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# Sorting Images
Learn how to sort your images by various criteria, such as date, rating, or file type, to quickly find specific photos within Luminar for Desktop's interface.
**Sort** feature lets you choose the exact order of images in your Catalog, making it easier to manage and navigate your collection.
To access the sorting options, click the **Sort** icon (the icon with two opposite-facing vertical arrows) in the bottom-right corner of the workspace:
#### **Sorting Options:**
* **Capture Time:** Sorts your images using date and time metadata. This allows you to quickly find your most recent (or oldest) photos in a folder or album.
* **Edit Time:** Sorts your photos by the most recent edit date in the application. This is great when you reopen your Catalog after a break and want to quickly find the images you were working on last.
* **Flag:** Groups and sorts your images by their flag status. If you sort by ascending order, you will see Unmarked, Rejected, and Favorite images in that order. Switching to Descending reverses the order.
* **Rating:** Sorts your images based on their user-assigned star ratings.
* **File Name**: Sorts your images by their file name. Files starting with a number will appear first, followed by letters from A to Z. When set to Descending order, images will be sorted from Z to A and then numerically from highest to lowest.
* **File Type:** This option categorizes and sorts images by file type, such as JPEG, TIFF, and raw. These groups are sorted alphabetically by the file identifier. For example, Sony raw images would appear first, as they are ARW files. Canon raw files would appear second, as they are CR2 files, followed by JPG, Nikon NEF files, Fujifilm RAF files, and TIFFs.
* **File Size:** You can sort your files by their size. This is useful if you have multiple versions of the same photos, perhaps low-quality thumbnails and the original JPEGs. Sorting by size lets you easily group photos and quickly delete them from your Catalog in the case of low-resolution thumbnails.
#### **Sorting Direction:**
* **Ascending**. This option works with the other filter criteria, sorting filter results from smallest to largest, A to Z, from lowest to highest number, from oldest to newest, and so on.
* **Descending**. This option works with the other filter criteria and reverses the sorting order, displaying results from largest to smallest, Z to A, newest to oldest, etc.
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