- Getting started
- Organizing folders
- Using collections to organize images
- Taking your collections on the road
- Using flags and ratings
- Adding metadata
- Tagging faces in the People view
- Organizing photos by location
- Finding and filtering files
- Reconnecting missing files and folders
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using flags and ratings
The Attribute filters in the Filter bar allow you to search and sort your images according to attributes such as flags and ratings.
When you choose Attribute from the Library Filter options in the Filter bar, the Filter bar expands to display controls for sorting your images by flag status, edit status, star rating, color label, copy status, or any combination of these attributes.
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Flagging images
Assigning flags to sort the good images from the rejects can be a good way to begin organizing a group of photos. An image can be flagged as a pick (
), a reject (
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Choose Attribute from the picker in the Filter bar. The Filter bar expands to show the Attribute filter controls.
TipIn the Grid and Loupe views, you’ll find tools for adding ratings, flags, and color labels in the Toolbar. In the Compare and Survey views you can change these attributes using the controls beneath the images. You can also flag, rate, or color label a selected image by using the Set Flag, Set Rating, or Set Color Label commands in the Photo menu.
If the Toolbar is not already visible below the Grid view, press the T key. Click the triangle at the right side of the Toolbar and activate the Flagging tool in the menu to show the Flag As Pick and Set As Rejected buttons in the Toolbar.
In the Folders panel, select the Vacation subfolder inside the Lesson 4 folder.
In the Grid view, select a favorite from this group of photos captured on vacation in Copenhagen. If the Flags option is activated in the Library View Options dialog box, a grey (un-filled) flag icon in the upper left corner of the image cell indicates that this photo is not flagged. If necessary, hold the pointer over the image cell to see the flag, or disable the option Show Clickable Items On Mouse Over Only in the Library View Options dialog box.
To change the flag status to Flagged, you can either click the flag badge in the image cell or the Flag As Pick button (
) in the Toolbar. Note that the photo is now marked with a white flag icon in the upper left corner of the image cell.Click the white flag button in the Attribute Filter bar. The Grid view displays only the image that you just flagged. The view is now filtered to display only flagged images from the Vacation folder.
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Lightroom Classic CC offers a variety of ways to flag a photo. To flag a photo as a pick, choose Photo > Set Flag > Flagged or press the P key on your keyboard. Click the flag icon at the top left corner of the image cell to toggle between Unflagged and Pick status. To flag an image as a reject, choose Photo > Set Flag > Rejected, press the X key, or Alt-click / Option-click the flag icon in the corner of the image cell. To remove a flag from an image, choose Photo > Set Flag > Unflagged or press the U key. To set any flag status for an image, right-click / Control-click the flag icon in the corner of the image cell and choose Flagged, Unflagged, or Rejected from the menu.
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You can use the Library > Refine Photos command to sort your photos quickly on the basis of their flagging status. Choose Library > Refine Photos, and then click Refine in the Refine Photos dialog box; any unflagged photos are flagged as rejects and the picks are reset to unflagged status.
Click the grey flag button (the flag in the center) in the Attribute Filter bar. The Grid view now displays any photos flagged as Picks and all unflagged photos, so once again we see all of the images in the Vacation folder.
In the Filter bar, click None to disable the Attribute filters.
Assigning ratings
A quick and easy way to sort your images as you review and evaluate them is to assign each photo a rating on a scale from one to five stars.
In the Grid view, select another of the photos in the Vacation folder.
Press the 3 key on your keyboard. The message “Set Rating to 3” appears briefly and the photo is now marked with three stars in the lower left of its image cell.
TipIf you don’t see the star rating in the image cell, choose View > View Options and make sure Rating And Label is activated in the image cell display options.
If necessary, click the triangle at the right of the Toolbar and make sure that the Rating controls are activated in the menu. The stars in the Toolbar reflect the rating you just applied to the selected image.
In the Folders panel, select the Architecture folder, and then use the same technique to assign a rating of three or more stars to one of the Eiffel Tower images. Click in the Folders panel to reset the Vacation folder as the image source.
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It’s easy to change the rating for a selected image; simply press another key between 1 and 5 to apply a new rating or press the 0 key to remove the rating altogether. Alternatively, you can click the stars in the Toolbar to change the rating, or click the highest star in the current rating to remove it.
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You can also assign ratings in the Metadata panel, by choosing from the Photo > Set Rating menu, or by choosing from the Set Rating submenu in the context menu when you right-click / Control-click a photo’s thumbnail.
