{"id":418,"date":"2019-06-28T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunarship.com\/manual\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2021-03-27T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:34:03","slug":"organize-albums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lunarship.com\/manual\/organize-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Organize Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Album is an organizational unit that holds multiple photos. The difference between Album and Event is more about the purpose of usage. Albums are intended to keep images of a specific topic that is not a life event. For instance, you may want to collect all photos of your pet in one place, but still, have them in Events. This could be achieved with Albums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A photo may reside in an Event and an Album simultaneously. When you copy a photo from an Event to an Album, Phototheca does not copy files on disks and does not create duplicates. Albums only contain references to images, not physical copies. That\u2019s why it\u2019s safe to create as many Albums as you need, and you won\u2019t waste a single byte of disk space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create an Album<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are a few ways to create an Album:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Create an\nempty Album using the menu or a button<\/li>
  2. Create an\nAlbum with content from a selection<\/li>
  3. Create an\nAlbum from an Event<\/li>
  4. Create an\nAlbum using drag-and-drop<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    1. Create an empty Album using menu or button<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    If you want to start from scratch and make an empty Album, this can be done either by using menu File->New Album, or by clicking the button on the bottom bar and selecting the \u201cAlbum\u201d page of the dialog that pops up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A new Album will be placed in the root of the \u201cALBUMS\u201d section in the Library. It will have a default icon (blue book) and will be highlighted with yellow so you can find it quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2. Create an Album with content from a selection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Using this tool you can create an Album that already has photos inside it. To make such an Album, just select the needed photos and click the File->New Album From Selection menu item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    3. Create an Album from an Event<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Any Event can be turned into an Album with a single click. Select an Event you would like turn into an Album, right-click with the mouse, and hit the \u201cConvert to Album\u201d context menu item. The new Album will appear under the \u201cALBUMS\u201d section of the Library, and the original Event will be removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    4. Create an Album using drag-and-drop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Select one or a few photos you want to put into a new Album. The photo you\nchoose may reside anywhere \u2013 inside an Event, in another Album, picked out from\nthe Calendar or selected from a search result, it does not matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Having selected the photos, drag any of them to the left pane where the Library is and drop on an empty area \u2013 this simple action will create a new Album with all the chosen photos, and the photos will not be moved from their original locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Fill an Album with content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you started from scratch and have an empty Album, there are two ways to put content into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Drag and drop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Select one or more photos from anywhere, then drag any of the selected photos and drop on the target Album on the left pane \u2013 this action will add all the selected photos to the target album. Photos reside in their original locations, while the new Album references to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2. Cut and paste<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    If you want to move photos into an Album so they don\u2019t stay where they are,\nuse the cut-and-paste technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Select the needed photos, then right-click with the mouse and hit the \u201cCut\u201d\nmenu item. Then, navigate inside the target Album, right-click again, and hit\n\u201cPaste.\u201d The photos will be moved out from their original locations and moved\ninto the target Album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Phototheca operates with references to files, not real files, so files on a disk stay where they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    If there is a need to merge two or more Albums into one single Album, just select them, right-click, and hit the \u201cMerge Albums\u201d menu item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    A common approach to Albums organization is to create a hierarchical\nstructure with Folders for multiple topics and subjects and distribute Albums\namong them, grouped by subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To achieve this goal, we need to be able to create a hierarchy of Folders\nand move Albums into them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How to create and manipulate Folders is described on this page: Organize Folders<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Here, we\u2019ll learn how to move an Album into a Folder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Let\u2019s imagine we have a hierarchy of Folders and several Albums, as shown on this figure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    To move the Album \u201cArchitecture\u201d into the Folder \u201cUrban,\u201d drag the Album with your mouse and drop it on the Folder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The Album will be moved inside the target Folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Another way to move an Album into the Folder is to select an Album in\nthumbnails view (central area), Cut, browse to the target Folder, and Paste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Using this technique, you can build an organizational structure of any level\nof complexity with unlimited nested levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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