quickly assign Colors to Previews in ACDSee Photo Manager

February 1st, 2007 by Connie

 Update:   This information has been updated here & includes screenshots.  See #7, part 3.

In our tutorial, we suggest that you catalog all of your previews first. If you decide to assign colors to them, I found a really quick way to do that & whip thru them using the slideshow feature of Photo Manager!

Here’s how to do it:

In View | Organize click on Previews – pull up all of your previews.

Now open View | Properties – and select the first preview.
Now, you have the check boxes for the colors.

Double click on the first preview to make it large,

Select the colors that are in it (my sister does just the one predominant color, but I do all possible ones – and ACDSee makes that easy by just clicking on the boxes) You decide what’s best for you.

Then at the top of the screen in the middle (just to the left) – you’ll see an arrow pointing to the right (Next). Click on it & the next preview will come up & you can do assign the colors to this preview… this goes so FAST! I love it.

(to close the slide show feature – just close out the window & you’re back to ACDSee’s main screen)

Then if you do subjects – you can work thru your previews in the same way – assigning them as birthday, vintage, Christmas, season, etc.

Why do this? Well, let’s say you search for your Birthday kits in View | Organize.

Then you see the one that you want to use – Right click on it & choose ‘Go to Folder’ and it will open that kit! And you’re ready to scrap.