Refresh view filters inside full screen tab.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 5:48 am
In thumbnail view File List toolbar (upper right corner) i filter to show only photos with rating = 4 stars then open full view tab to look trough images again and re-rate them.
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There's lots of series of same photos say 6 photos shot in series so its almost the same exact frame with slight movement in the frame and i am constantly scrolling back and forth to find the best view to keep out of 6.
Say i change rating of one photo i don't like to 0 (remove star) or set it to 2 stars then while going back and forth again it still shows this photo. Its very inconvenient for that use case scenario.
To hide the photo that does not match anymore rating of 4-star got to do too much work switch big view to thumbnail view (this will switch to thumbnails tab) press F5 to refresh the view (this will remove photos that are not 4-star) double click again some photo to go full screen view because the currently open full view tab is still not refreshed.
If i doing this frequently for every file out of 6 this is very inefficient way.
TLDR; Perfect solution would be to be able to refresh the actual full view tab (weather its open in windowed or full screen mode) with F5 to instantly remove files that do not match the filters anymore without need to switch to thumbnail view. In case currently open image is not matching the filter then upon refreshing view auto switch to next image that is matching filter.
P.S. More justification for this, when reviewing photos that are made in the hundreds say i have 1400 photos in beginning then i quickly go trough them and rated 260 total that i feel are best however they still need to be refined even more because a lot are similar. So i filter all marked photos then in full view going trough them with arrow keys. Say i keep photo 1 then disqualify photos 2,4,5,6,7 and keep photo 8 only, however photo 1 and 8 might be similar shot but from slightly different angle so now would be great to compare 1 and 8 side by side and maybe select only one of them. But can't quickly switch between 1 and 8 pressing Left/Right arrow, but this wont work because there's 2,4,5,6,7 are between them.
Culling photos is a tedious task and any way to speed this up is highly appreciated, perspective of using second viewer that easier for culling photos is not very appealing, rather do everything in XnViewMP.
This opens a new tab.
There's lots of series of same photos say 6 photos shot in series so its almost the same exact frame with slight movement in the frame and i am constantly scrolling back and forth to find the best view to keep out of 6.
Say i change rating of one photo i don't like to 0 (remove star) or set it to 2 stars then while going back and forth again it still shows this photo. Its very inconvenient for that use case scenario.
To hide the photo that does not match anymore rating of 4-star got to do too much work switch big view to thumbnail view (this will switch to thumbnails tab) press F5 to refresh the view (this will remove photos that are not 4-star) double click again some photo to go full screen view because the currently open full view tab is still not refreshed.
If i doing this frequently for every file out of 6 this is very inefficient way.
TLDR; Perfect solution would be to be able to refresh the actual full view tab (weather its open in windowed or full screen mode) with F5 to instantly remove files that do not match the filters anymore without need to switch to thumbnail view. In case currently open image is not matching the filter then upon refreshing view auto switch to next image that is matching filter.
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P.S. More justification for this, when reviewing photos that are made in the hundreds say i have 1400 photos in beginning then i quickly go trough them and rated 260 total that i feel are best however they still need to be refined even more because a lot are similar. So i filter all marked photos then in full view going trough them with arrow keys. Say i keep photo 1 then disqualify photos 2,4,5,6,7 and keep photo 8 only, however photo 1 and 8 might be similar shot but from slightly different angle so now would be great to compare 1 and 8 side by side and maybe select only one of them. But can't quickly switch between 1 and 8 pressing Left/Right arrow, but this wont work because there's 2,4,5,6,7 are between them.
Culling photos is a tedious task and any way to speed this up is highly appreciated, perspective of using second viewer that easier for culling photos is not very appealing, rather do everything in XnViewMP.