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Using Categories

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:56 pm
by mvrock
Hello, new to XnView and have three questions:

1. Can I add categories that are not already on the list? I'd like to add more categories, such as "boating," "skiing," etc. Is there a way to add them?

2. Can photographs have more than one category? For example, could a picture of a sunset be part of "vacation," "beach," and "landscapes?"

3. Are tags used the same way - to assign searchable attributes to a picture, or are tags only used to "tag" certain images so you select them as a group, and then untag them?

Re: Using Categories

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:15 pm
by xnview
mvrock wrote: 1. Can I add categories that are not already on the list? I'd like to add more categories, such as "boating," "skiing," etc. Is there a way to add them?
yes, by right clicking
2. Can photographs have more than one category? For example, could a picture of a sunset be part of "vacation," "beach," and "landscapes?"
yes
3. Are tags used the same way - to assign searchable attributes to a picture, or are tags only used to "tag" certain images so you select them as a group, and then untag them?
only to tag files to process...

Re: Using Categories

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:12 am
by geebs46
Looking at answers supplied in Dec 2014 re Categories to mvrock I'm a little puzzled.
1. mvrock refers to "boating" and "skiing" but yet my screen for category limits input to only 3 characters. Are we on the same subject?
2. Pierre's answer refers to "right clicking". Sorry, but where/what am I meant to right click?
3. I see that there are 8 categories shown under Photographs for each image properties. How can I make practical use of these categories beyond using the 3 character categories in point 1?
Thanks for feedback re one of my essential programs.