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How to add pictures to your album

Context menu

Most actions can be done via context menues (popup menues) which appear when clicking the right mouse button. Options presented in those menues are related to the items which have been selected or over which the menu has been opened.

Creating groups

You can create a new group by right-clicking the group in which it should be created and selecting Add/Group....

Adding pictures to a group

Right-click the group which should contain the new pictures and select Add/Files.... A directory chooser pops up; choose the directory where the pictures are in.

Another dialog pops up -- here you can choose how date and time of a picture are set.

Everything in and below this directory will be added, so it is not a bad idea to select the top most directory of your old image collection. Every directory becomes a group automatically.

Editing properties of groups and pictures

Right-click the item you want to edit and select Properties.... A dialog shows up in which you can edit properties.

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Adding keywords to a set of items

It takes very long to open every pictures' properties to add the names of the people on the picture to the keywords. Usually this can be speeded up: select all the pictures where Joe is visible, and select Add Keyword... in the popup menu. Enter Joe, which by this is appended to the keywords of every selected item.

If there are lots of photos with Joe, Mary and Alice you can also speed things up: open the "Add Keyword"-dialog and enter "j,a" for a photo with Joe and Alice; do the same for every other photo. When you are done with this group, open "Edit Keywords" on this group and replace "j" with "Joe" and "a" with "Alice".

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