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Lightroom Classic: Sets color labels with incorrect case in the label name, affecting filters
At some point, Lightroom set the blue color label on my photos to "blue" instead of the standard "Blue". This results in the toolbar filters & smart collection by color label not picking up these values. The only way to find the photos is to use the Attributes filter at the top of the grid, which will display the text values of the color labels, both "blue" and "Blue". At this point, the color labels of the incorrectly marked photos can be updated to the correct labels (via keyboard shortcuts or menu option). Going forward, all the photos will then be able to be found via all the filter options.
I've reported this as a Lightroom bug, but it might help someone so I'm reposting this problem & solution here.
See below the screenshots, illustrating the issue
- Notice the two highlighted blue photos

- Notice the filter results, filtering for blue photos, do not include these two photos

- Notice the attribute value of "Blue" in the filter list for the photos, matching the Blue color label filters, with the upper case B

- Without the color label filter applied, notice all the color label options available in the Attributes filter, specifically the "Blue" & "blue", with both the upper & lower case blue

- Applying the Attribute filter of "blue" with the lower case b results in the 2 original (and others) photos being shown.
At this point, selecting all photos and applying the desired color label (keyboard shortcut "9" or menu option) will mark all the photos as "Blue" and all the photos will be able to be retrieved with the standard filters
I've reported this as a Lightroom bug, but it might help someone so I'm reposting this problem & solution here.
See below the screenshots, illustrating the issue
- Notice the two highlighted blue photos
- Notice the filter results, filtering for blue photos, do not include these two photos
- Notice the attribute value of "Blue" in the filter list for the photos, matching the Blue color label filters, with the upper case B
- Without the color label filter applied, notice all the color label options available in the Attributes filter, specifically the "Blue" & "blue", with both the upper & lower case blue
- Applying the Attribute filter of "blue" with the lower case b results in the 2 original (and others) photos being shown.
At this point, selecting all photos and applying the desired color label (keyboard shortcut "9" or menu option) will mark all the photos as "Blue" and all the photos will be able to be retrieved with the standard filters
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chinoy_gupta
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I agree with consistency issues. We will investigate it further.
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robert_somrak
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I think it is 2 bugs in the display of the label badges and an inaccurate dropdown list in the Smart Collection. See my summary at the end of this thread.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/inconsistiency-of-labels-of-the-same-spelling...
I was analyzing Svelana's issue in the bug report and discovered other issues summarized in my other thread.
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I discovered this issue solving another users question on another forum. Apparently the labeling was done in another program.
Select 3 photos and set the label to the DEFAULT "Blue" in Lightroom. Go to the library panel and rename one to "blue" (only the case changed) and one to "Cyan". As you can see the left photo is labeled "Blue" with a blue square, the middle photo is labeled "blue" with a blue square and the right photo is labeled "cyan" with a white square which is a custom label. This means the displayed labels are apparently "case insensitive"
If you use the Library grid and the filter Metadata panel it IS "case sensitive"
Select "Blue" and only the "Blue" label name photo is shown. The "blue" label name photo is not.
Select "blue" and only the "blue" label name photo is shown. The "Blue" label name photo is not.
If you use the Library grid and the filter Attribute panel it IS also "case sensitive". Filtering by the Blue label only shows the "Blue" label name photo and not the "blue" label name photo
This also happens using the smart collection although the dropdown list only shows a lower case "blue" and not both "Blue and blue". The strange thing when it is using "blue" it only selects the photo with the "Blue" named label.
The filters and smart collection correctly identify the "blue" and "cyan" photos as custom.
There are two issues here that need to be fixed.
One issue is that the badges on the photo with a "blue" named label should be WHITE or custom to be consistent with the rest of the interface respecting the CASE of the spelling.
The other issue is the Smart filter dropdown should respect the CASE of the label spelling like the Metadata panel does.
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robert_somrak
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I think it is good that you can have custom label sets with different names (although I don't use that feature) but the interface should treat the CASE of the label names consistently. I didn't think about the language differences of the label names.
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Inconsistiency of Labels of the same spelling but different capitiization.
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svetlanaday
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The photos affected by these issues span across years, so this incorrect setting happened on multiple occasions. Probably even across different versions of Lightroom. But within Lightroom alone
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Rikk
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The Lightroom Classic CC was updated today and contains a fix for this issue. Please download the new version and give it a try and let us know how it works.
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Rikk
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Thank you for your patience.
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