The Main View shows the current image together with an EXIF summary, histogram display and comments. Buttons are provided for the most common commands and these can also be accessed using the menus, the toolbar or by right clicking on the image. The window can be resized and the image is automatically resized to make the best use of the display area. Right-clicking on the image will display an pop menu of commands. Double-clicking on the image switches to the Thumbnail View.
You can also change the display using one of the following keyboard shortcuts:
Click on the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons or the left and right arrows on the toolbar to display the next or previous image. The filename of the image being displayed is shown in the drop-down list on the toolbar and also in the window's title bar. You can go to an image directly by selecting it from the drop-down list.
You can also step backwards and forwards through the images using the mouse wheel or the keyboard cursor keys. Holding the SHIFT key down and turning the mouse wheel steps forwards and backwards twenty images.
A slideshow which automatically cycles through the images can be selected from the 'View' menu.
Click on the '-' button with the red arrow to rotate the image anti-clockwise and the '+' button with the green arrow to rotate clockwise. All images are rotated without loss of picture data and all EXIF information is preserved. This includes JPEG images and the small JPEG thumbnails embedded in the EXIF data of some images.
You can also rotate images by pressing the Ctrl key and using the mouse wheel, the keyboard cursor keys or clicking on the rotate buttons in the toolbar.
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Some digital cameras have a sensor which detects the orientation of the camera when the picture is taken and stores this information in the EXIF data contained in the image. Use the "Auto Rotate JPEGs" option under the "Tools" menu to automatically rotate JPEG images to match the EXIF orientation information. JPEG images are rotated losslessly and there is no loss of image quality when using this function.
BreezeBrowser is also able to view and rotate JPEGs using the
orientation information contained in the EXIF data (this feature
can be enabled in Preferences).
Rotating JPEGs using the EXIF orientation information is much
faster than rotating the image data.
Please Note: Not all image editors can read the
EXIF orientation and so images rotated this way in BreezeBrowser
may appear in their original, unrotated orientation when edited.
BreezeBrowser can edit or add IPTC data to the following types of images: JPEG, TIFF, AVI (movie files), JPEG 2000, PNG, Photoshop PSD, Nikon raw files and Canon Raw files. Please see the section on IPTC data for more details.
The comments stored in the image are shown at the bottom of the Main View window. Select 'Edit Comments...' from the 'Edit' menu to add or edit the comments. The same comment can be applied to all images in the directory by clicking on the 'Apply to all' button in the 'Edit Comments' dialog. In thumbnail mode the comment is applied to the selected images.
Tokens can be used to add information from the shooting data
or IPTC data to a comment e.g. use @time@ to insert the time the
image was token, @iso@ for the IOS setting, @model@ for the
camera model name, @IPTC_caption@ for the IPTC caption. This is
particularly useful if you need to add information from the
shooting data to a batch of images. The tokens are the same as
used for HTML generation.
Note: To add data to an existing comment use
@caption@ to copy the existing comment e.g. to prefix existing
comments with the time you could use "@time@: @caption@".
The default behavior is for BreezeBrowser to use the EXIF UserComment tag to store comments, but there is also an option to use the IPTC caption instead. This has the advantage that comments can be added to any JPEG, TIFF or Canon raw file and are not limited to 256 characters. To select IPTC captions in preference to EXIF comments see preference settings.
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Click on the 'Delete' button to delete the current image. Depending on your preference settings the file will either be moved to the Windows Recycle bin or to a subdirectory named 'Deleted' under the current directory.
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Select "High Quality" from the "View" menu or type Ctrl+Q to switch to high quality display mode. When this option is selected "HQ" is appended to the name of the file when it is displayed on the title bar.
This uses high quality interpolation and sharpening to give a higher quality image.
Right click on the image and select "Show Focus Points"
to overlay the focus points used when the picture was taken.
Alternatively select "Show Focus Points" from the
"View" menu. Active focus points are shown in red and
inactive ones in black.
Please note: This feature is available with
images from Canon EOS cameras only (D30, D60, 10D, 300D, 1D, 1DS
and 1D Mark II). The focus points may not be displayed correctly
with portrait format JPEG images because it isn't possible to
know whether the camera was rotated clockwise or counter
clockwise when the shot was taken.
Select "Show flashing highlights" from the "View" menu to display over-exposed areas by highlighting them flashing on and off in black. The method of calculating the highlight values and the threshold at which to start flashing them can be specified in the preference settings.
Select "View in Black and White" from the "View" menu or type Ctrl+W to toggle between normal color display and black and white (grayscale) display. When this option is selected "B&W" is appended to the name of the file displayed on the title bar.
When "Black and White" mode is selected images are displayed in grayscale in main view, view actual image, slideshow and HTML page generation. The normal color image is used for thumbnail display, raw conversion preview and printed output.
The "Tools->Timestamp" menu option changes the modification date and time of all images in a directory to the date and time contained in the EXIF data. This option can also be used to make files read-only to prevent accidentally overwriting original files when using an image editor.
NOTE: By default BreezeBrowser preserves the file's modification date and time when rotating or adding comments. It can also rotate, delete or comment read-only files (it makes them read/write, modifies the file, restores the read-only flag and restores the modification date and time).
BreezeBrowser can also edit the image capture time stored in the shooting data of JPEGs, TIFFs, Canon raw files and Nikon raw files. This is useful if the camera's clock has been set incorrectly (or you forgot to change it when daylight saving time changed) or when shooting with two cameras whose clocks aren't acurately synchronised. To edit the image capture time select "Adjust Image Date/Time..." from the tools menu and the dialog below will be displayed:
Select the new date and time and the dialog will show the amount the capture time will be adjusted. Click on the "Update" button to update just the current image. Click on the "Update All" image to adjust all the images in the current folder by the same amount e.g. if the adjustment selected for the current image is 5 minutes the capture times for all images in the folder will be advanced by 5 minutes. (In thumbnail view this function will only update the currently selected images).
Select "Update file timestamp with new date and time" if you would like the file's creation time and modification time to be updated in line with the new capture time.
Please take care when adjusting capture time of images because it isn't possible to undo this operation.
Select the View menu and click on Slideshow to display a full screen slideshow of your images. Press the escape key or close the window to exit the slideshow.
Right click on the slideshow window to display a menu of options including: the interval between shots and selecting high quality mode. The next and previous shots can also be selected using the cursor keys or the mouse wheel. When 2-button mouse operation is selected the menu can be displayed y holding down the Shift key when pressing the right mouse button.
The displayed above the image can be customised by right
clicking the mouse and selecting "Edit caption..." from
the menu. The caption format string uses the same tokens to
specify the settings to be displayed as the HTML generator (see HTML Generation). Pressing the "Restore
Default" button will restore the string to the default which
is:
@dir@@file@ [@imageNumber@ of @numberOfImages@]
NOTE: The slideshow will automatically pause if you use the cursor keys or mouse wheel to select the next or previous shot. To restart the slide show right click on the window and select "Play" from the menu.
Select "View Actual Image" from the View menu to display the image full size. If the image is a raw image it will be converted to a viewable image first which may take a few seconds. Raw images are converted using the "As Shot" settings.
The image can be scrolled by moving the scroll bars or by pressing the mouse button over the image and dragging it. The image may be zoomed out be pressing function key F8 and zoomed in using F9. Right click on the image to display a menu of the viewing options.
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Select "Edit Image" from the Tools menu to edit your image in an image editor. For this feature to work you need to tell BreezeBrowser how to run the image editor in the preference settings.
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To move the currently displayed image to another directory right click on the image and select the "Move to Folder..." menu option (or select "Move to Folder..." from the File menu). A directory browser will be displayed to specify the destination directory - this can be an existing directory or you can enter the name of a new directory. If the directory does not exist you will be asked whether you wish to create it.
To copy the currently displayed image to another directory right click on the image and select the "Copy to Folder..." menu option (or select "Copy to Folder..." from the File menu). A directory browser will be displayed to specify the destination directory - this can be an existing directory or you can enter the name of a new directory. If the directory does not exist you will be asked whether you wish to create it.
Use this option to extract the JPEG preview image embedded in Canon raw files. This JPEG is 1440x960 pixels for EOS D30 raw files, 2048x1360 for EOS D60 raw files, variable size depending on custom function settings for EOS 10D raw files and 640x480 pixels for other camera models (e.g. G1, G2, Pro90, S30 and S40). You will be prompted for the output directory and whether to rotate images and include EXIF information.
Selecting the option to rotate images will rotate images so that they match the display in BreezeBrowser. Only the images that need to be rotated will be rotated and the rotation is lossless. JPEG extraction is faster if you do not select this option but all the images will be extracted in landscape orientation.
Canon EOS 1D and 1Ds raw files: The "Extract Embedded JPEGs..." option can also be used to copy Canon EOS 1D and 1Ds viewing JPEGs to a different directory to make it easier to use them for quick proofing operations. Select the "Copy Canon EOS 1D/1Ds viewing JPEGs to output dir" checkbox if you wish to use this option. Please note: EOS 1D and 1Ds raw files do not contain embedded JPEGs and this operation only copies viewing JPEGs to another directory if they already exist i.e. if you shoot in Raw+JPEG mode or have previously created the viewing JPEGs.
Canon CRW raw files contain an embedded JPEG which is displayed when viewing images in main view. With Canon PowerShot cameras this image is only 640x480 pixels in size and isn't really large enough for proper viewing. The embedded JPEG can be replaced with a larger JPEG using the "Regenerate embedded JPEGs..." option under the "Tools" menu. This option will convert the raw file using the "As Shot" settings and replace the embedded JPEG with the converted image. The following dialog is displayed when this is selected:
The image size can be set between 100 and 3500 and is used to specify the size of the new embedded JPEG (the maximum size is limited to the resolution of the camera even if a larger value is entered here). Use the JPEG quality setting to specify the JPEG quality. A higher value gives better quality (and a larger file size).
EXIF data is information stored in the image about how and when the picture was taken. The Main View shows a summary of the main settings. Click on the 'Full Details' button to display the full EXIF details.
EXIF data can be copied from images in the current directory to similarly named JPEG or TIFF files in another directory. This is useful if you start with a raw file, convert it to TIFF and edit it before finally saving it as a JPEG. It can also be used to add EXIF info to the JPEGs used for HTML pages. Select "EXIF copy..." from the Tools menu to copy EXIF data.
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NOTE: The copying of EXIF data from TIFF files other than Canon EOS 1D raw files is not supported in this version.
It is also possible to copy EXIF data from one file to another. The destination file is the currently displayed file (or the one which has focus in thumbnail mode) and must be either a JPEG or a TIFF. The source file can be a JPEG, TIFF, CRW or THM file.
Select "Copy EXIF data from..." from the "Tools" menu to copy EXIF data from another image to the current image. A file browser will be displayed to select the source file and when a suitable file has been selected you will be presented with a confirmation dialog.
Please use this feature with caution because the EXIF data in the current file will be overwritten and the operation cannot be undone.
To export EXIF data select the "Tools->Export EXIF Data..." menu item. EXIF data can be exported to separate text files describing each image or to a single file suitable for importing to a spreadsheet of database.
When "One EXIF data file per image" is selected the EXIF data is stored in separate text file for each image with the same name as the image file but with a ".txt" extension. e.g. The image IMG_0001.crw would have its EXIF data stored in the text file IMG_0001.txt. The EXIF data exported to separate files is identical to the full EXIF data displayed by BreezeBrowser.
When "Store EXIF in a single file, one line per image" is seleted the EXIF data is stored in a single file specified by "Output Filename" and defaults to the file info.txt in the same directory as the images.
When "Output heading names" is selected the first line of the file will contain heading names for each EXIF fields being exported.
Fields may be delimited by , or ; or | or ^t (TAB character) .
Select "Use the custom format string below" to define what EXIF data should be exported. The format string uses the same tokens as the HTML generator (see HTML Page Generation for a list of tokens) e.g. use @file@ for the image filename, @date@ for the date the image was taken etc. Type ^t for tabs and \n for line breaks.
When "Use the custom format string below" is not selected the EXIF data is output in the following order:
Please note: not all EXIF data is available for all camera models. Also the original EXIF data may be lost or corrupted after editing images with some image editors. It is a good idea always to keep a copy of the original unedited image to preserve the EXIF data and in case you wish to edit the image in a different way in the future.
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