The Image Archive is on StudioLine Data Directory on your workstation's hard drive, and includes the directories “Database”, “Images”, and “Cache”. In the Database directory you find the databank files and other files that are necessary for Databank administration. Depending on what you selected for your “Image Archive Copy Preferences”, images are stored in either the Image Directory or externally. The Cache directory includes the thumbnails in different sizes.

StudioLine Setup installs the program and user files in divided directories. This allows StudioLine to administer numerous directories. Various directories can be applied after successful installation of the Set-up program, and call it up, in order to choose another or a new directory. Once the various directories have been created, you can easily switch between them via the Data Directory Management window. To get to this, go to the Data Directory Management tab in the Preferences menu. All of the data directories available are shown in the window. Currently, there is only directory from which to choose.

If you would like to change the data directory, you will need to select it, press Activate, and ensure that all currently open StudioLine applications are then closed, before reopening the software.

Inactivated directories can included in the list by using the “attach” button. Likewise, you can delete directories by utilizing the “detach” button, or you can rename them with “rename”.

If you would like to switch between directories upon opening up StudioLine, be sure to check the box “show dialog on start-up”. Directories that are housed on external drives will be shown as unavailable.

To move StudioLine from an old PC to a new one, execute the following steps:

Copy the entire StudioLine Data Directory (for example C:\StudioLine - with all the subdirectories) onto the new PC.

Install the latest version of StudioLine on the new PC. You can download it from our webpage. Provide the link of the just-copied directory as the new data field. After the installation, activate the software by typing in your Product Activation Key.

Give a name for the new folder. If you have chosen this from the File menu, you will only asked to provide the new name.

The following options are only available, when you use the New Folder function in the Album pane or when you right-click on a folder:

• If the Open new folder box checked, the newly created folder is opened.
• If the Set descriptor defaults for new images is checked, then you can ascribe the images in the new folder with all of the default descriptors.

In the Image Archive, to change the name of folders in your Albums, click on the Rename tab under the File menu. Enter in the new name and click ok in the window that opens up. Alternatively, you can right-click on the selected object in the left-hand navigation pane and select Rename from the context menu.

The “Choose Color” window lets you pick up and set any color you want to use for the various functions, like font color, lonk color, colorize an image, etc.

Old / New
Shows the current active color and the newly selected color.

Note: A rainbow palette indicates that there is not one specific color that applies, for example a selected text that uses more than one color.

Saturation / Brightness
The Saturation/Brightness of your color choice is changed by dragging the circular color picker in the color selection square. Horizontal movement changes saturation, vertical movement brightness.

Hue
The hue changes are achieved by moving the pointed hue pick handle up or down along the rainbow colored strip.

Red, Green, Blue
Red, Green, Blue indicates the currently active RGB-values. You can enter a specific number to attain the exact color needed.

Color Box
Color Box stores a color for quick finding later. Simply drag the “Copy” button to one of the empty color compartments. To use such a stored color simply click on it and it will become the new active color.

Color Picker
Color Picker is a eyedropper-style color sampler that allows you to pick up a color from any desired part of your monitor display.

Pick Area
Pick Area allows you to set the size of the color collection area that the Color Picker pipette will sample. An average RGB-value is calculated.