Organizing images in imago

The list on the left side of an album viewer is the center of imago organization. To use imago efficiently, you need to understand the following three collections.

imago's organization

Albums

Albums exist only in imago. Your albums don't correspond to real folders on your hard drive. When you delete or move images from an album, the original files remain in their original locations on your hard drive.

Smart Albums

Smart Albums provides you a way to create a virtual group of images collected from multiple albums in imago. You can make a Smart Album that contains only certain types of images, images with cell analysis results, or images that match other criteria. Smart Albums displays images without actually copying the images; it is like a playlist for images. When you delete images from Smart Albums, the original images remain in Albums. Additionally, imago automatically updates Smart Albums; any images matching the Smart Album's setting will be added to the album.

Local Drives

Local drives represent actual folders in your computer's hard disks. Changes you make to folders in imago affect corresponding folders on your computer's hard drive. For example, if you delete images from the folder in Local drive, the image will be deleted from your computer's hard drive.

Importing images into imago

Getting started