So the problem is for people who send to several customers: to ensure all gets the right caption (The new snapshot and local template is amazing and have all ready helped me a lot) and does it really quickly so we can get back to photographing.
The main problem for me is that there are no shortcuts for Snapshots. if that could be solved we could make a macro (so it doesnt matter what the shortcut is) for the upload process. (still a small problem with sorting photos....). Then its crop, add captions and one shortcut which starts a macro which upload to the two customers (or other has different needs which they can make automatic). Then its quick. To improve the speed of that you would need very specific workflow improvements.
If not possible (which is probably why you answered like you did) the following could be a possibility:
A. I think changing FTP upload is more needed under “contact sheet” and “Metadata (IPTC) info” window so a dropdown menu with FTP snapshots (or FTP if not possible but somehow defeats the purpose of snapshot plus local template) with the current active one highlighted would be nice. At “contact sheet” between sorting (all, tagged etc) and stars would be fine. And next to “Apply Metadata Template” on “metadata (IPTC) info”.
B. if above not possible: On the same spot as above showing the current active FTP connection (could be just the name of the FTP connection in green colour (then we dont have to check). Also answer to one of your other questions.
C. The complicated one but also includes other things:
1. Make the menu on the sides (left on “contact sheet” and right of “Preview” window) more customisable. So you under settings could choose which items to have there and maybe people could suggest other information needed. And if none is chosen there is no window at all.
2. Make a third column under “Metadata (IPTC) info” window which is also, as above customisable.
3. Make it possible to add “FTP upload” and “IPTC template) to the above. With options to choose what is visible (like there is now for “IPTC template”). Most people would only need to change very few items (me FTP snapshot and maybe one word in the description/caption field.
The last one here is of course a bigger change but would also assist in different ways.
I do apologise for all my posts. I sit on the train to a game and try to make it as fast as possible. Both to upload faster than others but also to be ready for new action (probably more important than uploading as quick as possible). And Im quite fast now. The main problem now is above. I have x number of photos marked, 1 and 2 stars, and I have to send 1 star photos to one customers with specific captions and 2 star photos to another one. So in a perfect world there would be a way (as discussed earlier) to limit photos shown to the last x minutes (so its just the goal for example), then a shortcut to only choose 1 star (there is), shortcut to either choose x snapshot or upload (there is) and then choose snapshot with a snapshot, send shortcut (there is), go to “contact sheet” shortcut (there is), Select others (or two stars) shortcut (there is) and then upload again. Thats by far the biggest time savings I can make now.
And that was too long. I hope it makes a bit of sense…….
Thanks again for the recent updates and looking at my posts.
