• Downloading and Installing
• Ordering Info
• Keyboard and Mouse Functions
• Exporting as Movie
• Troubleshooting
• Technical Specifications
• Program History
• Upgrading
• Contact

Bix's Photo Book requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. DirectX is available as a free download from Microsoft:

DOWNLOAD DIRECTX

What you need is the DirectX End-User Runtime (version June 2007 or later).

All DirectX downloads can also be found in the Microsoft Download Center.

Please note: Bix's Photo Book does NOT require DirectX 10 nor Vista: it runs fine on Windows XP. However it DOES require the latest version of DirectX, so even if you're running Windows Vista you might have to update DirectX.

DOWNLOAD BIX'S PHOTO BOOK

If you don't like installers you can download the program as a ZIP file.

Bix's Photo Book requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. If the program complains about not being able to find D3DX9_34.dll you will have to install the latest version of DirectX.

A single user license of Bix's Photo Book costs € 19.95

What you get

When you buy Bix's Photo Book you will receive your own personal license keys. Entering them into the program with the menu item Settings > Enter License Keys... will turn the evaluation version into the fully functional version.

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How to select a photo folder

Choose File > Select Folder... and pick a photo (it does not matter which one) from the folder you wish to browse.

Go to the next page (turn page)

• press the cursor right key
• or press the cursor down key
• or press the page down key
• or press the spacebar
• or press the return key
• or left click with your mouse on the right side of the book, but not on a photo

Go to the previous page

• press the cursor left key
• or press the cursor up key
• or press the page up key
• or press the backspace key
• or left clicking with your mouse on the left side of the book, but not on a photo

Zoom in on a photo

Left click with your mouse on a photo.

Rotate, flip or copy a photo

A pop-up menu is displayed when you right click on a photo. With this pop-up menu you can rotate, flip or copy the photo.

Select a filter effect

Right click on a photo and select Change Effect...

Changing the camera

Resizing the window

To resize the window place your mouse at the window border. When the pointer changes into an arrow, you can resize the window to any size you like.

Other functions

Choose File > Export as Movie... to export your photo book as a movie file.

Animations are saved as AVI files. The AVI format is the most widely supported movie format and every animation, video and DVD authoring tool can import AVI files.

You can stop the export process by pressing the <ESCAPE> key.

Keep the window competely visible!

For maximum speed and image quality Bix's Photo Book grabs the screen when exporting. For this reason you have to keep Bix's Photo Book's window completely visible and on top of all other windows when creating a movie.

Camera views in AVI file

The following 7 camera presets are used in the creation of the AVI file: <F1> (front view), <F3> (left view), <F4> (right view) and the photo views <F5>, <F6>, <F7> and <F8>.

You can adjust a preset by pressing the corresponding function key and using the following keys:

Bix's Photo Book uses the latest 3D animation techniques, so make sure your computer is up-to-date by performing the following steps:

• First check out the hardware requirements to see if your system meets the minimum requirements.
• Update the driver of your graphics card. You can download the latest driver from the website of your video card's manufacturer. For example if you own a GeForce card go to www.nvidia.com and if you have a Radeon visit www.ati.com. Don't forget to install the driver after downloading.
• Install the latest version of DirectX.
• Update Windows at: www.windowsupdate.com.
• Free memory and CPU usage by not running too many programs in the background.
• Sometimes it helps playing around with the hardware acceleration slider in the control center of your graphics card.
• Set the colour quality of your desktop to Highest (32 bit).
• Do not push your graphics card to its limits by using the highest desktop resolution possible. By using a normal resolution like 1024 x 768 you save precious video memory that can be used by applications like Bix's Photo Book. Also don't use super high resolution pictures.
• And last but not least: do not download our software from crack sites, update your anti-virus software, your anti-spyware software and your firewall.

Supported picture formats

• .JPG
• .PNG
• .BMP
• .TGA

How do I upgrade to the latest version?

Version 3.12

Released: Friday, April 11th, 2008
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

Changes since 3.0:

• bugfix: when exporting a photobook with an odd number of photos, the last photo is now correctly exported
• bugfix: shader files with a unicode file path are now loaded correctly

Version 3.0

Released: 2007-7-24
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Software Antialiasing
  With software antialiasing your exported video always looks super sharp, no matter what graphics card, video driver and hardware antialiasing settings you're using. A nice side effect is that you no longer have to keep the render window visible when exporting.
• Create videos with resolutions bigger than your desktop
  For example you will be able to create the highest HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 on a 1024 x 768 desktop.

New system requirements:

• Version 3 requires Windows XP or Vista.
• Version 3 requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. If the program complains about not being able to find D3DX9_34.dll you will have to install the latest version of DirectX.

Version 2.2

Released: 2007-1-18
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Two photo sorting methods that can be selected with the menu items File > Sort by Name and File > Sort by Date.

Version 2.12

Released: 2006-9-28
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• New menu item: Settings > Set Animation Speed...
• New menu item: Settings > Render Transparent Paper
• Splash screen not used in registered version
• When exporting a photo book, animated effects (like the sketcher effect) do not start animating until zoomed in

Version 2.1

Released: 2006-9-15
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Bix's Photo Book can now create AVI files bigger than 2GB! (OpenDML Extensions)
• Animation speed adjustable: page turning speed, zoom speed and photo view time
• Blur and scale down post-processing options

Version 2.0

Released: 2006-6-16
Price: € 19.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Export as movie file
• Realtime filter effects with pixel shaders
• Transparent page
• Textured paper
• Textured cover
• More intuitive mouse and keyboard control

Version 1.1

Released: 2006-1-29
Price: € 9.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• New menu item: Set Language...

Version 1.0

Released: 2005-12-20
Price: € 9.95

• First release!

How do I upgrade to the latest version?

• Carefully read the release notes in the program history.
• Check the new system requirements and upgrade DirectX if necessary.
• Download the latest version from the download page.
• Install the new version.
• Activate the application by entering your license keys into the program with the menu item Settings > Enter License Keys....

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