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Adding Pictures To Picture It! Library: Adding Pictures From Cds and Other Removable Media

This document provides instructions for organizing and archiving pictures in Picture It! Library. It describes how to: 1) Add pictures from CDs, removable media, and other folders on your computer to the library. 2) Scan your computer's hard drive to locate additional pictures to add from multiple locations. 3) Easily add keywords to pictures using the Keyword Painter tool to categorize pictures by subject for easier searching later.

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Adding Pictures To Picture It! Library: Adding Pictures From Cds and Other Removable Media

This document provides instructions for organizing and archiving pictures in Picture It! Library. It describes how to: 1) Add pictures from CDs, removable media, and other folders on your computer to the library. 2) Scan your computer's hard drive to locate additional pictures to add from multiple locations. 3) Easily add keywords to pictures using the Keyword Painter tool to categorize pictures by subject for easier searching later.

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52 Chapter 9: Organizing and Archiving in Picture It!

Library

Adding Pictures Adding Pictures to Picture It! Library


from CDs and Any pictures you have in your My Pictures folder—and its subfolders—are
other removable automatically added to Picture It! Library’s database. You can also add pictures
media from other folders on your computer.
You can use Picture It!
To add pictures from a folder on your computer:
Library to help catalog
your pictures located on 1. On Picture It! Library’s File menu, click Add Pictures to Library.
CDs or other removable The Add Pictures to Library window opens. The folders already
media. To import these cataloged in Picture It! Library are displayed.
photos into the Library, 2. Click Browse.
click the Import button 3. Navigate to the folder containing the pictures you want to add, click the
[graphic] on the toolbar folder, and then click OK.
to launch the Import 4. Click Done.
Pictures Wizard.

Microsoft Picture It! Express User’s Manual


Chapter 9: Organizing and Archiving in Picture It! Library 53

Scanning for Pictures


Picture It! Library can scan your computer’s hard disk drive to locate pictures
to add to Picture It! Library. This feature is helpful if you have pictures stored
in multiple locations or if you don’t remember where your pictures are stored.
The scanning process can take some time if there are many picture files on your
computer.

To scan for pictures on your computer:


1. On Picture It! Library’s File menu, click Add Pictures to Library.
The Add Pictures to Picture It! Library window opens. The folders
already cataloged in Picture It! Library are displayed.
2. Click Scan.
3. In the Beginning Picture Scan dialog box, click OK.
The hard disk drive is scanned, and the folders containing pictures are
displayed.
4. Clear the check box next to any folder you don’t want to add.
5. Click OK, and then click Done.

Microsoft Picture It! Express User’s Manual


54 Chapter 9: Organizing and Archiving in Picture It! Library

Adding Keywords
Adding keywords to your pictures is one of the most powerful ways to organize
and later locate your pictures. You create your own keywords to identify the
subjects of your pictures. You can add multiple keywords to one picture, and
add the same keyword to multiple pictures.
The Keyword Painter is a fast way to add multiple keywords to pictures in
Picture It! Library.

Applying keywords with the Keyword Painter


1. On the Tools menu, click Keyword Painter.
2. If desired, add a new keyword to the list by clicking <click here to add
keyword>.
3. Click the keyword or keywords you want apply to pictures.
4. Click the pictures you want to assign those keywords to.
5. To close the Keyword Painter, click the close button on the Keyword
Painter title bar.

Microsoft Picture It! Express User’s Manual

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