Keyboard shortcut to switch active panel in Dual View without mouse?

[dmundorff]

I'm using Dual View to cull photos by comparing them side by side and working through the set in pairs. My workflow is:

1. Compare the two images
2. Rate/tag the one I want to keep
3. Switch focus to the other panel
4. Advance to the next unviewed image
5. Repeat

This works great with the mouse, but I'd love to do it entirely with the keyboard.

The problem is that clicking a panel and pressing Tab seem to behave differently. Here's an example:

I have IMG_9958 on the left (active) and IMG_9957 on the right. I click on the right panel to make it active, set my rating, then advance forward -- it goes to IMG_9960. Then I click on the left panel (still showing 9958) and advance forward -- it jumps to IMG_9961, correctly skipping the image already showing and navigated past in the right panel.

However, if I use Tab instead of clicking to switch to the left panel, advancing forward goes to IMG_9959 instead of 9961. It seems like Tab doesn't register the other panel's current position the same way a mouse click does, so the navigation doesn't skip images already displayed or already reviewed.

Is there a keyboard shortcut that switches the active panel the same way a mouse click does? Or is this a bug in how Tab works in Dual View?

I'd love to keep my hands on the keyboard for this workflow. Any help appreciated!

[ahoward]

I'm not sure which is the "correct" behavior, but I believe it has to do with which image gets synced to the filmstrip that appears on the left or bottom of the preview window.

That said, are you familiar pressing the G key while in 2-up mode? This will copy the image from the 'active' panel to the 'inactive' panel and then you can keep advancing through the images in image is in the 'active' panel without having to switch back and forth between which one you are looking at all the time.

[dmundorff]

I will try that, thank you!