Guided tour

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

The next two beams are divided into a number of sections.
This makes it easier to discuss the various buttons and give a word of explanation.

In section 1 of 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.

Under thia bar we have the Path Bar. This gives us the path of the folder that you displayed and allows you to navigate directly through the folders. 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 interactively browse. Pretty fun. With the second option “Batch Rename” we can change the name of various selected photos. Pretty handy, when you want to quickly provide a meaningful name to the photos loaded from the camera.

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 each of the “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, within a selected directory and all subdirectories thereof, for keywords, file name, folder name and image. Besides the search we have a button “Switch to compact mode.” What this does, seems clear to me.

Finally, we have Section 5

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

To its right, we have a filter option by rating. Or rather filter based on the number of stars awarded.

In the next box, we can sort by different items, eg name, size, type, and more of that.

Besides that box, we set the sort order to “Ascending” or “Descending” sort.

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 button “New Folder”. What this does seem clear to me.

And finally we have the trash can.

 

We have another toolbar at bottom:

All buttons on this toolbar have something to do with the display of thumbnails. You need them all too, but try and choose the ones you prefer to work with.

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

And then we have the different panes (1).

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

To adjust the width or height, position the cursor between two pane (3), and when it changes into a two-sided-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. To select non-adjacent thumbnails, hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed.

Why would you select multiple photos? For example, to provide a keyword for all of them in a relatively quick way. But more about that in the next lesson.

 

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