Selecting portrait/landscape oriented photos?

[klam]

Is there a way to select portrait or landscape oriented photos?  Right now if I use Select > Select Rotated that works at identifying photos with portrait orientation only if they are Raw files.  Once I have converted them from the raw files Photo Mechanic is unable to identify if a photo is portrait or landscape as a JPEG.

This is an important feature I have been using in iView Media Pro, which I have not found in Photo Mechanic.

[Kirk Baker]

Is there a way to select portrait or landscape oriented photos?  Right now if I use Select > Select Rotated that works at identifying photos with portrait orientation only if they are Raw files.  Once I have converted them from the raw files Photo Mechanic is unable to identify if a photo is portrait or landscape as a JPEG.

This is an important feature I have been using in iView Media Pro, which I have not found in Photo Mechanic.

You could create a Custom Sort using the {height} variable as the Primary sort value.  Then when you sort by height all of your tallest images will be grouped together.

HTH,

-Kirk

[klam]

Thanks Kirk, I overlooked the sort functionality.  That will work for me 99% of the time.  There is that odd occasion where a portrait orientated image can still be shorter in height than a landscape oriented image (due to cropping and/or using a mix of low or high megapixel cameras for instance).  For those rare occasions I will manually deselect them from the groupings I guess.  I was wondering if there would be a function that actually compares height <> width to determine if it is in fact portrait or landscape.

[Kirk Baker]

Thanks Kirk, I overlooked the sort functionality.  That will work for me 99% of the time.  There is that odd occasion where a portrait orientated image can still be shorter in height than a landscape oriented image (due to cropping and/or using a mix of low or high megapixel cameras for instance).  For those rare occasions I will manually deselect them from the groupings I guess.  I was wondering if there would be a function that actually compares height <> width to determine if it is in fact portrait or landscape.

There currently is no function that compares height to width.  But we could add a variable like {istallerthanwide} or {iswiderthantall), or just {isportrait} or {islandscape} fairly easily.

-Kirk

[Kirk Baker]

Thanks Kirk, I overlooked the sort functionality.  That will work for me 99% of the time.  There is that odd occasion where a portrait orientated image can still be shorter in height than a landscape oriented image (due to cropping and/or using a mix of low or high megapixel cameras for instance).  For those rare occasions I will manually deselect them from the groupings I guess.  I was wondering if there would be a function that actually compares height <> width to determine if it is in fact portrait or landscape.

Some other variables you could sort on would be:

{aspect}
Aspect ratio of photo

and
{aspectcrop}
Aspect ratio of cropped photo

Try those and see if they work well for your needs.

HTH,

-Kirk

[devenh]

Kirk,

Aspect doesn't help.  Height or width is ok if all the images are the same dimensions.  An isportrait and islandscape would be a useful addition.

Deven

[mistadas]

Found this by google search great news
just sorted a folder of portrait and landscapes photos
every one else said LR
happy PM has it
just entered a custom sort by {aspect}
thank you

Russell

[mistadas]

whoops that sort is not perfect due to different cameras and crops
sort by orientation or aspect is in LR , Bridge and a few strange softwares.
Sort by height and width is it I guess.
thanks Russell

[Hayo Baan]

Kirk,

Aspect doesn't help.  Height or width is ok if all the images are the same dimensions.  An isportrait and islandscape would be a useful addition.

Deven, what doesn't work for you when using aspect? Works fine for me.

[Luiz Muzzi]

Hi,
It works fine for me too. I find it helpful to sort the pictures according to ratio.
In my case the most used are the verticals 0.67 (2/3), 0.80 (4/5) and the horizontals 1.25 (5/4) and 1.5 (3/2).
Regards,

- Luiz Muzzi