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Table of Contents:
The First Time You Run Scoop
How Scoop Organizes Images
Grouping Images with Tags
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The First Time You Run Scoop
Scoop will import JPG, PNG and GIF images, as well as many different RAW image formats (support for RAW images depends on what is supported in Mac OS X - see Supported digital camera RAW formats for more details). -
How Scoop Organizes Images
As an example, let's say you have multiple directories within your pictures directory based on the month the picture was taken: -
When you launch Scoop, you will see these directories in the Scoop interface. Scoop always respects the file system layout first and foremost, but extends your ability to group images with tags.
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Grouping Images with Tags
The Date the image was taken
The Camera Make and Model
The Aspect ratio
These are "auto tags" - every image imported automatically gets tagged with this information.
For more information about using Tags, make sure and read Working with Image Tags.