
Clearly, with examples, written for human beings. The book’s goal is not to describe everything that Zoner can do, but to help you orient yourself in the program overall and its most important features. Meanwhile, all the advice we give here has been “tested on (human) animals.” Also, where Zoner offers more than one way to do the job, we describe the most effficient way. Note that each chapter was written by a different author, so they differ a bit in style. All that is covered on and skipping it leaves room for more important things. It doesn’t contain Q&A, nor rundowns of every function and its settings. Because of this, this publication doesn’t contain a few things you may expect. We listened carefully to what you wanted to learn to do in Zoner and how you wanted to learn it. We’ve taken this as the foundation for discovering what kind of book will benefit our readers the most. That’s given us insight into the most important, most interesting, and most typical problems-and how to solve them. We’ve had the pleasure of communicating with many of you personally, through our support team and otherwise. Fortunately we’re also photographers and we work with Zoner every day. But that also means that this publication is too short to present it in detail. That’s because Zoner Photo Studio has a uniquely broad scope. But actually, the basic steps given here are useful in practically any photo software. The book you’re reading now is about Zoner Photo Studio. And the millions of satisfied users around the world who trust us with their photos are aware of the same. The team here at Zoner is well aware that digital photos are more than just data, and we take care to treat them accordingly. But in all this quantity, we shouldn’t forget photos’ key quality: they’re captured memories. And that’s why we make Zoner Photo Studio. The more pictures people take, the more important it becomes to efficiently process and organize them.

The more photographers there are, the clearer it is that this was the right decision.

And back in 2002, we became digital photography specialists. Zoner Software, meanwhile, is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year. Today mobile devices with cameras are ordinary consumer goods. With cameras in everything, the number of pictures we take a day is climbing rapidly. Quite simply, the age of digital photography has arrived-so much so that now it’s not just cameras that offer great picture quality: many telephones and tablets do too. Out of those 380 billion, only about one percent (4 billion) were taken on film.

Introduction People took over 380 billion photographs in 2011-a full ten percent of all the pictures ever taken.
