Clicking on Studio will return you to this area, know as the Dashboard. It shows your most recent Projects and Collections.

1. These menus allow you to filter according to various criteria. To the right is where you can multi-select images.

2. These icons represent in order: Thumbnail View (what you see above), 1-up View, Compare View, Quick Slideshow, and Expand/Collapse Side Panels.

3. This area, called the Inspector, will show you various details about the Project you are navigating, as well as the images you select.

4. This is the main viewer area. If you hover over the gray lines you can rate images 1st, 2nd, or Kill.

1. These are the actions you can perform on a Project: Send a Messenger, Print a .PDF proofsheet, Download JPEGs, Export a text list of the images, Add to Bin, Add to Collection.

2. The icon on the left will turn off select level information throughout DFStudio. The icon on the right brings up Viewing Preferences for throughout DFStudio.

Highlighting images and clicking Add to Bin (1) will add them to a temporary proofsheet which can be accessed by clicking on My Bin (2). This can be used to gather images from accross projects in order to send them in a Messenger or create a Portfolio.

Add to Collection (2) behaves much the same as adding images to the Bin, however Collections are permanent whereas the bin is temporary. You can find your collections by clicking on the Studio tab, where your most recent Collections will always be displayed.

Next: Sending a Messenger