The Media Pro interface packs a surprisingly large amount of functionality and information
into this small space
there's a number of different sections
and we'll outline what we can find in each of those and how they're supposed to work
together
Let’s start with the area across the top
on the left hand side here
we have some navigational items the back and forward button
work very much like a browser button
so if I select a couple of different folders
here
when I hit the back button
it selects me
back on the
most recent item
that I had had selected
the home button shows every item in the entire catalogue
these two buttons show and hide the info and organize panel
so clicking this
shows and hides
the organize panel
and then this
switches it over to the info panel
which give me information about
one or more selected images
and then either hides it
and then I can select
the organize panel to see that again
across the middle of the top we have a set of icons to perform some action on the image
so for instance this gives me access to my helper applications, this lets me sending email
this lets me set a
label or a rating star for selected images I can change my view options here
I suggest exploring these to get a good idea of the kind of functionality that Media Pro
offers many of these also are
contained in a right click
so for instance the helper applications are shown right here
and setting your rating or label can be done down here
there's a search box here
and you can search on
uh... bit of a file name or some kind of metadata and any conforming images will show up there
to the home button and go back to where we were
across the top
here of this area
we see
the name of a selected image when you only have one selected
if you have more than one selected it only shows you the one that is the most selected
image
and then here we see the
uh... pixel dimension of the image
the size and megabytes and the file format
of this particular image
we also have the ability to rotate that image
to make our thumbnails larger or smaller and in this fly out menu we also have
control over thumbnail size as well
as well as spacing between the images
which can be optimized for either
Verticals, horizontals or both
there's three main views that we can have the in the main
image area
we can have a thumbnail view which is what we're seeing here
we can have the a list view
and we can have a Media view which shows one image at a time
each of these different views can be configured
in a lot of different ways
and you can save the configuration so that you can come back to them later
so for instance
if you're interested and keywords
I can setup a preset
that shows me keywords underneath the images
if I want to see more keywords
I can devote
more lines to those keywords
and we can see in some of these images
we have more than one single line of keywords
and that same configuration
can hold over into the list view so I’ve configured this
so that I have unnamed and keywords here. Here's another way you could set it up so if you
use location tags
uh... country, state, city
location
I can set up in a list view for you to see that and then I can also
see that underneath the image here
in the thumbnail view
you configure these by using the
view options
and there's a lot of flexibility in here so for instance you can change the background
Here, by selecting on the color
and then let's make it nice and ugly
and here there we go, let's take that back to where it was
I hit it like that, and there we go
I can change
the color of the text
I can change
how the uh... text is centered here
whether I want to see
what the label is
and again I can change my
spacing here
thumbnail size
uh... margins and shadows
and then I have
the ability to change which information
is appearing
underneath the image in this fields area
and I do that by let's uh... go ahead and work on this one
the
location city and state are tags that
live in the annotations
and I can't just take those off
by hitting it like that
Now they appear and save in a list view here according to the order
That you hit them
I’d do country, state, city, location
countries on top
but if I set this up with
location
City, state
country
then locations on top
once you get it to a configuration you like
let's go ahead and
move this up a little bit
then you have this options sets
uh... item right here
that lets you save
particular
uh... configurations
and you simply say that and give it a name
and once you've done that
that now becomes one of the presets, these presets apply to
all of the different views
thumbnail
and Media
down at the bottom left we get an indication of how big the catalog itself is
and then this next number indicates
the total size
of what all of the images that are currently showing
so fight click to show these fourteen images that have
four stars, it tells me that
added altogether those fourteen images take up
384.2 megabytes of space
on the bottom right we can see that there
twenty eight thousand images
and fourteen images are showing
if I select one of these images
and we can see that one is selected and it is the fifth in the list
so we get ton of information here all the way around the window
over in the info and organize panel you can use these fly outs to customize which information
you're going to see
I’ve got the set tissue or the ones that I use
most typically
you also notice that
uh... one of these uh... the four-star designation is lit up in orange
and what that means is that the selected item belongs to this group
so if I select nothing
it doesn't light up an orange
and let's uh... just chill whole bunch of images
so we can see how this works
and let's make sure we are set to show
the ratings
and so
I’ve got a three-star image selected you can see three lights up in orange
when I hold on the command key and add a two star to the group you can see now two-star shows
up
and same with one when I hold when I select a one-stared image as part of this group as
well
over in the Media info panel you can find out
lots about the meta data of any particular image so I’ve got an image selected here
and I can run through
uh... bunch of the ITPC information here including my
contact information
I can also see the
photo EXIF that the camera wrote into the file when the picture was shot
information about the Media file itself
such as pixel dimensions and
when it was created
as well as uh... any keywords that might be associated with it
as well as a caption
and you can add subtract or replace caption information here
essentially by just putting your cursor in
and typing
Up here at the top of the info panel
you have the ability to create meta data templates and to access ones you've made before either
here in Media Pro or if you had Expression Media or Iview Media Pro
and if you've ever made any metadata templates
in Adobe Bridge or Photoshop
you can access those same set of templates
here inside Media Pro
in this fly out menu you have the ability to configure which information is going to
be shown over in
the info panel set this up according to the ones
that you like to use