Look in the upper-right corner of Lightroom, and make sure you're in
the Library module.
The work area is located in the middle of your screen.
The gray area around the thumbnail is called the cell.
Press j repeatedly to cycle through three variations on what
appears in the cell.
Click on the thumbnail for one of your photographs.
The cell color changes from a dark gray to a lighter gray.
The thumbnail is selected.
Press / to deselect it.
Cell with Thumbnail Inside
Select All & Deselect All
To select all of the thumbnails, Press Ctrl + a.
To deselect all of the selected thumbnails, press Ctrl + d.
In a Row
To select a contiguous series of thumbnails, do the following.
1) Click the first thumbnail.
2) Press and hold Shift.
3) Click the last thumbnail.
Willy Nilly
To select thumbnails from many different locations, do the following.
1) Press and hold Ctrl.
2) Click the thumbnails.
Most Active Thumbnail
If you select more than one thumbnail, the first one you select is
designated as being the most active.
The cell color of the most-active thumbnail will be a lighter shade
of gray.
You can synchronize (apply) the editing done on the most-active thumbnail
to the active thumbnails.
For example, if you edit the exposure of a photograph, you can apply
the same editing to similar photographs.
Most Active |
Selected |
Not Selected |
Move a Thumbnail
To move a thumbnail, do the following.
1) You have to click on the bottom-most folder or bottom-most
collection.
Let's say you've clicked on a folder called Paul & John
Wedding.
There are several sub-folders under the Paul & John Wedding
folder.
You won't be able to move the thumbnails.
You have to click on one of the sub-folders, such as one called
Reception.
2) Click and hold on the image, and not the border around the
image.
3) Drag it to its new position.
Numbers
The thumbnails are numbered by Lightroom in the upper-left corners of the cells.
Typically, flagging is used to separate the keepers from the duds.
In the upper-left corner, there's a flag icon.
Click the flag icon to flag the thumbnail.
A flagged thumbnail is considered to be a keeper.
A rejected or non-flagged thumbnail is a dud.
Press p to flag.
Press x to reject.
To undo the above, press u.
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Flagged
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Press p
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Rejected
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Press x
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Unflagged
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Press u
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Here are more ways to flag thumbnails.
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On Tool Bar?
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Yes
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Keyboard Shortcut
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p = Flag
x = Reject
u = Unflag
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Right Click Menu
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Yes
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Menu on Top of the Screen
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Photo > Set Flag
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On Thumbnail Border?
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Yes
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Other & Related Methods
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• Press Ctrl + Up Arrow & Press Ctrl
+ Down Arrow to change.
• Press the Caps-lock key to engage
Auto Advance.
• To delete the rejected
thumbnails, press Ctrl + Backspace (Mac: Cmd + Delete).
• Go to Library > Refine Photos to change all unflagged thumbnails to rejects, and all flagged
thumbnails to unflagged.
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Go to Flags.
Typically, star ratings are used to rate the quality of photographs.
Look for the row of tiny gray dots below the thumbnail.
Click on the dots to rate the photograph with stars.
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On Tool Bar?
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Yes
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Keyboard Shortcut
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0 = No stars
1 = ★
2 = ★★
3 = ★★★
4 = ★★★★
5 = ★★★★★
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Right Click Menu
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Yes
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Menu on Top of the Screen
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Photo > Set Rating
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On Thumbnail Border?
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Yes
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Other & Related Methods
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Press the Caps-lock key to engage
Auto Advance.
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Go to Star Ratings.
Color Labels
Typically, color labels are used to denote what actions have or have
not been performed on photographs.
The default color label captions are their colors.
You can change them to reflect your workflow.
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Red
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Unedited
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Yellow
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Edited
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Green
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To Photoshop Elements
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Blue
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To be printed
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Purple
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Done
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Look for the row rectangle below the thumbnail to the right of the
stars.
Click the rectangle to color the gray area surrounding the gray area
around the thumbnail.
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On Tool Bar?
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Click triangle at right end of the
tool bar to add to the tool bar.
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Keyboard Shortcut
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Red = 6
Yellow = 7
Green = 8
Blue = 9
Purple = None
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Right Click Menu
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Yes
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Menu on Top of the Screen
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Photo > Set Color Label
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On Thumbnail Border?
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Yes. Press Ctrl + j. Select Show
Grid Extras & Expanded Cells at the top. At the bottom, select
Include Color Label.
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Other & Related Methods
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Go to Color Labels.
You can rotate a photograph using the two gray arrows beneath a thumbnail.
Click on the arrows, even if the photograph doesn't have to be rotated.
Change More than One Thumbnail
If you select more than one thumbnail, and then click one of the
features on one of the selected thumbnails, the action is performed
on all of the selected thumbnails.
For example, let's say you downloaded photographs from your camera.
You click on the thumbnails for the photographs that are keepers.
Then, you click the flag icon on one of the selected thumbnails.
All of the selected photographs will be flagged.
You've been using the Grid view.
There's also the Loupe view.
Grid View - Press g
Grid & Loupe Views
The above view is called Grid view.
Press e on your keyboard.
The thumbnail you selected enlarges.
This is called Loupe view.
Press g on your keyboard.
Now, you're back in Grid view.
Press d to go to the Develop module.
| g |
e |
d |
| Grid View |
Loupe View |
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Loupe View - Press e
Instead of Pressing g & e
If you press the space bar, you'll go to Loupe view.
Press again, and you'll go to the last magnification that you
used.
There are also icons you can click to change the view from Grid to Loupe.
Look on the left end of the tool bar at the bottom of the work area.
Zoom Entire Grid In & Out
In Grid view, you can zoom the entire grid in and out.
To zoom in, press =.
To zoom out, press –.
Change the Cell or Display
You can change the features and information displayed in the cells
around the thumbnails.
In Grid view, press j to cycle through the choices.
In Loupe view, press i to do the same.
Change the Preferences for Grid & Loupe Views
Press Ctrl + j to change the preferences of the Grid and Loupe views.
