User manual SONY VAIO VPC-EC2LGX/BI

[. . . ] Subscriptions to online service providers may require a fee and credit card information. Financial services may require prior arrangements with participating financial institutions. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. End user software license agreement This End User Software License Agreement (the EULA) is a legal agreement between you and Sony Corporation (hereinafter referred to as Sony), a corporation organized under Japanese Law, the manufacturer of your Sony computer system (the SONY HARDWARE). Please read this EULA carefully before installing or using the software distributed together with this EULA (the SONY SOFTWARE). [. . . ] You can even animate your preferred gif files with Gif Animation Tools or play back movies in a variety of formats. You can also create albums from your favourite images and upload them to a Web page. To open PictureGear, proceed as follows: 1 Click the Start button on the Windows® taskbar. 2 Point to All Programs and then PictureGear. 3 Click PictureGear. When you start PictureGear for the first time, the Let's try PictureGear window appears. It gives you a quick overview on how to view and edit still images, print various images, make a home page, and make stitches from a movie. When you start PictureGear for the first time, the sample slides provided with PictureGear are displayed automatically. Next time you start PictureGear, the slides you last viewed, will be displayed. You can always exit PictureGear by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner of the main window. Using Imaging software About the software on your Sony notebook nN 55 Creating a Collection All the images and movies you use to create a slide show, a screen saver or a photo album, is a collection. To create a collection, proceed as follows: 1 2 3 Launch PictureGear. In the Folder box, select the location of your pictures. Click Select All from the Edit menu to display all images in the display area. Select Screen Saver from the Utilities menu. The Screen Saver Settings dialog box appears. You can arrange the images in the order you want them displayed. To do this, click an image from the Slide list and click the Up and Down buttons. If you select the Random Playing check box, the order for slides set in the Slide list is ignored and the slides are displayed at random. You can also select effects and sound for the screen saver. 4 Creating a HTML Photo Album You can create a photo album in HTML format using slides as the source images. To create a HTML photo album, proceed as follows: 1 2 3 4 Create a Collection. From the Utilities menu, select Album Maker. The PictureGear Album Maker dialog box appears. Choose a design template for your album. [. . . ] Press G to proceed with the system recovery. When the recovery process is finished, remove the product recovery CD-ROM from the drive. Press any key to restart your computer. 3 4 5 6 7 8 !Please note that this option will delete all existing data both on the C: and D: drives before starting the recovery. Using the product recovery CD-ROMs About the software on your Sony notebook nN 103 Aborting the recovery process The recovery process always warns you when the decision you are asked to take cannot be undone. [. . . ]