Introduction
Installation
First utilisation
Before starting
User interface presentation
. The File menu
. The Display menu
. The Help menu
. The toolbox
. The navigation tabs
. The pictures view
Managing your pictures
Sharing your pictures
Advanced Functions
Tutorials
User interface presentation
JBrout provides a simple and intuitive interface. Everything is done by copy/move/paste or by using the contextual menu.
The "File" menu
"Find" option:
Opens the window to perform an advanced pictures search. See the "Search for photos" chapter for more details.
"Edit external tools" option:
Allows to edit the file tools.txt containing the calls to external tools (for example the launch of an editing picture application). See chapter "Call externals tools" for more details.
"Quit" option:
Exit the application.
The "Display" menu
Allows to chose the order-by display criterion for thumbnails. Possible criteria are:
- tags,
- comment,
- album,
- date,
- name (default).
The "Help" menu
"Help" option:
Opens jBrout on-line help in your browser.
"About" option:
Displays jBrout current version. The information is also displayed in the title bar.
The toolbox
Adds a new album.
Opens the window for advanced pictures search.
Rotates anti-clockwise the selected pictures.
Rotates clockwise the selected pictures.
Adjust the thumbnails sizes in the display list.
Display the tags and albums of the pictures displayed in the list.
The navigation tabs
"Albums" tab:
Displays your albums list. An album is a folder from your files system. With each album is also displayed the number of pictures it contains.
The list displays your albums tree; it is sorted by ascending order on the albums names.
When an album is selected (with a double-click), its pictures and those belonging to its sub-albums are displayed.
"Time" tab:
For the selected month, lists the days in which there is at least one picture and displays the thumbnail of the first picture of these days.
Selecting a day (with a double-click) displays the corresponding pictures.
"Tags" tab:
Displays the list of categories and tags (keywords). Selecting a tag (with double-click) displays the pictures containing this tag.
The pictures view
Pictures are displayed in thumbnail form. For this purpose, jBrout uses the pictures internal EXIF thumbnails.
If necessary, JBrout displays additional information according to the following:
JBrout is loading the thumbnail. it’ll be displayed soon.
The picture doesn’t seem to contain an EXIF thumbnail.
Try to rebuild it through the contextual menu.
The picture EXIF format is wrong.
The picture is in jBrout database, but is not any longer on your disk.
The picture contains wrong EXIF data.
The
icon shows that the picture is in read-only mode and cannot be modified.
The
icon shows that the picture has been put in the basket.