Boxes

Basics

Boxes are useful for two things:

• Making it easy to find photos that meet certain search criteria
  
  
• Making it easy to bulk tag photos

Quickly Find Photos

Have you ever wanted to immediately see all of the photos of the kids' "away" football games? Or maybe you want to keep track of the "Photos for Scrapping" selections (almost like a "to-do" list)?

Well, boxes are your answer.

Boxes allow you to save frequently-used Tag searches and give it a friendly "name."

As you know, you can click on some Who tags, a Where tag or two, maybe some What tags, and you see the resultant photos that meet that set of criteria.

If you frequently want to see this grouping of photos, you can save the set of Tags in your filter as a "Box" (use ).

Boxes can be temporary...

You can use boxes for a temporary need—such as bulk tagging—and then delete the box. None of your photos are affected by deleting a box.

Boxes for tagging

Maybe you just want to create a box so that you can drag new photos into it and easily perform mass tagging?

Lets say you just got back from a ski vacation, and the majority of the photos fit a set of tags like

• Who was there,
  
  
• Where it was, and
  
  
• What it was... Davos Ski Vacation, Ski, Snow

Simply create the box with the desired tags. Next, select all of the trip photos (could be hundreds). Drag the selected photos into the box—they all get the tags of the box. Now you can open the box and work on the pictures to refine the tagging.

Boxes or Stories?

Unlike stories, the photos in the box can change over time as new photos are tagged and meet the box criteria. Think of a box as dynamically showing the photos that match. What you see today could be different from what you might see in a month after you add more photos with tags that match a box's tag set.

Stories, on the other hand, are simply static collections of photos of your choosing. The tags on the photos in the stories do not matter.

Basic things you can do with boxes:

Make	Select some tags, click on Make Box:
Rename	Open up a box, click on the box title or the edit button
Edit	This means to change the set of tags used... Here you can drag other tags onto the box, or drag tags off of the box.
Delete	Simply select the box in the thumbnail view and press the "Delete" button.
Open	Double-click on the box thumbnail. The central viewpane now shows only the photos in that box.
Close	Click on the Home () button to get back to a normal view.
Publish	You can select a box thumb and press the Share button to upload the box and its photos to the Web.

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