May 17, 2012
[This post is part our ongoing series introducing Photosmith 2 which will be a free update for all users]
Previously we’ve looked at Grid and the Tagging sidebar and QuickTag bar. Today we’re going to explore Loupe view and Keywording.
Loupe View
Loupe allows you to see your photos as large as possible and still have access to all of the regular controls. You have the full sidebar available as well as the QuickTag bar and it’s drawer. In Loupe & Fullscreen views the drawer is now a filmstrip enabling you to quickly switch between photos in the current collection.
Loupe Header bar
Above the photo area you also have a photo header bar with the full EXIF information of the current photo and a histogram. The header bar can be toggled between the full data and a simple less-distracting view by just tapping on it.
Histogram
Likewise, the histogram can alternate between 3-color RGB and Luminance modes just by tapping on it. You can see a few more screenshots of histograms here.
Keywords
The keywording panel opens when you tap on the Keywords field in the normal Tagging sidebar. The left pane shows the currently applied keywords using the iOS standard “pill” style. You can tap on those pills to open an edit menu with options to remove (unassign) the keyword, copy/paste or apply to all if that keyword wasn’t already assigned to all of the selected images.
Below the pill box is a list of all the keywords in the currently selected hierarchy. Tapping the disclosure arrow on a keyword drills down the hierarchy instead of selecting it.
The right pane contains your most recently used and all-time most popular keywords. Or, if you start typing in the search box, it will show you live search results with keywords that contain the search term anywhere within them no matter where the keyword is in the hierarchy.
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Good morning! My congratulations to Photosmith 2 really is exceeding expectations and needs of photographers, really is getting very functional, it would be my suggestion may make transfers of photos Iphad Mac via cable to be faster the more I’m anxious for the release.
Will there be a new LR plugin with Photosmith v2?
Yes, we’ll update the website as soon as we go live with 2.0. However, it’s not backwards compatible with the v1 so that’s why we’re waiting to publish it. (A few intrepid souls have already found it somehow and opened support tickets because it didn’t work… naughty naughty)
Are you able to download the keyword set from Lightroom to photosmith?
Thanks!
Before buying, i need to be sure I can search on several IPTC keywords at the same time (and and). For example all photos of Chris and John.
Can you confirm please?
What is the max. Amount of photos to be imported?
Best regards,
Hans