To speed up culling images, I have the filtering turned on to show only untagged images and then use 7 or 9 (or P & X) to choose Picked or Rejected, which when chosen automatically moves me to the next image. Same as used in LRC.
It’s just ludicrous in this day and age that Photolab does NOT let you simply ‘undo’ a tag like that. Instead I have to
go to the filter
change the setting to include the appropriate tag
and then re-tag it correctly
then turn the filter back on!
Just absolute bloody nonsense that this complete faff of a time-wasting annoyance is how it has to be done and that I am simply unable to use a simple keyboard shortcut to undo the mistaken tag, and have the image reappear unfiltered so that I can tag it correctly.
Lightroom, simple undo. No fuss. No drama. But apparently this is too difficult for DxO to put into Photolab.
DxO often takes a different approach to many tools and techniques than Adobe. It is not a drop-in replacement.
When culling, leaving the filters off, at least for the first pass, seems to work well for me when using these keyboard shortcuts. The selection cane changed or the “un-pick (8/U)” shortcut used to clear the pick/reject flags. But, the image must be visible (not filtered). The images do not auto-advance in this case, so you must use the arrow keys to navigate. So it’s mostly a two-key per image process - 7/9, then advance.
This change has become muscle memory for me and seems just as fast as previous techniques in LR or Bridge.
I can’t believe people so blithely accept that you need to use double the keystrokes to be able to do something that should be a single key press. DOUBLE the time! A waste of my time!
So fed up that as a user I’m supposed to happily and joyfully, almost worshipfully, accept poor design decisions by devs.
Says who? You have choices. One is to give feedback to DxO at support.dxo.com. Another is to discuss possible ways of adapting to the problem here with other users. Or just complain I guess.
Did you not take advantage of the fully functional free 30 day trial of PhotoLab to ensure it met your needs and expectations before you parted with your cash?
Really? Did you actually test and check this claim?
My culling time is determined by the time spent studying each image and how fast the software can refresh to the next image, not by how fast my fingers manipulate the keyboard. Perhaps mindlessly racing through the images and having to use the “undo” function frequently is a “poor design decision”.
I’m right there with you on not accepting poor design and all, and especially in not making excuses for it, but in this case you are being too anal about a very, very, very small inconvenience. I’m guessing that maybe there are other things that bug you about PL and perhaps this was a “final straw” moment. There are other things that must be actually hindering your speed in editing compared to LR much more than this.
Concerning the specific behavior during culling, this isn’t broken, it’s just the way it works. As was already mentioned, it’s better to slow down a second or two and make sure you select correctly, or update your workflow. Culling is by no means slow for me, and I actually just did it for the first time in PL last night after a couple of years with LR. I honestly didn’t notice any difference in speed whatsoever. Click click… click click… For me it’s a mostly 3 finger operation. One finger on P, one on forward arrow and other on back arrow. I only pick or don’t pick. Rarely do I need to actually X anything. I worry about deleting stuff later as a separate operation. I only edit what I pick. If I accidentally pick something that I shouldn’t, or don’t pick something I should, I go back one and hit U or P as needed.
Next operation is to decide of all the non-picked images what can be kept as potentially needed/useful, or can be deleted. Swap out the X key for the P key and repeat above.