Question 1

What does organising mean in Published?

Accepted Answer

Three layers that stack. Directories keep the folder structure your photos arrived in. Sets group a handful of frames into the unit a post is built from. Projects gather those sets — plus any loose assets — into one shoot or campaign. You can use any layer on its own, or all three together, from raw import to a project that is ready to batch into drafts.

Question 2

How do directories work, and where do the folder names come from?

Accepted Answer

When you send a shoot from the Lightroom plugin, Published keeps the folder each photo lived in — the directory name, the relative path, and the parent folders — and shows it on the asset. AI Analyze then reads that hierarchy to infer the event or shoot name, location hints, date hints, and subject groupings, so a folder like '2025/Smith-Wedding/Ceremony' already tells Published what the photos are.

Question 3

What is a set, and how is it different from a project?

Accepted Answer

A set is the unit a post is built from — one or more photos that go out together as a single post. A project is bigger: a container that holds many sets plus any loose assets, like a whole wedding or a product launch. You group photos into sets, then gather sets into a project.

Question 4

Can Published group my photos into sets for me?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Multi-select frames in the library and use Add to Set to build a set by hand, or run AI Generate Sets to have Published group a selection into sets automatically. Folder context from import feeds the grouping, so photos that lived together tend to stay together.

Question 5

Does organising change or move my original files?

Accepted Answer

No. Directories, sets, and projects are metadata and grouping inside Published — your originals are never modified or moved. The same photo can sit in a set and a project at once without being duplicated, and resizing or platform variants are always generated on copies.

Question 6

How does a project connect to posting?

Accepted Answer

A project is the hand-off to batch. Once a project holds the sets you want, you can roll the whole thing into post drafts in one action — every set becomes a draft, with an AI caption per draft — then hand those drafts to the scheduler. Organising first is what makes batch posting one click instead of many.

Question 7

Do I have to organise before I can post?

Accepted Answer

No. You can post a single set without ever creating a project, and you can upload without any folder structure. Organising is there for volume — when one shoot turns into weeks of posts, directories, sets, and projects keep hundreds of frames in order so nothing gets lost or posted twice.

Question 8

Can I move assets between projects later?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Assets and sets are not locked to the project they start in — you can add assets to a project, remove them, or move them between projects as a shoot evolves. The grouping is flexible, so reorganising a campaign does not mean re-uploading anything.

Your whole library, in order.

Three layers that keep a shoot in order.

Right-click to organise

Folders come with the photos

Folders become context

Frames into a set

Let AI Generate Sets

Sets into a project

Directories inform sets. Sets fill projects.

Photographers with more library than they can track.

Questions about keeping a library in order.

What organisation works best alongside.

How an organised project becomes a one-click batch

How the plugins carry your folders in

How grouping makes captions sharper

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