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First step is of course to
create a catalogue (Check the Cat1 Tutorial to learn that). In My case I
called it 'Vic Wildlife'.
It is suggested, that one should
keep images to be used in removable media such as in a CD disc
or Flash Memory stick etc.
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I load the CD-Rom disc
with my images in the CD Tray and using the 'my computer'
section droplist I look for the drive letter of my CD-Rom and
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When the drive is located,
the images in the CD-Rom load automatically in the middle
section. Now I'll chose from these images what to load in my
catalogue or else load all of them if it applies.
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I click the first image I
want to load in the catalogue, to highlight it.
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Then I right click on the
image and chose 'Add to catalogue'
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a pop up confirms it has
loaded one image. |
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One can of course Click a
whole lot of images at the same time (Control-Click
simultaneously) to highlight many images and Right-click any of
these and chose 'add to catalogue'. You'll be adding all those
images immediately to the catalogue. (a popup confirms
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What happens if you had
already loaded one image into the catalogue and by mistake try
to load it again?
you get a popup that says 'Image has
already been loaded' and the loading is skipped.
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In order to work with a
larger area with the Catalogue I am creating, I place the cursor
in the vertical divider as shown in the graphic to the left,
(the vertical divider is called a 'Splitter') and click
it.
The Splitter works like a blind and it opens the
Catalogue section all the way to the left, allowing one to work
in a larger area dedicated solely to the
catalogue.
(The 'My Computer
and images loading areas will be hidden underneath the opened
catalogue area).
The images loaded into my catalogue
are all displayed in this section as one can see from the
graphic in the left. |
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With the splitter clicked,
the catalogue section window opens to cover 99% of the
screen.
Now I will start building my catalogue data.
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I click the first image,
to highlight it.
Hint - As you will see, you can name the
images anything in the name field because the path to the image
keeps always the correct image file name path irrespective.
This way you can be very
descriptive with your names for example using names such as
'Butterfly with red wings' for the naming in the catalogue data
area, although the actual image path name is something like
'butterfly1.jpg'.
This naming structure helps one a
lot when using the search facility as you will see in another
tutorial (Cat7)
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I then proceed to
the area where I enter the data.
I type the name of choice
for my first image, followed by the Category, then the
Sub-Category and so on, entering data for all fields.
You can 'Tab' to move from
line to line as you go along.
Don't worry about the
Headings (also known as properties) for now, these can be
changed very easily and on another tutorial
(Cat3) you'll learn
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Click 'Save' at the bottom
of the data area to save your entries.
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After the 'save', the
tree/directory area for the catalogue changes to add the
category and Sub-Category you entered.
So, for now, my catalogue has: a
name (VIC Wildlife) a Category (LEPIDOPTERA) a Sub-Category
(Butterflies) and if I click the butterflies Sub-Category it
will show me the images inside it, each with it's own name and
details.
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Clicking the
tree/directory area or right-clicking (as I did here) and
chosing refresh View clears the image area of the image you have
dealt with.
This updates the image area and
leaves only the next batch of images to be dealt
with.
In PART2 I will carry on
entering the other images and investigating the various
possibilities of Category and Sub-Category
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