Sysygy Image Viewer Help
Create your picture set


Why do I have to create Picture Sets?

Because of the 3D-capability, Sysygy Image Viewer can not use your pictures as they are saved on your disc. The pictures has to be formated in a special way. Otherwise your graphic card would not be able to render your pictures into the galleries. To make sure that the pictures are formated correctly, I've made a converter. This converter is called GalleryCreator. This converted has the advantage that you can group your picture to different picture sets. In the main program, you can only view one picture set at the same time, so it is advised to make wise groups (e.g. marriage of xyz).
You can add as many pictures to one picture set as you want. But adding lots of images at the same time will take some time (about 1-2 sec per picture).


Creating a new picture set

The first thing you should do is to start the GalleyCreator. To do this, just execute the GalleryCreator.exe. Now you should see a screen like this:

Gallery Creator
(Start screen of the gallery creator)
Now you can add your pictures. To do this, you have several options:
  1. Click on the big button in the left bottom corner. A dialog will appear where you can select the pictures you want to add
  2. Click on Picture - Add pictures .... A dialog will appear where you can select the pictures you want to add
  3. Open the Windows Explorer and browse to the folder your pictures are stored in. Now select the pictures you want to add and drag them on the Gallery Creator
Now you should see a screen like this:
Gallery Creator
(After adding the pictures)
You can browse through your images by using the white scroll bar below the front picture, by scrolling your mouse wheel or by pressing the keys A or D. Below every picture you might see the red caption [no comment added]. This indicates that the current front picture has no comment. You have several options to add a comment to the current picture now:
  1. Click with the mouse on the [no comment added]. Now you can enter a comment. By pressing Return, you apply the comment to the picture. To discard the the comment, press Esc. You can use the buttons below the edit window, too.
  2. Click on Picture - Edit picture comment in the main menu. The following procedure is the same as in 1)
  3. Press the Space key on your keyboard. The following procedure is the same as in 1)
After you have completed adding your pictures, you have to save your picture set now. To do this, click on File - Save.

IMPORTANT: If you press Save, the dialog will automatically choose the folder, you will have to store the picture set in. You have to save your created picture set in this folder or in any subfolder of the already choosen folder. If you save your picture sets somewhere else, the program will Not find them.
As you might notice, the name of your current package will get the same name as the file, you have saved your pictures in. But you can rename the package, if you want. In the main program, you will only see the name of the package and not the file name. So you should give your package a usefull name. To set the name of the current package, click on Picture - Rename picture set in the main menu. There you can enter the new name of the picture set.


Removing pictures from a picture set

If you want to remove pictures from a picture set, you have to open the picture set in the GalleryCreator first. Now you should browse to the picture you want to delete. To do this, just browse through the pictures be eather using your mouse wheel, pressing A or D, by using the white scroll bar below the front picture or by clicking on any visible picture.
After you have reached the picture, just press the button in the right bottom corner. Or you use the main menu Picture - Remove picture.

Note: the picture will not be physically deleted until you save the picture set. If you do not press Save, no change will be saved.