How you can Work with the Catalog in Luminar Neo

Luminar Neo as a standalone program provides you a robust interface to handle your picture library, or Catalog.

In Neo, your Catalog is a database of your photographs, details about their location in your drive(s), thumbnails, and a historical past of changes to every picture.

Let’s take a more in-depth take a look at easy methods to use the Catalog in Luminar Neo.

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Understanding Catalogs in Luminar Neo

If you first launch Luminar Neo, it can create your first default Catalog inside your laptop’s Footage folder. You should use this Catalog to retailer all of your photographs, or you possibly can create a number of Catalogs. For instance, you might want to separate consumer photographs from photographs taken to your private enjoyment.

Creating a brand new Catalog

You’ll be able to create a brand new Catalog by heading to File > Catalog > New. A dialog field will open the place you possibly can select the place to save lots of the Catalog. After urgent Save, the present Catalog will shut and the newly created Catalog will open.

Opening a Catalog

You’ll be able to open a special Catalog by heading to File > Catalog > Open. A dialog field will open the place you possibly can find the specified Catalog. After urgent Open, the present Catalog will shut and the chosen Catalog will open.

Backing up and restoring a Catalog

You’ll be able to again up a brand new Catalog by deciding on File > Catalog > Backup. A dialog field will open the place you possibly can specify the place the Catalog can be backed up. If you press Save, the present Catalog can be backed up whereas remaining open.

To revive a backup of a Catalog, head to File > Catalog > Restore from Backup. A dialog field will open the place you possibly can find the Catalog backup. After urgent Open, the present Catalog can be restored to the earlier state from the backup.

Loading photographs

To load photographs into the present Catalog, head to File > Add Folder with Photos.

Discover the folder with the pictures you need to add and click on Add Folder to import all of its photographs into your Catalog.

This will take a while if the folder accommodates many photographs.

The importing course of will mechanically generate subfolders too.

For instance, for those who retailer your photographs in a 12 months/Month/Date hierarchy, deciding on a 12 months folder will import each month and date folder inside.

Managing your Catalog

Flagging photographs

Photos in your Catalog will be flagged, which is a fast and simple option to kind them. There are three sorts of Flags you could apply to a picture.

• Flagged. Flagged photographs are thought-about your Favorites. To flag a picture, head to Picture >  Flag > Favourite, or click on the guts icon. Alternatively, press P in your keyboard.
• Rejected. These are photographs you don’t need to use. Maybe the picture was out of focus, your topic was shifting, or there was another problem that modifying can not remedy. To reject a picture, head to Picture >  Flag > Rejected. Alternatively, press X in your keyboard.
• Unmarked. Photos which might be neither Flagged nor Rejected stay unmarked. Maybe these are photographs you haven’t decided on but or that you haven’t any robust feeling about. To unmark a picture that you’ve got beforehand flagged or rejected, head to Picture >  Flag > Unmarked. Alternatively, press U in your keyboard.

You should use flags to kind your photographs. Within the Displaying drop-down within the high proper of the Catalog window, you possibly can select to point out all photographs or present solely these with a selected flag: Flagged, Rejected, or Unmarked.

There may be additionally an Edited possibility, which shows solely photographs you have got already labored on.

I prefer to flag all the pictures from comparable situations so I can batch edit them unexpectedly – learn to batch edit in Luminar Neo.

Deleting photographs

Deleted photographs are despatched to the Trash folder.

Right here you possibly can evaluation photographs you have got marked for deletion, selecting to both ship them to your laptop’s trash for everlasting deletion or to return them to the Luminar Catalog.

Albums

You will need to perceive the distinction between Folders and Albums.

A Folder exists in your storage gadget, and it’s the location the place your picture file is saved.

Albums are digital collections to your photographs; putting a picture in an Album doesn’t change the place the picture is saved in your storage gadget.

You’ll be able to title and group your Albums nevertheless you need.

For instance, if you wish to maintain observe of your favourite panorama pictures or one of the best pictures from a trip, an Album is the place you’d put them. The identical picture can exist in a number of Albums.

To create a brand new Album, go to File > New Album (or press + subsequent to the Albums menu). Subsequent, give your Album a significant title. 

So as to add a number of photographs to your Album, choose their thumbnails, then click on and drag from the Folder to your new Album. 

You may as well create a brand new Album by deciding on thumbnails of the pictures you need to add, then going to File > New Album (or urgent + subsequent to the Albums menu). The brand new Album can be created with the chosen photographs inside.

To take away a number of photographs from an Album, choose the pictures, right-click, and select Take away From Album. To take away a complete Album, right-click on the Album title and select Delete.

Notice that eradicating a picture from an Album or deleting an Album itself won’t delete photographs out of your storage gadget.