FotoStation
This area holds the guides to using and configuring FotoStation.
Many of the topics relate to the configuration of FotoStation Pro and FotoStation Client and do not apply to FotoStation 8.0 sold on fotostation.com.
If you're looking to buy FotoStation but are uncertain which version is right for you, this comparison chart may help. It can also help you identify the version of FotoStation you're running if you're uncertain.
- 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 a new archive in FotoStation.
- 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 and FotoWeb archives
- Creating offline 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. As this is one of the core features in FotoStation, this rather wide topic has been broken down into several smaller subtopics to give you a better overview. If you want to read through the entire section to make sure you have covered every aspect of it, go ahead and use the Next links at the bottom of the page to flick through the topics in order.
- Adding a note to a picture
- 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
- Exporting and importing metadata
- 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
- Using Quicklists to add predefined metadata
- 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
- Operators to search in specific fields
- Quickly searching in FotoStation
- Searching in Index Manager archives
- 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.
- 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 predefined metadata using QuickLists, Thesaurii and Linked lists
- 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, available by choosing File | Configuration in the program menu. Note that the configuration of metadata, archives and actions is treated in a separate guide.
- 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. It out how to create shared or individual configurations and routines for maintaining and backing up such configurations.
- Troubleshooting FotoStation
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- 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?