Organizing your library

The Library is where you browse and organise everything you’ve imported. The sidebar on the left narrows what’s shown; the grid in the middle is your photos; the toolbar above the grid filters and sorts them.

Browse

Use the sidebar to jump around your catalog:

• All Photos — everything in the library.
• Recent imports — the batch you just brought in.
• Capture date / Modified date — browse by year and date.
• Albums and Rolls — your own groupings (see below).

Rate, flag & label

Give a photo a verdict so you can find the keepers later. On each thumbnail (and in the Develop Info panel) you can set:

• a star rating (0–5),
• a flag — approved or rejected,
• a color label.

Then filter the grid by minimum rating, flag or color label from the toolbar, and sort by capture time, file name, rating, color label or manually.

Tags & search

Add tags to photos and type in the Search box to find them by tag, name or file name.

Albums, folders & rolls

Group photos without moving any files:

• Albums — hand-picked collections; a photo can be in several.
• Folders — organise albums into a tree.
• Film rolls — group scans that belong to the same roll of film, so shared settings (like the film base) can be applied across the whole roll.

Create these from the + Album, + Roll and + Folder buttons at the bottom of the sidebar, or by right-clicking photos in the grid.

Next steps

• Developing your photos — open a photo and start editing.