Is there something like an "wizard" to guide me and other users? To help from step 1 (set Keywords) to step 3 (mark Pictures to keep), then Phase II (set the stars only for the marked pictures from 1-3 stars) and even set an alarm (or hint) for Step 7?
Right now I can do that with many clicks and not nice workflow.
But mayby someone can help to get 1000 pictures in 1 hour taged, sorted and optimised
Hmm, why should you set all the keywords, if you probably sort out many of those images? Seems not too logical to me. They way i do this part, is to mark all the images, i want to leave out, remove them, & then do some image editing, then the geolocations, & the tagging last.
Oh, ok, i see. But i can't give you advice now, since my own workflow is quite different, not just because i rarely have more than maybe 50-80 photos. What could speed up the process, is to use shortcuts to set the ratings directly, instead from a menu. Here's an example, how i set the rating "3" using a shortcut
SETATTR META rating:3 Select Next
My personal shortcuts are Ctrl-Alt-[1 to 5], enabling me to go through all images quite quickly.
Im trying to sort kind of 3000-5000 old pictures from an old smartphone
But your Shortcut is very helpful. I can adapt this one to the other needs.
Where can I set this shortcuts? Do I set anyway some buttons?
Do you have Lightroom? Are you trying to avoid buying it, or avoid using it? Because if it is the latter i would recommend not doing that. (even if it's the former)
I'm a LR user myself, and as it stands even a fully customized Opus is not going to replace all the performance optimizations and productivity tools made specifically for one purpose -- image management.
I'm sure there's a solution for what-ever is holding you back.
If it's only for a 100 images, not 100s or 1000s. Then probably the simplest thing to do is use the Filmstrip lister preset, then set a key - a single key without modifier - to a label of choice, like a color or status icon. It's under Keyboard Map, same place as Customize Toolbars.
Then go through the images with the arrow keys on the keyboard, and tag the images you want with the key you've set. Then when you're done filter the folder to show only the tagged images, select all and move them or whatever you want to do with it. Try out a few things and see what you like best.
Edit: This seems to work well,
It flags the selected item and automatically adds the Satus column to sort/group by when you're done. I used the Num-pads dot key which seems to be available and easiest to reach on my keyboard.
I'm paying the Foto-Abo what includes the Lightroome-licence. But you are right with your guess: I try to avoid it or I just feel very uncomfortable with the database instead of the folders. One big problem as family-father is the non-family-plan. My wife can not use the same catalog on her Mac. But we would like to share the pictures of our kids
I made some testings with the (new?) mark-function in Dopus12. In the singlePictureviewer after a doubleclick I can mark pictures with "m". The toggeling is working as well. And at the end there is a collection with what I can work on.
The next Phase is to set 1-3 stars for the Picks an select the next picture.
For this I "designed" a separate lister/layout with these buttons and shortcuts (I will check your solution as well) . The Lister is only with the needed buttons. I should now select "all Pictures without a Star and put them in an "delete later"-folder"-BUTTON. There I stock.
Here I share my toolbar 1hour-1000pics v0.3: 1hour-1000pics.dop (7.1 KB)
But can we share the whole Lister-layout?
What optimizations do you have for me?
I try to avoid it or I just feel very uncomfortable with the database instead of the folders.
True, but you can easily drop them in temporarily. Literally, when you're in the Library view you can drop files in with drag & drop and then you get the import window with the files pre-selected.
Sort your images, using flags or stars etc, filter the final selection and either delete the rejects, or use an Export preset to copy the files to another location using 'original' under image format. Under location there's a 'choose folder later' option so it will ask every time.
You can safely delete the folder from the library after if you want, the images will remain on disk.
Personally i have all my 'raw' images in one place that all goes through lightroom, and I never touch that folder outside of lightroom. Those are my originals, and i manage them fully through lightroom. Everything that i deem presentable i export to another location that only contains exports that are 'expendable' copies, so to say. I rarely actually delete much. These exports are of course regular jpgs accessible from anywhere, with anything, and any program. No lightroom required.
