Fotosifter User Manual
Cgaga Fotosifter
Cgaga Fotosifter is a professional and easy-to-use photo organizer as well as picture editor running on Windows PC. It provides you with a total solution for mass photo management and picture enhancing through utilizing advanced algorithms as well as frontier techs including precise facial recognition, AI, and machine learning.
With the new generation of Cgaga Image Processing Engine and the ever-improving algorithm, Cgaga Fotosifter empowers you to scan, import, auto sort, and auto organize your photos and pictures fast. It’s a smart machine that liberate you from Inefficient manual photo organizing. Meanwhile, Cgaga Fotosifter is more than just a photo organizer - it also helps you to edit your pictures and customize your photo slideshow videos. Moreover, new features as well as new assets are constantly being added to Cgaga Fotosifter, users are always free to update it to new versions.
To sum up, Cgaga Fotosifter is a family-friendly software and is a perfect choice for photography beginners and amateurs, working moms, office workers, travel lovers, teachers, students, etc. It comes extremely handy when you are in need of managing a huge amount of photos and images with extra demands such as picture editing, slideshow video making, and photo exporting.
System Requirements
Operating Systems (OS) Supported:
Windows 10/8.1/8/7, 64-bit
Hardware Requirements:
Intel i3 or newer multi-core processor, 2 GHz or above
4GB of RAM or above
Intel HD Graphics 5000 or newer; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 or newer; AMD Radeon R5 or newer
10 GB of free hard-disk space
Screen Resolution Requirement:
1024 × 768 screen resolution and above
Download and Install
1) Click here to download the latest Cgaga Fotosifter.
2) Upon successful download, double-click the downloaded cgaga-fotosifter.exe to start the installation.
FAQs
Q 1 : The software gets stuck during installation
It may be caused by network instability, please check the network environment and try again.
Q 2 : Getting an error “ MSVCP120.dll not loading ” or “ MSVCR120.dll not loading ”
Please follow these steps: 1.Right-click to select properties. 2. Select "Location of open file". 3. Click VC_Redist.x64~2015-2019 in the open file directory to install. 4. After the installation is successful, open the software again, and the software can start normally.
If the problem is still not resolved, please contact our technical support at support@c-gaga.com
Uninstall
For Windows 10 OS:
Open Windows Start menu > Click “ Settings ” > Click “ Apps " from the Settings dashboard > Select " Apps & features " from the left panel > In the list, search or find out Cgaga Fotosifter > Click it and further click the " Uninstall " button appeared > Follow the on-screen instructions
Windows 8.1 & 8:
Open Windows Start menu > Click " Control Panel " Select " Programs & features " > Find out Cgaga Fotosifter and click " Uninstall " > Click the " Yes " button when hinted to uninstall the program > Follow the on-screen prompts
For Windows 7:
Click " Start " on your PC’s task bar > Select " Control Panel " > Click " Uninstall a program "under " Programs "> Find out and select Cgaga Fotosifter > Click " Uninstall " the top of the program list > Follow the on-screen guides to remove the program.
Updates
Users are FREE to upgrade older versions of Cgaga Fotosifter to the newest one. There are 2 ways.
Way 1: Auto Update
If your program is not the latest version and you’ve enabled auto update in the settings, then, upon launching, Fotosifter starts to update to the newest version automatically. You can check or uncheck the auto update option according to your needs.
Way 2: Manual Update
Step 1. Click “ Help ” on the top menu bar to draw out the sub-options.
Step 2. Click the “ Check Update ” option in the drop down list to start updating.
Activation
Reminder
A valid license code is required to activate the licensed version. If you don’t have and need a license code, click here to purchase.
There are 2 ways to activate Cgaga Fotosifter. See the detailed ways and steps as shown below.
Way 1: Manual Activation
Step 1. Open Fotosifter and click “ Help ” on the top menu bar to draw out the options.
Step 2. Click the “ Online Activation ” option in the drop down list. Then, you will be presented with a pop-up window.
Step 3. Type in your email address and the activation code (i.e. license code). Then you may notice that the “ Activate ” button turns into color green from gray. Click “ Activate ” to complete the activation.
Note
Please make sure that you type in the correct email address.
Way 2: Activate from Other Places
Situation 1. Activate from the launch. Upon launching Fotosifter, you’ll get the hint as the following picture shows. Enter the email address and activation code (i.e. license code). Then click “ Activation ”.
Situation 2. Activate from the exporting interface. If you are using the unlicensed free trial version of Fotosifter to export photos, you’ll get a pop-up hint to advise you to activate the program. Click the “Activate ” button to activate the software.
Main Screen
The screen capture below presents the first screen you can see after Cgaga Fotosifter is successfully installed and launched.
Left-Side Menu
The left-side tool bar (i.e. sidebar menu) locates right at the left part of the program interface. It’s a place where you can find auto sorting, organizing, and selection results. Also, you can add customized tags to pictures here.
Topbar
The topbar offers portals for creating and saving projects, help center, license purchase, software setting center, and window-size adjusting.
Top Toolkit Bar
Top tool kit bar integrates key functions of photo organizing. Here, you can search, filter, pinpoint, sort, organize, and detect duplicates of your pictures. Also, you can enter photo-editing mode as well as photo slideshow making mode here.
Main Features
Scan Photos from Devices
Fotosifter helps you to scan photos from the local file folders of your PC or connected external devices such as SSD, HDD and USB flash drive.
Import Photos
Fotosifter allows you to import photos individually, or to import a folder that contains pictures, or to import photos from an particular device.
Auto Photo Sorting and Organizing
By clicking the " Auto Sort’ " icon from the top tool kit bar, you will be led to the auto photo sorting and organizing interface. There are four organizing dimensions: Face, Location, Time, and Selection. Click to choose one or multiple dimensions you want to perform, and then click " Sort " to run the process.
Photo Editing
Click the " Edit " icon from the top tool kit bar to enter photo-editing mode. Then you can use the tools from the right tool kit bar as well as the bottom tool kit bar to enhance your photos.
There are four main picture-editing tools embedded in the right-side tool kit:
1) The color modifier
2) Photo filter
3) Photo optimizer
4) Photo EXIF viewer
Except for the above major tools, there are also some other handy tools of facilities which help you modify and view the picture quickly.
Slideshow Video Making
Click the " Slideshow " icon from the top tool kit bar to enter slideshow-making mode. Then you can use the tools from the right tool kit bar as well as the bottom tool kit bar to create a slideshow video.
There are three tools embedded in the right-side tool kit:
1) Transition effects
2) Text stickers
3) Music and sound effects
Explore and utilize them.
Export Photos
Click the green " Export " button at the top right of the software interface. In the pop-up window, choose the " Photo " tab. Then, choose your settings and click the " Export " button.
Export Slideshow Videos
Similarly, Click the green " Export " button at the top right of the software interface, in the pop-up window, choose your settings and click the " Export " button.
Technical Support
Your feedback is what we concern. Cgaga Software support team is keen on users' questions and feedback. To ensure you can reach us in time, we provide several feedback channels:
1.Online feedback.
The instant message portal at the right-bottom corner of our official website pages.
2.Email
Reach us by emailing at support@c-gaga.com
3. Submit the feedback form
Click “ Help ” in the upper left corner of the software and select “ Send Feedback ”.
Warm reminder
It's highly recommended that you read our FAQs before looking in the other ways for help. Sometimes the questions have already been answered before you ask them.
Thank You
Thanks to all Cgaga Fotosifter users and beta testers who motivate us to constantly improve this product. We sincerely hope that you enjoy Cgaga Fotosifter.