"How do I..."
- Add images from my Hard Drive to PhotoACT?
- Scan (or get from a Digital Camera) into PhotoACT?
- Copy from the Clipboard an image into PhotoACT ?
- View an Image in Full resolution?
- Delete an Image from PhotoACT?
- Include Faxes, Emails and/or Web Pages in the PhotoACT Images Tab?
- Change the size of the thumbnails in the Images Tab?
- Change my default Camera/Scanner (TWAIN device)?
- Change the displayed name of the Image?
- Setup a "Persistent Photo"?
- Add Web Page Thumbnails?
- Automatically display a picture when ACT! starts
How do I Add images from my Hard Drive to PhotoACT?
Images can added to PhotoACT by locating the image from a folder on your computer and adding it to the current contact.
1. Select the Images Tab of PhotoACT
2. Click on the Open File Tool Button 
3. Locate and then select the an image from your hard drive. A preview of support images will be shown to the right of the available files.
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How do I Scan (or get from Digital Camera) an image into PhotoACT?
PhotoACT supports all TWAIN compatible devices for acquiring (or scanning) images from digital cameras, flatbed scanners, video cameras, etc.
Typically, when obtaining an image in this manner, the software that came with your device (Camera, Scanner, etc.) will display its own dialog designed to control the process of actually transferring images from the device to your system. Once this is complete, PhotoACT will associate this image with the current contact an its thumbnail will appear in the Images Tab.
To initiate this process:
1. Select the Images Tab of PhotoACT and click on the Acquire Tool Button 
2. There will be a slight delay while the software from your device prepares to acquire the image(s).
3. From within the software that your device produces, obtain the desired image. You may need to dismiss the software dialog once the image is acquired.
4. If you have "Preview selected images" checked in the Setup Tab, the image will first be displayed in PhotoACT's view window. Before it will be stored with the current contact record, you must save the image by specifying a name and location to store the file on your system. Otherwise, PhotoACT will store the image in the "Default location of Photos" specified in the Setup Tab.
5. Note that the "format" to which you scan images to can be important. The default format is the Windows Bitmap (*.bmp) format. Depending on your scanner settings, however, this format may result is extremely large images being added to PhotoACT and slowing ACT! considerably. You may want to change the format to JPEG or PNG via the Setup Tab
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How do I Copy from the Clipboard an image into PhotoACT ?
The ability to Paste images from the Clipboard is indicated by the Paste Tool
Button 
being enabled. If the Clipboard is
empty, this button will appear grayed-out.
1. Click on the Paste Tool Button
2. If you have "Preview selected images" checked in the Setup Tab, the image will first be displayed in PhotoACT's view window. Before it will be stored with the current contact record, you must save the image by specifying a name and location to store the file on your system. Otherwise, PhotoACT will store the image in the "Default location of Photos" specified in the Setup Tab.
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How do I View an Image in Full resolution ?
There are three ways to View the selected image in Full Resolution:
1. Double-click on the image.
2. Right-Click on the selected image and select View
3. Click on the View Tool Button 
in the
Images Tab
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How do I Delete an Image from PhotoACT ?
Deleting an image from PhotoACT has some important implications that you should thoroughly understand before attempting to use this feature.
There are three methods to remove an image from the PhotoACT Images Tab. The one you select may affect the reference and/or availability of the data within the Act! database.
By right-clicking on a selected image, and selecting Delete, a dialog box will appear presenting three options:
1. "Remove reference to the current Contact". Selecting this option will delete the Notes/History entry in this contact's record making the associated image unavailable to both Act! and PhotoACT. The image itself, however, will remain on your hard drive and will not be affected.
2. "Just do not let PhotoACT display it". Selecting this option will simply flag the Notes/History entry in Act! so that PhotoACT will skip this entry the next time it paints the images in the Images Tab.
3. "Physically delete the file from Hard Drive". This option permanently erases the actual file associated with the image in addition to removing the Notes/History entry.
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How do I Include Faxes, Emails and/or Web Pages in the PhotoACT Images Tab?
PhotoACT can optionally display thumbnail versions of Faxes and attachments to emails.
For Faxes, WinFax must be installed on the same system. Email attachments must be of one of the supported formats (i.e. BMP, JPG, etc.)
You can control the display of Web Page Thumnails, Faxes, Emails, and all other
"regular" PhotoACT Images via the drop-down list in the Images Tab.
By default, only Images attached to the current contact are displayed. By checking the Emails option, the Images Tab will attempt to display any attachments included with your emails that are of one of the supported formats.
When the Faxes options is checked, PhotoACT will decipher WinFax log entries made for that contact and display a thumbnail representation of the associated fax image. If the "Separate Thumbnails for Multi-Page Images" checkbox is checked in the Setup Tab, PhotoACT will display a separate thumbnail for each page of the the fax.
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How do I Change the size of the thumbnails in the Images Tab?
In the upper right hand portion of the Images Tab there is a
"slider" control which you can use to change the size of the thumbnail
representation of the images.
The last value of this setting will be used as the startup default value each time Act! is reopened
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How do I change my default Camera/Scanner (TWAIN device)?
1. Select the Setup Tab of PhotoACT.
2. Click on the "Select Default Scanner" button
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How do I change the displayed name of the Image?
You can change the "displayed" name of the image in PhotoACT which is the text that appears below the thumbnail of the image.
1. Select the Image and Right-Click to produce a local popup menu
2. From the menu, select "Rename"
3. Enter the new name of the image.
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Setup a "Persistent Photo"
You can place any image displayed by PhotoACT in the upper half of the Contact data and that image will remain there even when the PhotoACT Tab is not visible.
1. Right-click on the desired image within PhotoACT
2. From the popup menu, select Persistent
3. When the selected image appears in the upper half on the Contact data, resize and move the image as desired by dragging with your mouse.
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Add Web Page Thumbnails
When Web Page Thumbnails are included, PhotoACT will attempt to render any file attachments that represent a URL (*.htm, *.mht). PhotoACT will also attempt to render the URL entered in the ACT! "Web Site" field. To add additional URLs:
1 Navigate to the web page to wish to add using Internet Explorer.
2. Drag the URL icon in the Address field of IE and drop it onto the PhotoACT Images Tab Toolbar
3. While PhotoACT is rendering the Web Page, the thumbnail for it will look like the "microsoft.com" entry below:
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Automatically display a picture when ACT! starts
When you have an image selected as a Persistent View, it will remain visible while ACT! is running. When you restart ACT! you must first select the PhotoACT Tab to have this image reappear.
By checking the "Auto Persist" option in the Images Toolbar, however, PhotoACT will automatically display the Persistent View image when ACT! starts.
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