SNAPPAD

When you are snapping a series of pictures there may be times when you want to have more than one snap on the screen. The SnapPAD gives you this choice. Clicking on the SNAPPAD button located at the bottom center of your Snappy brings up the SnapPAD.


figure 1: The SnapPAD

Along the top of the SnapPAD are five buttons. These are:

Quick Save

This allows you to save the selected picture to a default path and format. Snappy assigns a generated name to the image.

Save As

This saves the selected picture. When you click the button, a save panel. You can set the name of the picture, where you want to save it, and the format you want the image saved in (i.e. BMP, JPG, etc.).

Delete

Clicking on this buttons deletes the selected image.

Delete All

Clicking on this button deletes all the images in the SnapPAD. SnapPAD holds onto all of the images you create, even when you shut down your computer. So once you are finished working, click the Delete All button to get rid of everything.

X

This closes SnapPAD. Even if you close the SnapPAD, shut down Snappy, or turn your computer off, all of your images will be stored until you click on the Delete All button to clean out the SnapPAD.

The window in the middle of the SnapPAD is the view window. All of the snaps loaded into the SnapPAD will appear here. The blue slider below the window is used to scroll through the pictures.


USING SNAPPAD WITH SNAPPY

The most important thing to remember is that if you don't have the SnapPAD open while you are using Snappy, no images are saved to it. So, if you want to use the SnapPAD's great features, be sure click the SNAPPAD button at the bottom of the Snappy interface.

When you click the Snap button to take a picture, that picture appears in the SnapPAD and is assigned a number (starting with 0). Each subsequent picture will appear to its right, and be assigned a number in numeric order. In other words, SnapPAD makes a storyboard of your pictures by creating a tile arrangement in the viewing window. A storyboard is a visual sequence of pictures displayed chronologically. Practically speaking, this provides you with a history of all the pictures you have snapped, and their edits. You can go back to any picture, and choose to adjust it or save it.

You can edit a snap using Snappy's Adjust controls. Simply double-click on the image in the SnapPAD that you want to edit. It will appear in its own window on your desktop.

When you're done with the changes you want to make, click the Process button in Snappy. The new image appears in SnapPAD's view window. The image is numbered using the whole number from the original picture, and adds a decimal number. So, if you were editing snap 2, and saved the changes, the new image would be called 2.1. If you opened up snap number 2 again, did some edits, and then saved those changes, that image would be saved as 2.2. SnapPAD adds these new pictures to the end of line in the display window. However, if you close down SnapPAD and re-open it, the pictures will appear in order (i.e. if we use the above example, SnapPAD would have the order 1, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 3, and so forth).

There are no limits to the number of snaps you can create this way, besides the physical limitations of your computer’s hard disk space. Remember that until you click the Delete All button, all of the images you create are saved on your drive.


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