A very convenient feature in Portraits & Prints that is oftentimes overlooked is the availability of Scripts. In the shipping version, Portraits & Prints offers many scripts to you. Although these are very basic scripts, there is one that can keep you from having an organizational nightmare. The "Remove Unmarked" script helps you clean your catalog drawer of photos that you no longer wish to have in it. When you have hundreds of photos, this becomes a very useful and needed functionality. It keeps you from having to scroll through several photographs to find the marked ones.

In Portraits & Prints, marking and unmarking photos is what determines which photos get printed. If a photo is marked, that photo will be printed once the printing process begins. So for an undesired photo to not be printed, you would, naturally, unmark it. In a catalog full of photos, it's hard to distinguish between the marked and unmarked photos. It would be much more visually pleasing if you could just view those photos that are marked.

Say you go on vacation and take over a hundred pictures of your family and the scenery. You then rush home to use Portraits & Prints so you may enhance and print out these photographs. After loading in the entire vacation's worth of photos, you must begin the iterative process of narrowing down which photos you like and which you'd like to delete from the catalog.

If you have a template layout containing only eight photos, finding the perfect eight photos (out of a hundred or more) will be a lengthy process! To make it as efficient as possible, follow these steps:

Step 1. Make your first pass through the catalog drawer, unmarking the obvious photos not worthy enough to make it onto the template layout.

Step 2. After this first pass, choose "Remove Unmarked" from the Scripts menu. This will remove all of those photos that you unmarked indicating that you no longer wanting those photos considered for final printing. As photos are removed, you will begin each pass with a fully marked catalog making it easier to just "arrow" through all of your photos and to grasp how many photos remain.

Note. The use of marked/unmarked photos is only available in the single and multi arrangement mode. It does not exist while in the manual photo placement mode.

That's It!
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