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rolfo:
Congrats to the new version looks great.
I like the new Keywords Panel great Idea.
But i still have problems with Photomechanic and use Adobe Bridge for nearly all of my captioning i try to explain why with my poor english.
The main reason is the tiny keyword-field i can't see all my keywords at once and sort them in relevancy. I know the sort order is not part of the IPTC-Standard but its important for many stockagencies for example alamy (www.alamy.com). So please make this important field a lot bigger or custom adjustable. Because of the importance of a sortorder by relevance for me i have big issues with the automatic alphabetical order of keywords in many dialogs of photomechanic.
Another thing that is a lot better in Bridge that i can adjust it in Browser/Thumbnail-Mode to see a line with the first keywords under the filename so can i see immediatly if a picture has already keywords and if it has keywords if they are in english or german.
Also the size of the keyword-panel should be custom adjustable and it should possible to load textfiles with keywords seperated by comma or semicolon.
The ingest-function is in general great but i still use downloaderPro for this simply because of its faster acess for Jobcode and the lossless autorotate-function while downloading saves me a some time compared to Photomechanic.
I see many great Ideas in Photomechanic and would love it to use it far more often.

Kirk Baker:

--- Quote from: rolfo on April 08, 2007, 12:53:00 PM ---Congrats to the new version looks great.
I like the new Keywords Panel great Idea.
But i still have problems with Photomechanic and use Adobe Bridge for nearly all of my captioning i try to explain why with my poor english.
The main reason is the tiny keyword-field i can't see all my keywords at once and sort them in relevancy. I know the sort order is not part of the IPTC-Standard but its important for many stockagencies for example alamy (www.alamy.com). So please make this important field a lot bigger or custom adjustable. Because of the importance of a sortorder by relevance for me i have big issues with the automatic alphabetical order of keywords in many dialogs of photomechanic.
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Why do they need to be in a particular order (other than alphabetical)?  I mean when you search for a specific keyword, it doesn't matter which order it appears in a photo, the photo will match the search if it contains the keyword.


--- Quote from: rolfo ---Another thing that is a lot better in Bridge that i can adjust it in Browser/Thumbnail-Mode to see a line with the first keywords under the filename so can i see immediatly if a picture has already keywords and if it has keywords if they are in english or german.
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PM 4.5 can do that too.  Just add an additional line of labels, and use the {keywords} variable.


--- Quote from: rolfo ---Also the size of the keyword-panel should be custom adjustable and it should possible to load textfiles with keywords seperated by comma or semicolon.
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It can load text files, one keyword per line.


--- Quote from: rolfo ---The ingest-function is in general great but i still use downloaderPro for this simply because of its faster acess for Jobcode
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Hmm.  Well I don't know how it could be much faster, all you have to do is click the Job... button in the Ingest dialog.


--- Quote from: rolfo ---and the lossless autorotate-function while downloading saves me a some time compared to Photomechanic.  I see many great Ideas in Photomechanic and would love it to use it far more often.
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I take it you only shoot JPEGs?  Because the issue is that if you shoot RAW+JPEG and you hard-rotate the JPEG, now the JPEG and the RAW file are out of sync.

-Kirk

rolfo:

--- Quote from: Kirk Baker on April 08, 2007, 01:30:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: rolfo on April 08, 2007, 12:53:00 PM ---Congrats to the new version looks great.
I like the new Keywords Panel great Idea.
But i still have problems with Photomechanic and use Adobe Bridge for nearly all of my captioning i try to explain why with my poor english.
The main reason is the tiny keyword-field i can't see all my keywords at once and sort them in relevancy. I know the sort order is not part of the IPTC-Standard but its important for many stockagencies for example alamy (www.alamy.com). So please make this important field a lot bigger or custom adjustable. Because of the importance of a sortorder by relevance for me i have big issues with the automatic alphabetical order of keywords in many dialogs of photomechanic.
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Why do they need to be in a particular order (other than alphabetical)?  I mean when you search for a specific keyword, it doesn't matter which order it appears in a photo, the photo will match the search if it contains the keyword.


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The search engine of these agencies sort the result of the search in relevancy! So the search engine will find the picture but its maybe on last resultpage though its may the most relevant picture. Keep in mind that an agency like Alamy has more than 8 Million pictures and buyers often don't have the time too look through all the result-pages.

rolfo:

--- Quote from: Kirk Baker on April 08, 2007, 01:30:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: rolfo on April 08, 2007, 12:53:00 PM ---

--- Quote from: rolfo ---Another thing that is a lot better in Bridge that i can adjust it in Browser/Thumbnail-Mode to see a line with the first keywords under the filename so can i see immediatly if a picture has already keywords and if it has keywords if they are in english or german.
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PM 4.5 can do that too.  Just add an additional line of labels, and use the {keywords} variable.
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Great thanks!!!

rolfo:

--- Quote from: Kirk Baker on April 08, 2007, 01:30:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: rolfo on April 08, 2007, 12:53:00 PM ---
[Also the size of the keyword-panel should be custom adjustable and it should possible to load textfiles with keywords seperated by comma or semicolon.
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It can load text files, one keyword per line.

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Yes but in my case i have lots of textfiles with combination of keywords (most between 10 and 70 keywords) which i need and use often but maybe thats just too special.

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