The library
Everything the house has developed, in two views — a wall for looking and a list for working at a thousand pieces — with a selection bar that names what the house already knows and quotes batch work once, before anything runs.
The library is everything the house has developed, newest first. At a handful of frames any view works. At a thousand pieces the questions change — which of these still has nothing on it, what would fixing all of them cost — and the library is built for those.
The library at scale →Two views
The wall is for looking: frames on the dark viewing surface, revealed in windows as you scan. Open a frame under the light and the arrows walk the whole filtered set.
The list is for working: it sorts by any column, scrolls a thousand rows without strain, and ⇧-click chooses every row between your anchor and the click — a whole run in one gesture.
Both speak the same grammar: click looks, choose selects, and a selection stands across both views. The library remembers which view you use.
Filter either view by kind, by collection, by SKU, or by the develop run that produced the frames — a director thinks in runs, not in files.
The selection bar
Choose pieces and the bar appears. Its first line is the count and the two facts you would otherwise count yourself:
- how many of these nobody has read yet — no verdict on them;
- how many are a front with no back anywhere in their group.
Both are already held by the house; the bar says them at the moment you are deciding what to do. The no-back count carries the one magenta on the surface, because a piece with no back cannot ship. When neither fact is true, no line appears.
What you can do with a selection
- Download the pieces, with real filenames.
- Move to a collection or send through a workflow — the frames go back into the darkroom and return to the wall, at the front.
- Re-file under one kind in a single act.
- Delete — the one action that asks, and it names the number first.
Batch work is quoted once
Ask for a paid action on a selection and the house sums the price book over every piece on the server, then answers with one sentence — how many pieces, what work, how many tokens — and Send it or Not now beside it. Nothing is spent until you answer, and the number quoted is the number settled.
The batch run lands with the capture path
The quote is live and exact today. The paid batch run it prices ships with the capture path, next. The sentence you are shown is a promise the house intends to keep, not one it is already keeping.
Related
- The craft argument at scale: a thousand pieces, and the bar already knows.
- How pieces arrive, get named and get grouped: Collections.
- Running a saved treatment over a selection: Workflows.
The Darkroom
Everything developing at once — concurrent runs that survive a refresh, can be stopped and duplicated, with progress pushed to you rather than polled.
The judge
Every frame you develop is looked at the moment it lands, free, and comes back marked in plain words — twelve marks, a place on your frame, and a paid one-click redraw that carries the correction.