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Auto Select / Advance for culling

Wesley
Is there Auto Select / Advance for culling? I only see it for tethering.
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  • David Grover
    Set the filter to "none' (either in the Rating or Color tag section depending on how you rate) then when you change the rating / tag on the 1st image it auto advances to the next.
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  • peter Frings
    [quote="David Grover" wrote:
    Set the filter to "none' (either in the Rating or Color tag section depending on how you rate) then when you change the rating / tag on the 1st image it auto advances to the next.


    That is a good way, but the drawback is that you cannot go back the review a previous image (e.g., to compare with the current). Maybe that is not according to best practices, but it's something I do often.

    Cheers,
    Peter.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I do this by "color grading", and C1 has a good set of keyboard shortcuts that are helpful if you have a numeric keypad (less so without the keypad).
    * applies a yellow tag ("not sure"
    - applies a red tag ("discard")
    + applies a green tag ("keep"

    I go through my images and cull using the above tags. Most of the time that I want to choose among images, the images are either adjacent or close. Either I'll compare immediately by selecting a "compare" image by hitting the Return key, or by just picking all and looking at them carefully. While comparing I'll do -/+ appropriately.

    If after culling you want to go back and be sure of what you've done, just filter on the color tag you want to look at.

    I didn't color tag for a long time, but since starting I find it very quick and effective. In fact, I now carry a small numeric keypad in the field to facilitate culling there.
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  • Wesley
    I was hoping to still be able to go back to previous images without using the none filter as Peter mentioned.
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  • SFA
    [quote="Wesley" wrote:
    I was hoping to still be able to go back to previous images without using the none filter as Peter mentioned.


    So you want the assessed image still to be visible?

    What would be your criterion for advancing?


    Grant
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  • Wesley
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="Wesley" wrote:
    I was hoping to still be able to go back to previous images without using the none filter as Peter mentioned.


    So you want the assessed image still to be visible?

    What would be your criterion for advancing?


    Grant


    When I star rate or color tag a image, I don't want it to disappear because I have to use "none" filter. Just want it auto select to the right after a rating.
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  • SFA
    [quote="Wesley" wrote:
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="Wesley" wrote:
    I was hoping to still be able to go back to previous images without using the none filter as Peter mentioned.


    So you want the assessed image still to be visible?

    What would be your criterion for advancing?


    Grant


    When I star rate or color tag a image, I don't want it to disappear because I have to use "none" filter. Just want it auto select to the right after a rating.


    I quite often use both colour and star ratings at the same time at various stages in my processing.

    I seem to recall using a system once that had some sort of automated "move on" that could be used defined. I never did get on with it but I suppose so long as it can be turned off it would not worry me.

    Presumably such a ting would work best if there was something like an "Allocate Rating" tool for which parameters could be set according to a users preference.


    Grant
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  • peter Frings
    It doesn't have to be complicated. There would be a menu option that says "auto-advance when rating" (or whatever). When you have it selected and you rate an image using the number keys, the program sets the rating as given and then selects the next image (order as determined by browser). I believe that in Aperture you could hold an extra key (alt or so) when rating to make it auto-advance.

    Having said that, I usually forgot to use it 😊.

    Cheers,
    Peter.
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  • SFA
    [quote="peter.f" wrote:
    It doesn't have to be complicated.


    For the user ... no, not complicated providing an uncomplicated solution suits their needs.

    For the programmer ... maybe not too complicated but maybe it is.

    The possibility for having to trap the functionality at many places may mean a lot of work even if not complicated.

    I use a mouse move and click or right arrow. That seems quite simple and, so far, has not caused me to have a nervous breakdown.


    Grant
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  • peter Frings
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="peter.f" wrote:
    It doesn't have to be complicated.


    For the user ... no, not complicated providing an uncomplicated solution suits their needs.

    For the programmer ... maybe not too complicated but maybe it is.

    The possibility for having to trap the functionality at many places may mean a lot of work even if not complicated.

    I use a mouse move and click or right arrow. That seems quite simple and, so far, has not caused me to have a nervous breakdown.

    Grant


    Hi Grant,

    I don't have a nervous breakdown from not having an auto-advance, either. I can manage without. And being a keyboard junkie, I don't like to touch the mouse if I can avoid it, and gladly, I don't have to for rating.

    But, lets not forget that different users have different needs. I know, after being a programmer for 20 years and an analist/ UX designer for 15 years, that one cannot make a program that suits everyones' needs. But this kind of behaviour is not difficult to implement (hey, if Adobe can do it! 😉), it doesn't get in the way if you don't want to use it, and it might be a productivity gain for many.

    Now, I'm not a pro photographer, so my needs are probably different than those of the pro's. But I believe that C1P is being used by many amateurs, people that are looking for a replacement of Aperture or that are tired of Adobe's LR. I can image —but I'm not a marketeer— that this is a reasonable market. If C1P can accommodate the needs of us amateurs, it might be an attractive alternative.

    E.g., I understand that pro's use sessions and are very happy with it. It suits the way they work. But amateurs usually don't have 'shoots' and as such, they are probably more interested in catalogs (I am). You know, family pics, vacation, a trip now and then, etc. So, when people complain that catalogs are slow, telling them to use sessions is not the proper answer. It simply doesn't fit the way they work, and they will go elsewhere.

    C1P may delivery better images than say, LR. But the people at Adobe don't sit still and they might catch up with the IQ, or at least get very close. There are many pro's that use LR, so it can't be that bad. But LR handles catalogs, keywords, filters and other DAM functions much better than C1P. So I believe that PhaseOne, if they are interested in the amateur market, need to catch up with the expected functionality and performance that their competitors offer today. Even if that includes auto-rating 😊

    Let's make C1P the best product there is (and I mean that!).

    (my apologies for getting a little off-topic...)

    Cheers,
    Peter.
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  • BeO
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    [quote="peter.f" wrote:

    Now, I'm not a pro photographer, so my needs are probably different than those of the pro's. But I believe that C1P is being used by many amateurs,...


    Also most pro's probably have "amateur" needs (i.e. catalog) for their "private" life 😊
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