Silkypix Icons and Menus

Silkypix Icons and Menu Items

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As usual with any program, the Menu line contains all options and the Icon toolbar contains a more useful set of the more commonly used options.

First the Icon toolbar, let us look at the left half of the icons first....

Open File and Open Folder do much the same sort of action, I find Open File works best for me, just select a folder and then select all, or a few or one image to open. The choice can be for All Images or RAW only or jpeg only or tiff only. If selecting one image it will open to fill the edit window, or selecting more than one image then they will open as thumbnails and you can then carry on and select each thumbnail one at a time to work on in detail.

Print leads you off into the print options where you can do printer selection and setup as well as alter the sharpening for print only purposes. Sharpening should be varied depending on final print size required.

Undo and Redo will act on the previous and the next action that has been performed, of course Redo only works after you have used Undo. Control-Z as usual is the keyboard Undo.

Thumbnail Mode and Combination Mode and Preview Mode do just as the icons show with only thumbnails in the preview window or a combination of selected images with thumbnails underneath or just the selected image filling the preview window.

Select Scenes for Operation brings up the following window and makes sense after you have selected thumbnails and now decide what you want to do with them. Selecting images for batch RAW conversion is one likely and common use.

The marks are placed on the images or thumbnails by right clicking on an image or thumbnail and then setting the desired any or all or none of the marks - as in the next figure which is an extract of the right click on an image/thumbnail menu. The example shows that I have set the Red mark on the thumbnail image.

It is just a mark that I use for my own purposes as is the Blue and Green mark, I could use say, red to keep in top selection keepers group, maybe use green to keep for maybe useful later, and blue for not worried about this image at the moment. They are just there to use any way you like as the useful marks for batch development copy/move and delete are already assigned by the program for your use for those purposes.

Display Warning allows you to toggle on and off any of the warnings as seen on the menu that icon brings up. I tend to leave warnings off most of the time as they can be distracting flashing away, but turn some or all on for initial work on the image to see where problems may lie.

Highlight flashing means the image is too far into white or too saturated in an rgb channel, highlight recovery may be able to fix it, or lower the exposure bias to see if details come back.
Shadow flashing means that the detail may be lost down in the deep dark shadows so maybe exposure bias or curves could be applied to raise the shadow detail, be aware that noise lurks in the shadows so loss of detail may be preferable to high noise.
When pushing contrast and saturation and curves then the out of gamut warning may be useful to help avoid problems.
Turn them all on and it is a confusing flashing display, so best turn them off one by one to see where the worst problems lie.

Previous Scene and Next Scene just cycle through the thumbnails or selected images and display will stay as the selected mode.

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