Proposals and criteria
The criteria are this library's. They live in the side panel's third pane, Proposals and criteria, where every rule shows how many frames it fired on, so moving a number is something you watch rather than something you believe. Read this page when a proposal is wrong for this shoot and you want to move the rule behind it.
Opening and closing the pane
Three doors open it: the Proposals and criteria button on the side panel's rail; the criteria link in the Groups pane's proposals block; and any underlined rule name on a reasons card, which opens the pane with that rule's row outlined.
To fold the side panel down to its rail, click the rail button again or press [, as for every pane. Esc instead closes the criteria and puts the panel back on the Groups pane, still open. There is no close button inside it.
When a library opens with the side panel already showing this pane, because you left it there, the criteria are drawn but not counted as open. Esc then skips the step above and does the next thing in its chain instead (in Frames, it leaves Frames, as G does), and the pending line below reads No change to the criteria in this panel however far you move the controls. The controls themselves work and the proposals follow them. To set it right, fold the panel with [ and open it again, or choose another pane on the rail and then Proposals and criteria again.
The heading
The pane opens with the caps word criteria, this library's name and its frame count, and the sentence that answers the question every control below raises: The criteria are this library's, written beside it. Changing one re-derives the proposals for frames nobody has decided — and only those.
Under it, a pending line says what has moved since you opened the pane: No change to the criteria in this panel, or Pending change: −1 take · +62 to the bin · nothing you have decided has changed.
The nine rules, one column
Each rule is one row, in the order The nine rules lists them, with your taste sixth: its name; may propose: Reject only, Take and Reject or nothing in its own ink; its sentence; for a rule the defaults switched off, why and what switching it on would do; the count of frames it fired on — 62 frames on this card, no frames on this card, switched off, or for closed eyes never — by design; and its own control. The count is live: move a control and it follows.
| Rule | Control | Range | Ships at |
|---|---|---|---|
| The sharpness floor | Floor slider, read as 30 of 100 | 10 to 50 | 30 |
| The exposure floor | Stops under mid-grey slider | 2.0 to 6.0, in half stops | 2.0 |
| Accidents | Black floor slider | 0.002 to 0.050 | 0.004 |
| One frame per burst | Takes per burst stepper, and Propose the rest of a burst for the bin | 1 to 5 | 1, switch off |
| Look-alikes | Propose the second of a look-alike pair for the bin | on or off | off |
| Your taste | Leans switch, and the live count under it | on or off | on |
| A face too small to judge | Face floor slider, read as 40 px · zero is off | 0 to 200 px, in steps of 5 | off |
| Not measured | none | — | — |
| Closed eyes | none | — | — |
The taste's row also carries what it has noticed about how you cull — see Your taste.
The switches under the rules
- Propose takes and Propose rejects say whether the app may propose either at all. Both ship on.
- Learn from my decisions is whether your taste may learn from you (see Learning from your decisions). Ships on. The line under it says what the taste is doing: Learned from 214 of your decisions, By measurement only — nothing of yours to learn from yet, By measurement only — learning is switched off, or Working out what you keep….
- Accept over this many asks first is how large an Accept may be before it shows a confirmation: 10 to 500 in steps of 10, shipping at 50. See Before and after an Accept.
The four things you can do to the proposals
At the foot, in the room where the rules are stated:
- Confirm bets (
⇧⌘↩) writes every frame your taste is betting on, across the whole card, in one step, and nothing weaker. The count beside it is how many. - Accept all (
⌥⌘↩) writes every proposal the measured rules made on the card, in one step, and leaves every bet and lean undecided. The count beside it counts every proposed Take and Reject, bets and leans included, so it can be larger than what the button writes; the message afterwards says how many were written. - Reset to measured defaults puts every criterion back to what Vixlo ships with, the same for every library: the floors, Takes per burst, the Accept floor and every switch. Propose takes, Propose rejects, Learn from my decisions and Leans go on; the burst and look-alike switches go off. It does not ask first, decides nothing and forgets nothing learned. Its hint for VoiceOver says it goes back to the floors the library was scanned with, which undersells it: nothing depends on how the library was scanned.
- Forget my taste…, in the Reject red, deletes the log of your decisions that Vixlo keeps on this Mac and the ranking fitted from it, and this library's own adjustment. Another library's own adjustment, the one number it keeps for itself, stays with that library. It asks first and names the count. See Learning from your decisions.
Under them, one line says the difference between the switch and the button — Switching it off keeps what was learned · Forget deletes it — and two sentences say what a change here actually does:
- Changing a criterion re-proposes the frames nobody has decided, and only those.
- A frame you have decided — or a proposal you accepted — is never proposed about again.
The second holds while the frame stays decided. Clear the decision with U, or undo it, and the frame is undecided again and is proposed about again.
When the app is wrong three times
Decide against the same floor's proposal three times in one sitting — keep three frames the sharpness floor proposed for the bin, say — and the app says so, once, in a message that never blocks you:
You have kept three frames under the sharpness floor of 30. Lower it to 24? That would take 62 frames out of Reject.
Lower it and Keep 30 are the two answers. The number offered is the smallest move of the floor, in steps of two, at which all three frames you kept would stop being proposed, and the size beside it is counted by re-running the rules, not estimated. Accepting it sets the criterion as the pane would, and nothing you decided moves; declining writes nothing. The exposure floor is offered the same way, in half stops, with Raise it as its answer.
It is offered once per rule per session, and only for the two single-number floors.