Keeping Credits with ACDSee Photo Manager

I will provide 2 methods of keeping track of credits. The first method using the Image Basket works well if you finish your layout in one sitting. The reason being is that once you close Photo Manager, the Image Basket empties itself. If you do not finish your layout in one sitting or you want to ability to produce a file listing later, then continue on and use Favorites.

Image Basket

For either method, I would suggest always starting with the Image Basket.

1. Go to View | Image Basket to make your image basket visible. For any images you want to use in your layout, place them in your image basket.

2. If you haven't already done so, select all your images and send them to your editor to create your layout. If you add more elements or paper, add them as you need to.

3. Once done with your layout and you want to create credits file. Select all your images in the image basket.

4. Generate a file listing:

   1. Go to Database -> Export -> Generate File List (or Ctrl - G) and this text file should open.

   2. This is the text file it creates:

      

   3. You can now save this as text file with your layout.

   4. If yours appears with a lot of different things, see how to customize your file listings below.

Using Favorites

1. Select all images in your image basket or that you used in a layout, right click and choose Add to Favorites.

2. To see your Favorites Pane, use View | Favorites. You should see all your images listed here, like this:

2. Right click on Favorites and select New | Folder and create a new folder with the name of it being your layout.

   

3. Select the individual images showing when you click on favorites (really shortcuts) and move them all into the folder that you just created.

4. Now, whenever you want, browse to your layout folder in your Favorites, select all images, and do Ctrl-G to generate a file list.

Using Favorites with a video

This video will show you how to use ACDSee Photo Manager to keep track of images used in a layout so that you can properly credit the designers when you publish or post a layout.

Click icon to play video: 

Deleting Favorites

After you created a file list you can delete the files & folders in favorites. These are really just shortcuts to your images and you are not deleting your images. The way you can tell they are shortcuts is they have a little arrow in the bottom left corner.

I don't like the feel of deleting favorites because it feels like you are deleting the images. But assuming you are in Favorites, look for the little arrows to identify shortcuts, then it is safe to delete favorites.

Customizing your file listing

For this to work, you need to have entered in the kit name in the caption box & designer name into the author box.

1. Under Tools | Options,

2. Click on the File List,

3. Click on Detail View

4. Click on Choose Details. That will bring you to this screen:

   

5. Expand on ACD Database

6. Click on the Caption & Author Box

7. Click on Add ->.

8. Click on anything in the right column you do not want and click on Remove.

9. Select anything in the right column and you can change order by using Move Up or Move Down.

   

10. Click OK, and OK

Now, any properties listed on the right side will be exported when you do a generate file listing.
Feel free to customize the file listing to whatever you like.