This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Work in the Media Browser
Throughout this chapter I’ll cover a variety of ways to work in the Media Browser to label, identify, and organize your photos. But first it’s important to know how best to select, sort, and display the image thumbnails.
To select photo thumbnails:
Do one of the following:
Click to select a thumbnail in the Media Browser. The frame around it becomes light blue and gains a checkmark, indicating the thumbnail is selected (FIGURE 3.17).
FIGURE 3.17 A selected thumbnail appears with a light blue frame around it and a box.
Ctrl-click/Command-click to select nonconsecutive thumbnails at once (FIGURE 3.18).
FIGURE 3.18 Ctrl-click/Command-click to select thumbnails that are not consecutive.
Shift-click to select a group of consecutive thumbnails (FIGURE 3.19).
FIGURE 3.19 Shift-click to select thumbnails that are consecutive.
Choose Edit > Select All, or press Ctrl+A/Command+A to select every thumbnail in the Media Browser.
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To deselect photo thumbnails:
Do one of the following:
Ctrl-click/Command-click to deselect a single thumbnail.
Choose Edit > Deselect, or press Ctrl+Shift+A/Command+Shift+A to deselect every thumbnail in the Media Browser.
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You can tweak the appearance of the Media Browser. Choose View > Details to reveal information such as grid lines, filenames, ratings, and timestamps (FIGURE 3.20).
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FIGURE 3.20 When you choose to view details, the Media Browser gives each photo more space and displays additional information.
To sort photo thumbnails:
From the Sort By menu above the Media Browser, choose a sorting option (FIGURE 3.21):
FIGURE 3.21 Select an option to sort thumbnails in the Media Browser.
▸ Newest displays the most recent photos at the top, based on the images’ creation dates.
▸ Oldest displays photos chronologically, with the oldest at the top.
▸ Name sorts images in ascending alphabetical order based on their filenames. To make the names visible, choose View > Details, and then choose View > File Names.
▸ Import Batch groups photos into the batches they were imported in (FIGURE 3.22).
FIGURE 3.22 When you select the Import Batch option, the Media Browser displays thumbnails in grouped batch sets.
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To resize photo thumbnails:
Below the Media Browser, drag the Zoom slider to the right to increase the size of the thumbnails, or to the left to make them smaller (FIGURE 3.23).
FIGURE 3.23 When you drag the Zoom slider to the right, the thumbnails grow larger (top). When you drag the slider to the left, they become smaller (bottom).
Click the far left of the Zoom slider to display the thumbnails at their smallest possible size.
Click the far right of the Zoom slider to display just one large photo thumbnail at a time (also known as Single Photo view).
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VIDEO 3.2
Essential Organizer Techniques