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Lightroom: Ability to cull images through rating, color, picks during import
I wish, I could rate my picture using my evaluation-stars and -colors directly during the import process and adding specific meta-tags maybe just to one photo (and not the entire import).For instance: I am shooting all day for 5 different projects - they all mix on one SD-card. Coming back, I have to go thru the import-process 5 times, looking thru all the pictures over and over again to sort out the pictures for these five projects.Why can ́t I do this straightaway during import? Am I over looking something already there in LR?I hope, you can understand my wish.
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jeff_harmon_6641719
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4 years ago
Please add a "Cull" module to Lightroom that a photographer can choose to use before Import where you can open up a folder of photos on the hard drive and have thumbnails shown using the JPEG previews stored inside Raw files. Let the photographer use all of the ratings (stars, colors, pick flags) to apply to photos then use those ratings to decide how to move into the Import process from there. Have Lightroom offer to only import photos with certain ratings, or to import all photos but only build the previews (both standard and smart) for the photos with certain ratings. This would speed up the process of culling photos tremendously and prevent people from turning to products like Photo Mechanic to do that portion of their workflow.
Very happy to talk in more detail with Adobe about this idea if you would like.
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art_altman
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Jerry_Syder
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Jerry Syder, www.jsyder.co.uk - Insta @takenword
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amaxwellandrews
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4 years ago
I want Photoshop Lightroom to find the areas of the photo that are in focus and mark them when nothing is in focus.
Photoshop already does this automatically for focus stacking.
I want it applied in Lightroom to cull photos.
Please push this idea. Adobe already knows how to do it.
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ed_shanahan
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henrikj_6103890
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3 years ago
If I take 100 images, rate 10 of them I would to like to import only the 10 images and skip the other 90 image to save time, battery, HD space and so on when I'm at the laptop.
Why isn't this possible? Can't take long time to develop?
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timothy_levy
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18 days ago
While we can 'star' / rate images on our cameras, we should be able to import ONLY the starred images as it would save a lot of time and a lot of hard drive space. For example - shoot a sports match at 10 frames per second = 2000 images + select & star 40 hero images on camera, therefore should be able to import ONLY these 40 starred images... Instead we have to import 2000 images and then click 'star' rating. This is a waste of time.
There are already sorting options in the import dialog - but the only truely useful one is missing.
PLEASE ADD THIS OPTION - SORRY FOR SHOUTING !!!!
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JohanElzenga
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17 days ago
Somebody merged a recent discussion with this thread, but I am not sure that is correct. This thread is about rating during import. The merged thread was about Lightroom filtering images that are rated in-camera. Similar perhaps, but definitely not the same request.
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Johan W. Elzenga,
http://www.johanfoto.com
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sandiegosteve
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16 days ago
This is a 4 year old thread that just blew up my inbox.
The topic of why not filter the ratings your camera gives might be because not all cameras use the same "standard" which makes it hard.
PhotoMechanic and... Adobe Bridge that comes with LR can help with this.
I use bridge for most stuff. PM is great when you need to tag too (like for a news wire). Both look at the metadata and use the embedded JPEG for very fast preview. Select the ones in bridge and drag them into LR. You end up on the import page with just the ones you want. I always do a first pass in Bridge.
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