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Presentation Gold Version 6


Registration Codes   Registration Codes for for our new generation of products are no longer required. When instructed, fill out the form that appears in the beginning of the installation process. You will be automatically registered via your internet connection.

Follow these 3 easy steps and you will be viewing images and creating orders... in 10 minutes.

Step 1

  Installation & Registration
 

  1- Install and register Presentation Gold on your computer.
2- When you begin to use the program you will see the "Default" Config File has been loaded in for you. If you are just testing the program, feel free to use the Default Config File. BUT, if you are using one of our Partner Labs, before you place an order, request their Config File before creating "real" orders.

The Lab's "Config File" is the lab's "Catalogue" of products and services you can order from the lab.

The Config Files Folder is located in: C:/Program Files/Performer Software/Presentation Gold 6/Config Files

When you receive your Lab's Config File, install it in the folder described above.

Step 2

  Print Ordering
 

 

1- Click File/Open Images. Images must be on your computer, not on a CD.
2- Select an image in the thumbnail bar.
3- Select a size from the list on the right side. Click the size button to add quantities, or use the dropdown.
4- Click the "Order" button at the top of the size/quantities column.
5- The "Order Name" screen will appear. Enter a name for your order. The "Description" box is not a required field.
6- Go to the Crop Screen. Click the "Crop Squares" icon on the tool bar to go to the crop screen.
 

7- Crop your images. Hold the "Shift Key", and move your mouse to adjust the crop box. When you have it the way you like it, let go of the mouse button, click the "Space Bar" on your keyboard, or "Double Click" the image and it will crop. Click the Space Bar again or Double Click the image and the crop will go away.

You can't make any mistakes. The program will only allow you to crop the images in the correct aspect ration as the size of the print ordered. You cannot crop an 11x14 with an 8x10 crop. FOOLPROOF

Order first, then crop

8- Click the "Process Orders and Images" icon.

9- Click the "Process Order" Button.

10- Click the FTP icon.

11- Your order will appear in the screen. Select the order, Click "Add the Selected Order"
12- When the connection is complete- click "Upload"

Your order is on it's way to your lab.

Note: Images can only be saved in sRGB format.
 


Keep in mind, Presentation Gold and Preview Gallery together, create a unique seamless workflow solution that will speed your workflow and help you get from behind the computer to behind the camera. You don't make money sitting at your computer all day. The simple print ordering process above assumes you have spent many tedious hours of your valuable time creating your client order, then preparing your images BEFORE you could even create a simple lab order. If you employ our Integrated Workflow tools you find yourself enjoying digital photography, not hating it!!!
 

Step 3

  You are ready to install your program
   


We suggest you Open or Run the installation package. Past experience has shown us that people who "save" the downloads have problems finding them in their computers. The next time they install our program they inadvertently open the older download.

Best method- "Open/Run", not save.

To have continued use of the program, the program has to access the web to keep activated. As long as it connects to the web at least once a month your program will always be active.
 

Presentation Gold v6.2

Here is your download link: Download Full Install

NEW LOOK TO THE SCREENS- Icons have moved around Video


More Features   Learn more about the tools in Presentation....click a topic below
   
Start Up

Basic Overview
Config Files

Option Menu
Order ID Numbers
Print Prices
Preferences Screens

Renumbering Images from Memory Cards

Setup Link to Photoshop
Studio Information

Ordering

Album Prints
Attributes
(additional services)

Complete the Order
Create Order
Editing an Order
Finished Orders
Individual Prints
Open Existing Order
Proof Books
Process Order

Tool Box

Album Designer
Borders on Prints
Center Cropping
Cropping System

Package Prices

Slide Show
Templates
Template Maker

Output

CD Burner
Complete the Order
FTP System
Order
Output Location
Order Output Options
Printing
Process Order
Resize for Proofing

Which Output Should I Use?
 
Image Editing

Batch Rotation
Batch Selection
Delete Images
Edit In Other Program
EZ Rename
Function Bar
Image Organizer
Skew (random rotate images)

Image Viewing

Compare Screen
Find Feature
Find Images
Selecting images to view
Three Screen View
Two Screen View

View Screens

Color Control System

Sepia
Color Correction

Apply Last Color Correction
Black and White
Add Color
(Duplicate Image)


Color and B&W
(
From The Same Image)

Master Color Balance
 


Optional Features

Encrypted Image System
EZ Rename

LCD Projection Viewer
 

 

Internet Proofing / Ordering / Album Preview System

Use the power of the web to help you simplify print ordering and album design.
The web is more than a sales tool.
We think of it as a time saving tool. It is an integrated part of the production process.
Taking a few minute to learn how our integrated system works, can save you hours of wasted time behind the sitting at your computer.

You may have a workflow you are comfortable with. One you created BEFORE you learned about all the time saving easy to use tools in Presentation and Preview Gallery.
We have created an integrated workflow that allows your customers to enter their orders for individual prints, and album selections on the web.

They can even review their Album Design Preview on the web. Albums designed in Presentation in Photoshop, or in your own album design program.
Take the time to see what we have developed over the past 5 years.
What you see may surprise you.

Preview Gallery
 

New Features   Previous Users- Very Important!!!
   


Videos of New Features

Assorted Features and Functions
New Border Tool for Individual Print Orders
Template Toolbox

1- If you make Templates in Photoshop- New Conversion method: Create you templates like you normally do. Then-go to File/Convert-select to convert templates. Find the folder with the TIFFs and select it. Your Templates will be created as the did before.

2- There is a fantastic new "Border" feature in the crop screen. We installed a set of sample Borders and Masks when you installed the new V6 program. They are located in: C/Presentation Templates folder.

1- Open some images
2- Order a size
3- Crop
4- Click the "Borders" tab just under the "Auto Advance" check box.
5- At the top of the Borders Tool Box, Click the yellow Windows Browse Folder button and select the folder of Borders, select a Border.
6- Now!!! Click the different options and see the results of the features available.
Try this: Order 1 4x5 for each image. Then put the mouse over the picture in the Crop Box. Right Click the image, look at all the options.
As with the Borders and Mask tools in the Album Designer, there are many options here to play with. Too many for us to list for you. The creativity is endless. You can make your own Borders in Photoshop.

3- The Album Designer screen has changed, but there very few changes.

One of the new features is the ability to move nodes from front to back. Use the - and + keys on the number pad to move the nodes.

4- Cropping Notation- In the Process Order Screen
To the left of each image are the "Cropping Squares" symbol. If the symbol is Red, your image is not cropped, if it is Blue, it is cropped.

In a few weeks you will see more features in the Presentation Gold Program and Preview Gallery Web Hosting System.

Next....Drop Shadows in the Album Designer!!!
 

System Requirements

  There are no specific System Requirements to use Presentation Gold
   
PC Computers Only

We do suggest you use an XP Operating System, or Windows 2000. the program will no longer run in Win98 OS. The operating "speed" and memory capacity in your computer will not effect any functions in Presentation Gold. These speed and capacity factors will only effect the "speed" at which you can operate Presentation Gold.

Any new computer you buy today, right off the shelf, will work very well.


Support

  Techsupport