Workspace Interface Introduction

 

1. Navigation Section (Top)

You will find buttons for Export, Export history, Profile, and Purchase

When you are on Library page, you will also see buttons for creating new projects and importing new files.

When you are on editing page, you will also see buttons for undo, manual tools, and a search bar for available featuresProject.

2. Management Section (Left)

You will find: Projects, Related Folders, and Trash.

Projects: Functions like the original project management section. You can create new projects, browse existing ones, or sort them by name or last opened date (ascending/descending).

Related Folders: Displays the storage paths of the images within the selected project. You can also import new folders or create subfolders here.

Trash: If you chose “Move to Trash” when deleting photos, they will appear here. You can either permanently delete them or restore them.

3. Gallery Section (Bottom)

For thumbnail display, and quick action to tag, filter, sort and view them in different ways.

Filtering: You can mark and filter preview images by available star rating, color, flag, whether they have been edited, whether they have been exported, format, and aspect ratio. You can also quickly select star ratings, colors, and flags for marking on the right side of the filmstrip area.

Sorting: You can sort images in ascending/descending order by capture time, edit time, star rating, file type, file size, and file name.

View: You can adjust the image display zoom level or choose between single view, comparison view, and reference view.

4. Quick Access Section (Right)

For displaying features, presets, effects, sliders, and syncing.

Recommended Presets: Here, Evoto will display a series of presets for you, helping you quickly find inspiration.

Team Presets: If your account is associated with an Evoto main account, and that main account has provided team-specific presets, you can find them here.

My Presets: You can save the adjustment data from any edit as your own preset, and they will appear here for you to choose from. You can create groups to manage them, and you can also import Evoto presets shared by others here. To share your presets, you can choose to share individual presets or entire groups and obtain the corresponding sharing code.

Sync: You can choose to synchronize the adjustment values of the current image to other images in the same project. Currently supported values for synchronization include: AI Color Adjustment, Color Adjustment, Portrait Adjustment, Background Adjustment, Clothing & Accessories Adjustment, Crop & Rotate.

5. Image Display Area (Center)

             

Create Project: If your Evoto currently has no projects, or if this is your first time using it, you will see several buttons guiding you to create a new project. Please choose according to your preference.

Preview: After you create a new project and import images, the preview thumbnails will appear in the center of the screen. You can drag and zoom them freely. The preview images will have an Evoto watermark. Please rest assured that the images you export will not have this watermark.

Importing

Currently there are three ways to import photos to Evoto

Method 1: Click to Import

After clicking 「Create Project」 to create a project, click on the corresponding tab.

Click the 「➕」 at the top. Only images or folders can be imported.

Click 「➕」 next to Related Folders and then select 「Import Folders」.

Method 2: Drag-and-Drop Import

Method 3: Right-Click Import

 

Notes

1. When importing images/files into a non-empty project, users are allowed to choose between importing into the currently selected project or creating a new project.
   
   
2. When importing a .lrcat file into a non-empty project, users can choose to create a new project or cancel the import.

 

File Management – Related Folders

Related Folders are associated with projects and only display the folders containing images of the selected project.
In Related Folders, users can manage actual folders by importing folders, creating subfolders, moving folders, renaming folders, and deleting folders. The main advantage of managing folders within Evoto is to prevent image loss.

Import Folders: Batch import is not supported.

Create Subfolders: The function is disabled when no folder is selected.

Delete Folders:

• Delete from Evoto: After confirmation, the folder and its images will be removed from the project. If the folder has images in the Recycle Bin, they will be cleared together. Other projects remain unaffected.
• Delete from Disk: After confirmation, the folder will be removed from the project. If other projects contain images from this folder, those images will show as lost.

Move Folders

Rename Folders: Duplicate names are not allowed.

Notes:

1. Please rest assured that Evoto will not automatically read images within the corresponding folders.
2. Lost folders can be recovered via the “Restore” feature to retrieve the folder.
3. Special Handling for Legacy Evoto Upgrades: Compared to older versions, the new version allows users to explicitly choose between “Delete from Evoto” or “Delete from Disk” when deleting folders.

Manage Images

Select Images – Single Image

Click to choose any single image.

• Loupe View (L)
  
  Left Arrow or Up Arrow→ Move Left
  Right Arrow or Down Arrow→ Move Right
• Grid View (G)
  
  Left Arrow→ Move Left
  Right Arrow→ Move Right
  Up Arrow→ Move Up
  Down Arrive→ Move Down

Select Images – Multi-Select

• Shift+Click→ Click the first image, hold Shift, and then click the last image. All images between the first and last one will be selected.
• Command+Click→ Hold down Command and click on several individual images across a list, and each selected image will be highlighted.

Switch between Multiple Selected Images

• Loupe View (L)
  Left Arrow or Up Arrow→ Move Left
  Right Arrow or Down Arrow→ Move Right
• Grid View (G)
  Left Arrow→ Move Left
  Right Arrow→ Move Right
  Up Arrow→ Move Up
  Down Arrow→ Move Down

Other Available Operations for Selected Images under Grid View (G)

• After selecting multiple images, when using the left and right arrow keys to switch between images, the view will loop through the selected images.
• Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow out of the selected range, and the selection will be canceled.

Add Labels

Color Labels:

Supports 4 color labels for selected images: Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue.

Once labeled, the display of the image will be surrounded by the selected color.

Flag Labels:

There are three statuses for the flag labels: flagged, rejected, and none.

Flagged: A little flag icon with a tick symbol will display at the bottom left corner.

Rejected: A little flag icon with a cross symbol will display at the bottom left corner, and the image will grey out.

None: Could be selected in right-click option, leaving it no flagged or rejected means none while labeling.

How to Add Labels

Click to choose available labelsUse shortcutsRating

No Rating (0)
1 Star（1）
2 Star（2）
3 Star（3）
4 Star（4）
5 Star（5）

Color
Red (6)
Yellow (7)
Green (8)
Blue (9)
*Press the same shortcut to remove the color label

Flags
None (U)
Flagged (P)

Rejected (X)

*Right-click the image and select from the dropdown

Batch Add and Edit Labels: only available for Grid View (G) in Library.

Filter Images

Multi-Select

Support multi-select filters under both “Library” or “Develop”
Click the filter icon or use shortcuts (\) to open or close the filtering section.

New filter
Orientation
Landscape
Portrait
Square

If there is no image matching the filters, there will be no image display, please clear the filter to re-select the images.

Move Images

The following actions will change the actual image file path on the desktop:

1. Move one folder to the other folder.
2. Move one or more images to the other folder.

Notes:

1. If effects are processing for the images or images are being exported during the move, export may fail.
   
   
2. When moving images in bulk, if the operation is interrupted, images that were successfully moved will remain in the target location, while files that failed to move will stay in the original location.
   
3. The success of moving images depends on factors such as the presence of the original images, storage location, permissions, and file status.

Copy Images

When dragging images into a specific project, effects in those images from Project A will be copied together to the other project. However,

1. The individual effects will be lost,
2. Subsequent effects in different projects will not affect each other.

Edit file

Right-click on the image, and you can

• Rename
• Open File Location
• Go to Folder in Library
• Set different labels such as Flag type / Rating / Color Label
• Provided Feedback
• Delete

Rename Images: A new feature has been added, but renaming to the same existing file name is not supported.

Kindly note that it will change your local file name, not just in Evoto.

Go to Folder in Library: Click to view the folder where the image is stored, and the content of the display will be updated accordingly.

Delete Images:

• Move to Evoto Bin
• Delete from Disk

View Modes

Grid View (G)

The Grid View displays photos as thumbnails in grid cells. Use this view to get an overview of all images in a project or view a specific folder, facilitating sorting, organization, and management tasks.

Batch Operations

In Grid View, multi-select images to modify star ratings or apply presets—changes will be applied to all selected images.

Loupe View (L)

Shows a single photo in full view, allowing you to zoom in for detailed inspection of specific areas. Double-click an image in Grid View to enter Loupe View.

Batch Operations

In Loupe View, batch effects application follows the same logic as advanced editing: select multiple images first, then click the Sync button to apply changes.

Canvas Color

In Loupe View, right-click the canvas area to customize the canvas background color.

Grid View always uses the default canvas color.

Image Effect Preloading

In the library, the selected scope determines the preload range:

• When switching from a folder to the entire project, effects load normally.
• When switching from a project to a specific folder, only images within that folder will be loaded—images outside the folder in the same project remain unloaded.
• When switching between projects, preloading of the original project pauses.

Settings

Settings related to preloading affect both the library and retouching functions.

New Settings

In the following two scenarios, imported images will default to the Retouching Page. Users can disable this behavior in Preferences if desired:

• When importing images/files/.lrcat on an empty project page, the Retouching Page opens by default.
• When importing images/files/.lrcat on a non-empty project page and selecting “Create New Project,” the new project defaults to the Retouching Page.

Panel Expansion and Collapse

Click the location shown in the screenshot below to expand or collapse the panel. You can also use the shortcut key Tab to quickly collapse both sides.Shortcut keys List

 

 

Special Cases FAQ

Lists of the reasons why the files cannot be moved.

File folders from the paths below cannot be moved.

 

Windows	MacOs
C:\Users\<username>\Desktop C:\Users\<username>\Document C:\Users\<username>\Download C:\Windows C:\Program Files C:\Users<username>\AppData C:\Users<username>\Favorites C:\Windows\System32 C:\Windows\Temp C:\ProgramData C:\Users<username>\Saved Games C:\Program Files (x86) C:$Recycle.Bin C:\Recovery C:$WINDOWS.~BT or C:$WINDOWS.~WS C:\System Volume Information	/Users/<username>/Desktop /Users/<username>/Documents /Users/<username>/Downloads /System /Applications /Library /bin, /sbin, /usr /private /Volumes

Missing Images or Folders(Source File Not Found)

• Images or folders with source files deleted or removed
• DNG image without the original file

If moving objects are with both available files and missing files, those available files will be moved successfully. Currently, no pop-up for the missing files yet.

Target Folder Not Writable (Permission Issue)

• The target hard drive or folder is in a read-only state (such as with external hard drives, network storage, or NTFS drives on macOS).
• The target location is a cloud sync folder (e.g., iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox), and Evoto may not be able to write directly to it.

Target Hard Drive Space Insufficient

• The target hard drive does not have enough space to complete the move operation.

Moving Between Parent and Child Folders

• It is not possible to drag a folder into its own subfolder or parent folder. This is to maintain the correct folder hierarchy and prevent data structure confusion.

Target Folder Already Contains a Folder with the Same Name

• Move an image to a target location where an image with the same name already exists.
• Move a folder to a target location where a folder with the same name already exists.

When dragging files containing both files with the same name and different names, the files without name conflicts can be moved successfully. Currently, no pop-ups for the files with name conflicts.