What a proposal is
Once Vixlo has measured every frame in a library, it can say what it would do with the frames you have not decided. Read this page when dashed marks appear on your frames and you want to know what they mean.
A mark and a reason, never a decision
A proposal is one of three things: Take (keep this one), Reject (this one can go), or look at these — the app saying it will not call this frame, and what is missing. Every proposal carries the rule it came from and one sentence saying what that rule found, with the number it read when it read one:
- Under the sharpness floor of 30 — subject 14
- The sharpest of 5 in this burst — subject 88
- Could not be measured — nothing was read from this file
Nothing is taken or binned until you accept a proposal; see Nothing decides for you. A frame you have decided — Take, Hold or Reject — is not proposed about while the decision stands. Nor is a frame that belongs to a set (an exposure bracket or a panorama), which is one photograph made of several frames. Sets kept whole says what that means.
Where the marks appear
In Frames, a proposed frame wears one small mark in the top-right corner of its cell: a dashed ring with a tick in the Take green, a cross in the Reject red, or a question mark in orange for look at these. Dashed means the app is holding this out for you — nothing else in Vixlo draws a dashed ring. The top-left corner holds the badge for the frame's own state — Take, Hold, Reject or Undecided — so a proposal and a decision never share a corner. A frame you have decided wears no mark, except one whose proposal you have just accepted, which keeps its mark, drawn solid, for the rest of the pass. When the app proposes a take inside a collapsed burst, the cover says Best of N in green at its bottom-right, beside the burst's count; small cells leave the words off.
At the end of each group's heading come that group's counts, drawn as the same marks with a number beside each. A heading shows only the marks its group has, and your taste's bets and leans are counted in them. After the marks comes one Accept button, shown only when the group holds at least one proposed Take or Reject, so a group with only look-at-these shows its question mark and no Accept. The button wears ⌘↩, but the key acts on the frame's import group, which need not be what the heading counts, and with similar frames stacked the counts leave out the frames folded inside a stack. See Accepting a group, a session or a stack.
On the strip, each cell carries the mark in its top-right corner. Hover a cell and one sentence says the file, its decision and the proposal; a proposed frame is always undecided, so it reads like IMG_0102.CR3, undecided, proposed take, a lean, 71%.
On the track under the strip, a stretch where nothing has been decided shows the app's proposal for it. A proposal never covers a decision.
In Single, the header above the photograph carries the app's one sentence about this frame, in orange because it is an opinion rather than a fact: what is proposed, how strongly when it is your taste's mark, and the first reason in the rule's own words. A floor's proposal reads proposed reject — Under the sharpness floor of 30 — subject 14; a lean reads proposed take · a lean · 71% — In your taste: a subject this sharp. Under the photograph, at the head of the row, a pill in the proposal's own ink reads proposed Take or proposed Reject with a why link that opens the reasons card. Once you accept it, the pill reads Take · accepted for the rest of the pass, drawn solid.
A mark drawn on a solid disc is a bet, one of your taste's own marks. Every other proposal is drawn hollow, so a lean from your taste looks exactly like a floor's Reject or the burst's take. Hover the mark to tell them apart: a lean's tooltip reads Take · a lean · not decided. Bets and leans are still only proposals. See Your taste.
The proposals switch and the three passes
On the views line under the photograph, after the pass chips, comes the switch: a sparkles glyph and a small toggle, with no word beside it. Hover it and it says Proposals shown — switch off. Then come the word PROPOSED, in small capitals, and three chips: Takes · Rejects · Look at these. Each chip wears a ringed glyph — a ringed tick, a ringed cross, a ringed question mark — and the count it would put on screen.
- Click a chip to open that proposal pass. The pass line reads its name — Proposed takes, Proposed rejects or Look at these — and the dot beside it turns orange.
- Beside the open chip, one action writes the pass's live proposals: Take all 9, or Reject all 7 · to the bin. Its number counts every frame in the pass, so once you have decided some it is larger than what the button writes; the chip's count is the live one. When your taste is betting on some of them, Confirm 2 bets stands beside it.
- Click the chip again to close the pass.
A proposal pass composes with everything else on the line: proposed takes with a person's chip up are that person's.
When the narrowing leaves nothing, no message offers a button or names what emptied the pass. Frames reads Nothing in this pass., and grouped by session cards it reads nothing at all. Single does not say the pass is empty: in a library that has photographs it shows the library's first photograph, which is not in the pass, and T, H, R and U decide that photograph. The strip under it has no cells, which is the sign. When a pass is empty has the detail. To get out, put down the chips on the views line with their own × there, or choose Clear filters in the Organise and filter pane, which keeps the pass. Narrowing the pass covers the chips.
While a proposal pass is open, Takes and Holds are greyed, with the reason in their tooltip: a decided frame carries no proposal. Under Rejects, the switch and its chips are absent for the same reason.
Turn the switch off and the three chips are gone from the row, along with every mark in Frames. The measurements are kept, so turning it back on brings the same marks straight back. The switch is also ⇧⌘P and View ▸ Proposals, and it is remembered with the library.