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Viewing Art History Images Using PhotoPhilia

Digital images from many Art History courses are stored on a networked file server called NTM. Using a program called PhotoPhilia on a Windows computer, you can connect to NTM, and view the images with or without seeing filenames and/or comments, and display them in a virtual slide show.

Where To Find This Software at Wellesley:

The KeyServered version of PhotoPhilia 1.8 is available on all lab Windows computers. You may also install it on student, faculty, and staff computers, if you wish: Installing Photophilia 1.8.

To Start PhotoPhilia:

Go to Start>All Programs>PhotoPhilia>PhotoPhilia (on lab computers, it's in Start>All Programs>Academic Software).

The program consists of menu and icon bars across the top of the screen; in the upper left a panel to navigate through disks and folders; a panel in the lower left to view thumbnails of the images from the selected folder; and a window on the right to display the pictures.

Connecting to NTM and the Art History Images with a College-owned or lab computer:

In the upper left hand column, double click on the My Network Places icon and then on Entire Network. From there go into Microsoft Windows Network, and then into Wellesley. Scroll down until you find Ntm and open that, and double click on the folder labeled Art, then open the Art History Images folder. From there locate your class and lecture folder.


If Ntm does not appear in the list above (which happens sometimes), use this alternate method, adding a shortcut for NTM to your "Network Places":

  1. Quit out of PhotoPhilia, if it is open.
  2. Go to the Start menu, and choose My Network Places.
  3. Click on Add a Network Place.
  4. In the Add a Network Place Wizard, click Next.
  5. Now, click once on "Choose another network location", and then click the Next button.
  6. In the "Internet or network address:" box, type \\ntm\art
    and then click Next.
  7. In the next window, click Next.
  8. And finally, un-check the box "Open this network place when I click Finish", and then click Finish.
  9. Close the My Network Places window.
  10. Start Photophilia, and this time, in the upper left hand column, double click on the My Network Places icon and then on Entire Network. Double-click the Art on Ntm icon.
  11. Now open the Art History Images folder. From there locate your class and lecture folder.

 

Connecting to NTM and the Art History Images with a Personal Computer:

If you're using a personal computer, rather than a college-owned one, you'll need to log in to NTM with your domain account and password:

Double click on the My Network Places icon in the Photophilia window. Next, double click on Computers Near Me, and then open the icon for NTM. The Enter Network Password window should appear. In the Connect As field, type wellesley\ followed by your domain user name (e.g., wellesley\mrmagoo). In the Password field, type your domain password, and click OK.

Now, double click on the folder labeled Art, then open the Art History Images folder. From there locate your class and lecture folder.

All the images within the folder should now appear in the lower left panel as "thumbnails", small versions of the original images. Click once on a thumbnail image, to display the image within the right panel.

Note: You may find it helpful to view PhotoPhilia in "full-screen" mode, by clicking on the Maximize button in the upper-right corner of the window.

To view an image full-size in its own window:

Double click on the thumbnail image.

To view multiple images in their own windows:

Double click on the first thumbnail image you wish to display. A new window will open displaying the image in its original size. Return to the PhotoPhilia window containing all the thumbnail images, by clicking on the window with your mouse. Next, double click on the second thumbnail image you wish to display. Another new window will open displaying the second image. Find the first window (click on it to bring it to the foreground), and arrange both the first and second image windows--move the windows around, adjust the window sizes, etc.--until they can both be viewed simultaneously. Repeat these steps if you wish to display more images at one time.


To view the comments for an image:

Method A (always works, but is slow and is difficult to read long comments):

  1. Go to the File menu and select Properties.
  2. The Properties window will appear. Select the File comments tab.
  3. The comments for the image will be displayed under the 'Value' section.
    If 'Value' shows ellipses (...), either point the cursor at the text and "hover" over it until the full phrase is displayed, or adjust the column width of the 'Value' section.

Method B (requires a one-time setup, but after that is easy and displays long comments gracefully):

Try toggling the captions on and off by clicking on the Display Captions icon.

If this doesn't work (i.e., shows you a filename like 02_parthenon.jpg), you need to follow the steps below, one time, to set up Photophilia to display the captions as comments. After completing these steps, the Display Captions icon will toggle comments on or off.

  1. Go to the Tools menu and select Preferences
  2. Choose the Captions tab and check both Image Window and Full Screen
  3. Click on Setup... next to Image Window
  4. Click on Text...
  5. Make sure that the box next to "Show exif fields" is checked, and then click on the icon and scroll down to select "<Exif Description>"
  6. Click OK, then OK again.
  7. Now, click on Setup... next to Full Screen, and repeat steps 4 through 6 above.
  8. Finally, click OK again to return to the main Photophilia screen. This completes the one-time setup procedure.

Now clicking the Display Comments icon will display or hide the comments.


To view all the thumbnails in a separate window:

Go to the View menu and select Mosaic, or click the Mosaic icon .

 

Hiding filenames on thumbnails:

To hide the filenames that accompany thumbnails, right-click on the lower left panel, (or in the separate window if you are viewing them in the "mosaic" format), and select Customize. . . Within the Thumbnail appearance section, un-check the box next to 'Show file name'. Click OK.

Slideshows:

To exit the slideshow:

Press Esc on the keyboard or click on the red X in the bottom right corner.

Slideshow Options

You can customize the slideshow, to do things like randomize the order, or display the comments along with the images.

To view or change the slideshow options:

Controlling the display of images in a slideshow:

(In the General tab, within the 'Frames' section).

Delay - automatically displays each image for this number of seconds before advancing to the next image.

  1. If Manual is checked, uncheck it.
  2. Type in the amount of time (in seconds), or use the arrows to increase or decrease the number
  3. Click OK

Manual - slideshow advances to the next image only when you tell it

  1. Check the box next to Manual.
  2. Click OK
  3. Move from image to image within the slide show by using the left and right arrows on the keyboard, or click the left and right buttons in the lower right corner.

Random - displays the images in a random order. If you want to sort or arrange the images differently, see the section below on "Changing Image Order".

To display comments during the slideshow:

  1. Go the View menu, and select Slideshow Setup.
  2. Check the Captions box, in the lower right, in the Show section.
  3. Now click on the Captions tab at the top of the window.
  4. Click on Text...

  5. Make sure that the box next to "Show exif fields" is checked

  6. Click on the icon and scroll down to select "<Exif Description>"
  7. Click OK, and then OK again.

To turn off captions (displaying comments), Go the View menu, select Slideshow Setup, click on the General tab, and un-check Captions in the Show section.

Note: You cannot toggle comments off during the slideshow, so you must set this option before playing a slideshow.

 

Changing Image Order For Thumbnails or Slideshow

Sorting:

  1. Go to the Data menu
  2. Select Sort
  3. Select the criteria (Name, Type, Size, etc.) you want to use to control the sort order, and whether you want it ascending or descending.

To manually rearrange the images:

  1. Go to Data>Sort and select Custom.
  2. In the lower left panel, where the thumbnail images are displayed, select the image you wish to move, and drag the image with your mouse to the desired location.

How to Quit:

Go to File>Close

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