Search screen

Introduction

The search screen is the application’s main screen, where you can interact with your images.

View Modes

Photo Wall

 Shortcut

W

The photo wall lets you visualize many images at the same time and preserve original image aspect ratio (which means thumbnails may have different sizes).

Filmstrip

 Shortcut

F

The filmstrip mode displays the list of images as an horizontal list and the currently selected image as a large preview image.

Single Image

 Shortcut

S

The single image mode only displays the currently selected image as a large preview image.

Fullscreen

You can quickly toggle fullscreen mode thanks to the button shown above.

 Shortcut

F11

Sorting

You can sort images according the following list of criteria:

• Extension
• File name
• Shot date
• File creation date
• File modification date
• Date added in the database
• Rating
• Author
• Camera (brand & model)
• Shutter speed
• Aperture
• Focal length
• Iso speed

Grouping

You can also group your assets along the following criteria:

• No group
• Extension
• Path
• Shot date
• File creation date
• File modification date
• Date added in the database
• Rating
• Author
• Camera (brand & model)
• Shutter speed
• Aperture
• Focal length
• Iso speed

In each group header you can see:

• An arrow telling if the group is expanded or collapsed
• An icon matching the grouping criteria
• The value of this group for the grouping criteria
• The number of assets in that group

You can also expand or collapse all groups thanks the to buttons shown in the picture above.

Search

Search bar

 Shortcut

Ctrl

F3

The omni search bar will match your search pattern against the following image properties:

• Dates
• Path & file name
• Keywords
• Author
• Comment
• Copyright
• Camera brand
• Camera body
• Country
• Software
• Iso speed

The number of images matching the current search settings is displayed on the right.
To quickly clear the search field you can use the small  button on the far right.

Date patterns

TBD.

Keywords

You can type in one or more keywords in the search field. If you type in multiple keywords then every images containing one of those keywords will be displayed.

Iso speed

To search photos taken with specific ISO Speed value simply type in the value like

Advanced search

 Shortcut

A

In addition to the text field you can also search for images using the following predefined criteria:

• Camera body
• Iso speed
• Keywords
• Rating
• Country
• Shot date

Camera body

If several cameras were used to shoot photos from your library, they will appear in this list, grouped by camera brand. You can have multiple cameras picked at the same, all images taken with any of those will be displayed.

Iso speed

As for cameras, iso speed values are gathered from your library of photos and grouped by standard ISO values. If multiple iso speeds are picked, all images taken with any of those will be displayed.

Keywords

Again the keyword drop down menu is filled with values extracted from your library of photos. They are grouped by first letter to navigate quickly to the desired values. If multiple keywords are picked, all images having any of those will be displayed.

Rating

You can select any rating value among

 Pas de note
 1 étoile
 2 étoiles
 3 étoiles
 4 étoiles
 5 étoiles

You can also filter by pick and reject criteria

 Undefined
 Picked
 Rejected

All kind of combination between rating and pick&reject will produce a logical OR operation.

Countries

The countries are extracted from GPS metadata that your photos may have. They are grouped by country’s first letter.

Shot date

You can filter images by shot date criteria using the PhotoInsight custom calendar. The calendar covers dates from the oldest photo to the latest photo. To help you pick meaningful dates, days are highlighted when at least one photo was taken this day.

Reset filters

The small right most button can be used to reset all advanced criteria (but not search pattern)

Vignettes

You can adjust the thumbnail size when the view mode is set to Photo Wall or Filmstrip

Selection

You can select one or multiple images.
Selected images have a blue frame.
To select multiple images you can either:

• Select a first image, then keep Shift key pressed and click on another image. All images between the first and the last one will be also selected.
• Keep Ctrl key pressed and click each image you want to select.

Context menu

Access to a contextual menu by right clicking on an image.

External applications

At the top of the context menu are open with options that lets you quickly open an image in an external application. PhotoInsight automatically detects if any of following software are installed on your computer:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Lightroom
• DxO PhotoLab
• Capture One
• Affinity Photo
• ON1 Photo RAW

Of course you can add more applications to open your images, see the dedicated section in the Settings screen documentation.

Exclude folder

If you find images that you’d like to exclude from PhotoInsight database you can quickly exclude any level of folder thanks to this option.

Toolbar

The toolbar lets you

• Delete assets
• Rename assets
• Change rating
• Change pick & reject

Change rating

 Shortcut

0

1

2

3

4

5

Use the star icons to set the expected rating or use number keys shortcut (0,1,2,3,4,5)

Exemple

In the image below you can see the rating is set to three stars.

Change pick & reject

 Shortcut

P

X

U

To pick an image click on the  icon and to reject click on the  icon.
If you want to clear pick or reject, simply click again on the selected icon.

Delete image(s)

 Shortcut

Del

You can delete selected images using the keyboard shortcut or the button with  icon

Detailed panel

When an image is selected the details panel provides information about the image in distinct sections.

File

• Camera body brand and model
• File full path
• Author
• Comment

Shooting parameters

• Shutter speed
• Aperture
• Iso speed
• Focal length
• Size
• Orientation

Geographic data

• World map
• Country
• City
• State

The search bar overlay in the map lets you search for cities to center the map on the picked city.

Dates

• Shot date
• Modification date
• Creation date
• Date added in PhotoInsight

Keywords

Adding multiple keywords in a row is easy because as soon as you enter a new keyword, a new keyword place holder appears so you can type in the next keyword immediately without moving your hands out of the keyboard. When you’re done, simply press Escape key or click somewhere else.

Bookmarks

Create

Bookmarks are dynamic collections allowing you to save a filter configuration and recall it later. To create a new bookmark:

• click on the  button in the search field left side
• a small popup is displayed
• set a category name
• set a bookmark name
• press Enter or click on Save button

Load a bookmark

Bookmarks are accessible in advanced filtering criteria and are grouped by category. When you select a bookmark it will simply restore filter settings and matching images will be displayed.

Collections

 Shortcut

C

The collections are presented in a dedicated panel than can expand or collapse (it’s collapsed by default).
Use the keyboard shortcut shown above or the  button to expand or collapse the panel. Contrary to the bookmarks, collection are static sets of images.

Create a collection

Create a collection with contextual menu (see video below )

You can also create a collection this way (see video below )

Modify a collection

You can add/remove images to/from an existing collection later through the contextual menu.

Renome a collection

You can rename a collection by double clicking on it in the collection’s panel, type in a new name and validate with Enter key.

Tri des collections

Collections can be sorted by the following properties:

• Name
• Creation date
• Number of images