# Documentation

## Documentation

- [Tropy Basics](https://docs.tropy.org/readme.md): Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.
- [What's New](https://docs.tropy.org/whats-new.md): This page describes the new features from our current release.
- [Tropy Basics](https://docs.tropy.org/before-you-begin/before-you-begin.md): Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.
- [Who owns the rights to the archival materials I use?](https://docs.tropy.org/before-you-begin/rights.md)
- [What is metadata and how do I use it?](https://docs.tropy.org/before-you-begin/metadata.md)
- [Intro to the interface](https://docs.tropy.org/using-tropy/intro-to-the-interface.md)
- [Create a new project.](https://docs.tropy.org/using-tropy/create_project.md)
- [Add photos to Tropy.](https://docs.tropy.org/using-tropy/add_files.md)
- [View photos in project view.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/view_photos.md)
- [Combine photos into items.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/combine_photos.md)
- [Add metadata to items.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/add_metadata.md)
- [Tag items.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/tags.md)
- [Organize items into lists.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/lists.md)
- [Search for items, metadata, notes, or tags.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/search.md)
- [Copy and paste items.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/copy-and-paste-items..md)
- [Delete items.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-project-view/delete_photos.md)
- [Getting started in the item view](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-item-view/item-view-basics.md)
- [Edit photos in an item.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-item-view/photo-editing.md)
- [Create selections within an item.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-item-view/selections.md)
- [Take notes on or transcribe the content of an item.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-item-view/notes.md)
- [Getting started with templates](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-template-editor/using-templates.md)
- [Create a new template.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-template-editor/create-template.md)
- [Edit a template.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-template-editor/edit-templates.md)
- [Export and import templates.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-template-editor/export-import-templates.md)
- [Add vocabularies.](https://docs.tropy.org/in-the-template-editor/vocabularies.md)
- [Export from Tropy](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/export.md)
- [Export with CSV Export plugin](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/export-with-plugins.md)
- [Export with Archive plugin](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/export-with-archive-plugin.md)
- [Export to Omeka S](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/omeka.md)
- [Import IIIF Manifests](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/iiif.md)
- [Print items](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/print-items.md)
- [Keyboard shortcuts in Tropy](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/keyboard-shortcuts.md)
- [Preferences](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/preferencesmd.md)
- [Collaboration](https://docs.tropy.org/other-features/collaboration.md)
- [Moving photos](https://docs.tropy.org/troubleshooting/moving-photos.md): This page describes how you can help Tropy re-associate images if you move them to a different location.
- [Reporting problems](https://docs.tropy.org/troubleshooting/forums.md)
- [Backup](https://docs.tropy.org/troubleshooting/backup.md)