0:45 · Review, Triage & Publish
Goal: decide which take is good, and record that decision where the rest of the system can act on it. Ten minutes.
Why this isn't just tidying
Published is a load-bearing word in Loft. When you publish a take, Editorial conforms cuts to it automatically, other assets can reference it, and it becomes the version downstream work sees. A folder full of unreviewed takes is inert; one published take is a decision the pipeline can act on. That's the whole reason to spend these ten minutes.
Step 1 — Open File Detail
In your asset's Files, click a generated image. This opens File Detail — a full-screen review tool with the media in the center, a filmstrip of every file in the set below it, and a tabbed panel on the right.
Step 2 — Triage without the mouse
This is the fastest thing in the app, and worth building the habit now. Navigate with the arrow keys, set status with the number keys:
| ← / → | Previous / next file |
| 1 | New |
| 2 | Selected — a candidate |
| 3 | Published — final |
| 4 | Dropped — rejected |
| 5 | Reference — an input, not a deliverable |
| Enter | Cycle to the next status |
| F | Toggle fullscreen |
Walk your takes end to end: 4 the ones that missed,2 the contenders, and 3 the one you'd actually deliver. Dropped files hide from the browser by default, so the library cleans itself up as you go.
Step 3 — Leave a note that sticks to a frame
On video, annotations are pinned to a specific frame. Use + Comment to attach a note at the current frame, or ✎ Draw to sketch an overlay that reappears whenever anyone scrubs back to it — a marker strip on the timeline shows where notes exist. On images, the viewer is a drawing canvas you can save an edit from.
Annotations are real, team-visible items on the asset, not throwaway UI state. Leave one now, even if you're the only person on this project.
Step 4 — Send it to review
In the right-hand panel, open the Submit tab, choose which daily to Submit to, and add a short description. Your file joins that daily's Submissions, where the team watches, annotates, and leaves notes in one place. The same tab lists what you've submitted to, so you can unsubmit.
The other tabs are worth a look while you're here: Notes, Context (prompt, model, seed, and the role tags that affect how this image gets used in later generations), and History— the generation that produced this file and any that used it as an input, each with a regenerate button. The History tab beside an asset's Files lists only the generations whose outputs are in that file list.
Checkpoint
- Exactly one of your takes is Published; the rest are Selected or Dropped.
- You triaged at least a few files using only the keyboard.
- One annotation or note exists on a file.
- A file appears in a daily's Submissions.