Video: VERSIONING CAPABILITY OF EXPRESSION MEDIA

Presenter:Todd Miranda

Expression Media allows you to edit media elements contained in a catalog. However when editing files, it is important to store different versions of an edited file in case you would ever need to return to a previous state. One way to accomplish this is to manually make backup copies of your files before editing them. Expression Media contains tools that can facilitate backing up and/or retaining historical versions of your media files. In this presentation Todd Miranda will demonstrate how to use the versioning capability of Expression Media.

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Will place Thailand and the purpose is presentation is to demonstrate how to use the versioning folders and marched off expression media when editing your media files is began by creating a new catalog but if all the open of expression media elite given a new catalog and we called catalog won by default and we need to add some media elements to our catalog you don t want to waste the first way is the file import files you can do from another catalog file from your disk or camera from your arrow or from files and folders and we can offer hard drive and select the particular folders that we wanted to pull the media and from where the figure media elements but was totally differently because another way that we can add media elements to our catalog isn t about finding our drive and clicking


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Dragging them indoor catalogs so let s grab all of these files in the exception drag version or catalog and we got some music because some images this at a video okay so I got some various types of media in our catalog and we can t save this catalog if we wanted to to save these figure elements let s take a look at how we would edit one of our images as to the waterfall if we double click the waterfall image we actually bring it up in our media is a postwar thumbnail to for the stage we go into our light table mode views you wanted look at that way


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Or simply for this window if you click on our image editor they ll are image editor allows us to allow thanks to this image we can probably sauce transformer rotate or we can affect the actual image itself by sharpening the edge is removing redeye can adjust the saturation to single or just the saturation and we won may be completely desaturated turn into a grayscale image or a thing like convert the image to a duo town and these are the colors will use for our duotone will read one increase the contrast little bit increased brightness slightly and click okay they ll do this point we can undo the change that we just may


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We can refer back to the previous version of the image or we can save the image if we save the image display actually save the image and the changes to the image on the hard drive well before we say anything to store image we really want make a backup copy of the image as it was previously suffered analysts prefer our changes back to the original field of you still hear media versions click to set up its to create a version folder soliciting that was click set up the files to a location that we want our versions folder and put it on her desktop to create a new folder called catalog warned versions and this is as this is the directories were Jews to keep our versions for images are edited officials


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The full path to our version folder hail the only version we got in there currently is her current version does go back and make that saying anything change to our image is converted duotone and will leave our settings exactly the same notice this preview if we click on the preview checkbox next allows the preview image will look here in our media window will you see a big enough preview of this figure image you re so that s fine celestial okay to make those changes in this time when I sing to save the image caressing the strangest of the image able to source settings JPEG will leave most of this exactly the same one thing to notice here though is he gives us another option for the original image we obviously can save it in our version folder


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To another folder so we can actually make a backup copy of the image as well as safe information about divergent image in our versions folder within a BR version folder is not necessarily a copy of the image is really a description of the changes to that image so that they can be rolled back at a later date or a copy to another folder right now we re just a say that our versions folder cylinders or image as close editor I too want to go back to the folder where we dragged that image into her catalog from if we come back here you ll know that our actual image nail in our original folder has been changed to do it to so in fact the changes illuminated image have been saved out to the original location on the hard drive was going to a begin


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And you know maybe we want to do some unique photographic effects with this image so we can go in for color levels and we can modify our color levels for our image to really make the lines in the shadows pop Al forests the shadows are closer than black loud spectrum and us to object it again we can like this so safe that I can save this in our version folder note in our media versions we now have the current version which is overlooking that we have a version from 832 006 which was the original image we ve got a version from 516 2007 that today this is the version that I just say


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That we can close this go back for thumbnails we can do other things we can look at some of the other images that are in our catalog and we can go to other catalogs we come back to this catalog a later date even and go with your image and since we save those versions for this particular image we click our image editor window and we can revert back to any of these previous versions of the image that is if you click on a particular version elections if preview of what the version was and you can choose at this point to completely eliminate this version of the image or to move this version of the image into the current version let s go all the way back to were very rich


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Will image and let s slaw referred to earlier version of this will slobber replace the current media file with the selected backup version yes we want to do that and we don t want slot before no one put the current version in this slot in media versions so we just want to replace so once we ve done that noticed that that particular media version is now gone because it is now the current version is no longer a previous version but we do have this version of the application that we say so let s go to this version actually store current version was re do will we have done before us desaturate image in and maybe will convert a duotone


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And maybe will do some sharpening of the edges system itself we say this to create a new version applications to her version or show what happens if instead of just replacing it we actually swap it so your current version was like a little but more drastic of a change so let s go into color levels like we ve done for so the current version and here s a little more place with this toddler to swap down this time when we swapped we didn t lose our liberal media versions we just simply swap the now so here is our media version which is our duotone and here is our version which was the


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Go toe and some of the sharpened edges editor for current version so we can swap or replace our very versions previous versions with our current version that we ve converted this door current version would you say if we had already saved that go by for thumbnails and we can do this with any ever made elements in it at that element and save different versions of it and that we can go back and look at those versions at a previous job and either replace them or swap them out lastly let s just take a look at what is located in our versions folder notice it s not the actual image files was not copy of the image files we have an option of making a copy of the image file will be safe in which it is not to do that just to save another version with it here is really


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Meta information that describes what was done to the image so that this particular image or this particular image could be replaced with her for her current image so you have full capability to make some AIDS to your images and expression media you can version those changes so that is at a later date you one of view want your other versions or you will replace the current version with what your previous versions you can do that

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