Getting started with Viewbook
This getting started guide gives you a basic overview of Viewbook. It shows how you can create and organize your presentations and images, and how to share your presentations.
Central to Viewbook is the Image Manager
With the Viewbook Image manager you create your presentations, upload and organize your images. To get familiar with the Image Manager read the instructions below.
The Image Manager Window
A. Presentations list: The presentation list shows the complete list of all your presentations. Presentations are sets of images, which you can share online in a slideshow or photo album.
B. Presentation options toolbar: The toolbar with the buttons to change your presentation: upload images, change style, edit details and share options.
C. Image List: The images inside your presentation. Reorganize the images by dragging them to a new position, or select multiple images to reorganize more than one image.
D. Image properties: By clicking an image you can edit the image details: title and description. You also get the link to the image directly.
E. Trash: Delete presentations and images by dragging them into the Trash.
How to create a presentation?
Creating a presentation in Viewbook is easy. Follow the steps below.
1. Prepare the images you want to upload. If you're images are quite big (more than 1MB) you can resize them first to get a faster upload.
2. Make a new presentation Use the 'New' button beside the 'Presentations' tab in the top left. To edit the title simply click on the title of the new created 'Untitled' presentation, enter the new title for your presentation and click OK or hit Return.
3. Upload images by clicking the 'Upload images' button. Select the images you want to upload. Note: you can select more than one image by pressing the SHIFT key.
4. Organize your images
Viewbook uses drag & drop to reorder images, add images to other presentations, and to delete images and presentations by dragging them into the trash.
You can select more than one image, to reorder, or delete a whole set in one go. There are two methods to multi select images:
A. SHIFT+CLICK: Click the first image you want to select. Then hold down the SHIFT key and click the last image.
B. Select tool: Click just outside of an image and hold. Now drag the cursor over the images to select it.
To deselect an image from your selection hold down the CRTL (for mac the APPLE) key and and click the image.
4. Style your presentation Click the 'Style presentation' button to change the styles of your presentation.
5. Open / Share your presentation. Just hit the 'View' button above the image listing to open your presentation. You can copy/paste the link to your presentation (positioned on the left f the 'View' button') and e-mail the link to anyone.
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