{"id":14,"date":"2019-06-23T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunarship.com\/manual\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T10:06:17","slug":"understanding-phototheca-basic-concepts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lunarship.com\/manual\/understanding-phototheca-basic-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Phototheca: Basic concepts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Phototheca is all about the organization of massive amounts of photos and\nvideos. The smallest part that Phototheca works with \u2014 the atom of the program,\nso to speak \u2014 is a single image or video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These atoms \u2014 images and videos \u2014 can be gathered in groups and organized\nin hierarchical structures. Phototheca offers a few ways to compose a group of\nimages; they are all slightly different, and all have their own purpose and features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The important thing to note is that an image always resides in a container (an Event or Album). It\u2019s not possible to have images without a parent group in Phototheca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available types of groups to organize images are: Event, Album, and Folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An Event is a group of photos and videos that represents shots that were\ntaken around the same time and place, like a vacation or a birthday. An Event\nis something that had a place in reality and has a continuation in time. Each Event\nhas a start date and an end date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Event should be used when it\u2019s important to show a moment, to tell a\nstory with photos, and to keep the images in chronological order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events can be displayed on the Timeline in Phototheca because they have specific\ntime frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another important thing about photos and Events: Each photo can belong to a\nmaximum of one Event (or belong to no Event). A photo can\u2019t reside in more than\none Event at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When new photos are being imported, they are always automatically grouped\ninto Events. It\u2019s possible to move images from Events to Albums later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Event is a top-level unit and cannot be nested into another Event or\nFolder. All Events reside in the \u201cEvents\u201d section of the Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about working with Events: Organize Events<\/a>

How images are grouped into Events: Events creation strategy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albums<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Albums are collections of photos which have no time frames. They are\nmanually made by a user to collect photos of specific subjects together in one\nplace, in situations where it doesn’t matter when those photos were taken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A single photo can reside in a single Event and multiple Albums at the same\ntime. When a photo is copied to another Album, Phototheca doesn\u2019t copy a file\non disk but creates a reference only. So it\u2019s safe to put an image in several Albums\nwithout worrying about wasting space on local drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the common organizational patterns for photos is to keep stories and\nmoments in Events, create Albums for specific subjects, and copy photos of\nsubjects from multiple Events into a single Album. For instance, we can collect\nphotos of a child, a pet, or grandpa from multiple moments together into a\nsingle Album and have them all in one place if we want to show the development\nof a subject over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Album cannot be nested into another Album but can be placed into a\nFolder in order to make a hierarchical structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about working with Albums: Organize Albums<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Folder is an organizational unit that can contain multiple Albums and\nFolders inside. It is very similar to the regular folders we have in Windows,\nwith the exception that a Folder can\u2019t contain images; it may only contain Albums\nand other Folders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Folders let us build complex, multi-level structures with massive amounts\nof images inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about working with Folders: Organize Folders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phototheca is all about the organization of massive amounts of photos and videos. The smallest part that Phototheca works with \u2014 the atom of the program, so to speak \u2014 is a single image or video. These atoms \u2014 images and videos \u2014 can be gathered in groups and organized in hierarchical structures. Phototheca offers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"xadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/lunarship.com\/manual\/author\/xadmin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Phototheca is all about the organization of massive amounts of photos and videos. 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