Guided tour

At the top we find the title bar and menu bar. There is little to say about the title bar and we know that we find all the functions in the menubar.

The next two beams, I divided into a number of sections.

This makes it easier to discuss the various buttons and give a word of explanation.

In section 1, the “Application Bar”, we have a number of navigation buttons, compare it with the navigation buttons in a browser window, “Previous”, “Next” and a drop down arrow where you can go back several steps.

We have the Path Bar on this bar. This gives us the path to the folder that you displayed and allows you to navigate through the directory. Click on the name of a folder in the Path Bar to select the folder and its contents are displayed.

In section 2 we have a number of buttons.

The first shows us the recently opened files.

The second, we get pictures from a camera connected to the computer.

The third gives us a drop-down menu with three options, the first is “Review Mode”. The review mode is a full screen view in which you can browse through a selection of photos, refine the selection and perform basic operations. The Review mode displays the images in a rotating “carousel”, allowing you to browse interactively. Pretty fun. With the second option “Batch Rename” we can change the name of the various selected photos. Pretty handy when we import photos, taken with our camera and want to provide a meaningful name in a fast way.

The third option “File Info” gives you information about the selected photo, and we can adjust it if necessary.

In section 3 we have the switch for different “workspaces”. Discussing all these here seems useless. You must check only one.
How to create and save your own space, I’ll tell you in the next lesson.

In section 4 we have the quick search field. The search engines are looking for within a selected directory and all subdirectories thereof keywords, file name, folder name and image. Next to the search, we have a “Switch to compact mode” button. What this does seems clear to me.

Finally, we have Section 5.

By clicking the second button, we can change the quality for the display of thumbnails.

Right, we have a filter option by valuation. Or rather filter by the number of stars awarded.

In the next box, we have the option to sort by different items, eg the name, size, type and so on.

Next to this box, we can choose to sort by “Ascending” or “Descending” order.

Then we have two buttons to rotate the selected image.

There is also a button to open a recently opened file.

Then we have the “New Folder” button which creates a new folder.

And finally we have a garbage can.

Below we have the toolbar:

All buttons in this toolbar have somthing to do with the display of thumbnails. You can also choose these, but try and choose the ones that you want to work with.

We use the slider to enlarge or reduce the size of thumbnails.

And then we have the different panels (1).

These allow us to adjust the width, height and position.

To adjust the width, height or the position, place the cursor between two panes (3) and when it changes into a two-arrow, click and drag it until you’ve reached the desired size.

And in the middle we have the thumbnails.

To select, adjacent thumbnails, hold the Shift key on your keyboard pressed. For non-adjacent thumbnails, hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed.

Why would you select multiple photos? For this example, to provide the same keyword to multiple pictures in a relatively quick way. But more about that in the next lesson.

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