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What FotoTrafiX does

Welcome to FotoTrafiX on iPad. This course follows a practical workflow: browse a shoot, select photographs, check their information, and prepare for delivery.

Start with the pictures. Open a photograph to inspect the whole frame. Compare the composition and the moment before deciding which images belong in your selection.

Next, check the IPTC information beside the photograph. Read the caption and credit carefully. Accurate descriptions help the recipient understand the picture and identify its source.

The destinations panel is where delivery choices appear. Later lessons will cover preparing destinations and sending files. This overview shows the panel; no transfer is demonstrated here.

Back in the grid, ratings and color labels help you review a selection. Begin with the iPad lessons, then practice browsing, inspecting, and organizing your own photographs.

Your first session on iPad

Welcome to FotoTrafiX on iPad. We will open a demonstration album, inspect a photograph, and find its caption information.

The Albums section gives you a way back to a prepared selection. Tap FotoTrafiX Demo to open it. This album contains seventy-four photographs and video clips.

Select a photograph, then tap the picture icon for the full view. The whole frame fits on screen, so you can inspect the composition before moving on.

Tap the metadata icon to open the IPTC view. The photograph remains beside its information. Read the existing caption and credit before making any changes.

Return to the grid to compare pictures visually, or use the list to read filenames and file sizes. You now know the basic route from an album to a photograph and its information.

Grid, list and full-size inspection

FotoTrafiX gives you different views of the same selection. Start with the grid when you want to compare compositions and find a picture visually.

Switch to the list when filenames and file sizes are more useful than large thumbnails. Changing the view keeps you in the same album.

Select a picture and open the full view. Inspect the complete frame before choosing it. Here, a vertical photograph fits within the available screen.

Use the arrows to compare the next photograph with the previous one. Look at the expression, pose, and framing, then return to the image you prefer.

Return to the grid for the wider selection. Use the grid to browse, the list to check files, and the full view to inspect individual photographs.

Build a shortlist with ratings

Star ratings help you build a shortlist. In this example, five stars means a first choice, and three stars means an alternate. Choose a consistent convention for your own work.

With the first photograph selected in the IPTC view, tap the fifth star. Check that all five stars are filled before moving to another picture.

Select the neighboring photograph in the filmstrip. Check that the picture and its information have changed, so the next rating goes to the intended file.

Give this alternate three stars. The rating belongs to this photograph; it does not replace the five-star rating on the previous image.

Return to the grid to review both ratings together. You can now distinguish the first choice from the alternate without opening each photograph again.

Use color labels for workflow status

Color labels can describe work status separately from star ratings. For this demonstration, yellow means pending and green means checked.

Open the three-star alternate in the IPTC view and choose yellow. The color changes, while the three-star rating stays in place.

Select the five-star photograph and choose green. This is our checked image. A label is a visual marker; applying it does not send the file.

Return to the alternate and check its yellow label and three stars. Keeping ratings and work status separate makes the selection easier to understand.

In the grid, the green first choice and yellow alternate are visible together. Agree on your label meanings before using them with a team.

Write and verify a caption

Start with the photograph and its existing caption in the IPTC view. Read the supplied information first, so your rewrite keeps the subject, assignment, location, and dates accurate.

Select the Caption field and replace the rough description with a clear sentence. Here, the caption identifies Heather Tom on the set of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Keep the supplied location and capture date: Sunset Las Palmas Studios, Los Angeles, California, September twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. Retain episode ninety-eight ninety-seven and the separate U.S. air date.

Leave the field, select a neighboring photograph, then return to the edited picture. Check the photograph and filename before reading the caption again. This confirms you are reviewing the intended file.

The rewritten caption is still present after returning. Check spelling, location, capture date, episode, and air date once more. The photographer and credit fields remain beside the caption for a final check.

Check credit, source and location

Check the attribution beside the photograph before editing. Photographer and Credit both contain the supplied Howard Wise attribution. Preserve that wording rather than replacing it with your own name.

The Source field identifies j p i studios dot com. In Copyright, this example enters the exact supplied attribution, including the copyright symbol. Use the wording provided for the photograph.

To inspect information beyond the main fields, tap the magnifying glass in the IPTC panel. The Raw IPTC view opens with the metadata already embedded in the selected photograph.

Filter the raw metadata for photoshop colon City. The matching field shows Los Angeles. Read the stored value and compare it with the caption, so the location information agrees.

Tap Done to return to the main IPTC view. Check Photographer, Credit, Source, and Copyright together. You have checked attribution and inspected the stored city for this photograph.

Add and verify useful keywords

Keywords describe a photograph with short, useful terms. This image already has the keyword Katie. Keep that existing term while adding the person, assignment, and location shown in the supplied information.

Enter Heather Tom in the keyword field and tap Add. Check that a separate keyword appears beneath the field. The name identifies the person in the photograph.

Next, enter The Bold and the Beautiful and tap Add. Keep the complete show title together as one keyword, so its words retain their meaning.

Add Los Angeles as the location keyword. Review the terms beneath the field and check for duplicates. The existing Katie term remains alongside the three additions.

Leave the field and select another photograph, then return to this image. The four keywords are still present: Katie, Heather Tom, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Los Angeles. Check this saved list before continuing.

Create a shared metadata template

A template starts with information from a photograph. Open the template menu and choose Save as Template. Here, we name the first version for the episode and subject. Tap Save, then check the new entry in the menu.

Open Manage Templates and select the entry you just saved. Choose Edit to review its contents. Rename it Shared metadata to distinguish this reusable version from the first draft. The editor lets you choose which information belongs in the shared template.

Review the fields that should vary from picture to picture. Clear the person-specific Title and Caption, followed by Special Instructions. The editor explains that empty fields are skipped, so this template can leave each photograph's own description alone.

Keep only the terms shared by this assignment: The Bold and the Beautiful, and Los Angeles. Keep Append to existing selected, so the template's keywords can be added alongside a photograph's existing terms.

Scroll down and review the supplied Byline, Credit, Source, Copyright, and City. These shared values match this assignment. After checking the fields, tap Save and check the renamed template in the list. It is now prepared for reuse.

Edit a shared field on several photos

Begin with the three intended photographs selected in the grid. Check the blue outlines and the selection count before opening the IPTC view. The heading now says Editing three photos, confirming that this is a group edit.

The Caption field shows Mixed because the selected photographs have different descriptions. Leave it untouched. The panel explains that you touch a field to stage a change, and untouched fields stay specific to each photograph.

Scroll down to Copyright. Use the copyright wording supplied with this assignment. Here, we enter that attribution without changing Creator or Credit. The blue marker shows that Copyright is staged for the group.

Review the staged Copyright text and confirm that Apply to three matches the intended selection. Tap Apply to three. The confirmation reports that it was applied to three photos. Other fields have not been staged.

Open the first photograph on its own to inspect the result. The original caption, five-star rating, and green label are still present. Copyright now shows the supplied attribution. Repeat this check on your other edited files.

Filter an album by rating, color and file type

The filter panel narrows the pictures shown in the grid. Start with all seventy-four items visible, then open the panel to see separate choices for rating, color and file type.

Set Rating to five stars while leaving All Files and Any Color selected. Close the panel to inspect the result. The grid contains one photograph with its existing five-star rating.

Reopen the panel, set Rating back to Any, then choose Yellow. Close the panel to see the single result: the three-star photograph with the yellow label. The rating criterion is now unrestricted.

Reopen the panel and reset Color to Any Color. Choose Videos under Type, then close the panel. Five clips now remain. With rating and color unrestricted, this result is controlled by file type.

Reopen the panel and set Type back to All Files, then close it. All seventy-four items return. The existing five-star green photograph and three-star yellow alternate are still marked the same way. Filters change the view.

Crop a photo and save a separate copy

Check the original photograph and its filename before editing. Open the crop tool to work on the framing. In this example, we will save the result as a separate copy.

Choose the four-by-five aspect ratio. The crop rectangle now keeps that proportion as you adjust it. Review what the frame includes before you change its size or position.

With the ratio fixed, drag a corner handle to adjust the crop area. Then reposition the crop around the subject. Check the edges and the framing before you save this version.

Choose Save As to make a separate copy. Keep the suggested filename ending in underscore edit, then tap Save. This creates an edited file alongside the original.

Inspect the separate underscore edit file and its smaller pixel dimensions. Then reopen the original photograph. Its original filename and full dimensions are still present. Keep both files until you have checked the result.

Adjust exposure and shadows, then compare

Open the adjustments tool for the next original photograph. The controls appear beside the image. In this example, we will make small changes to exposure and shadows.

Raise Exposure to plus zero point two E V. Watch the photograph as the control changes. Use a small adjustment and inspect the subject and bright areas before moving on.

Raise Shadows to zero point one four. This changes the darker parts of the image. Keep the exposure adjustment in place, then inspect the combined result before comparing it with the original.

Use the comparison button to view Original. Then switch back to Edited. Compare the subject and the darker areas in both views. The controls retain your exposure and shadow settings while you compare the previews.

Choose Save As and keep the suggested underscore edit filename. Tap Save to create the adjusted copy. Check the new filename and pixel dimensions when it opens. This version keeps the same image dimensions as the original.

Configure a full-size JPEG export destination

A destination can store a photo export recipe. Here, the editor is already set to AirGallery, with the practice gallery selected. Review the Photos tab before choosing the image settings.

First, inspect the Web preset as a comparison. The displayed settings show JPEG at eighty percent quality and a Max value of two thousand forty-eight. Read the values before choosing your final recipe.

Now choose Full Size JPEG. The quality changes to ninety-two percent and the Max field becomes empty. The note below that field says empty means original size. Check all three before continuing.

Turn on Strip GPS. Leave Strip metadata and Auto-adjust off, and keep Sign C2PA on. Review these choices together before saving the recipe.

Return to the top and check the destination name, company, and gallery. Tap Create to save the destination. Its new entry appears in the Destinations panel, ready for a later sending step.

Create a gallery for an export destination

Begin in the open New Destination editor. AirGallery and the company are already set, and the destination is named F T X Training Gallery. Check these details before creating its gallery.

Beside the Gallery field, tap New. A New AirGallery dialog opens with an empty name field. Use this dialog to name a gallery for the selected company. Saving the destination comes afterward.

Enter the gallery name shown here: F T X Training, dash, Practice Gallery. Check the spelling and make sure you can recognize this practice gallery before continuing.

Tap Create in the gallery dialog. When it closes, check the selected gallery name in the destination editor. The zero in parentheses shows that this newly created gallery currently has no items.

Review the rest of the destination settings, then tap its Create button. The new destination appears in the panel with its own name. This completes the gallery and destination setup for a later sending step.

Send a tray photo to a named gallery

Turn Auto-Send off before this manual send. The paper-plane control turns red. Add the intended photograph to the tray, then check its thumbnail and the one-item selection count.

Tap Gallery below the tray to open Send to Pilot. Confirm that the company is Air4media and that the sheet lists one item in the tray.

Open the Gallery list and choose F T X Training, dash, Practice Gallery. Check the selected company and gallery together before starting the transfer.

Check the destination named on the Send button, then tap Send. The progress message shows that the transfer has started. Wait for the result before continuing.

The green confirmation reports one file uploaded to the named gallery. Check that gallery name again. The link below the message is available for the next step.

Copy and check a gallery link

After the upload, the gallery link appears in the result sheet. Tap the copy button beside that link. You can now check the gallery in a browser.

In a fresh Safari tab, choose Paste and Go. The copied address opens the gallery page. Check the page that actually loads before using or sending the link.

Check the gallery title and item count. This page currently shows three items. Open the middle photograph to inspect the image and its caption in the viewer.

Open Details with the information button. Check the filename and pixel dimensions, then review the Caption, Description, and tags. The Credit field shows a dash here.

Close Details, then close the photograph viewer. The gallery overview is visible again. Check the title and the three displayed items before using the link elsewhere.

Choose a working folder

Start in F T X Demo Originals. Check the folder name and the photograph shown before changing your working view.

Tap the list-view button. The row can show a metadata title; check the full filename in the bottom status bar to identify the selected file.

Choose F T X Demo Selects in the sidebar. This folder opens in its grid view and shows the other practice photograph.

Return to F T X Demo Originals. Its list view returns with the first photograph. Confirm the folder name and file before continuing.

Tap the grid-view button. Keep the intended folder selected, and check its contents once more before moving on to your next task.

Review and send a practice photo to a gallery

Start with the practice copy in F T X Demo Originals. Open the photograph and inspect the full image before changing its metadata. Confirm that this is the file you intend to review.

Open the IPTC panel and review the existing caption. Set the rating to five stars. Keep the current caption text as the starting point for your review note.

Review the training note appended after the existing caption. Leave the metadata panel, return to the grid, and reopen the panel. Check that the saved note and five-star rating are still present.

Return to the grid and add the reviewed practice photo to the tray. Check that the tray contains one item and that Auto-Send remains off before preparing the manual send.

In Send to Pilot, confirm Air4media as the company. Choose F T X Training, dash, Practice Gallery, then check the target named on the Send button.

Tap Send for the confirmed gallery and wait until the transfer finishes with a green result. It reports one file uploaded. Copy the gallery link beside that confirmation before checking the result in Safari.

Back in the existing Safari gallery tab, refresh the page and wait for it to load. Check the count: four items are now listed. Open the newly added fourth item and inspect its image and review note.

Open Details to check the filename, pixel dimensions, and Description. The training note is visible in the Description. Close Details and finish by inspecting the whole photograph again.

Your first session on Mac

Open the folder chooser to begin a Mac session with practice photographs. Confirm Practice Photos, then click Open. Three demonstration photographs appear in the grid.

Use Grid to compare the photographs. Choose List to see the same files as rows with their details. The current photograph stays selected when the view changes.

Choose IPTC to review the selected photograph’s existing metadata. The panel shows its title, caption, and keywords beside the image. Review these fields without changing their contents.

Choose Full for a larger view of the selected photograph. Inspect the complete image, with the filmstrip below it. This view gives the photograph more space.

Return to Grid to continue browsing. Check the Practice Photos folder and the selected filename in the bottom status bar. You can now continue your Mac session.

Configure metadata, GPS and C2PA options

Open the training destination and review its photo recipe. JPEG is selected at ninety-two percent quality, with the Max field empty. Auto-adjust is off.

Turn Strip metadata on. Strip GPS becomes gray and unavailable while metadata stripping is selected. The signing control remains independent.

Turn Strip metadata off again. Switch Strip GPS off, then restore it to on. This leaves GPS stripping enabled as a separate option.

Turn Sign C2PA off to see its separate switch. Turn it back on for this recipe. This requests signing during export; a switch alone does not verify a file’s signature.

Save the recipe with the button at the bottom right, then reopen the destination. Scroll back to the options and check the stored switches. Metadata stripping is off, GPS stripping is on, and C2PA signing is on. These are saved preferences; this lesson exports no file.

Create and test an SFTP practice destination

Use the plus beside Destinations to open a new destination. Give it the name FTX Practice - Offline Test.

Choose FTP and leave SFTP on. For this practice test, use the local address one twenty-seven dot zero dot zero dot one, port one, and user training. Leave the password blank and the path as a slash.

Tap Test Connection. The red result says the connection was refused on port one. Read this result before treating the destination as ready for transfers.

Review the photo profile. Web is selected for this practice destination. The profile selection and the connection test are separate parts of this setup.

Save with the button at the bottom right. Back in Destinations, scroll to find FTX Practice - Offline Test. The new entry shows the local host address.

Inspect a failed send in the Send Log

Start with one practice photo in the tray. Auto-Send is off, and only FTX Practice - Offline Test is enabled; the other destinations are disabled.

Tap Send All for this destination. The tray changes from Ready to a red failure status when the connection cannot be made.

Open the Send Log with the clock icon beside Destinations. The newest entry appears at the top.

Match the photo’s filename and the destination name to this attempt. Its red failure icon and time distinguish it from the older green entries below.

Read the red error: connection refused on port one. Check the destination’s host, port and server availability before making another attempt.

Browse a Pilot DAM catalog and story

With the app already connected to Pilot, check the company shown in the sidebar. This example uses JPI Studios and its DAM catalogs.

Tap the B and B catalog name in the sidebar. The main area shows story covers, with a photo count on each cover.

Open Episode ninety-eight ninety-seven from its cover. The story header confirms the episode, and the grid shows sixty-nine assets.

Select the first photo and switch to Full view. Inspect the whole image, then read its displayed title and the copyright credit above it.

Tap Grid to return to the story. The episode header and sixty-nine asset count remain visible, so you can continue browsing within the same story.

Send a tray photo to a gallery and a local folder

Start with the approved practice photo ending five seven four. Touch and hold the photo, then choose Add to Tray. The selection tray now contains one photo.

Check the existing gallery destination. Its company is Air4media, and its selected gallery is FTX Training - Practice Gallery. Cancel the editor without changing it. The gallery and the existing Ftx25 folder are enabled.

The other routes are off, and automatic sending and removal are off. With one photo in the tray, tap Send All once. Watch the delivery indicators change as the two destinations finish.

Open the Send Log. The two newest green entries are for the photo ending five seven four: one for FTX Training Gallery, and one for Ftx25. The older entries below belong to earlier sends.

To check the folder result, open the existing Ftx25 destination and tap Choose to inspect its folder. Files shows one item with the matching photo name, a time of one fifteen, and a displayed size of two point one megabytes.

Cancel the folder picker and the destination editor. Back in FotoTrafiX, the photo remains in the tray with Sent to all and two green indicators. This practice send has recorded both destinations as successful.

Review and confirm a face in Face Lab

Use a separate practice copy of the supplied photo. Open Face Lab to review its existing recognition result. This photo already has a suggested name.

Open IPTC rules before confirming. This setup writes to Supplemental Categories and Title. Keywords, Headline and Caption are off. Inspect the settings, then dismiss the panel without changing them.

The supplied caption identifies Heather Tom. Check the main face, then choose Yes, correct. The card becomes Confirmed. Confirmation writes the mapped metadata immediately and starts a push to Pilot.

The other detection is a small framed portrait in the background. Choose Skip for that detection. Leave its identity unassigned; the main face remains confirmed.

Close Face Lab and open IPTC to check the practice copy. Heather Tom was already present in Title and Supplemental Categories, so this example does not add new visible name text.

Check the supplied caption and Howard Wise credit. Those fields are retained, as verified after this take. Return to the full photo. A confirmed card is not independent proof that the remote Pilot save succeeded.

Complete a practice photo job on Mac

Start with a separate practice copy of the supplied photo ending six five six. Open IPTC and review its existing caption and credit.

Keep the factual caption and append only a clearly labelled training note: FTX training workflow, caption reviewed on Mac. Return to Grid after editing.

Reopen IPTC to review the saved caption, then scroll to the training note. It is still present with the supplied caption and credit. Return to Grid before building the delivery tray.

Add the selected photo to the tray. This practice job uses one existing local folder destination, FTX Mac Practice twenty-eight. Only that route is enabled; automatic sending is off.

Tap Send All once. The tray changes to Sent to all. Open the Send Log and check the fresh green entry for the photo ending six five six and the practice destination.

To inspect the destination folder, open the existing folder route and click Choose. The picker initially shows Job twenty-eight Practice, which is the input folder. Navigate to the delivery folder before checking the result.

Use Go to Folder to navigate to Job twenty-eight Delivery. The folder picker shows one file with the matching name ending six five six. This view lists the file; it does not open the delivered photo.

Cancel the folder picker and the destination editor. Back in Grid, the tray still says Sent to all. This job has a saved caption note, a successful native send log, and a matching file listed in the delivery folder.

Your first session on iPhone

Open the prepared demo folder with the Open button. Grid shows seventy-four cloud-backed files. The thumbnails give you a visual starting point for browsing.

Tap List to switch from thumbnails to rows. Read each filename and file size beside its preview. This gives you another way to browse the same folder.

Select Review to inspect a photograph. The app shows its filename and position in the photo set. Use the next arrow to move to the next photograph.

Open IPTC to read photo information. In this example, the filename ends three-six-five-five. Read the existing caption and its Howard Wise credit.

Tap Full to enlarge the selected photo. Its filename and dimensions remain above the image. The whole photograph is visible, with view controls ready for your next step.