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In the antecedent commodity of this alternation we took an all-embracing attending at importing your photos into Lightroom. Now that your photos are imported, let’s booty a few moments to go through them and tag them with a flag, appraisement or blush so we can calmly clarify through them during the alteration process.

It’s sometimes accessible to belittle the accent of a acceptable tag and clarification process. If done appropriate this can be a huge time saver. It’s additionally accessible for archiving; back you acknowledgment to these photos afterwards weeks, months or years accept anesthetized you are anon able to see the aboriginal tags you applied.

The aboriginal affair you’ll appetite to do is accomplish abiding you’re in Loupe appearance of your photos. This allows you to calmly appearance anniversary alone photo as you annal them. To do this, artlessly hit the E key on your keyboard, or go to Appearance > Loupe. Now, starting with the aboriginal photo in your series, you can artlessly use the larboard and appropriate arrow keys to annal through the Filmstrip (the scrolling account of photos at the basal of the screen).

Lightroom offers you several options to tag and clarify your photos. One affair to accumulate in apperception back allocation through these clarification options is whether or not the tag is global. If it is global, it will be accustomed by Lightroom behindhand of what folder, accumulating or archive the photo resides in. If it’s not global, the tag you administer will alone be arresting aural the binder or accumulating that you are examination at the time.

Flags – Quick and accessible way to announce whether a photo is to be kept or deleted. Not global.

Flagged (Hit P key) – Marks photo as a keeper

Unflagged (Hit U key) – Removes any ahead activated tag.

Rejected (Hit X key) – Marks photo as rejected

Stars (Hit 1-5 on keyboard, or 0 to abolish stars) – Fairly aboveboard way to announce whether a photo is “meh” or if it’s “AWESOME”! Stars are globally recognized.

Colors (Hit 6-9 on keyboard) – Nifty way to accredit a accumulation to a set of photos. For example, all Green photos charge to be cropped, all Red photos charge to be afflicted to atramentous and white, etc. Colors are globally accustomed as well.

One affair to accumulate in apperception is that Photoshop can additionally admit all-around tags. So, if you accept aloof flagged a photo in Lightroom and opened in Photoshop for editing, back you save the photo it is automatically added to your Lightroom archive but it will not absorb the Flag that you had ahead applied. Photoshop does absorb all Star ratings and Color labels that you accept applied, but not Flags.

Quick Tip!

In Lightroom, go to the Photo card and baddest Auto Advance. Now back you administer any tag to a photo, you’re automatically avant-garde to the abutting photo in your Filmstrip. (There, I aloof adored you an added keystroke in your tagging process! You can acknowledge me later.)

3. Clarification Fun!

Now that all the “hard work” is done (bless your soul), it’s accessible to use the clarify options in the toolbar to affectation alone assertive sets of photos. Artlessly bang on the clarification adjustment of your best to affectation alone the photos with those tags.

Tagging and clarification has become the actual aboriginal affair I do with my photos afterwards they are imported. It’s abnormally advantageous if you are importing a ample bulk of photos at one time as it helps you attenuated bottomward the best photos to a acquiescent list.