I have recently updated from 6 to 8 on Mac and noticed that in 6, images in the thumbnail view have a small grey opaque triangle bottom right with a tick that changes to yellow if that image has been modified.
This does not appear in PL 8, there is nothing in the bottom right of the thumbnail images, even after modifications have been made. That is until the image has been exported for the first time, then the tick appears and works as expected.
Also, before first export has occurred, and after and image has been modified and there is no visible tick (as described above), the filter tool in thumbnails also does not recognise that an image has been modified (filtering for “Modified since last processing” returns no files).
I have Mac version of Elite PL 8 8.1.0 build 35 on 15.1.1 (24B2091)
What you’re describing about PL8 is how the thumbnail indicator behaves in Windows and is how it’s supposed to behave, as far as I know. Unfortunately, it seems the User Guides for both PL6 and PL8 have incomplete or incorrect descriptions. However, they do mention in passing that there is a status of modified since last export (which you can filter for). When you see “since last processing,” that means “since last export.”
No tick mark if image wasn’t exported (Unprocessed status)
Green tick mark if image was exported and wasn’t edited since then (Processed)
Orange tick mark, if image was exported and edited afterwards (Unprocessed since last modification)
Personally, I don’t see it as a bug, but a very useful feature. Having few hundreds of photos in a directory, I can quickly select photos for exporting, further editing, or deleting.
Note that you can disable display of status tick marks, or enable it only on “mouseover”, in Preferences → Display → “Image browser” section → Processing status (at least on Windows).
What’s lacking to me is a status mark for geometric corrections being applied (levelling, cropping, …) and a status mark for WB corrections made. I start editing by cropping and correcting WB first (the hard work, which makes color/contrast corrections easier and more predictable) and sometimes I do it in a random way, e.g. starting with photos which I liked most. It would be nice to know at a glance, or for filter use, which ones I’ve missed. But there is little place left in thumbnails for those new status marks…
How about possibility to choose a set of thumbnail marks, limited by size (5-7 ?), out of a larger set of choices, which would be best for our workflow?
I’m on a Mac, the check mark in the bottom right corner turns from white to yellow after I make additional changes, then turns back to white after I export the image. Long story short, it behaves as expected. In case it matters, I’m using PL8 on an Intel Mac.
Mine does the same, but only after having saved changes to an image for the first time. If I place an image in a directory and then view that image in that new directory for the first time, in thumbnail view there is no tick, and if I make changes to that image there is no yellow tick. If I filter on Modified I see no images (even though my image has been modified)
That would seem wrong to me. What’s the point of the restriction of having had to have exported a file before you can see if it has been modified or not.
I notice it since the files I am looking at have been modified previously in PL6 and exported and have which ticks, but now in PL8 the ticks are missing so images that I have made further changes to are not visible and I have to export all of the images again.
If the images were exported in PL6 and you’re using the same images and sidecar files in PL8 and the ticks are missing, then submit a bug report: support.dxo.com.
If you are starting fresh with files in PL8 and haven’t exported anything yet, then the absence of ticks is correct behavior according to DxO. That was the case in PL6 also, despite your recollection. You can let them know you’re not happy with it or create a Feature Request topic in the forum to gather votes to change the behavior.
You’re not the first person to bring up this concern - but you would be the first person to create a feature request:
I noticed it as they are files that had previously been modified by PL6 and have ticks when viewed in PL6 but when viewed in PL8 have no ticks.
I still think that it is wrong that files that have un-exported modifications are not highlighted, even if that was the case in PL6. Where is the sense in hiding files with unexpected changes from the user ?
The sense would be that PhotoLab has already applied the default preset for RAWs and RGB files when you first open each. So they would all have ticks if you have default presets, unless PL is able to exclude an initial preset - and it isn’t smart enough yet to do that.