FotoStation
This area contains the guides for using and configuring FotoStation.
- Getting Started with FotoStation
- When you have successfully downloaded and installed FotoStation, this section provides valuable information to give you an overview of how to get started organizing your digital assets.
- Viewing, selecting and sorting files
- This guide helps you understand how to use FotoStation more efficiently. You'll get a deeper understanding of how to use different views and sorting mechanisms to display your assets and how to make selections and work with previews.
- Managing your assets with archives
- This section deals with how you create and configure archives in FotoStation and control how your collections are displayed.
- Creating an archive
- Setting archive properties
- Grouping or regrouping archives
- Choosing which file types to display in archives
- Configuring visual markers in archives
- Importing or exporting archives
- Deleting an archive
- Changing the order of archives
- Connecting to Index Manager archives
- Duplicating an archive
- Supported connections and protocols in FotoStation
- Adding metadata to assets
- This guide deals with all the methods FotoStation offer to allow you to add and edit the metadata in your files.
- Adding a note to an asset
- Adding metadata to a selection of files
- Adding metadata to one file at a time
- Adding metadata using macros
- Adding metadata using templates
- Categorizing files using Multi Search views
- Choosing a metadata editor
- Choosing which files to keep and reject using tags
- Classifying assets using Classify views
- Copying and pasting metadata
- Editing metadata in FotoStation
- Exporting and importing metadata
- Extracting part of a metadata field
- File history
- Information in the metadata panel
- Quickly stamping several files with a macro or a template
- Rating assets
- Rating files using the context menu
- Searching for and replacing metadata
- Setting asset status
- Spell checking text in the metadata editor
- Using code replacements for quick metadata input
- Searching for assets
- This guide deals with the different methods you can use to find your stored assets using the metadata you have added to them.
- How to search in FotoStation
- Advanced search
- Dynamic operators for editing metadata and building search queries
- EXIF field code reference
- Quickly searching in FotoStation
- Searching in Index Manager archives
- Specifiers to search in specific fields
- Standard XMP Fields in FotoStation
- Storing often used searches
- Using data mining to find your assets
- Working with your assets
- This guide deals with all the different things you can do with your asset sin FotoStation and how to get your work done efficiently.
- Version Control in FotoStation
- This guide deals with how version control works in FotoStation.
- Enabling version control
- What are versions and how do they work?
- Viewing asset versions
- Comparing two versions of an asset
- Creating a duplicate of a revision
- Uploading an updated version of an asset
- Restoring content and metadata for an asset version
- Restoring metadata for an asset version
- Deleting an asset revision
- Version control configuration
- Automating tasks with Actions
- Learn how to automate common operations using FotoStation's powerful Actions.
- Configuring metadata fields and editors
- This section deals with the configuration of all metadata configuration in FotoStation, including how to create and edit namespaces and create your own custom metadata fields.
- Accessing the metadata configuration
- Choosing which metadata fields are shown in drop down menus
- Changing status labels and colors
- Enabling or disabling logging of history events
- Changing codepage for IPTC-based metadata
- Changing the global metadata field specification in FotoStation
- Configuring a database connection for metadata import and export
- Creating a custom metadata editor
- Creating a macro to modify metadata
- Creating a metadata template
- Creating QuickLists of Predefined Metadata
- Customizing metadata display templates
- Defining SmartReplace control keys
- FotoStation image parameter code reference
- Print template parameter codes
- Using system environment variables in FotoStation
- XMP Field code reference
- Configuring FotoStation
- This guide deals with all the settings available in the program configuration.
- Choosing a program configuration type
- Setting global units of measure
- Limiting access to program features
- Setting color management preferences
- Cache settings
- Creating and modifying side panels
- Customizing the Thumbnail Grid
- Customizing the Rich List view
- Customizing the Detailed List view
- Creating custom Classify views
- Creating custom Multi Search views
- Choosing where job files are stored
- Backing up and restoring your configuration
- Changing FotoStation's program language
- Choosing an appearance scheme in FotoStation
- Configuring FotoStation for automatic updates
- Configuring FotoStation to prefer SMB over FWP
- Customizing print templates
- Configuring FotoStation for multi-user environments
- This guide deals with how to configure FotoStation for multi-user environments.
- Troubleshooting FotoStation
- Welcome to the troubleshooting section. Find the most popular, highest rated, and recently updated articles at a glance.
- Clearing FotoStation User Preferences
- Dates before year 100 are unsupported
- FotoStation is newer than my product key allows
- Incompatibility with X-Rite color management profiles
- Installing a previous version of FotoStation
- Moving your copy of FotoStation to another computer
- Resetting suppressed dialogs in FotoStation
- Resetting the configuration password in FotoStation
- What to do if FotoStation crashes
- Where are configuration files stored in Mac OS?
- Where are configuration files stored in Windows?