ScanSoft KAI S PHOTO SOAP 2 User manual

1User Guide

for Windows®and Macintosh®

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Kai’s Photo Soap 2 User’s Guide

August 2000

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TABLE OF

Welcome to Kai’s Photo Soap 2 7

12 What’s New?

13 Getting Help

14 Starting and Quitting Soap 2

15 Exploring Kai’s Photo Soap 2

22 The Soap 2 Transporter

23 Undo, Apply, and Save

25 Using Albums

26 Exporting Photos

27 Expanding Soap 2’s Power

Installing Kai’s Photo Soap 2 29

Organizing Photos 31

32 Overview

32 Loading Photos

33 Working with Thumbnails

37 Previewing Photos

38 Getting File Information

39 Removing Image Files from your Computer

40 Switching Views

41 Working with Desktops

43 Sorting and Searching for Photos

Fixing Photos 48

49 Overview

50 What Kai’s Photo Soap 2 Can Fix

50 Using the Tools

54 Rotating and Sizing Photos

59 Adjusting Color

71 Automatically Fixing Photos

74 Healing Flaws

77 Smoothing and Sharpening

79 Removing Red Eye

80 Removing date and time stamps

81 Duplicating photo elements

83 Other Fun Effects

86 Having Fun with Masks

Composing Images 91

92 Building Compositions

93 Working with Composition Layers

104 Adding Photos to your Composition

105 Adding Text

107 Adding Objects, Backgrounds, and Edges

108 Adding Shadows to Layers

110 Adding a Canvas Color

111 Saving and Reloading a Composition

Using Albums 114

115 Overview

116 Selecting an Album Style

117 Changing the Layout

118 Loading Photos

119 Adding Text

121 Printing Albums

TABLE OF

122 Saving Albums

122 Viewing Album Information

122 Sharing Albums

Printing Photos 123

125 Overview

126 Printing a Single Photo

127 Printing in Rows and Columns

128 Printing to Popular Sizes

128 Supported Avery and Kodak Papers

128 Loading Special Papers Correctly

129 Printing to Perforated Paper

130 Printing to Special Designs

132 Printing Posters

133 Adding Backgrounds or Frames

134 Scaling Up or Down

135 Rotating Photos to Fit

135 Flipping for Iron-Ons

136 Repeating Images on a Page

136 Printing Page Text

136 Printing Filenames, Dates, and Headers

137 Setting Margins

137 Keeping Settings

138 Previewing

138 Page Setup

Sharing Photos 139

139 Sending Photos with E-mail

141 Exporting a Desktop as a Web Page

143 Exporting an Album as a Web page

145 Exporting Photos as a PhotoCube Web Page

(PC only)

Using Plug-Ins 147

Appendix A:Tips About Photos 151

152 Tips About Scanning

152 Selecting Photos

Appendix B:Key Shortcuts 154

154 Using Soap 2 Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix C: Supported Papers 155

Glossary 156

Index 162

INTRODUCING SOAP 2

Welcome to Kai’s Photo Soap 2

Kai’s Photo Soap 2 is the next generation of Kai’s Power Soap. Load photos from your

computer’s hard drive, a digital camera, a scanner, a picture CD, or right off the Internet.

Collect photos, correct them, then tweak them with special tools and filters. Present

photos in digital photo albums and slideshows. Print photos and even output them ready

for the Web!

Some of the many things you can do with Soap 2.

What Can You Do with Soap 2?

With Soap 2, you can:

• organize your photos

• display and share photos in Soap 2 electronic photo albums

• repair damaged old photos

• create fun special effects

• add clip art, text, or cartoons to a photo composition

• create artful collages, using multiple photos

• export photos or albums to use on the WEB

• prepare photos to send over e-mail or in an interactive slideshow

• view photos in several ways

You can see your photos on a Soap 2 “desktop” or “lightbox”.

INTRODUCING SOAP 2

• print photos in rows and columns, or in popular sizes

• crop and rotate photos

You can print in rows or in popular sizes.

No more messing with scissors to trim a photo to the correct size. You can rotate or crop photos

easily in Soap 2.

• rescue torn, faded, dusty, or wrinkled photos

• make a photo brighter or sharper.

You can rescue torn, faded, dusty, or wrinkled photos.

Adjust the brightness or tweak the contrast to get a better look.

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