When Photokeeper is started, it displays a set of panes or areas in Photokeeper’s main window. Each pane presents either a part of your album, or a set of actions that you can use to modify your album.
The largest of these initial panes is the Main Pane, which occupies most of the program’s screen space. This pane is the primary area used to display all photo and album information for your album, and the area through which you will do most of your work on your photo album. Using the Main Toolbar, you can select between various views of your album. These views are:
Page View (allows you to view and edit one album page at a time)
Photo View (allows you to view one photo from your album at a time)
Slideshow View (shows your album as a slideshow)
Director View (allows you to edit various properties of the slideshow, as well as define soundtrack playlists to be used in the album)
Zoomed Thumbnail View (shows photos on your hard drive that are not necessarily in your slideshow)
Fullscreen Slideshow (useful for presentations)
Many of Photokeeper’s features and options can be accessed through the main menu. This is the area at the topmost part of Photokeeper’s main window. For more information on items that can be accessed from the main menu please see Getting Around the Main Menu.
Photokeeper also has a two toolbars; one under the main menu, and one near the bottom of the main window. These toolbars provide one click access to various tools and navigating controls. For more information on toolbars please see Toolbars.
The small view on the left side of the main window just below the top toolbar is the Mini Display area. The Mini Display area is used to display handy short movies which visually describe the action your mouse cursor is hovering over. It is also used to display thumbnails of your photos.
Directly below the Mini Display area, is the Base Path area. It contains a pair of controls which allow you to easily select the path or folder from which you can load files. The first of these controls is a combo box which contains a list of the most recently used base paths. It displays the current base path in the combo box’s edit box. The second control is the browse button. This button opens an folder selection dialog from which you can select a older to use as your base path.
Along the left side of the main window, and below the Base Path area, is the Outlook Control. The outlook control is a special control composed of three or four sub-views, or list boxes, each of which displays a list of available Photos, Themes, Styles and Textures. This control displays a list of available Slide Effects, Soundtracks, and Playlists when in Director View. This control only displays one list at a time. To switch to another list, simply click on the Outlook Tab for the list, and the corresponding list will slide into place. To access elements in these lists, simply drag and drop them into the Main Pane (main work area).