Picture Dates

FotoAlbum makes extensive use of picture dates to quickly organize your pictures in a timeline. Most digital cameras embed the date/time the picture was taken in the picture file. Therefore, you get the advanced timeline/filtering capabilities with no work on your part.

However, for pictures that are scanned or any pictures that do not have the embedded picture date, you will probably want to enter the date. Often people do not know the exact date of picture (sometimes just the month and/or year it was taken). FotoAlbum supports many date formats including "partial" dates. These formats include:

• mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy (Current date format defined in the Windows Control Panel).
• mm/yyyy (Partial date - only know the month and year it was taken)
• yyyy (Partial date - only know the year it was taken)

Note: When manually entering a date, the date will appear in Red until a valid format is entered.