The Projects Inspector is where you will do most of your organization. It shows top-level folders. Projects and the products you're making with your images, such as Light Tables, Galleries and Books. It doesn't show individual images as these are organized through the Browser, which sits below or to one side of the Viewer.

The Projects Inspector is pre-filled with smart folders that organize your images by rating or date, to which you can add your own Projects, Albums, Smart Albums, Books, Light Tables, Web galleries. Web journals and Web pages.

Adding too many items to the Inspector can lead to an oversized and unwieldy list in which the contents scroll beyond the bottom of the screen. This is where the All Projects drop-down comes into play. Located immediately above the pre-determined Smart Albums, it lets you display all your Projects, Albums, and so on (the default), or strip down the listing to just your favorite entries, or those you would have used recently. This latter option is particularly handy if you have a single assignment on the go to which you'll be returning frequently without using any of your other resources.

The combined Projects, Metadata and Adjustments panel can be quickly hidden and revealed by clicking the Inspector button on the main toolbar or using the keyboard shortcut . This is particularly useful when working on a small screen, such as a 13-inch MacBook. In this instance, the same collection of inspector panels can be used through...