Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis

304

|

Chapter 9: Capturing and Managing Your Digital Pictures and Videos

Viewing and Managing Ratings, Tags, and Captions

To get more details about pictures and videos, click the Choose a Thumbnail View

button and then select Tiles. As Figure 9-8 shows, you’ll see the following:

• Filename and file extension

• Date taken or created

• File size

• Image size or video runtime

• Rating

• Caption

With the Tiles view, you can add ratings and captions to individual pictures and vid-

eos. To add a rating, click the picture or video to select it, move the pointer over the

star rating until the desired rating is highlighted, and then click. To add or edit a cap-

tion, click Add Caption or click the existing caption, type the desired caption, and

then press Enter or click another area of the window.

Another way to get more detailed information about pictures and videos is to turn on

the Info Pane by clicking the Info button on the toolbar. The Info Pane is also shown

in Figure 9-8.

Figure 9-7. Using the Table of Contents Pane to see how many pictures and videos you have in

each grouping

Organizing Your Gallery

|

305

With the Info Pane, you can do things that you can’t do with the Tiles view. You can:

• Add the same rating to multiple items by clicking the pictures and videos you

want to rate, moving the pointer over the star rating in the Info Pane until the

desired rating is highlighted, and then clicking.

• Add or edit the captions for multiple items by clicking the pictures and videos you

want to work with, clicking the Click to Edit Caption text in the Info Pane, typing

the desired caption, and then pressing Enter or clicking another area of the window.

• Add the same tag to multiple items by clicking the pictures and videos you want

to work with, clicking the Add Tags text, typing the desired tag, and then press-

ing Enter.

• Remove a tag from multiple items by clicking the pictures and videos you want

to work with, right-clicking the tag to remove, and then selecting Remove Tag.

• Assign a tag that is used with some selected pictures of videos by right-clicking

the tag to assign and then selecting Assign to All.

All these techniques help you provide additional information for your pictures and

videos. You can also use tags and ratings to help you view and organize your pic-

tures and videos in different ways. Once you’ve assigned tags, you can click the Tags

node in the Navigation Pane to see a list of all the tags you’ve assigned. Then, by

clicking a tag, you can view all the pictures and videos with that tag.

Figure 9-8. Getting more detailed information about pictures and videos