User Story       by R. Prasad, Ottawa, Canada

Select Your Images

After you launch MagicViewer, locate the directory containing the images you want to work with, and select them. This screenshot above shows several key steps all on one screen. At the top of the screen, we have selected the "Browse" tab - this allows you to do two key things: a) it lets you locate the directory containing the images you want to work with (in this case, my images are on a CD-ROM in a directory called " Pictures" - simply locate the directory with the images and click on the directory title, and MagicViewer will display thumbnails of the images in the main window as shown); b) the Browse tab activates the Batch Process option (it does not appear if you have selected the "View/Edit" mode). Once you have located all your images, you need to select the ones you want to batch process. You can select individual images by clicking on them - selected images will be highlighted with a blue outline - or you can use the "Select All" option from the Edit bar or right-click your mouse and choose from the submenu that appears.

Set Up A Batch Process

Once you have chosen the pictures you want to batch process, just click the "Batch" icon near the top centre of the screen (or right-click the mouse and choose the option from there). This should open a sub-menu like the following illustration. Assuming you have not already created any batch processes in MagicViewer, it should be blank.

A batch script is just a set of instructions that tell MagicViewer what you want to do to each picture that gets processed. There is no code writing involved - you just go through the menus, and the program makes it very quick and simple.





Step 1: Create a new Batch Process

Click the "New" button to begin the first step in creating a new batch script, choosing a file format for your images. The screen should look like the illustration below, once you click on the drop-down menu.

At this point, you can choose what file format you want your new processed picture to be. MagicViewer lets you choose from all the major formats. If you don't need to change the file format, just stick to the first option called "Keep Original Format." For this example, I will just keep the original format - my CD-ROM from the store encoded all the photos as .jpg files, which is fine for a website. Choose format you want to use, and click "Next".

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