The CEWE PHOTOSHOW is the central program module used to edit your photos. You can use it to improve a photo, e.g. to correct over- or underexposure, weak contrast, colour tinges or red-eye.
You can apply effects to your photo, e.g. turn it into a black-and-white picture, age it with a sepia effect or make it look like an oil painting or a drawing. You can distort, reflect and turn a photo, and much more besides. And you can manage your photos using the CEWE PHOTOSHOW, rating your photos and adding titles and comments and filtering them according to these and other meta data (in order to show only certain pictures).
The CEWE PHOTOSHOW can be launched in two different operating modes. The first mode is as a standalone program and the second mode has limited menus and acts as an auxiliary program within the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" editor. If you run the CEWE PHOTOSHOW as a standalone program, it offers several commands that are not necessary if it is used as a support application. For example, you can edit several images in a row, navigate within directories, search for and rate photos, and carry out several other commands that are only relevant within the context of a standalone program. If, however, you open a specific photo for editing by double-clicking on it in the editor workspace (in a page layout), you do not need some of the menus or commands. This is because you will only want to edit a specific image and then return to the editor. In this case, for the sake of clarity, the menus and commands that are not required are simply not shown when the support application is launched, rather than being "greyed out".
When you install the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software, an icon will appear on the desktop and a program will be created in the start menu, both of which you can use to launch the CEWE PHOTO SHOW. The "CEWE PHOTOSHOW" command is also available if you click on the dropdown menu of a photo file in the Workspace/Explorer of the operating system. Click on this command to launch the CEWE PHOTOSHOW and open the photo in the PHOTOSHOW. Double-clicking on the photo thumbnail in the selection area of the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software will also launch the CEWE PHOTOSHOW as a standalone program.
Double-click on a photo that has been added to the editor workspace (a page layout) and the CEWE PHOTOSHOW will open as a support application. You can also find a command to this effect in the photo's dropdown menu. The photo is then displayed in large format in the CEWE PHOTOSHOW.
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When you are editing a photo with the CEWE PHOTOSHOW, it is only a copy of the original photo that is opened and edited. When you close the CEWE PHOTOSHOW, this copy will then be added to the page layout in place of the original photo. The original photo is therefore not marked as used. Once the directory has been refreshed, the copy will appear with the thumbnails and will be marked as used. |
At the top of the program window you will find menu items for setting the options and accessing help, as well as more icons for different photo editing functions.
When you start the CEWE PHOTO SHOW as a stand alone program, it will open in the workspace below (as it does in the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software, but full-screen) so that you can select the directory and photos to be edited. The directory displays the name of the currently selected directory. Directly above it on the left, there is a button with the name of the immediate parent directory. If you want to go there, then please click on it. The "Select directory" button on the right opens a new dialogue with a tree through which one can navigate in the usual way to the desired directory to select the source of your photos. Double-clicking on a directory in the preview opens this.
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Caution: A directory (and any subdirectories) will appear as a strip, and include a preview of all photos contained within them. The directory name and the number of photos and sub-directories are in the directory heading. The directory view is not available when the CEWE PHOTOSHOW has been opened for a single photo from the original software. |
Double-clicking on a thumbnail opens it for editing in the workspace. The "Back" button in the top left will bring you back into the appropriate directory view.
When you double-click a photo on the desktop/page in the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software, the picture opens directly into the CEWE PHOTOSHOW. A tree view to select a different photos is then not available. The "Back" button in the top left will bring you back into the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" editor.
Opens a dialogue with settings for CEWE PHOTO WORLD, with the following groups:
This sets the appearance of the program. You can choose the background for the workspace.
Specify what (sub)directory to display the default tree view of CEWE PHOTO WORLD when opened as a stand-alone program,
select additional photo sources from the internet and specify if the file names of the photos are displayed.
To select the folder for temporary files if the preview from the EXIF data is to be used, and to adjust the size of the photo cache (buffer for image files in memory).
Only necessary if you are connecting to the internet through a proxy (and want to switch between different networks).
Copyright information for the software and support.
Relevant legal information on handling your customer data and the "Terms and Conditions".
Opens the online help (this) for the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software in your internet browser.
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Caution: This is the full list of icons that may be available in the toolbar. However, depending on the editing step in the Photo Explorer, only some of the icons may be available. Icons that are not applicable are generally hidden. |
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Opens the active (selected) photo in full-screen mode. As soon as you move the cursor, a toolbar appears below the photo that you can use to zoom, rate the photo, navigate (including a slide show), exit from full-screen mode, rotate by 90° and delete the photo. If the cursor isn't moved for a certain length of time, the toolbar fades.
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Only Active When a Photo is Selected (Indicated by a Blue Frame)! |
Opens the selected photo for editing. The "Show Tools" option appears to ensure that you can apply effects to the photo (refer to "The Tools" section below).
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You can change the recording date and/or the recording time of all photos in a directory or multiple selected photos using the Correct recording times function. This function is useful if you want to synchronise the capture data of two cameras, for example, which is very important when working with the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant. Imagine you have photos of an event, e.g. a wedding, taken by two different cameras, and one camera has the wrong time or even the wrong date. The CEWE PHOTOBOOK assistant sorts and groups your photos by the time the photos were taken, but incorrect times would mix up the sequence, meaning your photos would appear in the wrong chronological order in the photo book. The current recording date and time are displayed on each photo.
If no photo is selected, all photos in the current directory will be selected. You can filter by synchronizing two cameras but can also filter according to the model of camera. Then click on "Next". In the dialogue, all photos will be displayed at the top and the recording time should be corrected. The old time is displayed, as well as the new time. If a time changes, the new time is shown in red. There are two ways you can correct the recorded time your photos were taken.
1. Correct the selected photos manually:
Change the time.
Determine the direction of change ("In the future," or "In the past").
And enter the values ("years", "month", ... , "seconds") to which the dates are to be corrected.
The photos below can be ignored.
2. Synchronize the recording times of two cameras by reference photos
Staying with the example of a wedding: It is not unlikely that both cameras caught the shot of the bride and groom kissing at the altar or cutting the cake.
If you have two similar photos on different cameras it is likely they were taken at the same time.Above, you can see photos taken with the camera previously selected and below, all the photos from the current directory.
You can filter the pictures below by the model of camera (the other camera)!Search for one or more photo(s) taken at nearly the same time.
Then highlight these two photos, starting with the one at the top.
The time difference between the two photos is automatically registered with the time change.
The time change can be manually modified if there is only a small difference between the time the reference photos were taken.
If you then click "Correct recording time for all", the recording time of all the photos will be moved to the top scroll bar to the specified time difference and you then return to the Photo Explorer.
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Deletes the selected photos, or moves them to Trash. The "Del" button performs the same function.
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Allows you to create a subdirectory in the directory that is currently open. If you want to change the name of the subdirectory, simply hover the mouse cursor over the directory name for a short time and then click once.
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The star symbols are an easy way to see how have rated the selected photos. Click on the desired number of stars to rate your photo. The more beautiful and successful you think a photo is, the higher the number of stars should be. Photos that have 0 stars have either not been rated or have had their rating deleted. 1 star is for photos that you want to keep but that do not meet any particular requirements.
And 5 star ratings only apply to the best photos that you really enjoy looking at. Rate your photos according to your own taste.
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Set the view mode. This does not affect the view of directories, only the arrangement of the photos within them.
There are three view modes:
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Photos in this view are tiled, i.e. arranged with the least possible distance between them. |
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Photos taken on the same occasion are grouped together. |
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Photos are adapted and displayed in uniformly sized grid cells. |
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There are three ways to sort the view of the photos:
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Sort alphabetically by file name. |
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Sort chronologically by the date the photo was taken. |
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Photos with the highest star rating appear first. |
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Only photos that meet the set filter conditions are displayed.
Possible filters are enabled by ticking them:
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Only photos that have at least the specified number of stars are displayed. |
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Only photos that have a file name will be displayed. |
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Only displays the photos that were taken on the selected camera. |
The filters can be combined.
Disables filtering.
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Toggles the display of file names in the photo view.
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Reduces and enlarges the photo thumbnails.
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Opens the thumbnail view in the folder that was specified in Settings as the Photo Explorer start-up folder.
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This button appears only when photos were selected in the Photo Explorer for editing and displays a single photo on the workspace. Tools on the left-hand side of the window are displayed or hidden.
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The "Selection tool settings" are only displayed when photos are selected in the Photo Explorer for editing. The selection tool is an editing frame that you can draw with the mouse anywhere on the photo and adjust with handles. ("Rubber band" function.) If the edit frame is too small for the handles, they are hidden, but the frame can be still be adapted. To bring up a selection tool, no tool must be displayed. You can also show and perform the desired action only after you have brought up the selection tool. Photos can only be edited and changed in the selected area. (Useful for "red-eye correction", for example, but also for limiting effects to one part of a photo.) Everything that is outside of a selection is dimmed slightly, so that the area being worked on is easier to recognise. This selection can be done before a tool is chosen. Click to cancel the selection area once outside of the selection frame.
Possible settings are:
The "fixed" aspect ratio of the edit frame is drawn proportional to the values entered. The "X" value in this case indicates the horizontal value and the "Y" value the vertical. If "X" and "Y" are the same, then the edit frame remains square. If "X" is twice as large as "Y", then the edit frame's width is twice its height. With a "variable" aspect ratio, the size of the edit frame can be varied.
The internal shape of the edit frame can be a rectangle, or an ellipse. If the aspect ratio is fixed and "X" and "Y" are the same, the ellipse is a circle.
If the application area is on the "inside", then the selection for editing is within the edit frame. The "handles" are outside the edit frame. If it is "outside", then only those parts of the photo that are outside the edit frame will be selected. The "handles" are then within the edit frame.
The transition sets whether the selection of "hard" or "soft" merges into the rest of the photos. (Hard or soft edge.)
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The selection tool (the edit frame) does not show all the tools that can be used. Some tools are effective only on the entire photo and a selection area is therefore not useful. Example: "Correct Horizon" |
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Undoes the previously performed action. (Only active if an action has been previously carried out.)
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Redoes the last command that you undid. That is, it undoes the last "Undo" command. (Only available if an "Undo" action was performed previously).
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When the CEWE PHOTOSHOW is started from the workspace of the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" software, not all icons are displayed and the bottom toolbar looks like this:
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The bottom toolbar is located directly below the currently open photo. With the bottom toolbar, you can change the view of the selected photo and navigate within the currently selected directory. In addition, it provides direct, quick access to some functions that are needed repeatedly.
Icons:
Links in the toolbar that resemble magnifying glass icons (with "+" and "-") and the zoom slider. You can use these tools to enlarge or reduce the view of the selected photo.
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Tip: If your computer mouse has a scroll wheel, you can also enlarge and reduce the view smoothly. |
Not available if the photo has been opened from the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" workspace!
The rating stars help you add or change the rating for a photo quickly and easily.
The more attractive and successful you consider the photo to be, the higher the number of stars.
5 stars are for the best photos that you are most pleased with.
On the other hand, less successful photos should only be given one star, or even none.
Not available or deactivated if the photo has been opened from the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" workspace!
This icon enables a current photo to be bookmarked for use in a subsequent photobook or photo order.
These photos are stored in a folder marked "Bookmarked photos" in the Photo Explorer of the %softwarename software.
Not available or deactivated if the photo has been opened from the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" workspace!
Use the navigation icons to move to the respective first photo in the directory (left arrow with line before it), the previous photo (left arrow), the next photo (right arrow) or the last photo in the directory (right arrow).
By clicking on the "Full screen mode on/off" icon (with the four diagonal arrows), you can switch to full-screen mode.
The image appears on your entire screen.
To exit full screen mode, click on the same icon in the toolbar of the full screen mode (only appears when you move the cursor) or by pressing the "ESC" key on your keyboard.
By means of the "Rotate current photo anti-clockwise by 90°" and "Rotate current photo clockwise by 90°" icons (the curved arrows), you can rotate the selected image right (clockwise) or left (anti-clockwise).
Not available if the photo has been opened from the "Carrefour Fotolumea mea" workspace!
Think carefully before clicking on the icon "Delete current photo from hard drive" (Trash) as it moves the original photo into your operating system's recycle bin. The next time Trash is emptied, it will be permanently deleted.
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Many tools and effects have a menu for settings and effects are immediately displayed in the preview. There is also a button for "Restore to defaults" where any changed values will be reset to the default settings. The values are set using "OK". Or, the tool can be closed without being used by clicking on "Cancel". The photo is then unedited. However, some tools do not have this menu and do not offer any settings. These tools are applied immediately - "Cancel" is not possible and the picture is edited immediately. To reset the editing of the photo, click the "Undo" button on the toolbar. |
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Multiple tools can be used in series on the same photo. |
The on-screen tools are divided into groups, each of which open when you click on the button below. The individual groups are as follows:
These are all the tools relating to adjustments to the photo or in the photo.
"Red eyes" often occur on photos taken in dark surroundings with a flash. The problem is that, when the flash is used in dim light, the flash catches (red) light reflecting from the retina of the eye of the person in the photograph and doesn't look good. This function allows you to automatically retouch red eyes in most cases. Especially when multiple faces with red eyes are in a photo, it is advisable to retouch every pair of eyes (or single eye) individually by creating a selection around it. This avoids other red image areas (e.g. a mouth) being automatically corrected.
With the selection tool, enclose the desired area of the photo and then click on the tool "Crop". Everything that lies outside of the frame is cut away. (Can only be selected as a square, no fading.)
Flips the photo or the selected area of the photo to the horizontal or vertical axis.
To straighten the photo using a slider. The edges of the image are adjusted and cut so that no white sections remain.
Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders for correcting slight over- or underexposure.
Automatically applies soft focus to the photo with pre-set values. Especially suitable for using the photos as page background in a photo product.
Has several control sliders:
Adjusts the amount of blur (softness).
Regulates the gradation of the blur towards the centre of the photo. The higher the value, the less the photo is blurred and the centre of the photo remains sharp. With a value of 0, the entire image is blurred evenly.
A negative value will fade the picture, a positive value raises the colour saturation.
Put a white mask over the photo that looks like a mist.
Warps the blurring effect in a particular direction to simulate movement. The strength of the warp (the line width) and the direction can be adjusted.
Here you will find all the tools relating to colour adjustments of the whole or part of the photo.
The sepia effect gives your photo the look of an old-fashioned yellowing print. The strength of the yellowing is adjusted using a slider.
Discards the colour information of the photo and turns it into a black and white shot.
To reinforce certain shades. The intensity of the shade and colour are adjustable.
Converts the light tones into white and the dark tones into black pixels. Not to be confused with "greyscale", as the photo only consists of two colours, black and white, and doesn't have any grey tones.
In gamma correction, the calculated curve of the mean colour brightness is moved. The advantage is that it does not change the darkest and lightest pixels. However, the brightness values between them are shifted, making them lighter or darker. This is not a linear process, but a curve that flattens at both ends of the brightness curve, that is, the brightness values in the middle of the brightness curve are shifted more than the values at the end of the brightness scale. This means that you can brighten or darken an image without any substantial loss of quality. This should not be exaggerated.
Sets the gamma value for only one specific colour channel.
Inverts the colours of the photo, producing a negative photo. Each colour channel (red, blue, green) can be inverted individually and independently of the others as well as the brightness.
Here all the tools relating to style effects are grouped together.
These effects look for contrast edges in your photo and represents them as contours. The photo looks like a line drawing with a thicker (strong) or a thinner (weak) pencil.
This makes your photo look like an oil painting. By setting the brush thickness, the painting becomes more or less abstract.
This makes your photo look like a charcoal drawing that has been sketched by an artist. The strength defines the width of the strokes and the charcoal blurring on the drawing sheet.
This effect makes your photo look like a black and white photo on coarse-grained photographic paper.
This effect reduces the colours of the photos in contiguous areas to create a more striking effect.
This effect projects your photo onto a tiled wall. The size of the tiles (grid size) and the depth of the joints (line depth) between the tiles can be set.
Pixelate your photo in monochrome square blocks. The greater the intensity of the effect, the more abstract the result. Suitable in conjunction with a selection area, e.g. to make a face or car number plate unrecognisable for data protection reasons.
Splits the photo into lines and columns. The individual cells can be twisted to each other at random. The number of columns and rows, as well as size, rotation and colour of cell edges can be adjusted. The initial value for the random number generator affects the random distribution of the cells, when the rotation angle is not 0.
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Tip: To get a very special, attractive result, set the maximum angle to 0 and set the alpha channel to 0 at the colour of the edges. The edges will become transparent and the spacing of the "blanks" of your photos is regulated by the width of the border. |
Here you will find all the tools to distort your photo.
The implosion tools takes one pixel as the midpoint of your photo and "implodes" the rest of the image around it. The strength of the effect (radius) is adjusted using a slider.
An explosion distorts the photo from the centre to the edge. Again, the strength of the effect (radius) via a slider is adjusted.
Simulates concentric ripples, like when a stone is thrown into water. The frequency (wavelength) and the amplitude (wave height) can be set.
This makes your photo look as if it has been sprayed with colour. The density of the spray dots can be set.
Moves pixels in a circle around the centre of the image. It looks like a whirlpool in the photo. You can adjust the intensity of the swirl effect by means of the angle.
This distorts the photo into an arc or circle segment. The inner and outer radii adjust the thickness of the arc. If the control for the inner radius is set to the far left (i.e. 0), the arc turns into a sector of a circle (cake slice). Using the alignment, you can set the viewing angle of the arc in degrees. At 180 (°) the picture is upside down. Using the sector size, you can adjust the angle of the circle segment.
Simulates a prism filter (special effect lens for cameras). The number of repetitions or prisms can be adjusted.
This twists the photo into a wave shape. The wavelength affects how many peaks and troughs the photo contains, the amplitude and the height of the waves.
To edit and view the EXIF data. The "Exchangeable Image File Format" (EXIF) is an international standard, just like the metadata stored in digital photos. The digital camera immediately stores part of the metadata when taking pictures (brand of camera, camera model, date, resolution, focal length, exposure time, aperture, etc.). The most important of the "camera data" is displayed. The review is also part of the metadata. To manage the photos, even more additional metadata can be used:
You can insert or change a short title for your photo.
In the "Description" field you can briefly describe the image content.
Tags are used for subsequent searches for a particular photo or multiple photos. A keyword should be a short, descriptive term. You can separate several keywords with a semicolon. Examples: "Holiday; Mediterranean; Majorca; Hayley; Beach" or "Family; Hayley; Birthday; Gift".
Under Copyright, you can enter the person who owns the usage and reproduction rights to the photo. This is usually the photographer, but it can also be a company, for example, that has commissioned the photo or bought the reproduction rights.
The author is generally the photographer and the author of this photo. You can use this field to keep photos by different photographers separate.
Personal or technical comments on the photo or on the occasion where the photo was taken.
Displays any other data stored in such a way as has been registered by the camera or by an image editing program. This metadata cannot be edited, as it is dependent on the camera software used and is often only understood by expert photographers.
