Always center the selected photo in the browser panel

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• 2020年11月28日 09:00

When going through photos the browser scrolls along but it would be more useful if it kept the selected photo in the middle of the bar allowing us to see past en future photos. 

Now it just goes to the end of the line so it doesn't show us previews of the next upcoming photos.

Here is an working example for why this would really be essential:

I do my culling first but sometimes I leave 2 or more photos of the same setting because I could not quickly determine which photo is better. Keep in mind that culling should be quick so I never spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on a photo when culling them. 
Then when doing the first edits I could have the first photo of one of those small series and see that there are some flaws on this one. Because the browser doesn't show me the upcoming photos I can't see that I have 1,2 or maybe 3 shots from this setting. 
So now I have to scroll ahead first to see how many I have and then go back to the first photo to tag this for deletion. 
If the selected photo always stays in the middle I therefor can see how many photos I still have from that moment and immediately mark the first one for deletion. 

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  Class A

  • 2020年11月28日 09:54
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  The proposal makes sense but I feel it would be undesirable to have the whole browser view shift every time one changes the selection. 

  I suggest to provide a user preference, e.g., with the name "browser view margin", which specifies how far away the selected image(s) will be from the beginning or the end of the browser in terms of images. If the selection moves beyond the specified margin, the browser view will shift to keep the selection out of the specified margin. 

  The specification could be made in terms of "number of images" or "percentage of images shown". The latter would make more sense, in my view, given that the browser may assume different sizes. So a specification of "25%" would mean, for instance, for a total of 20 images there will always be 5 images in front or after the selection. Outside these 5 image margins, however, the selection could be moved without changing the overall subset of images displayed.

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2020年11月28日 09:57

  Hi Class A,

  Thank you for your insights.
  Basically your proposal will give the same results because it will let you see the upcoming photos.

  To me it doesn't matter how they implement it. The way I proposed it is the way which millions of Lightroom users do it for years now. So that's why I thought it would be something that would appeal to many users.

  But like I said, as long as there is some way we could customise the browser panel so it would show us the upcoming photos.

   

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  Lily

  • 2020年11月30日 12:29

  Hi Brian,

  Thank you for this suggestion.

  It was taken on board as something to consider for the implementation in future versions.

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  Timo

  • 2021年05月22日 18:58

  As this post is marked as completed, is this functionality implemented now. I am searching for this Option.

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  Ryan Seyeau

  • 2022年03月27日 01:39

  I would also like to see this change made. Not seeing the next handful of images slows down my editing process. Photo Mechanic has done this perfectly - open a photo and you'll see how the selected photo is always in the middle until you reach the end of the gallery.

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  Ryan Seyeau

  • 2022年03月27日 01:43

  Class A, a workaround could be to keep the browser view static if you select a photo manually with your mouse, and resume the center position when you continue to browse with your keyboard arrows.

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