Amateur Photographer - UK (2020-03-21)

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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