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Lightroom Tip - Color Label Sets

04/07/08
I would guess that most people do not use Color Labels.
They can be useful, as Lightroom allows you to edit and prepare custom color label sets. Color Labels allow you to add an extra level on information say for flagging images to be printed, deleted or archived.

Lightroom Color Labels

Make sure that the Color Labels are turned on for your thumbnails by checking Show Rating Footer check box in the View / View Options menu.

Lightroom Color Label Check Box

Once selected you will see the square Color Label icon underneath the thumbnail. Note, you may have to cycle through the thumbnail modes using the J key to see them. Now click on the square icon. A pop up list appears which will allow you to quickly assign a color flag. You can assign a color flag in a number of different ways. Probalby the quickest way is to use the numerical keys, 6 through 9, though for some reason, only the first four color lables have shortcut keys!

Lightroom Colour Label List

If you want to assign your own color labels you can do so using the menu item Metadata / Color Label Set / Edit. This brings up a dialog box which will allow you to define you own set of five labels. The defaut alternative ones are also worth playng with.
Hope this helps.

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Lightroom Tips eBook Spanish Translation Available

05/06/08
A Spanish translation of the Lightroom Tips eBook has been completed by Carlos Anton. My thanks to Carlos for making the ebook available to Spanish Lightroom users.

You can download the eBook from the Image-Space Lightroom Tips eBook downloads page or
directly from his website.

Lightroom Tips ebook Spanish

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Lightroom version 2.0 - My Top 5 Requirements

02/02/08
Scott Kelby posted on his blog last week (23rd Jan) that he had just visited Adobe and was very impressed with what he had seen of the planned Lightroom version 2.0. He gave no details of the planned features or changes, which was not unexpected as he is under non-disclosure.

So here are my Top 5 feature requests for Lightroom v 2.0 having used it from the very first beta.

    • Ability to display a JPEG with the same 'settings' as was used to capture the image in the Camera. Most of individual camera manufacturers have this in their software (Nikon's Capture NX for instance) but this data is probably not available to the Lightroom Team.

    • Selective image editing of just small areas of an image. The Targeted Adjustment Tool is good but TAT edits affect the whole of the image.

    • Dual Monitor support. I really miss this as a 'long time ago' Aperture user!

    • Better cloning and patching tools. The dust spot removal is much better that it was but I want to avoid round tripping to Photoshop

    • Inclusion of some of the cataloging and smart searching functionality that Aperture has.


    What features would you like?

    Link to Scott Kelby's Lightrooom Post

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