Command Line Arguments

-ui Look-and-Feel-Class Specifies the look and feel class to load. Look-and-Feel-Class can be one of:
system
Loads the system-specific look and feel.
motif
Loads the Motif look and feel.
metal
Loads the Metal look and feel.
Qualified class name
Loads the given look and feel class.
If this argument is not given, the system look and feel is used.

Preferences Dialog

The Preferences dialog is started by selecting the Series/Preferences menu item. It edits the general configuration of J Photo-Explorer.

The preferences are stored in the "jphoto-explorer.properties" file that is located in the current user's home directory.

Tab "Series"

This tab contains the settings that allow J Photo-Explorer to find the photo series directories.

Series Container Directories

A photo series is a directory structure that contains -- directly or structured by subdirectories -- images that are similar (e.g., taken during the same vacation) and should be treated as a unit.

Example.  The author assigns all photos to a series that are taken during the same vacation in the same country. There is a São Tomé e Príncipe series whose photos are taken there at a vacation in 2001.

  

You need not tell the application every series directory. Rather, you give the parent directory of one or more series directories, called series container directory. You specify a series container by clicking the Add... button and select a directory in the file chooser that will be displayed. You can specify as many series container directories as you like.

J Photo-Explorer displays all subdirectories of all series containers as series directories, in alphabetical order. Subdirectories whose names start with '.', '_', 'X_', and 'X-' are ignored and not shown.

You can remove a series container by selecting it in the list and pressing the Remove button.

Series Structure

You can give your photo series structure a title and a description. These items are stored, but currently not used.

Tab "Web Export"

This tab contains the settings for the Web export of images. Web export means that the images are scaled down, converted to JPEG and stored in a directory that is part of (the local copy of) a Web site. The images generated during Web export are copies -- the original images in the series directories remain unchanged.

Web Export Directory

  

In the Web site, J Photo-Explorer replicates the directory structure of all series, creating exported series. For the Web site directory structure, J Photo-Explorer assumes that all exported series are subdirectories of one directory, the Web export directory.

Please enter the name of the Web export directory or select it using the "..." button.

Image Conversion

When exporting an image for the Web, J Photo-Explorer creates two versions of JPEG images:

For both image size types, you can specify the following settings:
Normal Width
Normal width of the images in pixels. The normal width is used when the image is not too long.
Maximum Width
Maximum width of the images in pixels.
Minimum Height
Long images (height less than width) are scaled to a width greater than the normal width if their height is les than the minimum height. If the resulting width is greater than the maximum width, the maximum width is used.
JPEG Quality
Quality for the JPEG compression in percent (0 - 100%). The greater the quality setting is, the better is the quality and the bigger is the image size in bytes.
The quality setting can be overriden by group directories and single image files (see the Properties dialog).

The values in the dialog screenshot are the standards used by the author at http://www.d-grossmann.com/photo/

Conversion Tool

  

You can specify whether ImageMagick should be used for image conversion. Not using ImageMagick is for testing purposes only, as it is slower.

If you do not have ImageMagick, please download it from http://www.imagemagick.org/

If you are using J Photo-Explorer on a UNIX system, you also need the JMagick shared library (the Java archive and the JMagick Windows DLL are contained in the J Photo-Explorer distribution). You can download JMagick from http://www.yeo.nu/jmagick/

J Photo-Explorer is tested with ImageMagick 6.2.5 and JMagick for ImageMagick 6.2.5

Tab "Save"

This tab contains the settings for the data format JPhoto-Explorer uses to store its meta data and to export the meta data.

Check the respective check box if you want the meta data to be stored in XML format, or uncheck it if you want to store them in the old text-based format. JPhoto-Explorer will automatically convert the format into both directions.

Tab "Panel Options"

This tab contains the settings for JPhoto-Explorer panels.

You can specify whether: