Introduction

In this multi-part article I will present some of DPP’s feature that I found very useful. Any inputs are welcome to make this a better article.

DPP stand for Digital Photo Professional made by Canon targeted for Professional Use. The latest version can be download from Canon website but you will need to install the base software from Canon CD supplied along with your camera. Introduction

Part 1 Quick Check Tool

This part 1, I will cover this useful feature call “Quick Check Tool”. I’m using this feature very often as the initial stage of my digital work flow, along with that I will also explain simple tagging feature offered by this software too.

After a long day shooting, of course the first thing you will do once you reach home is to download all your photo into your hard disk. Often photo taken are in hundreds, might be thousands for some. I will normally organized them in folders if its too many shots taken.

Step 1 Select All Photos

First thing I will do after that is to select all in DPP.

Step 2 Quick Check Tool

Go to menu Tools > Quick Check Tool, a new window will popup.

Step 3 Review your photos

You will see new window popup, and you can now start to review your photo sharpness and tag the photo accordingly. I will normally toggle the ‘50% view’ button on and off, this will allow me to see if the sharpness is there. To navigate the photo easily, i use left and right arrow to move between photos, I find it faster that way.

Below the ‘50% view’ and ‘Full screen’ button you can see there are 1, 2, 3 button. This will allow you to tag the photo in 1, 2, 3. I will normally tag the photo i want to process with 1, then the photo I want to throw away, I will tag it with 2. Once my review is completed, I will just select all photos tagged with ‘2′ and delete it.

The next thing I will do is fine tune photo tagged with 1, then process it.

Voila… Hope you find it useful.
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