PICALBUM (VERSION 1.00) 
Copyright (c) 1995 Ziff Davis Publishing Company
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PICALBUM by Michael J Mefford            First Published April 9, 1996
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About PICALBUM 
              PicAlbum finds all the bitmaps on your hard disk, 
displays them, and lets you organize them in picture albums. The 
bitmaps are not actually moved; the albums use references to the 
bitmaps on your disk. The bitmap file types PicAlbum supports are
.BMP, .DIB, .PCX, .GIF, TIFF, and Targa. PicAlbum is a 16-bit Windows
application that runs compatibly under Windows 95.

Usage
      To install PicAlbum, copy all its program files to a directory
on your hard disk, then create an icon for PicAlbum in the folder of
your choice.

To create an album, click on the leftmost button above the Albums list.
A dialog box will prompt you for the name. Next, select which direc-
tories to search for bitmaps by clicking on the leftmost button above
the Directories list box. This will bring up the Bitmap Directories 
dialog box.

When you have finished building your Directories to Scan list and have
checked the bitmap types you want to include, click the OK button to 
return to the main window. The directories you selected will appear in
the Directories list box in the lower-left quadrant. To begin scanning,
click the right-arrow button above the Directories list box. When 
scanning is complete, all the bitmaps in the selected directories of 
the types you specified will appear in the Directory Bitmaps list box 
in the lower-right quadrant.

You can review the bitmaps by scrolling down the list. A thumbnail of 
the highlighted bitmap file will appear to the right of the list box. 
To get a better look, double-click on the thumbnail. When you see a 
bitmap that you want to place in an album, highlight the album, then 
highlight the bitmap(s) and click the up arrow above the Directory 
Bitmaps list box. You can also use drag-and-drop. 

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Michael J. Mefford is a contributing editor of PC Magazine.
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