This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Creating Batches
Suppose you want to create a set of red flower photos from your vacation. The first step in doing that is to create a batch of the photos you want to group together. A batch is just a group of photos in the Batch Organize workspace (the middle section of Organizr).
To create a batch, you can drag photos, either singly or in groups, from Findr to the Organizr workspace. There are multiple ways of searching for photos using Findr, so let's get an overview now.
Finding Photos in Findr
To see all the search options in Findr, click the More Options link at the top of Findr, which shows all the options visible in Figure 3.2.
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The first drop-down list lets you specify what selections you want visible in Findr. Here are the choices:
- All Your Content
- Your Non-Tagged Content
- Your Content Not in a Set
- Your Geotagged Content
- Your Non-Geotagged Content
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Content Uploaded On
July 6, 2009 (for example)
July 3, 2009 (for example)
Below this drop-down list, you can specify the privacy settings of the photos that Findr will show. Here are those settings:
- No Privacy/SafeSearch Filter
- Only Show Public Content
- Only Show Content Visible to Friends
- Only Show Content Visible to Family
- Only Show Content Visible to Friends & Family
- Only Show Private Content
- Only Show Safe Content
- Only Show Moderate Content
- Only Show Restricted Content
Next to the two list boxes is a search box, which makes it easy to search through your photostream for photos with a specific tag or specific keywords in the description text. That means you can easily assemble all photos of your Aunt Minnie into the same batch.
Beneath the search box are the two radio buttons you use to specify what text to search: Full Text (which includes tags) or Tags Only.
To the left of the two radio buttons are the date controls. You can find photos with a specific date by clicking the Jump to Date link, or sort by either the date you uploaded the photos or the date they were taken with the Sort By: Date Posted and Date Taken radio buttons.
Finally in Findr, you can specify that you want to search through photos/videos with the Photos & Videos, Photos, and Videos radio buttons.
After setting the search options you want, the matching photos/videos will appear in Findr. The next step is to drag them to the Organizr workspace.
Dragging Selections to Organizr
Now that the photos you want appear in Findr, select them and drag them—either singly or multiply—to the workspace of the Organizr (in particular, the Batch Organize tab).
Figure 3.3 shows the results; the photos you've selected appear in the Organizr.
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Figure 3.3 Creating a batch.
You've now created a batch of photos and can work on them en masse. What can you do? You can edit the photos (including their titles, tags, and descriptions), set their permissions, add tags, and more.
The actions you can take are reflected in the links at the top of the Batch Organize tab:
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Edit Photos
Titles, Tags, and Descriptions
Rotate
Delete
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Permissions
Who Can See, Comment, Tag?
Change Licensing
Set Safety Filter
Set Content Type
Hide/Show in Public Searches
- Edit Dates
- Add Tags
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Add to Set
New Set
Existing Set
- Send to Group
- Location
- Order Prints
For example, say you wanted to add a tag or tags to all the photos in your batch. You'd do that by clicking the Add Tags link, which opens the dialog box you see in Figure 3.4.
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Figure 3.4 Adding tags.
To add a tag to all photos in the batch, just enter the new tags (enter multiple tags separated by a space, and enclose multiword tags in double quotation marks) and click the Add Tags button. Voilà, it's as easy as that to work on photos en masse.
Okay, now let's see how to create a set of photos.