Photo Flux
User manual
Every screen in the app, a chapter at a time. If Photo Flux is new to you, start with Getting started, then Profiles and Importing photos.
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Chapter 1
Getting started
The welcome guide, the storage folder, the permissions Photo Flux asks for and why, and finding your way around the main screen.
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Chapter 2
Profiles
The five kinds of profile, the new-profile wizard, copying a profile, and everything in the profile editor.
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Chapter 3
Importing photos
Connecting a camera, card or drive, running an import, adding or mirroring, events, and what happens when space runs out.
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Chapter 4
Folders, renaming and modifiers
Sorting photos into folders and renaming them on the way in, the Creator modifier and licences, and geotagging from a track.
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Chapter 5
The gallery
The photo grid and its badges, sorting and filtering, stacks, selecting photos and the Actions panel.
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Chapter 6
The photo viewer
Viewing one photo, the EXIF overlay, the metadata screens, crop and rotate, editing, and sharing.
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Chapter 7
Tags, events, titles and locations
Labelling photos one at a time or a whole selection, and what each label does to your files.
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Chapter 8
Archive profiles and albums
Albums you fill by hand, Album Import from a card, drive or connector, and moving or copying photos into an album.
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Chapter 9
Culling: reject, compare, duplicates
Rejecting photos, Comparison Reject and Compare Stack, sorting by sharpness, finding duplicates and similar photos.
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Chapter 10
The map and locations
Nearest-place names, seeing photos on a map, moving a photo's location, and naming places yourself.
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Chapter 11
Tracklogs
Recording where you walked, smoothing and trimming a track, GPX files, and sharing a track as a map.
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Chapter 12
Camera GPS link
Sending this phone's position to a Sony camera over Bluetooth, so every photo is geotagged as it is taken.
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Chapter 13
Metadata and Lightroom
What Photo Flux writes into your files, XMP sidecars, rejects that travel to Lightroom, and rebuilding or rescanning metadata.
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Chapter 14
Connectors and export
Sending photos to a NAS, a server, OneDrive, Google Drive or a USB drive — every connector type, and exporting on the road.
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Chapter 15
Pass-Thru profiles
Sending a card's photos straight through a connector without keeping them, and reading the send log.
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Chapter 16
File Monitoring
Being told when something outside Photo Flux changes, moves or deletes one of your photos.
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Chapter 17
Settings
Every settings page — Display, Units, Operation, Storage Folder, Known Devices and Help — plus Tags, Locations, licences and About.
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Chapter 18
Free and Pro
What the free app does, the thirteen things Pro adds, the trial, and what happens if you go back to Free.
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Chapter 19
Troubleshooting
Symptoms and their causes: imports that find nothing, photos without locations, exports that fail, and more.
Features that need Pro are marked Pro. Everything else is free. See Free and Pro.