Nill Toulme
May 13th, 2005, 02:58 PM
Somebody on another forum asked me for the specifics on how I use BreezeBrowser's slideshow to quickly and efficiently cull a large shoot with the benefit of sharpened, full-screen views of each image. I only learned how to to this myself in the past year, and it's been an *enormous* help to me, especially as my shoots seem to be getting larger rather than smaller.
Like most of these things, it's harder to say than to do:
1. Select all images you want to view in the target folder. I use ctrl-A to select all.
2. Hit ctrl-S to start the slideshow. Having done that, hitting left- or right-arrow will give you control over selection of the shot, instead of the slideshow progressing automatically per the set interval. Note also that once the slideshow is running you have a right-click popup menu with lots of options available.
3. Hit ctrl-Q to turn on high quality sharpening. This is critical because it gives you a good idea of what the converted image will look like with some decent sharpening applied.
4. Hit ctrl-C to turn on the caption. Note that settings like sharpening and caption are sticky, so you shouldn't have to set these next time.
5. Now just scroll through your images by hitting the right-arrow key, or left if you want to back up. Tag them using up-arrow, untag using down-arrow. I like to tag the non-keepers, but some people do it the other way around. Especially on the first run-thru, I find it easier to spot a trasher than a definite keeper, so it works better for me to select the former.
6. After a run-thru, hit escape to exit the slideshow to thumbs view.
7. Hit F6 to select only the tagged images.
8. If you've tagged your trashers, you're ready to delete them. Just hit Delete (or shift-Delete if you're bold) and they're gone. If you've tagged your keepers, hit ctrl-eye to invert your selection, and again you're ready to hit Delete.
9. At this point you're either done, or ready for another run-thru to winnow down the keepers further. On a really big shoot I might go thru three or even four times, getting more selective each time.
Again, this might sound moderately complicated, but it's really extremely simple, quick and intuitive.
As a refinement, the latest version of BB Pro of course offers image ranking 1-5. You can use this tool instead of tagging in the slideshow selection process if you want to get more granular in your approach.
Nill
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www.toulme.net
Like most of these things, it's harder to say than to do:
1. Select all images you want to view in the target folder. I use ctrl-A to select all.
2. Hit ctrl-S to start the slideshow. Having done that, hitting left- or right-arrow will give you control over selection of the shot, instead of the slideshow progressing automatically per the set interval. Note also that once the slideshow is running you have a right-click popup menu with lots of options available.
3. Hit ctrl-Q to turn on high quality sharpening. This is critical because it gives you a good idea of what the converted image will look like with some decent sharpening applied.
4. Hit ctrl-C to turn on the caption. Note that settings like sharpening and caption are sticky, so you shouldn't have to set these next time.
5. Now just scroll through your images by hitting the right-arrow key, or left if you want to back up. Tag them using up-arrow, untag using down-arrow. I like to tag the non-keepers, but some people do it the other way around. Especially on the first run-thru, I find it easier to spot a trasher than a definite keeper, so it works better for me to select the former.
6. After a run-thru, hit escape to exit the slideshow to thumbs view.
7. Hit F6 to select only the tagged images.
8. If you've tagged your trashers, you're ready to delete them. Just hit Delete (or shift-Delete if you're bold) and they're gone. If you've tagged your keepers, hit ctrl-eye to invert your selection, and again you're ready to hit Delete.
9. At this point you're either done, or ready for another run-thru to winnow down the keepers further. On a really big shoot I might go thru three or even four times, getting more selective each time.
Again, this might sound moderately complicated, but it's really extremely simple, quick and intuitive.
As a refinement, the latest version of BB Pro of course offers image ranking 1-5. You can use this tool instead of tagging in the slideshow selection process if you want to get more granular in your approach.
Nill
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www.toulme.net