Assigning Color Labels

Color labels can be used in many ways to help you organize your files. You can use different colors to represent different stages of your workflow. As you review your photos you can assign them to the color labels. For example, assign files to upload, print, reject, review, or sharpen and then click a color label in the Organize pane to quickly display all of the files assigned to that label. Or use them in combination with the Group by, or Filter By features to refine your list. Color labels, like tagging, categories and ratings, are a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving them into different folders.

If the Properties pane or Organize pane is not visible in Manage mode, click View | Properties or View | Organize.

Quickly Assign a Color Label by using the Hover Icons in Thumbnail view

  1. Hover over a thumbnail to display the gray label line.
  2. Click gray label line to make your selection.

Example of hovering over a thumbnail to click and select a color label:

The hover icons display in Thumbnail view only.

Assign and Search Color Labels in the Organize pane

The Organize pane allows you to both assign and search color labels.

To assign a color label to a file in the Organize pane:

  1. In Manage mode, do one of the following:

To search all images assigned to a color label:

Click the color label in the Organize pane to display all corresponding files in the File List pane.

To select all images assigned to a color label in the file list:

Click the Select drop-down above the File List pane and click Select by Color Label to choose a color. All files assigned to that color label will be selected within the File List pane.

Click the Home button at any time to return to your unfiltered File List.

Assign Names to Color Labels

You can assign names to color labels in the Labels settings. The name assigned to a label is added to the photo’s metadata (see note below).

To Assign Names to your color labels:

  1. In the Organize pane, click the Labels settings button and select Edit Label Sets.
  2. Rename the color labels in the dialog box and click OK.
  3. You will have the option to Save over the current label set, or Save As a new one.

ACDSee Pro uses XMP to embed ACDSee Metadata into each file. Only some file formats and file extensions support XMP. These include GIF, JPEG, DNG, PNG, and TIF. In the case of these file formats, the ACDSee Metadata is embedded inside the file and so you can rename or move the file outside of ACDSee Pro and still be able to retrieve the ACDSee Metadata. For formats that currently do not support XMP, including RAW, PSD, ABR, the ACDSee Metadata is written to a sidecar file that is stored in the same folder as its file. Because a sidecar file is separate from the file itself, you need to rename or move them together, or you could lose the ACDSee Metadata permanently.

To delete a Label Set:

  1. In the Organize pane, click the Labels settings button and select Edit Label Sets.
  2. Select the set you want to delete from the Labels Sets drop-down list.
  3. Click the delete button.

Assign Color Labels in the Properties pane

The Properties pane provides another way to assign color labels.

To assign files to color labels in the Properties pane:

  1. In the File List pane, select the files you want to assign a color rating.
  2. In the Properties pane, select the Metadata tab.
  3. Click the color label from the boxes along the top of the Properties pane.

Assign color labels in View mode

To assign color labels in View mode, do one of the following: 

Removing color labels from files

To remove a color label from a file:

  1. In the File List pane, select one or more files you want to remove a label from.
  2. Do one of the following:

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