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Basics

Browsing your photos can be done in many ways...

In general, the bulk of your photos appear in the central viewpane as thumbnails, arranged by most recent date first. You can control the contents of this viewpane (what you see) in two ways:

• What types of items show up
  • photo,
  • story,
  • box,
  • untagged photos
    
    
• Which photos are shown
  • via tag filters: who, what, where, when
  • photos in a story
  • photos in a box

For example, sometimes it is convenient to show only untagged photos and boxes — for bulk tagging.

Controlling Content Type

Use the view toggles:

Toggle	Meaning	Identify
	Show/Hide Boxes
	Show/Hide Stories
	Show/Hide Tagged Photos
	Home - Reset to default

NOTE: can be useful when gathering new photos. This will allow you to show only untagged photos so you can concentrate on tagging the new photos. You will know you are done tagging when no more thumbs are visible. Simply click the toggle again (or click on ) to go back to seeing all thumbs.

Controlling Content By Tags

Use tags to show only those photos with that tag. For example:

• Click on one of your Who tags. to see:
  
  
  
  
• Click on one of your Where tags.
  
  
  
  
• You should now see only those photos of that person in that location
  

• Click on a tag again to deselect that tag.
  
  
• Revert to showing all photos by pressing for "All Photos"

The basic logic is as follows:

• Find photos with any of the selected Who tags (Sue OR Jon, for example)
  
  
• And photos with ALL of the selected Where and What tags

Browse by Search Bar

Alternatively, you can also click on the search bar and start to type the name of the tag to invoke the Tag Chooser:

Click and type again to add another tag:

Deselect a tag on the dock to remove it from the search filter.

Showing Untagged Photos

By showing untagged photos , you can quickly work on tagging your newly-added photos. This goes hand-in-hand with our bulk tagging tips.

Vertical Thumb Lister

The "lister" is useful for showing your photos, stories, or boxes in a different view from the center viewpane for two reasons:

• Making it easy to show a box or story thumb in the lister, and drag photos from the center viewpane into the box or story.
  
  
• Being able to select photos while the viewpane remains in full photo mode.

Open the Thumb Lister , and you can scroll vertically through your thumbnails while the centerpane is showing a larger view.

The example below shows dragging a thumb from the centerpane into a box in the lister. This will have the effect of tagging that photo with the tags of the box.

Zooming

Use the zoom slider to control the zoom factor. .

As you zoom in, you will notice that the thumb may stay in place, depending on the mode you are in for "Thumb Arrangement" (see below). You may need to click on to rearrange the thumbs.

Full/Thumb Mode

You can alternate between

• Showing thumbnails, or
  
  
• Showing full-size photo.

You can also double-click on a thumb to get it to enlarge enough so that it fits in the centerpane. Sometimes you can continue to zoom into the photo (depending on the size of the digital image and your monitor resolution).

Hiding/Deleting Photos

When a thumb is selected, you can press the "Delete" key to hide or delete a photo. The following dialog appears:

Hide	This makes the image disappear from the viewpane.
Forget	This tells Tidepool to remove it from its list of gathered items so you don't see it in Tidepool (but not to delete the file).
Delete	This physically deletes your photo. Use with caution! You will see a further warning:

Once you have hidden one or more photos, you will see the "Unhide" button () on the Action Bar.

Unhiding

You can temporarily hide photos for whatever reason you like. Click on and choose which photos to unhide:

Press "Unhide" and ... Poof! The photos reappear.

Slide Show

Click on to show the photos in the viewpane as a slide show in full monitor mode.

You can press the spacebar to pause and continue the slide show.

Press Esc key to exit the slide show.

Next/Previous Photo Controls

Using controls, you can move through the images in a sequential manner, forward or reverse; and jump to the start or the end.

Rotate Photo

Click on or to view the photo in a 90° rotated manner.

click , and see:

Continued clicking adds 90° increments. Tidepool does not physically rotate the file (that is, edit the photo contents and resave the file).

Tidepool merely rotates the photo in the viewpane. When a rotated photo is shared to the web, the rotation is factored into the creation of the web version of the photo. Your photo remains as it was the day you captured it!

Thumbnail Arrangement

With the button, there are different modes for arranging thumbnails.

Thumbs stay where they are

Think of the thumbnails as being arranged on a table, relatively permanent in their location. (For you photo buffs, think of it as a contact sheet.) As you zoom in on a single photo, you stay focused over that thumb's location.

Occasionally, you may be left with thumbs that are no longer "neatly" arranged in the center viewpane:

Simply click on the arrange button — or see below for a different mode.

Thumbs move to fit to the available width.

You can also right-click on the arrange button, to keep it "pressed" so that auto-arrange is always "on" .

You will see the thumbs rearrange to fit to the width:

Spacebar Scrolling

Think of the thumbnails as a big sheet of paper with the thumbs printed on it (like a contact sheet). You can "move" this sheet around within the viewpane, as follows.

In thumbs mode, with your mouse cursor over a thumb, you can hold down the spacebar — you will see the cursor change to . Now you can click and drag the sheet of thumbnails around.

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