Using buckets to move between tasks

Buckets allow you to easily transport images from the Organizer browser to the Create screen.

Scrapbook Essentials users have access to one bucket.
Enhanced and Extreme users have four buckets displayed by default, with the ability to create up to nine in total. To add buckets, right-mouse-down in the buckets area and select Add Bucket. You can also remove buckets and empty them in this fashion.

Note: you can also move your images from the Organizer display area to the Create screen by selecting them (individually or as a multiple selection), and dragging them from the Organizer onto the Create button. The Create screen will toggle on, and the images will be attached to the cursor, ready to drop.

Note2: you can select images on the Create screen from the Images hover, or selected into the dropper, and drop them into the Bucket hover.

To use the buckets feature...

First, click on the tab.

This will open the Organizer.

At the bottom of the screen, you will see empty buckets.

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From the Source tab, select the directory or directories containing the images you wish to sort or catalogue.

Once your images are displayed, you can:

•	drag and drop images (one by one, or as multiple selected groups) into the buckets;

•	hit the corresponding number key on your keyboard to add images into a bucket (eg. Hit "2" to place the images in bucket 2).

You can add the same image into more than one bucket.
The last image you drop will be the thumbnail for the bucket.

The bucket will display the number of images contained inside it.

Right-mouse-down on any bucket to change its name.

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Now that your images are sorted into buckets, you can click on the button to move back to the canvas.

Note: The contents of your buckets will be retained until they are cleared, and will be saved with your projects. This is useful for "works-in-progress".

To access your images on the Create screen, click on the hover. This will open the full hover, from which you can access your images.

Buckets editor

If you want to...

•	Remove an image, click the image, then click on the Remove button to remove it.

bucket delete image

•	Remove all the images in the bucket, click on Remove All button to empty the bucket.

Bucket delete all

•	Drop images on the canvas, click on the Begin Dropping button.

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•	To pick up images on the canvas, click on Pick Up button on the canvas.

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•	Click on to change the bucket currently in use (not available in Scrapbook Essentials)

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Check "Removed Drop" to eliminate the image thumbnail from the bucket once it has been added to the canvas. Turn this feature off to maintain images in the bucket, even after they have been used. If used once, a checkmark will appear next to the thumbnail. If used more than once, the thumbnail will display the number of times the image has been dropped into the project.

•	Click on the Rotate icons to reorient image, so they will drop in the correct orientation on the canvas.

Bucket rotate image

You can also click on the AutoCollage button to place the contents of your bucket onto the canvas at once -- ensure that the Include Items in Bucket 1 option is selected.

AutoCollageOptions

Hint: you can move an image from the Images hover into a bucket too. Open the Images hover, select one or more images, then type on your keyboard's number keys (eg., 1 or 2 or 3...). The image(s) will move into the designated bucket.