“Photo Tray”

A new feature in “PSP X2” is the “Photo Tray”, and they call this a shift in Flemish.
We use this when we want to perform certain actions on different pictures in different folders. For example, to email pictures to your loved one.

Imagine that these pictures are all in different folders, so then you can put the photos you want to mail in the “Photo Tray”.

Photos placed by you in a “Photo Tray” are not copied to the tray or on to the hard disk of your computer.

To open the “Photo Tray”, click “Palettes” in the standard toolbar, and select “Photo Tray” from the drop-down menu.
This opens the palette “”Photo Tray”” from the palette “Organizer”.
All photos in the selected folder will be placed in the standard “Photo Tray”, called “Photo Tray”. When you want to remove all the pictures in the standard tray, the easiest and fastest way is to create your own tray.
Just click the button “Add Photo Tray” (1),and give the tray a suitable name and click “OK”.
Click and drag the required photos from the various folders into the “Photo Tray”.
If you want to delete a photo from a “Photo Tray”, select it and press the “Delete” button on your keyboard or click the “Photo Tray” button (3).
If you wish to remove an entire tray, click the “Delete Photo Tray” button (2).

To send the pictures via email, edit the shortcuts, or print, click the arrow pointing downwards next to the first icon (A) in the toolbar of the “Photo Tray”, and take your pick from the pop-up menu.

 

To close the Palette, “”Photo Tray”” just click the ” X “in the top left corner of the “Photo Tray”, or re-click the actions palette.

 

Efficient Searching

When we have pictures with “Tags” and “Stars” it’s easy to find photos that meet certain conditions. One option is to type one or more keywords in the search box.
The second and more elaborate option is to use the search icon.
This opens the “Smart Collection” dialog where we can enter multiple search criteria.
Select these criteria 1/1, eg for “Tag”, you can specify one or more tags that come with the picture.
Click the button with the “Plus” icon for a second set of criteria, for eg., “Is Greater Than” and select the number of stars. If you have more criteria which you want to use to enhance your search, click the button again.
If you want to remove a criterion, click that particular button – I think this is clear.

If you wish to preview the result, click the “Preview” button. The result will appear in the palette “Organizer”

If you want to store the result for later use, click the “Save” button.
This opens a dialog, “Save as Smart Collection” where you can name your “Smart Collection”.

 

We can find this newly created “Smart collection” under the option, “Smart Collections” in the folder pane of the palette “Organizer”.

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