Gallery

A view for images and photos: large thumbnails, ratings, an adjustable background. Review helpers are turned on with the buttons at the bottom of the Preview pane and are drawn right on the thumbnails: focus peaking shows where the frame is sharp, the sharpness score shows how sharp, and the clipping overlay shows clipped highlights. Lifting shadows and toning down highlights work here too. You can spot a miss before you even open the photo.

• Enter opens the photo in full screen.
• The digits 1–5 set a rating, 0 clears it, and Shift+digit sets a color label.
• The filter in the toolbar shows only photos with the stars and labels you want.

How to use all this for culling is covered on the “Culling photos” page.

Gallery turns on automatically in a folder where more than 80% of the files are images (RAW files count; subfolders, companion files and backups don't), and in a folder that Windows marks as a pictures folder. When you leave such a folder, the usual view returns. The checkbox and threshold are in “Settings” → “View”. A view you choose manually is pinned to the folder like any other. An archive of photos opens in Gallery too.

The background is switched with three squares in the toolbar: light, gray or dark. Captions, overlays, the scroll bar and the Preview pane adapt to it. The light and dark themes each keep their own choice: in the dark theme, the background is dark out of the box, and “light” there is a shade darker than white. The brightness of the gray and dark backgrounds is set in “Settings” → “Interface”.