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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rhino89, post: 1054546, member: 21773&quot;]The program does not take photos for you (I don&#039;t think any of them do, only special programs that come with cameras and are connected to the computer and upload your images... haven&#039;t seen any coin programs that do that) BUT it does let you upload your own photos into the program. Basically when you&#039;re adding in a coin to your collection, two empty black boxes will be present at the bottom of the screen, and you&#039;ll be able to just right click on each box and choose your image from your computer to put into that box (you can see the photos I put into the smaller boxes, obverse and reverse of the coin.) Then, if you flip over to the &quot;Details&quot; tab it&#039;ll switch to a more detailed list of information where you can see your photos in a much larger view (you can see that in my screen shot with the 1913 50 Kopek, a big coin in the middle of the screen).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As far as updating values, it does not do that automatically and is not linked to a Krause catalog or Red Book or anything like that. It does, however, have fields for you to enter manually the &quot;Catalog Value&quot; and catalog info, your grade, the price you paid, the price you think&#039;s it&#039;s worth, etc.. I think it&#039;s better that it&#039;s not linked to any catalog, because we all have our own favorite catalog we use, and it&#039;s different for all the collectors out there. I, personally, have never needed the Red Book. I think if the program was linked to a certain book and automatically put in values for you, it would lose the versatility that it has in its current form.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As far as learning the software, it&#039;s very friendly and doesn&#039;t require much expertise in anything... I downloaded the trial version, played around for about 5-10 mins, got the hang of it, loved how fast/clean/clear/detailed it was, and got the full version. There&#039;s a tutorial built into the program to show you how to use it, but being a typical guy I just played around with it myself without the instructions <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Let me know if you guys want to see anything specific, I can always take more screenshots. Also, I&#039;d recommend just downloading the trial version (it&#039;s free) and playing around with it, here&#039;s the link to download the free trial:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://compasscollectables.com/download.mhtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://compasscollectables.com/download.mhtml" rel="nofollow">http://compasscollectables.com/download.mhtml</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s free, test it out, no harm. You&#039;ll see exactly what it&#039;s like to use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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