Photos

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The Photos sub-tab lets you manage photos of a person. The photo file list contains checkboxes for selecting the primary photo, thumbnails of the image files and the names of the image files. The primary photo is also marked with a red frame. The primary photo will be output in person boxes if this has been specified in the Treeview Options, Box Content tab, Output personal data, Multimedia. The file cards show the primary photo at the very top; all additional photos are shown at the very bottom.

In the preview, the photo will be displayed that is selected in the photo file list and not necessarily the photo whose checkbox is marked.

Click the Add Photo... button to add a photo file to the photo file list. Use the Remove Photo button or press the Delete key while a photo file is selected to remove it from the photo file list. No confirmation query will be shown.

You can also drag image files (even several at once) from Windows Explorer directly into the photo file list with the mouse. Some Windows 2000 users have reported problems with this.

You can also drag a single image file from Windows Explorer directly into the person box of the current treeview with the mouse.

Before selecting a photo file, select the directory in which your image files are saved in the Program Options, Directories tab. The image files may be located in this directory or in a subdirectory.

The four up and down arrow buttons allow you to change the order of the photos. This only affects the order of output for the non-primary photos on file cards.

If you cannot see the entire file name because the column is too narrow, hold the mouse over the line to display an information window that contains the complete file name.

With a double-click on a file name the file is opened in the standard program which was assigned to the file extension under Windows.

Photos can be saved as image files in JPEG image (*.jpg) or bitmap (*.bmp) format. There are no restrictions on pixel dimensions of the images; photos are automatically resized to the proper size while maintaining their width/height ratio. To determine how large the photos will be output in mm or inches and in printer pixels using the current settings, look in the information window of the Print Preview or Export Preview screen.

Note 1: For photos to be output in person boxes, three conditions must be fulfilled:

1. On this sub-tab, at least one photo must be assigned.

2. In the Treeview Options, Box Content tab, Output personal data, Multimedia, the output of photos must be activated at the upper, left, right or lower box margin.

3. In the Treeview Options, Box Format tab, Box dimensions, an appropriate photo height must be set.

Note 2: The names of image files may be used only once even if the files lie in different subdirectories. The FamilyTreeFactory is looking for the image files in the main directory for image files and its subdirectories. If files with the same names lie in different subdirectories, there will be wrong search results because it is looked for only up to the first location.

Recommendation: Use a certain scheme for the names for person related files like [Surname] [Given name] [Year of Birth] [File content]. For example Samplefam John 1905 Photo Enrollment 1911.jpg or Samplefam John 1905 Soldier 1927.bmp. The files of a person then are clearly directly behind each other in the Windows Explorer.

Note 3: While printing images, resolutions larger than 300 pixels per inch do not improve the visible quality. Due to this fact it suffices if your images have pixel measurements which reach this value or exceed a little bit. An example: If the printed photo height is 1.2 inch, the pixel height of the image should be at least 1.2 inch x 300 pixels/inch = 360 pixels. The pixel width results from the proportion. Of course you do not have to reach this value exactly for every single image; strive for a range of 300 to 600 pixels per inch. If you are unsure in an individual case, you rather take a higher value. Unnecessary high pixel measurements lead to an unnecessary large load of the computer resources.