# 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)