This is the RawLine Selects window, with a folder of 1,840 photos open in the grid. Tap the numbers, or use the arrows, to see what each part does.
Under Disks are the Mac, external and network disks and memory cards: a card appears as soon as you insert it, already unfolded. A click on a folder, or Return, opens it.
Drag the folders you use most into Favorites. At the top, quick search (⌥⌘F) finds photos by name, title, keywords, author, place, camera or lens.
Sort puts the photos in order of capture time, corrected with each camera's clock, or by file name, modification date, camera body, rating or file type. Every tab remembers its own.
On the right, the filter: stars, colors, picks, unflagged, rejects. Within a group one value is enough; across groups all must match. ⌘L turns it off and on again.
Every folder opens in its own tab, with how many photos it has, and the tabs come back when you reopen the app. + opens another folder; ⇧⌘] and ⇧⌘[ move between them.
When you close a tab with rejects in it, Selects asks whether to set them aside: in a _Scartate folder, in the Trash, or leave them where they are.
The thumbnails with the file name and the marks underneath. Space, Return or a double click open the big photo in place; Esc goes back to the grid, and in the grid it closes nothing.
Viewed, kept and rejected, counted over the whole folder even with the filter on. Viewed photos are remembered: reopen the folder another day and you know where you were.
XMP: all written means the marks are in the sidecars Lightroom reads. If a sidecar can't be written the text turns orange, and the marks stay in Selects all the same. On the right, the size of the thumbnails.
Zoom (Fit, 100%, from 10 to 400%), the histogram with clipped shadows and highlights, the rating with all five colors, purple included, and the details the photo really has: shooting, camera, location, IPTC.
With a camera clock corrected, Shooting also shows the corrected time. ⌥⌘I shows and hides the inspector.
At the top right, the guide (⌘?), with everything on this page and more, and the button that shows or hides the inspector.
Something wrong? Help › Report a Problem (⇧⌘B): you read the text before it's sent, and you decide whether to send it.
With the keyboard: the ← → arrows on the window.
Lightroom's keys, in the grid and in the big photo. In the grid they apply to every selected photo, and ⌘Z always undoes.
First the preview inside the file, at once. Stay on the photo and Selects develops the sharp RAW; holding an arrow down develops nothing, only the photo you stop on.
The marks go into the XMP sidecars next to the RAW files: if one is already there, with Lightroom's adjustments, only the rating, the label and the flag change.
Previews are sized to your screen, the next photos are prepared while you look at this one, and the grid asks only for the thumbnails on screen: fast, without weighing on the Mac. The I key, in the big photo, shows the real timings.
Photo › Camera Clocks… (⌥⌘T) looks for the same scene taken with different bodies and proposes how far apart their clocks are, even when it's a time zone. Accept, correct by hand or ignore: nothing is applied on its own, and it applies in RawLine Rename too.
Advanced Search… (⌘F): paste the names chosen on Pixieset, PhotoShelter or in an email. Commas, extensions and quotes don't matter, and a number alone finds the photo that ends with it.
Lightroom doesn't read stacks from XMP files. With Write stacks to XMP for Lightroom every RAW of a stack gets a keyword: in Lightroom you click it, select the photos and press ⌘G.