Photo Identity & Triage (Preview Tab)¶
The Preview tab is the photo's identity dashboard. It shows what the camera captured, lets you flag and rate the shot for later filtering, and surfaces any changes you've staged but not yet committed. Use it as your "do I keep this?" pane before diving into Location, Tags, or the other editors.
Triage Row¶
The bar at the top of the tab is the Triage Row, a three-cell control for picks, color labels, and star ratings. These are catalog metadata only: they live in your local Jade GT session and are never written into the EXIF inside the photo.
- Flag: Pick (P), Reject (X), or Unflag (U). The active flag is highlighted with a colored glow (emerald for Pick, red for Reject).
- Label: five color swatches (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple), with shortcuts 6 through 9 for the first four. The active swatch picks up a white ring and a colored shadow.
- Stars: a 1-to-5 rating bank, with shortcuts 1 through 5. Click the × at the end of the row to clear a rating back to zero.
When more than one photo is selected and the photos disagree on flag, label, or rating, the relevant cell shows a small Mixed badge instead of an active state.
Prev/Next Navigation¶
Above the image, paired ‹ / › buttons flank an "X of Y" position counter. Both buttons honor your active library filter: if you've narrowed the gallery to "5-star photos only," prev/next walks the visible subset, not the full library.
If the currently selected photo is filtered out (you applied a filter after selecting it), the buttons stay enabled so you can step away to a visible photo. The counter reads "out of view" to signal this stranded state.
Image and Metadata Cards¶
Under the triage row, the Preview tab shows the photo at gallery resolution with up to five cards underneath. Cards only render when the underlying data is present, so a phone shot with no GPS will not show a Location card.
- Image footer: dimensions in pixels, megapixels, format (JPG, PNG, RAW, etc.), and file size.
- Exposure: f-number, shutter speed, ISO, and focal length. Pulled from EXIF.
- Camera: body make and model, plus lens model when present.
- Date Taken: timestamp from EXIF
DateTimeOriginal, localized to your browser's time zone. - Location: reverse-geocoded place name (city, region, country) when GPS is set, with the raw lat/lng coordinates beneath.
Readiness, Staged Badges, and Re-read¶
A row of contextual badges sits below the metadata cards.
- Readiness pill: a single colored chip showing the photo's stock-readiness score. Click it to jump straight into the Tags tab's Stock Readiness dashboard. Disabled while a Privacy Scrub is staged.
- Staged-change badges: one per category (Tags, GPS, Compress, Rename, Date, Scrub) with a count of pending edits in each. The badges are click-throughs to the relevant tab.
- Re-read: re-reads EXIF and IPTC from the file on disk and discards any pending Tags edits. Useful when you've round-tripped the file through Lightroom or another editor while Jade GT was open. A confirmation dialog warns that the re-read is not undoable.
Inline Staged-Diff Card¶
When any change is staged for the selected photo, a Pending Save card appears at the bottom of the Preview tab listing exactly what will be written on commit, grouped by category. This is the same per-photo summary the Review Hub shows, surfaced here so you don't have to round-trip through the Commit dialog to remind yourself what you've changed.
Batch Preview View¶
When you select two or more photos, Preview switches to a roll-up view that summarises the selection instead of one photo's image.
- Selection summary: total photo count, combined size, and a format breakdown (e.g.
JPEG 4). - Thumbnail strip: the first 12 photos as small chips, with a "+ N more" affordance when the selection is larger.
- Aggregated stats: top-three Cameras by count, the Date Range spanning the earliest and latest captures, and GPS Coverage ("3 of 50, 60%") so you can see at a glance how many photos in the batch already have location.
- Staged-change badges: same per-category counts as the single view, but rolled up across the entire selection.
The batch triage row applies whatever you set across every selected photo, with a Mixed badge in any cell where the photos currently disagree.