New Beta 2 Search and Filter Tools
Lightroom beta 2 brings considerable improvements to filtering and and image searching.
To bring up the Filter options from the Library Module select Show Filter View from Lightrooms' View menu or press the ' \ ' shortcut key.
You will then see a resizable Filter selection menu. The
results of any of the filters which follow will depend on
what you have selected as your starting point in the
Library Module side panels. i.e selecting All Photographs
in the Catalog Panel will obviously allow you to filter on
the whole catalog.
The basic operation is simple and easy to use.
There are three filter modes.
The first, Text, allows you to enter a text search
term.
The second, Refine,
will allow you to further target your search by using
combinations of the familiar flag, star ratings, color
flags etc.
Finally Metadata, allows you to set a Metadata
filter on any one of four displayed columns. Images are
filtered according to your column heading choices. You can
turn them all off, if you want, or select None to
use less than the full four column filters. You can further
target the metadata search by adding the Text and Refine
options as above.
Simple to use and very
powerful. I look forward to using this capability in the
final version.
Download the new beta at Lightroom 2 public
beta.
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