andersl
Member
I thought that I should share a technique that I have been using for the past couple of weeks, I don't know anything similar has been published before, or if there are other ways to accomplish something similar.
I'm in the process of tagging my 4'''' pictures, and I'm using smart collections. The big advantage with smart collections is that they can be defined so that only the pictures that remains to be tagged are part of the collection. For example, I've got a collection of "Untagged People".
One drawback, however, is that whenever I tag one person in a picture, it is removed from the smart collection (really smart, duh...)
So, in order to get around this I define my smart collections like:
Any of the following:
+ Label is red
+ All of the following:
+++ The picture does not have a Person tag.
+++ The picture is not tagged as "+Cat+, +Panorama+, +Nature+" etc. etc.
Side note: I do have a number of special Person:s, like "Nobody" and "Unknown" etc., so that I can distinguish between an unhanded photo and a photo that doesn't contain anybody. (Side note to the side note: It's a spooky feeling to filter out only the pictures containing "Nobody"...)
Whenever I want to tag more than one person in a picture I hit "6" (Set label red), tag the persons with whatever method I like, and finish by hitting "6" again toggling the label red off. At this point the picture is removed from the smart collection.
One drawback of this technique is that it hijacks the color labels, which might be inconvenient if you use them for other things. However, you can define a rule that retains the pictures based on other criteria, e.g. a special "KEEP IN SET" keyword.
Hope this will help somebody out there!
I'm in the process of tagging my 4'''' pictures, and I'm using smart collections. The big advantage with smart collections is that they can be defined so that only the pictures that remains to be tagged are part of the collection. For example, I've got a collection of "Untagged People".
One drawback, however, is that whenever I tag one person in a picture, it is removed from the smart collection (really smart, duh...)
So, in order to get around this I define my smart collections like:
Any of the following:
+ Label is red
+ All of the following:
+++ The picture does not have a Person tag.
+++ The picture is not tagged as "+Cat+, +Panorama+, +Nature+" etc. etc.
Side note: I do have a number of special Person:s, like "Nobody" and "Unknown" etc., so that I can distinguish between an unhanded photo and a photo that doesn't contain anybody. (Side note to the side note: It's a spooky feeling to filter out only the pictures containing "Nobody"...)
Whenever I want to tag more than one person in a picture I hit "6" (Set label red), tag the persons with whatever method I like, and finish by hitting "6" again toggling the label red off. At this point the picture is removed from the smart collection.
One drawback of this technique is that it hijacks the color labels, which might be inconvenient if you use them for other things. However, you can define a rule that retains the pictures based on other criteria, e.g. a special "KEEP IN SET" keyword.
Hope this will help somebody out there!