Managing Albums

The albums in Synology Moments are virtual albums created automatically or manually. This package smartly organizes large amounts of photos and videos, allowing you to effectively manage them and flexibly share the albums you created with friends.

Overview

The albums in the Albums tab are divided into the upper and lower sections with a horizontal line.

Automatically created albums:

The upper section contains automatically created albums with the following album names:

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Manually created albums:

The lower section contains manually created albums. Since these albums are virtual albums, you can add the same photos and videos to multiple albums without occupying additional storage space, thus preventing data redundancy.

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Create New Albums

To create an album, click the Add icon on the upper right corner and then select Create album, or do either of the following:

To create an album from selected items:

  1. Select one or multiple photos and videos and then click the Add to album icon on the action bar.
  2. Click New album to add the items to a newly created album or an existing album.

To create an album from selected folders:

  1. Go to the Photos tab and select Folder View in the dropdown menu.
  2. Select one or multiple folders and click the Create album from folder icon on the action bar (if more than one folder is selected, you can merge them into one album or create individual albums).
  3. Go to the Albums tab to find the created album and browse its photos and videos.

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Edit Photo Albums

Only manually created albums can be edited.

To change the album cover:

Go to any manually created album and do either of the following to change its cover:

To change the album title:

To add photos to an album:

Please do either of the following to add photos to an album:

To delete an album:

Label and Edit Faces

Similar faces in the People albums are grouped together, and are sorted according to people's name and the number of photos.

To label and edit the faces in the People album:

To remove the facial recognition results:

To remove certain photos from a person's facial recognition results, please do the following:

  1. Go to a People album and select the photos you want to remove or move, and then click the More icon on the upper right corner and select Remove the selected photos.
  2. Do either of the following:
  3. Click OK to finish.

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To set the cover photo of a People album:

  1. Go to a People album and select a photo that you want to use as the cover photo.
  2. Click the More icon and select Set as cover photo.