- [Instructor] When you're reviewing similar photos
like we have here,
sometimes it can help to compare them side by side,
and there's a couple ways to do this.
We have a compare view and a survey view.
Those icons are down here in the tool bar.
We've already taken a look at the grid view
and the loop view,
and next we'll be talking about the compare view
and the survey view.
Before we jump into this,
I want to collapse these side panel groups,
and I'll use the tab key to do that,
this way, we have a really large content area
to see our images.
Now I'm going to start with a survey view
because it's the simplest.
I'll press the N key on my keyboard
to go into the survey view.
We see that that icon is selected here.
It doesn't look any different though,
because we only have one image in the content area,
and that is because only one image
in the film strip is selected.
If I hold the shift key down and select the last image,
now, all 13 of these are displayed.
If we want to maybe pick the best image
with the black and white soccer ball,
we're going to want to close out
or remove the white soccer ball images.
We can do that a couple ways.
If I hold down the command or control key on windows,
we can click anywhere in this filmstrip
to remove them from the selection,
and then they're removed from the content area,
or we can hover over the image up here
and see the X in the lower right hand corner,
and just click to close it out.
I've got one up here, down here,
and this will take us to the five images
with the black and white soccer ball,
all shown together as a group
to make it easier to pick which one our favorite is.
Let's take a look at the compare view next,
but I'm going to switch back to the grid view first
with the G key on my keyboard,
and then select this first image in the grid view
or in the film strip down here.
And then we'll switch to the compare view
with this icon or the C key on the keyboard.
And that puts the selected image on the left
with a candidate on the right.
We can navigate through other candidates
with the arrows here in the tool bar.
If I click the right arrow,
it's going to go to the next image in the film strip,
take a close look at what's happening down here
in the film strip.
The selection has a white diamond,
the candidate has a black diamond,
and as I navigate through these with the arrows,
we'll see that black diamond move.
I can back up here with the left arrow.
With these icons,
we can swap them.
This first one we'll swap the candidate with the selection,
but it'll continue with the candidate back where we started.
So let's see how that works.
I'm going to swap the candidate with the selection,
and now we're going to start navigating through candidates
from where we left off.
So we'll go back through all of these.
And if we want to replace the candidate with the selection,
we'll pick this next icon,
and then that picks up where we left off here,
and we can continue going through the candidates.
Now, most of the time I use this compare view
when I've got two really similar images.
So I'm going to click back here on number three
to make that the selection,
and then number four is the candidate.
And these two look very similar.
When you have two images that are really similar,
most often, you're going to choose the best one
by choosing the one that has the best focus,
but in order to find the one with the best focus,
we have to zoom in on it.
And if this padlock is closed here in the toolbar,
then these are linked.
So if I click on the selection or the selected image,
it zooms into it at the same place in the candidate,
and we can pan these around together too.
So this is very useful when you have similar photos
and you're trying to find the one
that just has the absolute best focus.
After you've taken the time to compare your photos
and chosen a favorite one,
you're going to want to rate it or flag it
so that you can easily find it again at a later time.
We can do that here in the compare view.
You have to look really closer,
so these faint dots at the bottom of the image,
these are your star ratings.
If you click on that last dot,
it gives it a five star rating,
and you can see that star rating
down in the film strip as well.
We'll cover flagging and rating images
in greater detail later.
To return back to the grid view,
we'll just hit the G key on our keyboard.
And if we want to bring those side panels back,
we'll hit the tab key.