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Mr ChriZ

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Images Management
« on: September 02, 2007, 03:50:38 pm »

Media Center is so good for managing images now a days.
The tagging stuff is just amazing, and the ability to upload
images to web is really nice (be even better with Facebook integration ;-)

One issue I'm left grappling with, is creating playlists out of
photos.  I create a playlist, then open it to be edited with the
aciton window editor.  Drag files on to the box, which creates
my play list.  Most of my images have filenames as they come
off the camera so IMG_XXXX for example.  These photos were taken in Bath

One problem I'm having is that once added to the playlist
it's quite difficult to see which pic is which, and whether they need
reordering slightly.  I can hover the mouse over a picture
which gives me a tiny pic of one file.

Alternatively I can open up the entire playlist in a new window,
but the images are then shown across the screen and then down,
and it's difficult to get them to drag and drop nicely.
I tried changing it to a detailed view with large thumbnails, but
that didn't seem to get me any where either.  

Does anyone have a good process for doing this?  :)

marko

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Re: Images Management
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2007, 01:36:00 am »

I don't really use playlists for images all that much. Most of the time I view my images sorted "Newest first", only sorted "oldest first" within each day, which means that they get shown in the order they were actually taken on for each day. It's neat, and means that 99% of the time, when I select a bunch of images to work with, they're already in the desired order. I achieved this by doing the following:

[date (filename friendly)] looks like so for me:

yyyymmdd-hhmmss

I created two new custom fields using calculated data, effectively splitting the data into seperate date and time info...

1. Time expression: mid([date (filename friendly)],9,-1)&DataType=[Number]
2. Date (no time) expression: mid([date (filename friendly)],0,8)&DataType=[Number]

Open the customise current view dialogue and set sorting rules:
date (no time) (z-a)
time (a-z)

Job done. Obviously, if your [date (filename friendly)] field is formatted differently, you'll need to adjust the expressions to suit.

-marko.
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