1. Product Introduction

1.1 What is Lightedium?
Lightedium is a completely locally-run intelligent photo management tool designed to solve the challenge of organizing massive photo collections. It is the ideal alternative to Picasa. It acts like your personal digital photo album manager:

• Smart Brain: Automatically identifies photo content (people, scenes, text) through on-device AI without uploading to the cloud
• Iron Guard: All data processing is completed on your computer, completely eliminating privacy leakage risks
• High-Speed Engine: Indexing technology optimized for local storage, providing second-level response even when managing 100,000+ photos

Core Advantage Comparison Table

1.2 Target Users

• Photography Enthusiasts
  • Pain Point: DSLR/drone photos scattered across multiple hard drives, want to quickly find "vertical composition night scenes from Iceland trip in 2020"
  • Solution: Combined search using time + geographic coordinates + semantic content
• Family Users
  • Pain Point: 30,000 photos in phone, want to organize children's growth album but don't know where to start
  • Solution: Face recognition auto-categorization, one-click generation of "Baby 0-3 years timeline"
• Privacy-Conscious Users
  • Pain Point: Worried about cloud albums leaking private photos, but need smart management features
  • Solution: All AI analysis completed locally, doesn't even require internet connection

1.3 Versions and System Requirements

Operating System Support

💡 Tips:

• SSD can improve similar image comparison speed by 300%

The following is the complete optimization plan for the "Installation and Configuration" section, strengthening operational guidance and detail prompts:

2. Installation and Configuration

2.1 Download and Installation Steps

▎Windows Store Installation

1. Open Microsoft Store
   → Enter "Lightedium" in the search bar
   → Click the "Get" button (need to bind Microsoft account if not logged in)
   (Image: App store search results page, marking installation button position)

2. Automatic installation after download completion
   → Find Lightedium icon in Start menu to launch
   ❗ Note:

   • Ensure Windows version is 10 (1909+) or 11
   • If prompted "VC++ runtime missing", click here to download runtime

▎Official Website Package Installation

1. Visit https://lightedium.com/download
   → Click "Windows Version Download" button
   (Image: Official website download page, marking version selection area)

2. Run installation program Lightedium_Setup.exe
   → Select installation path (default C:\Program Files\Lightedium)
   → Check "Create desktop shortcut"
   → Click "Install Now"
   (Image: Installation wizard interface, marking key options)

3. After installation completion, check "Launch Lightedium"

2.2 First Launch Configuration

▎Photo Library Initialization

1. Click "+ Add Folder" button in sidebar
   → Browse to select photo storage path (e.g., D:\My Photos)
   → Support multi-select folders and set monitoring for auto-update
   (Image: Folder selection dialog, marking operations)

2. Supported File Format List

   Type	Specific Formats
   Common Images	JPEG, PNG, BMP, WebP, GIF(static)
   RAW Original Formats	CR2(Canon), NEF(Nikon), ARW(Sony), DNG(Generic)
   Special Types	HEIC, TIFF, PSD (experimental support required)

3. Click "Start Indexing" to enter background scanning
   → Status bar shows progress and estimated remaining quantity
   → Can minimize to tray to continue working
   💡 Tip:

   • First indexing of 10,000 photos takes about 60 minutes (mechanical hard drive + 4K image environment)
   • Support adjusting resource usage priority in "Settings-Background Tasks"

2.3 Interface Navigation

Main Interface Layout Details

(Image: Full interface annotation diagram, using numbered correspondence to table components)