Now, just a minute ago, we touched on the fact that you can customize Interface. We can use this icon here, View Options. The quicker way to do that is to go to Ctrl J on a PC, Command J on a Macintosh and when it goes, it offers lots of options. Now, for Thumbnail View, we have to bear in mind that we can only use a maximum of 10 fields for each of these views. Let us say for instance, we have got the file name, we can choose to have the file size. Let us click on that one. As you can see, it has popped on that. Dimensions, let us put the dimensions on. As you can see, I am adding these and just popping onto the bottom. Color preferences, the one I used a lot and now to find this, let us take away that one. Characters, Compression, compression may be used when you are working with JPEG 1.4. What else do we got? They are all 1.4, yes, JPEG are 1.4, there are very good quality JPEGs. We have got all of these options and as I add these in and just put them in here. As I add them, then you can see the count here. Now, I am not going to want 10 fields in this particular view. So that is the major info. That is from the EXIF. That is the information that has been imbedded by the camera.
Let us come down here, in fact, let us hide that now. We have made our choices and let us go into the annotations. Now this is where we can actually put our own comments or information about the facts, so we can here, add location, city, credit, transmission, all these set of stuff. Bear in mind, we only got this total of 10 fields to work with.
Now, what I actually want to do is to choose the Caption Field. So, now, I have got the ability to be able to put caption information in onscreen. And we will have just a quick look and see something else to add. And why do we not add, Country. So, there are different fields coming up. I am very happy with those, I am going to hide those there and what I am going to do is also I am going to choose my own preferred font, so at the moment, the chosen font is Tahoma, I find that Verdana is actually one of the clearest possible font to appear on Mac or PC. For screen fonts, Verdana is very clear indeed and it is just a little bit easy to read.
Now, at the moment it is 11. Let us make that 10. That is actually big enough. We can maybe -- we could make it 12. Let us illustrate that point. I have now got that view set up to my own taste. Let us just set that up as one of our chosen fields, so I am going to come down at the button here and I am going to save that as a view. I am going to save that as onscreen annotation. Something we will use it later on and we will go OK on that.
Now, we can go back to the default. We have got our onscreen annotation and something that always irritates me slightly, is the fact that if I go back into here, and over here, there is no default setting. So, I really should go back in there. Just click equals, create a default, something you should always do as soon as you open the application is to go in here and we will just set the annotations, we will take the caption out and we will go back into the Media Information. All I want is the file name for this and almost set. There we are and I will just make that, actually, 10 point, right.
Now, I am going pull this down and I am going to set this one as a default. Why do we not just call it Save and we are going to save it to My Defaults. Why there is no default, I do not know and we will call Set That As Default. There we are, back to the normal view then.
This could be done in all of these different views. Media view here, we have got this, just pull those down a fraction to make it more sensible and we can fit onscreen. And List View, we have got the ability again to customize this. Now, in List View, this is perhaps the most useful place where you want to change your headings, especially if you are not working with image files for instance. So, again, we are going to us that keyboard shortcut or we can go here to View Options and this keyboard shortcut, Ctrl J.
Now, I actually find that large about of white slightly dazzling, so I am going to set my background as a light gray and we will go OK on that. And that is supposed to do that. I am also going to set my default format again, set it to Verdana which is a little bit easy to read onscreen and 11 points there. Icon size can be made to bigger, so it goes a little bit more of a preview of our files and we can see that. Now, it does give us a few less files onscreen, but it is a very powerful way of working and of course, we have got the information about the specific files, Path Name, Disk Name. We can take away the Path Name. You could see that disappears. Disk Name, Media Type. Media Type can be quite useful. Let us pull this up and I will show you what we got here, CR2 image on this occasion and we have Path Name, CR2 images. Now, if you got a larger screen, of course you have got much more than it has on Media type. It has not got CR2. Let us just hide that one.
There is a whole range of information that you could choose. Again, you have got the option to choose 7 out of 10 or maximum of 10 for these and I am going to set this one as Default. I am quite happy that I am not going to pull that to save with the name. So, that is the default view for that one.
It is very possible to customize this. One thing I should of course, show you, if you want to, you can make different colors. You may want different colored texts. You may want different row separators. And let me just show this one, of course, I just want a gray, and got a blue, you got a purple. You could add even pink with purple texts if you want. Now, we add pink and some purple texts. This way, we say pink with purple spots. Maybe not most intelligent, but it can be done. Fully, fully customizable there. Just click that one again and just set this one back as it should be to black. That is the folder. I will come back out of there.
Great, so customize the Blend Interface, very powerful indeed and it makes the application much more pleasant to work with.
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