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AngelaNicholson
PhotographerandjournalistAngelaNicholsonstarted
reviewingcamerasforAmateurPhotographerin 2004andwas
ourTechnicalEditorbeforeleavingfornewpasturesin 2010.
LastyearshefoundedSheClicks,a community for female
photographers.squeezymedia.com
Technique USING YOUR CAMERA’S SOFTWARE
Inourthirdguidetousingyour camera
software, AngelaNicholsontakesa lookat
the key elements of Sony’s Imaging Edge
S
onyhastwoversionsofitsImagingEdge
software,DesktopandMobile.We’regoingto
focusontheDesktopversionhere,whichcan
bedownloadedfromimagingedge.sony.net/
en-gb/ie-desktop.html.
ImagingEdgeDesktophasthreeelements,Remote,
ViewerandEdit.TheRemotefeatureletsyoucontrol
yourcamerafromyourcomputerusinga wiredor
Wi-Ficonnection,Viewerallowsyoutobrowse,
compare,rateandselectimagesand,asyouhave
probablyworkedout,theEdit area gives access to all
of the image-editing tools.
Imaging Edge
Sony
PART THREE
BROWSE, RATE AND SELECT
ImagingEdgeusesyourPC’sfolder
structuretonavigateimagessothere’sno
needtoimportimages.Afterstarting
ImageEdgeDesktopyoujustneedtoclick
onthe‘Start’buttonnextto‘Viewer’to
openthebrowser.Thenusethecolumnon
theleftof thescreentofindthefolder of
images that you’re interested in.
Selectableiconsin thetoprightcorner
letyouswitchbetweenthedifferentlayouts
tomakeit easiertofindyourbestimages.
Toapplyratingsandcolouredlabels,simply
clickonthestarsandcolouredboxesunder
theimages.Therearealsoa coupleof
dropdownboxesthatenableyoutofilter
the images by rating/label and file type.
Thissoftware
comesintoits
ownif youhave
lotsofimagesto
manageand
work through