- Getting started
- Getting photos
- Viewing photo thumbnails in the Organizer
- Working with star ratings and keyword tags
- Automatically finding faces for tagging
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Viewing photo thumbnails in the Organizer
In the Organizer, there are several ways to view the images in your catalog. You can switch between the various viewing modes to suit different stages in your workflow or to make it easier and more efficient to perform specific organizing tasks.
Using the Media Browser views
Up to this point, you’ve been working in the default Media Browser view: the Thumbnail View, where your images are arranged by capture date and time. You can reverse the display order by choosing either Date (Oldest First) or Date (Newest First) from the menu to the right of the Thumbnail Size slider.
Let’s look at some of the other display options in the Organizer.
- In the Keyword Tags panel, click the find box beside the Lesson 02 tag, if it’s not already activated; then, use the Thumbnail Size slider above the Media Browser pane to reduce the size of the thumbnails so that you can see all of the images that you’ve imported during this lesson.
- Click the Display button (
)
near the upper right corner
of the Organizer window,
and then choose Import Batch
from the menu to see the
lesson images organized in
groups according to their
separate import sessions. - In the Import Batch view,
a divider bar marked with
a film canister icon (
)and
an import session date separates
each group of thumbnails.
Click any of the divider
bars to select all of the
images that were imported
in that session. - Another way to work with the Import Batch view is to use the timeline. Choose Window > Timeline. The timeline shows a series of bars representing the separate import sessions that account for all the images in this catalog.
- Choose Edit > Deselect, and then use the Thumbnail Size slider to increase the size of the thumbnails until you see only a subset of your Lesson 2 images.
- Click each of the bars in the timeline in turn. As you click, the view in the Media Browser jumps to show the corresponding import batch and the first image in that batch is temporarily highlighted by a green border and a flashing capture date.
- Select any photo in the Media
Browser; then, click the
Display button ()
near the upper right corner
of the Organizer window and
choose Folder Location to
see the image file’s location
in the folder hierarchy on
your computer. The bars in the
timeline now represent the three
folders that contain images
that are being managed by your
CIB Catalog; hold the pointer
over any of the three bars to
see the corresponding folder’s
path-name displayed in a tooltip.
The bar across the top of the
Media Browser now displays a
Managed Folder icon (
)
and shows the path-name of
the folder containing the
image you selected. - In the Folders panel, drag the selected image from the Media Browser to the PSE10CIB folder. The CIB catalog is updated to record the new location of the moved photo; in the Folders panel, the PSE10CIB folder is now marked with a Managed Folder icon. Choose Edit > Undo Move.
- Click the header bar across the top of the Media Browser to select all the photos in the folder you’re viewing.
- Choose Window > Timeline to hide the timeline from view, and then choose Edit > Deselect. Click the Display button () near the upper right corner of the Organizer window and choose Thumbnail View from the menu.
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Figure 2-22 The height of each bar in the timeline indicates the relative number of images in each import batch. In this illustration, the timeline represents four imports spread across a few hours. Your bars may be arranged differently, especially if you’ve completed the preceding exercises over several days.
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In the Folders panel at the left of the Media Browser, you can see at a glance which folders contain images that have been imported to the Lesson2 catalog; these folders are marked with the Managed Folder icon (). On Windows, you’ll
also be able to spot your watched
folders: look for the Watched
Folder icon (
).
At this point, you’re working with a catalog that contains very few images, so it may not be instantly apparent that a single folder may contain multiple import batches and a single import batch may include files from multiple folders.
Using the Date View
The Date View can be a great way to browse and search your images, particularly once you’re working with a large collection of photos that span a number of years.
- From the Media View Arrangement
menu (to the right of the
Thumbnail Size slider above
the Media Browser), choose
Date (Oldest First); then,
click the Display button
()
and choose Date View from
the menu.
- If the Date View opens to
display other than a full
year calendar, click the
Year view button (
)
below the calendar display. - Click the Find This Photo
In The Media Browser button
(
)
below the preview thumbnail
to see the currently previewed
photo in the Media Browser,
where it’s already selected,
ready for action. - In the Media Browser, click
the Back To Previous View
button (
)
near the upper left corner
of the Organizer window to
return to the Date View. - Click the Month view button
(
)
below the calendar pane;
then, click the name of the
month at the head of the
calendar page and choose
December from the months menu.
Alternatively, move one month
at a time by clicking four times
on the Next Month button to
the right of the month name. - The December page opens with the 4th selected. the earliest date in December for which there are photos in your catalog. The Month view conveniently displays photo thumbnails for the daily entries.
- Click the entry for December 31. Click in the Daily Note box below the preview pane and type A great New Year’s Eve show! Click the entry for December 31 on the calendar page; a note icon appears on the thumbnail for that day.
- The counter in the preview
pane shows that there are
four photos in the catalog
corresponding to this date.
Use the Next Item On Selected
Day button (
)
below the preview image to
see the other images captured
on the same day. - Click the Start Automatic
Sequencing button (
)
under the preview image to
view all the photos taken on
the same day as a mini slide
show. - To return to the Media Browser
in thumbnail view, either
click your way back using the
Back To Previous View button
()
near the upper left corner
of the Organizer window or click
the Media Browser button
below the calendar page.
You can see at a glance that your CIB catalog contains photographs taken on eight separate dates during 2010. The earliest entry, August 31, is already selected on the calendar. A thumbnail preview of the first image captured on that date appears at the right of the Organizer window; an image count at the lower left of the preview pane indicates that there are four files in your catalog that share this creation date.
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