home
printer or exported to PDFs or bitmaps.
Printing a Single Picture is possible in the Editor. To print a single picture, use File | Print...
Send by E-Mail – use this function to send photos by email as an attachment. This function offers settings forshrinking the copies of the photos, etc. before sending them.
Upload to Zonerama
programuse this function to upload photos to a Zonerama web album directly from inside of the

Printing a Single Picture
To print a single picture from the Editor, use File | Print... [Ctrl+P].
In the printing window, you can set the size and position of the picture and add a caption.
After choosing a printer, you can click Properties... to set a paper size and color (this is very important when printing
to special photo paper). Zoner Photo Studio can also read in page size and margins on its own. If you turn on Print
to file, the program will save the printout as a data file use by the selected printer instead of actually printing.
Number of copies is automatically preset based on your settings in the printer properties, but you can also set it
within the main preprint window. The Automatically change paper orientation to match image option changes
the paper orientation (landscape vs. portrait) to match the orientation of the picture you are printing.
There are buttons beneath the print preview for changing the picture's size and position.
The Fit to page and if required option centers the picture on the page and handles how it should be fit on the page,using the fitting method that you select. The Add borders option adjusts the picture so that it fits on the page in full.
The second option, Crop, makes the picture completely fill up the page's printable area and crops out any part of thepicture that spills off the page. Such edge areas are marked in red in the preview.
The By image DPI option places the picture on the page at the size needed to achieve the DPI level you set.
The Custom option enables you to set a fixed Width or Height for the picture. You can set just one dimension—theprogram will automatically, proportionally calculate the other dimension.
You can use the buttons beneath the picture to anchor the picture to an edge or corner of the page, or to its middle.
You can also instead use the fixed position menu. Use the Custom option to set a position of your choice for theLeft and Top corner of the picture.
You can choose which Units to define the custom position in—millimeters or inches.
You can also optionally add a Caption to the picture. You can Place the caption below or above the picture, andAlign it to either the edges or the center of the picture.
You can either write the caption manually or make use of picture information via the program's variable text feature.
Click Font... to select a font and size for the text.

Send by E-Mail
Use the Publish | Send by E-Mail... [Ctrl+Shift+M] item to hand selected files in the Browser over to your e-mailprogram, which will then attach them to a new message. Before control is transferred to your e-mail program, you are
given a chance to apply several types of edits to your pictures.

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The e-mail program used must be an actual program, and must support the MAPI interface.
Web e-mail services do not support this interface, so you cannot send files over a web email service using this function.
You can shrink pictures or convert them to JPEG before sending. Using the Shrink TrueColor images item will
shrink pictures with dimensions higher than the values you set down to those values. (TrueColor images are images
with a certain maximum color range; normally, photographs will be in TrueColor.) The will be shrunk proportionally sothat it fits the maximums for both width and height (and fits at least one of these snugly). Use the Convert
TrueColor images to JPEG to change the picture's format to JPEG (if needed) and resave the picture with acompression level of your choice. Pictures stored in GIF and other formats with palette-based colors will ignore thisfunction.
You can also compress your picture files before sending them. When you check ZIP-compress images, all the files
will be saved into a single compressed file with the name and compression level that you choose.
Use Size warning if you want Zoner Photo Studio to warn you when the total size of your pictures exceeds anamount of your choice. This warning window gives you a chance to either continue or go back and change settings.
You can also use this window to send pictures To (the) clipboard instead of attaching them to an e-mail. When you
click this button, the pictures in question, in altered versions with the compression, etc. you have requested in thiswindow, are saved to a temporary folder, and links to those temporary files are placed in the Windows Clipboard.
After this, you can go to any window capable of accepting a pasted file—like a new e-mail window or a folder—anduse [Ctrl+V] (or the Paste item in the program's Edit menu) to paste the files into it. Temporary files will be deleted
automatically when you exit Zoner Photo Studio; only files that still have a link to in the Clipboard will be retained.
When Convert pictures with a profile to sRGB is active, pictures with a color profile other than sRGB will be
converted to this, the most "universal" color space. (If you have no experience with color profiles, the chance that you
will need to change this option is low.)

You can choose which e-mail program actually "receives" the pictures. In Windows Vista, gofrom the Control Panel to Programs, then to Default Programs, then to Set your default
programs. In Windows XP, go to Start, then All Programs, then Set Program Access andDefaults.

Upload to Zonerama
Zoner Photo Studio provides easy access to web albums hosted on Zonerama. You can easily and quickly manage
web albums straight from inside the program.
You must log in using a Zoner Account before using Zonerama for the first time. To do so, click the words Not
logged in near the top right corner of the program, beneath the "Import," "Manager," etc. buttons.
Use Publish | Upload to Zonerama to make the Manager display two Browsers, with one showing your current
folder on disk, and one showing your Zonerama albums. Switching to the Zonerama Browser switches you to theZonerama section of the Navigator as well.
To create a new album, use Organize | New Album. New albums are set as hidden, that is, they are not displayed
among the public galleries on Zonerama. To unhide an album, right-click it and use Set Privacy.
Drag and drop photos to copy them from your computer into an album, from an album onto your computer, or among
albums. You can also drag a folder from your computer onto Zonerama. This automatically creates a new album.
During each upload, Zoner lets you Choose upload quality. At the quality level called "Highest," the picture is
uploaded at its original resolution.
You can rename, delete, or change information for pictures on Zonerama in the usual ways. To use a picture as analbum cover, right-click it and choose Set as Album Cover in the menu.

Warning: Deleting photos in the Cloud album deletes them on all your devices' Cloud
folders.
To view photos at full size, open them in the Viewer or Slideshow.

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You can also edit any Zonerama photo directly from inside Zoner Photo Studio. To do this, open the photo in the
Editor, edit it, and save it using File | Save [Ctrl+S].
The bottom part of the Zonerama Browser shows a status bar with information on the current album and a link named
Show on Web. Click it to open the current album in a web browser.

ExportNon-destructive editing in Zoner Photo Studio works transparently, that is, it is applied intuitively in all parts of the
program. However, in order to use a non-destructively edited picture in other software, it must be exported. To exporta picture, click Export in the Side Panel. This button is available in the Manager and in Develop. In Develop, it
normally affects the picture currently being edited. However, if multiple pictures are selected in the Filmstrip, theExport button affects all selected pictures.
The Export window lets you pick a target folder for the files being exported, as well as their format, quality, and color
space, and lets you resize them and choose what metadata the exported file will contain. These settings can be
modified as needed, or quickly picked using a list of common settings. These quick settings can also be picked
directly, using the small arrow button next to Export.
The export itself is done in the background while you work. To check the status of a long-running export job, visit
Notifications - see the bell icon at the top right of the program. Notifications also shows any warning or error
messages that may appear.

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Program settings
To display the window for work with program preferences, use Settings | Preferences [Ctrl+M] in the program's mainmenu.
The left side of this window shows a list of sections. The right side shows options within a given section. Click
Restore Settings for All Selected to restore the defaults (factory settings) for the currently-displayed section.

Appearance
Use the setting named Color Theme to change the program's overall appearance. Several themes are available. You
can also set the Editor background color, Thumbnail background color, and Thumbnail style.
Here you can also tell the program not to Highlight module switcher buttons.
Use the Toolbars group to choose an Icon size from among these two options: Normal Icons and Large Icons.
Underneath these options is a Preview of how toolbars will look with your settings.
Click Change Toolbar Settings... to call up a window for customizing toolbars' contents.
The Zoner Photo Studio window always shows a title bar at the top if you turn off the option named Hide program's
title bar when maximizing window.
Use the Optimize interface for touch devices option to change Zoner Photo Studio's interface (mainly the sizes ofcertain controls) so that it is easier to use with touch controls.

General
Double-clicking a thumbnail in the Browser should launch: - four options are available here: Preview, Develop, Editor, Viewer. This option also controls what happens when you press [Enter] when a thumbnail is selected in
the Browser.
When displaying pictures that do not fit on the screen at 100% (1:1) scale, the program must show them at reduced
size. To set the method used for this resizing, use Bitmap display quality. Low gives high display speed, but low
quality. For most purposes, the best option is Normal. High gives the best display quality, but it also places thehighest demands on your computer. The bitmap display quality setting is shared by all parts of the program.
Milliseconds to wait before automatic previews sets how quickly Zoner starts to update the display after you
change settings.
Default JPEG compression sets what JPEG compression quality is used when saving pictures. The next option
sets what happens If (an) image does not qualify for lossless JPEG transformation. Crop to qualify it makes
the program automatically crop the picture as needed to let the program use a lossless edit. Perform lossy
transformation makes the program preserve the picture's exact size. Uncropped photographs from a digital camera
always meet the size requirements.
Use the setting named Show Import automatically on attaching camera or inserting card to control whether or
not the program automatically shows the Import module after you attach a camera, etc. Automatically rotate
images to match EXIF orientation flag makes the program automatically visually rotate pictures to landscape/portrait as needed to match their EXIF orientation.
Use the setting named Always start the Browser in this folder: to make the program always start in a certain
folder. Use the Browse button here to pick that folder. With this option turned off, Zoner Photo Studio remembers
what folder you are in when you exit the program, and shows that folder again the next time you start it.

Saving, Loading, and Restoring Settings
Zoner Photo Studio is rich in settings for its various windows and for the program overall. All of these settings are
stored in the Windows registry. If you reinstall Windows or your disk fails, these settings are lost forever. For thisreason, it can be a good idea to store away a file with your settings for the whole program, so that you can later
renew them. To save settings, click Save Settings.... You will be asked to choose a location for the settings file. To
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Toolbars and Keyboard Shortcuts
Use these two buttons to call up windows for customizing toolbars and keyboard shortcuts. Alternatively, bring up
these windows by clicking the Customize Toolbar item in the right-click menu for a toolbar.
Use the Keyboard Shortcuts tab to change functions' keyboard shortcuts. You can assign multiple shortcuts to thesame action. If you enter a keyboard shortcut that is already in use, then the program automatically shows the nameof the action that is already using the same shortcut.
Use the Toolbars tab to change what buttons are shown on toolbars. The left side shows available buttons. The rightside shows buttons that are already present on the toolbar. Add a button, select an item on the left and a future
position on the right, and then click Add. The item is then added at the selected position. Removing buttons works
similarly. To reorder the Displayed buttons, either select items and click Up or Down, or drag and drop items toyour desired positions directly.
Use Settings and the controls at the bottom of the window to save and reload this window's settings.

Display
Use this section to set which file types are displayed in the Browser. (A file's filename extension determines its
type.)
You can either tell the program to Show all files or select which types of supported files it should display.
Turn off Highlight to distinguish bitmap/vector/video/sound to prevent the Browser from color-highlighting files bytype in the Details viewing mode.

The Catalog
The Catalog can contain multiple folders. To add or remove folders, use Add Folder and Remove Folder. Adding
folders to the list makes the Catalog start indexing them in the background.
Checkmark a cataloged folder to make ZPS create large previews for the pictures inside it. These are available evenwhen the device with that folder is offline (e.g. a flash stick, USB disk, etc.) Such unavailable files remain listed in theCatalog; you can view their previews and their file information. When a file is unavailable, a cross icon is displayed on
its thumbnail.
Use Maximum thumbnail size to set the size at which the thumbnails used in the Browser and Filmstrip arestored.
Warning: If you choose a size larger than 160 pixels, thumbnail generation can slow down considerably, because
the program cannot take advantage of pictures' internal EXIF thumbnails. Those thumbnails have a size of 160 ×
120 pixels.
The Catalog’s index file, its "Index," stores thumbnails and information for your pictures. That makes browsing
cataloged pictures faster. Also, the Browser’s Quick Search box only works with cataloged pictures. By default, theIndex is stored in your Windows user profile folder. This is usually on the same disk as your Windows installation. To
save space on that disk, change the Index location or use the control named Trim index when it reaches thissize.
Note that the Index only stores information that is already contained inside your picture files. Therefore, clicking
Delete the Index does not destroy your data - it only slows down browsing and prevents Quick Search.
Use the setting named For Quick Search ("fulltext"), assume I'm using to set which language Quick Searchshould assume you are using, so that it can find e.g. "dogs" when you look for "dog." Zoner only applies this setting
during indexing, so to make this setting have an effect, delete the Index and re-catalog your pictures.

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Thumbnails
Use the settings in this section to control how thumbnails are displayed in the Browser and the Filmstrip. Use thesettings here to set the Thumbnail Width and Ratio of Sides. To quickly resize thumbnails within the Browser, use
the slider on its toolbar or scroll the mouse wheel while holding down [Ctrl]. The maximum thumbnail size is not set
here; change it under Catalog.
Zoner can and normally does Load EXIF thumbnails when they are present, instead of generating its own. This
speeds up browsing, but if your pictures have outdated EXIF thumbnails, you'll see those, rather than thumbnails
based on how they look now. Zoner Photo Studio itself always updates EXIF thumbnails whenever it edits a picture.
In pictures whose EXIF thumbnails are missing or outdated, you can tell the program to generate new ones. For this,use Information | Manage Information | Add EXIF Preview.... Note that that function only affects JPEG and TIFF
pictures.
Normally, Zoner Photo Studio creates and shows thumbnails for video files when possible. To turn this behavior off,
uncheck Generate thumbnails for videos. Show icons for pictures’ Default Programs in their thumbnails
controls whether or not an icon for each file’s Default Program is shown at the top right of its thumbnail Display
image thumbnails in folder icons makes the program show thumbnails for a folder’s first four pictures within thefolder thumbnail. Use the Look for sample pictures this many levels deep option to also find sample pictures in
subfolders up to the number of levels you set.
Use the Tool tip setting to set what information is shown in a tool tip bubble when hovering the mouse over a file in
the Browser.

Thumbnail Descriptions
Use the options here to control whether or not the thumbnails in the Browser and Filmstrip will Show file names andextended information. This information can be displayed directly under thumbnails, or in a tool tip. This
information is customized using a formatting string. Use the controls at the bottom to set what information is shownin the Tiles listing mode.

EditorUse this section of the preferences to adjust how the Editor looks and behaves.
Use Mouse wheel action to set how the Editor reacts to mouse wheel rotation: whether it zooms, or moves to thenext/previous picture. If you hold down [Ctrl] while rotating the mouse wheel, the picture will always zoom in/out.
You can also change the Main toolbar location. With the default setting, the toolbar lies horizontally in the sidepanel. You can change it to a vertical toolbar on the left or right instead.
Darken area to be cropped sets how heavily the program darkens the area that the Crop tool will crop.
The Animate selection outline option makes the outlines of selections “move” so they are more visible. If you
encounter problems with selections in the Editor, such as a flashing screen or program slowdowns, turn this option
off.
Use the next control, For the “Save As” command, offer..., for added convenience if you frequently need to open
pictures in one folder and save their edited versions in another folder. The two choices here set whether the Save As
window starts out showing the last folder visited, or shows the folder containing the currently open file (if any) instead.
You can also change the folder for the Editor’s temporary files. Temporary files are used when editing large files
in the Editor.

Preview
Use the options in this section to configure the behavior of the Manager's Preview mode.
Use Mouse wheel action to set what action the Viewer performs when the mouse wheel is rotated: moving
among pictures, or changing the zoom level. (Hold down [Ctrl]and rotate the mouse wheel to zoom regardless of
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active, small pictures are normally stretched out to fit the whole Preview or Viewer display. With this option
inactive, small pictures are never stretched to fit the display.

Compare Images
In this section, you can adjust program preferences for the function named Compare Images.
Use Mouse wheel action to set which action Compare Images takes when the mouse wheel is rotated: moving
among pictures, or changing zoom level.
You can also change the Picture captions. These are defined using the program feature named Variable Text.

Integration
Use the settings in this section to adjust integration of Zoner Photo Studio into Microsoft Windows. Some settings
here, concerning Zoner’s status as the default program for image files (or "associated" program in Windows XP), varydepending on which version of Windows you are using. Keep in mind that these controls can only set Zoner as thedefault program for formats; they cannot "un-set" it! To set another program as default for some or all image formats,use the Windows Control Panel.
Windows 7 - two buttons are available. Set as default program for all supported file types makes Zoner PhotoStudio the default program for every file type it can support. Set as default program for selected file types...
displays a windows for setting Zoner Photo Studio as the default program for file types of your choice.
Windows 8, Windows 10 - only one button is available: Set as default program for selected file types....
The next set of controls sets which part of Zoner Photo Studio is shown when you double-click a picture: the Vieweror the Editor.
Use Integrate Zoner Photo Studio into Windows to set whether or not items for launching Zoner Photo Studio areshown in the right-click menus in Windows for files of supported types. You must have administrator rights to change
this setting.
Check for updates on system startup: Zoner Photo Studio can check for updates even when it is not running.
When an update is found, a message appears in the Windows system tray. Use this setting to prevent these update
checks.

Color Management
Checking Use color management turns on the program's support for work with input and output devices' color
profiles. On a properly configured system, using color management gives you more faithful colors on the monitor andwhen printing.
Image's color space—this option sets whether pictures will be processed in the color spaces that are assigned tothem, or whether they will be converted to a custom color space during loading instead.
Working color space—this sets the default color space used during conversion to CMYK and RGB (if automaticconversion to a working color space is enabled).
Color management during printing—this sets whether and how programs and the printer driver will monitor
conversion to the printer profile.

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Printer—color profile for printing
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Monitor and Printer—the profile selected within Windows is used
Scanner and Camera—no profile is assigned

CMYK Image Profiles
Default input profile is a color profile used for conversion from CMYK to RGB in pictures that contain no color
profile. If none is selected, a mode compatible with older programs is used. Output profile is the target color profile
for CMYK pictures. If none is selected, a mode compatible with older programs is used.

Color management during printing
Color management during printing—this sets whether and how programs and the printer driver will monitor
conversion to the printer profile.
Color management modes during printing:Controlled by application —it is assumed that color management in the printer is turned off. The application has
full control over conversions among profiles. This option does not work correctly for printers that do not have an
RGB profile, but it gives the best output control.
Controlled by printer (sRGB) —it is assumed that color management in the printer is turned on. Pictures are sent
to the printer in sRGB only, but the printer profile settings are applied.
Controlled by printer (Adobe RGB) —works like the above, except that the program sends the picture to theprinter in Adobe RGB.
None —the picture is converted to sRGB and sent to the printer without the use of color management. Output
control is fully managed by the printer.
XPS printing —the picture is sent to the printer as an XPS document. This enables the printing of pictures with ahigher color depth. This function is only available for printers with an XPS driver, and color management is fully
controlled by the printer.

Even though Zoner Photo Studio can load in CMYK pictures with the use of a color profile,internally, it always works with pictures in RGB. The way in which CMYK pictures areinterpreted is not 100% compatible with Adobe Photoshop. For this reason, it is better totransfer pictures in RGB.

Information
Even though Zoner Photo Studio can read information from various formats, it focuses primarily on the JPEG and TIFF
formats. Within pictures of these formats, information can be stored in three types of so-called "data sources"—EXIF(Exchangeable Image File Format), IPTC and XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform). The options on this tab give youtighter control over these data sources. Zoner Photo Studio loads picture information into a cache. The cache
information is reused until program exit. Thus certain changes to these settings are only respected after the programis restarted.
Primary Data Source sets which data source (which standard) should be given preference when loading picture
information. This option does not affect the saving of information. Information is always saved to all supported
sources. In light of the limitations of the EXIF and IPTC standards, encoding problems can occur when using Zoner
Photo Studio in conjunction with other programs or web galleries. Therefore we recommend leaving the default, that is
the XMP standard, which does not suffer these problems.
Default IPTC Encoding - use this to choose the default encoding for the IPTC information block, if the program iscreating it. For full compatibility with older applications, leave the Current Code Page setting. For full support of all
character sets, switch to UTF-8.
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Photo Studio can at least partially understand this information, and after loading the information in, it can save it backinto pictures correctly. But if nonsensical data appears in the software supplied by your camera manufacturer for
pictures edited in Zoner Photo Studio, try turning this option off.
Save keywords to EXIF notes— the EXIF specification does not set aside a space for storing keywords. For thisreason, Zoner Photo Studio normally saves keywords to EXIF notes. Use this option to turn that behavior off.
Load in IPTC keywords —turn this option off if bad fragments appear among your keywords. This problem canoccur when you are loading pictures on a computer with different Windows language settings than the ones used by
the person who originally saved the information.
Save information for DNG images to an external XMP file – Zoner Photo Studio can save XMP information
inside DNG files, but storing it externally is faster and is safer for the DNG file.
Click Custom Information to set up custom XMP data to meet your individual needs. You will most appreciate thisability if you are placing pictures in a company database or publishing system.

Custom Information
Zoner Photo Studio can save picture information in three standard formats for such information; one of them is XMP.
The specification for XMP can be found at e.g.http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/pdfs/xmp_specification.pdf.The XMP
standard allows for the addition of custom information types, and Zoner Photo Studio supports this aspect of XMP.
The information defined in Zoner Photo Studio is normally in the http://zoner.com/xmp/userdata/1.0/ namespace.
Only text information is allowed. Four types of custom information are supported. Zoner Photo Studio does not enable
full use of these types. This possibility is present only so that certain standard XMP data that Zoner Photo Studiodoes not display can be mapped to custom information.
These types are:plain text (and lists—these actually only differ in the way they are visually presented)
date and time (this is stored in XMP as text with certain rules)
localized text (an XMP type that is used for e.g. storing copyright)
text sequence (an XMP type; author information, for example, is stored in this way—under XMP a photo can havemultiple authors and these can be stored as multiple items
For a normal user, the only important types are plain text and, occasionally, date and time.
Configuration—this sets the placement of the configuration file. If you wish to share custom information withmultiple users, it is essential for these users to also have the items selected in their own configuration files. You canachieve this either by copying the configuration or by placing it on a shared path. If the configuration is on a sharedpath, do not permit multiple users to edit it at once.
An item's Title is the name under which it is shown in your copy of Zoner Photo Studio. The type is governed by therules mentioned above. This option shows the variants available for the "list" type.
Use the settings under Configure XMP settings to configure how information is stored in XMP. If this group ofcontrols is not activated, the configuration is created automatically on the basis of the item name, and the programshows a warning whenever any conflict occurs.
Namespace identifies the group of data to which the selected item belongs. You can find a list of standard
namespaces in the XMP specification, but you can also create your own namespaces.
The Prefix sets how the items in the corresponding namespace will be identified in the stored XMP file. It should beshort and should contain neither spaces nor extended characters.
The Item control sets the name under which the item will be stored in XMP. Its name should be short and should
contain neither spaces nor extended characters.

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Title: Copyright
Type: Localized text
Namespace: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
Prefix: dc
Item: rights

LabelsUse the Labels feature to add colored labels to your pictures, to help sort them by a system of your own. Labels are
stored in EXIF and XMP picture information as texts that describe their color ("red," "green," etc.)

RAW Format
RAW-to-DNG converter tells the program the path to Adobe DNG Converter. If the converter is installed in its
standard location, Zoner Photo Studio fills in the path automatically. If the use of Adobe DNG Converter is enabled,
Zoner Photo Studio enables the use of the RAW module for all RAW files. Processing a picture with the RAW
module in this case includes creating a temporary DNG version of the picture so that Zoner Photo Studio can process
it. Use Convert to linear image (interpolate) when converting to DNG to set whether demosaicing is performedby the DNG converter or afterwards in the RAW module. (In the second case, an interpolation method can bechosen.)Helper Programs
You can set a list of "helper programs" for any format of your choice. First you create a list of helper programs using
the Add button. Then you choose a format (a filename extension) to assign them to and click Assign. You can theneasily reach these programs in the Browser, by right-clicking and then using the Helper Programs submenu within
the right-click menu.

Signing Certificates
This section shows the digital signature certificates installed on your computer. Whichever certificate you choose
here will be used signing digital photos in Zoner Photo Studio. Verify that certificate has not been revoked: thisoption requires that you be connected to the Internet, so if you are not connected non-stop, it can be best to turn it
off. Only check revoking for signature certificates prevents the program from checking the whole certificate
hierarchy.

Other
To make the program show all warnings, including those for which you have turned on "Do not show again," click
Renew All Warnings.
The For Canon images, show Canon's exposure values instead of true values item sets whether the program
uses the exposure values you set on your Canon camera, or rather the ones that the camera actually used instead.
These values often do not fall precisely within the classical exposure values.
Compensate for asymmetric resolution lets the program automatically correct photos that have differing resolution
in the horizontal and vertical directions.
The settings group named Display of blowout and overexposure determines how the program displays areas with
exposure problems, that is, areas that are so dark or so light that they have lost detail. When Desaturate image isactive, the picture will be converted to grayscale in those areas where there are no problems. Use colors in blowout
highlighting to indicate problem channels determines whether or not the program uses colors to highlightblowout that occurred in only one or two channels. Show underexposed areas determines whether or not areas
with underexposure should be highlighted in addition to those with blowout.
This section also contains settings for File operations in Zoner Photo Studio. Remove "read only" flag when
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or not a sound will be played at the end of any copying or moving operation that lasts more than 30 seconds. The
When moving/deleting pictures, do the same for supplementary files option, when active, makes the program
move/delete/copy files with the same name as a picture, but a different extension, for these extensions: EXIFBAK(backups of EXIF information), XMP (external picture-information file), THM (external thumbnail), and WAV (external
audio note). Automatically propose file names makes the program suggest new names for files and folders basedon names you have used in the past.
Do not copy contents of symbolic links— when this option is active, the program only creates copies of symbolic
links themselves instead of copying their contents. When it is inactive, the whole structure of folders and files that thelink refers to is copied.

Filters
Here you can find settings that affect how "filter windows" behave. These are the windows where you apply edits,effects, and enhancements.
The Offer highest color depth by default when saving in Editor option tells the program to offer you the highest
possible color depth when you save your pictures, even if you used a lower one the last time you saved.
Apply filters in Browser to all pages in multi-page TIFFs : files in the TIFF format can contain multiple pages,
one image on each page. With this option on, any editing windows you use in the Browser will affect all pages ofsuch files, not just the first.
The Save "last used" presets when you exit the filter window option makes the program record your settings infilter windows to the preset named "Last used" even if you did not apply those settings.
The next two items affect batch renaming. The first tells the program whether or not to Reset (the) batch renaming
counter each time you enter a filter window. The second, Reset batch renaming counter when the nametemplate is changed, resets the counter when you change the rest of the name, or the variable text used togenerate the rest of the name.
With Display full path in filter window active, filter windows will always show the path to the file you are currently
editing.
The last two options once again relate to batch renaming. Warning: The Allow filename collisions during batch
renaming option is dangerous. However, it can also be useful. With this option on, if batch renaming produces afilename that matches an existing filename in the target folder, the file with the old filename will be overwritten. The
picture will be destroyed. When you turn on Allow batch renaming for all file types, the batch renaming window
will not be limited to renaming just pictures.

Plug-In Modules
Before the first time you use a plug-in, you must set the folder where it is located. To set the paths to plug-ins, use
Settings | Preferences | Plug-ins window's Add button. To use a plug-in after you have set the path to it, use the
Editor's Edit | Plug-ins submenu. Plug-ins each have their own controls and settings. In case of trouble with a plugin, contact its author or consult its documentation.

GPS Settings
The field named Show GPS on this web site: contains, and lets you edit, the map website link that is shown when
you use "Custom" in the program's GPS windows.
Click the GPS icon on a Browser thumbnail to show a picture's location on a map inside Zoner Photo Studio or
Google Earth.
If the source tracklog for assigning GPS coordinates contains a large amount of errors in its data, turn on Filter junkdata from GPS tracklogs.

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VideoZoner Photo Studio can play videos in the Manager's Preview window and in the Viewer.
The Windows Media Foundation technology is normally used for playback of files in video and audio formats. To
expand the range of such formats that are supported, install MPlayer. Then use the preferences here to make ZPS
utilize MPlayer. This free and open-source software is available as a part of e.g. SMPlayer. On its first run, Zoner
Photo Studio looks for an installation of MPlayer in the usual locations. To manually set the MPlayer location, click
Browse. Use the setting named For video playback, prioritize to set which method is given priority during video
playback. If that method fails, then the program automatically tries the other method.
List of supported formats.

Second Monitor
Use the controls here to set which monitor to use to display the Develop and Editor sections of the program whenworking on a computer with two monitors.
The following options are available:
Active Window - the tab opens up in whichever window is active;
Previous Location - the tab opens up in the same window where it was shown the last time;
Main Window - the tab always opens up in the main window;
Second Monitor - the tab always opens up in the window for the second monitor.
Other tabs can be moved among windows at any time using the options in the right-click menus for each tab.

Backups of Originals
Use the top option in the Backups preferences to make the program start or stop making automatic backups oforiginals when a picture is edited. This function is described in detail in the topic named Backups of originals.
Backups of originals are stored in the Backups folder. Click Browse... here to change the location of the Backups
folder. For best performance, the Backups folder should be in a location that has plenty of space, and that thecomputer can access quickly (ideally on the same disk where your photo collection is located).
The Backups preferences section also provides information on the Size of the backups folder. There is a Delete
Backups of Originals... button here; use it to remove all backups of originals, saving space but making it impossible
to restore originals using these backups.

Media Server
Use the first preference here to set a Server name of your choice - the factory setting is "Zoner Media Server (yourcomputer's name)." Below that there are two settings: Maximum picture quality and a setting for whether or not toStart the Media Server automatically when starting Windows as well as a button to Stop the Media Server.
A DLNA server can be reached by any DLNA-compatible client; these include for example smart TVs and various
mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
Zoner Media Server automatically converts various image formats (including RAW) to the format that is used by the
DLNA standard. Using a media server also has two other advantages. It eliminates the need to transfer pictures
around your home network, and it makes pictures immediately available throughout the house. (If using WiFi, thenthis is all wireless as well.)To activate Zoner Media Server, click the DLNA icon for any folder in the Catalog inside
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The folder immediately becomes available in DLNA clients. Our recommended DLNA client for the Android platform
is Zoner Photo Studio - Edit & Go.
Zoner Media Server has the following system and other requirements:
Client devices must support the DLNA standard (which is a subset of UPnP).
The server and clients must be in the same network segment. This makes it possible to ensure that data is sharedsecurely - only persons connected to the local network can access the pictures.
The router must have "Multicast" turned on, and "Multicast Isolation" turned off.
Zoner Media Server's network access must not be restricted by a firewall.
When Zoner Photo Studio is installed, it automatically configures the standard Windows Firewall to allow it access.

Advanced
Enable use of GPU for calculations
Using the GPU (the graphics card) for calculations demands a high-performance graphics card with up-to-date drivers
and support for CUDA or OpenCL. If no supported graphics card is found, the options for GPU-accelerated
calculations are grayed out.
Supported graphics cards:
All NVIDIA cards with support for OpenCL or CUDA with compute capability 2.0 or higher, including the latest
drivers (minimum: NVIDIA Driver Release 346)
ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5000 or higher with the latest drivers (minimum: AMD Catalyst 14.4)
Intel HD Graphics 2500 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 or higher with the latest drivers
Computers can have multiple graphics cards, and therefore, all available, supported cards on your computer are listed
and can be selected under Graphics card. Click Benchmark to compare acceleration between the processor andthe selected graphics card. If the graphics card does not have sufficient memory or its drivers are outdated,benchmarking may not work correctly.

Hardware Acceleration
With hardware acceleration turned on, pictures are shown more quickly in those two parts of the program, especiallywhen you are not using the default zoom level.

If you are have any of these options active, we strongly recommend installing the latest
driver for your graphics card. Also, install only drivers that have received WHQL
certification—these have been tested and approved by Microsoft.
These functions' performance and stability directly depend on the quality of your graphics card's drivers. Zoner PhotoStudio cannot influence those drivers' quality. If corruption appears in your pictures, or the program crashes, while
you are using our hardware acceleration functions, then install the latest drivers for your graphics card. If that does
not help, turn off these functions.

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