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.

1. A brief overview of the user interface
2. FotoStation feature list
3. FotoStation system requirements
4. How FotoStation works with files
5. Installing FotoStation
6. Locating and displaying pictures
7. Named user license

This guide helps you understand how to use Fotostation more efficiently.

1. Introduction to Culling and Selection in FotoStation (video)
2. Different ways to view your files
3. Filtering assets by Rating
4. Filtering assets by status
5. Monitoring an archive in real time
6. Selecting files
7. Sorting files
8. Working with multiple FotoStation windows
9. Working with previews
10. Using the Selection Carousel to find your best pictures
11. Selecting images during a slide show

This guide deals with how you create and configure new archives in Fotostation.

1. Creating an archive
2. Setting archive properties
3. Grouping or regrouping archives
4. Choosing which file types to display in archives
5. Configuring visual markers in archives
6. Importing or exporting archives
7. Deleting an archive
8. Changing the order of archives
9. Connecting to Index Manager archives
10. Duplicating an archive
11. Supported connections and protocols in FotoStation
12. Configuring a proxy connection for network requests
13. How to connect to an Index Manager archive
14. Clearing server credentials

This guide deals with all the methods FotoStation offer to allow you to add and edit the metadata in your files.

1. Adding a note to an asset
2. Adding metadata to a selection of files
3. Adding metadata to one file at a time
4. Adding metadata using macros
5. Adding metadata using templates
6. Categorizing files using Multi Search views
7. Choosing a metadata editor
8. Choosing which files to keep and reject using tags
9. Classifying assets using Classify views
10. Copying and pasting metadata
11. Editing metadata in FotoStation
12. Exporting and importing metadata
13. Extracting part of a metadata field
14. File history
15. Information in the metadata panel
16. Quickly stamping several files with a macro or a template
17. Rating assets
18. Rating files using the context menu
19. Searching for and replacing metadata
20. Setting asset status in Fotostation
21. Spell checking text in the metadata editor
22. Using code replacements for quick metadata input
23. Importing and exporting metadata to or from text files

This guide deals with the different methods you can use to find your stored assets using the metadata you have added to them.

1. How to search in FotoStation
2. Advanced search
3. Dynamic operators for editing metadata and building search queries
4. EXIF field code reference
5. Quickly searching in FotoStation
6. Searching in Index Manager archives
7. Specifiers to search in specific fields
8. Storing often used searches
9. Using data mining to find your assets
10. Data mining by metadata
11. Using the Calendar to find assets

This guide deals with all the different things you can do with your assets in Fotostation and how to get your work done efficiently.

1. Version Control in Fotostation
2. Enabling version control
3. What are versions and how do they work?
4. Viewing asset versions
5. Comparing two versions of an asset
6. Creating a duplicate of a revision
7. Uploading an updated version of an asset
8. Restoring metadata for an asset version
9. Deleting an asset revision
10. Version control configuration
11. Restoring content and metadata for an asset version

Learn how to automate common operations using Fotostation's powerful Actions.

This guide deals with all metadata configuration in Fotostation, including how to create and edit namespaces and create your own custom metadata fields.

1. Accessing the metadata configuration
2. Choosing which metadata fields are shown in drop down menus
3. Changing status labels and colors
4. Enabling or disabling logging of history events
5. Changing codepage for IPTC-based metadata
6. Changing the global metadata field specification in FotoStation
7. Configuring a database connection for metadata import and export
8. Creating a custom metadata editor
9. Creating a macro to modify metadata
10. Creating a metadata template
11. Creating QuickLists of predefined metadata
12. Customizing metadata display templates
13. Defining SmartReplace control keys
14. FotoStation image parameter code reference
15. Print template parameter codes
16. Using FotoWeb Taxonomy in FotoStation
17. Using system environment variables in FotoStation
18. Working with FotoWeb taxonomies in FotoStation
19. XMP Field code reference
20. Configuring FotoStation to download QuickList content from a web server
21. Reference to QuickList naming conventions
22. Advanced QuickList example: Adding location information using a QuickList

This guide deals with all the settings available in the program configuration, available by choosing File | Configuration in the program menu.

1. Choosing a program configuration type
2. Setting global units of measure
3. Limiting access to program features
4. Setting color management preferences
5. Cache settings
6. Creating and modifying side panels
7. Customizing the Thumbnail Grid
8. Customizing the Rich List view
9. Customizing the Detailed List view
10. Creating custom Classify views
11. Creating custom multi-search views
12. Choosing where job files are stored
13. Backing up and restoring your configuration
14. Changing FotoStation's program language
15. Choosing an appearance scheme in FotoStation
16. Configuring FotoStation for automatic updates
17. Configuring FotoStation to prefer SMB over FWP
18. Customizing print templates
19. Which languages are available in FotoStation?

This guide deals with how to configure Fotostation for multi-user environments.

Welcome to the troubleshooting section. Find the most popular, highest rated, and recently updated articles at a glance.

1. Clearing FotoStation User Preferences
2. Dates before year 100 are unsupported
3. FotoStation is newer than my product key allows
4. Incompatibility with X-Rite color management profiles
5. Installing a previous version of FotoStation
6. Moving your copy of FotoStation to another computer
7. Resetting suppressed dialogs in FotoStation
8. Resetting the configuration password in FotoStation
9. What to do if FotoStation crashes
10. Where are configuration files stored in Mac OS?
11. Where are configuration files stored in Windows?