> I have about 1,000 pictures I need to crop to photo paper proportion's (4x6) 'by hand'. Each picture I need to look at one at a time and decide how to crop. (so I can't use the Batch feature)
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> Would be great if during the slide show (or some similar method) to be able to do some simple edit commands (crop, rotate, delete etc) and also have a mode to automatically save the edited picture when going on to the next picture.
Never use the slide show for that sort of thing - it uses resized (to screen) copies of your images. The regular viewer (Double-click or Enter) is ideal for this sort of thing.
[*]Use
Space and
Backspace to move from one image to the next, and back.
[*]Press
DEL to delete any duds (enable this first in
Options | Viewing | Editing)
[*]Press R to resize an image. You'll probably want to apply
Filter | Sharpen | Unsharp Mask afterwards (the next time, you can simply press
Ctrl-F to repeat this last used Filter).
[*]Use the
Transform | Turn and
Transform | Rotate commands to straighten images.
[*]To crop to 4:6, use the corresponding
Transform | Trim to Photo Proportions command or
Trim to Proportion | 3:2. Just issue that command, draw the selection box and press enter. If the selection box has the wrong orientation for that image (Portrait/Landscape), a right-click inside it will fix that.
[*]Press C to work on contrast, brightness, saturation, gamma, etc.
[*]The
Histogra(M) | Stretch option often comes in handy with this sort of work too.
[*]If an effect that you used seems overdone (e.g. saturation or sharpness), use
Edit | Fade to soften it to a more agreeable level.
[*]You may also want to read [msg=14]Image Sorting, Culling and Rating at Top Speed[/msg]
[*]As for saving the edited image when you move on to the next..: ThumbsPlus is supposed to do that, but the v9 build 3936 that I'm using has a stupid bug there that causes it to hang once you press Space. Hopefully that was fixed in the current release, but I haven't tried that yet (it works fine in my trusty v7 sp2 fallback version though).[/list]
I hope some of this helps!