In the Library module, photos can display rating stars, flags, and color labels, depending on the view options you set.
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Slide shows can display photos with rating stars. See Display ratings in a slide show.
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To show flags and labels in the thumbnail cells of the Grid view, choose View > View Options. Then, in the Grid View tab of the Library View Options dialog box, select Flags and Tint Grid Cells With Label Colors. To display rating stars, choose Rating from the Top Label or Bottom Label menu.
To show ratings, flags, and labels in the toolbar in the Grid or Loupe view, choose one or more of the following from the toolbar menu: Rating, Flagging, or Color Label.
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Ratings, flags, and labels are always available beneath photos displayed in the Compare and the Survey views.
When assigning ratings to files, you can award from zero to five stars. Rating stars can be set or displayed in any view of the Library module. Once photos are rated, you can click a rating filter button in the Filmstrip or in the Library Filter bar to display and work on photos that you’ve rated with a specific number of stars. See Filter photos in the Filmstrip and Grid view and Find photos using the Attribute filters.
- With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, choose Photo > Set Rating. Then, choose a rating from the submenu.
Note: If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the rating is applied only to the active photo.
- Press a number from 1 through 5 to set the rating. Hold down Shift and press the number to set the rating to select the next photo.
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In the Compare and Survey views, you can click one of the five dots under the photos to assign rating stars. Clicking the first dot assigns one rating star, clicking the second dot assigns two rating stars, clicking the third dot assigns three rating stars, and so forth.
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Clicking the first dot assigns a one-star rating, clicking the second dot assigns two rating stars, clicking the third dot assigns three rating stars, and so forth.
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To display rating stars in compact thumbnail cells, choose Bottom Label > Rating in the Library View Options. To display rating stars in Expanded thumbnail cells, select Show Rating Footer in Library View Options. See Set Library view options for the Grid view.
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With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe or Survey view, click a rating star in the toolbar.
Clicking the first dot assigns a one-star rating, clicking the second dot assigns two rating stars, clicking the third dot assigns three rating stars, and so forth. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe or Survey view, the rating is applied only to the active photo.
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For rating stars to appear in the toolbar, choose Rating from the toolbar menu. See Show controls in the Library module toolbar.
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In the Library module, do any of the following to change rating stars in either the thumbnail cell, toolbar, or Metadata panel:
Click a different rating star to increase or decrease the rating. Clicking a one-star rating removes the rating.
Choose Photo > Set Rating, and then choose a different rating or whether to decrease or increase the rating.
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You can select photos and press ] to increase the rating or press [ to decrease the rating.
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With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, choose Photo > Set Rating > None. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the rating is removed only from the active photo.
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You can also click the stars in a thumbnail cell, in the Library toolbar, or in the Metadata panel to remove ratings. If a photo has a five-star rating, for example, click the fifth star to remove the rating. If a photo has a four-star rating, click the fourth star to remove the rating, and so on.
Flags designate whether a photo is a pick , rejected
, or unflagged. Flags are set in the Library module. Once photos are flagged, you can click a flag filter button in the Filmstrip or in the Library Filter bar to display and work on photos that you’ve labeled with a particular flag. See Filter photos in the Filmstrip and Grid view and Find photos using the Attribute filters.
Flag states are not saved to XMP. They are not visible or available outside of the Lightroom Classic catalog.
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Select one or more photos in the Grid view, or select a single photo in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view. Then, choose Photo > Set Flag and choose the flag you want. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the flag is applied only to the active photo.
Select one photo in the Grid view or the Filmstrip and press the letter P to flag the image a pick or the letter X to mark it as rejected. Hold down Shift and press P or X to set the flag and select the next photo. Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to increase or decrease the flag status, respectively.
(Grid view only) Click the Flag icon in the upper-left corner of the photo thumbnails to apply or remove the Pick flag. Photos with a Reject flag appear dimmed in the Grid view.
Note: To show or set flags in the thumbnail cells of the Grid view, make sure that Flags is selected in the Grid View tab of the Library View Options dialog box. (Choose View > View Options.)
(Compare and Survey views only) Click the Pick or Rejected flag below the photos.
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With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in the Loupe or Survey view, click the desired flag in the toolbar. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe or Survey view, the flag is applied only to the active photo.
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To show or set flags in the toolbar, choose Flagging from the toolbar menu.
The Refine Photos command causes unflagged photos to be flagged as rejected, and picked photos to be unflagged.
Labeling photos with a certain color is a flexible way to quickly mark a large number of photos. For example, suppose you’ve just imported a large number of photos and are viewing them in the Grid view. As you review each new photo, you can label the ones you want to keep. After this initial pass, you can click the color label filter buttons in the Filmstrip to display and work on photos that you’ve labeled with a particular color. See Filter photos in the Filmstrip and Grid view and Find photos using the Attribute filters.
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Select one or more photos in the Grid view, or select a single photo in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view. Then, choose Photo > Set Color Label and choose a label from the submenu. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the label is applied only to the active photo.
(Grid view only) Move the pointer over the Color Label icon at the bottom of the thumbnail cell and then click a color label.
Note: To show or set color labels in thumbnail cells, select Include Color Label in the Grid View tab of the Library View Options dialog box. (Choose View > View Options.)
(Grid, Compare, or Survey view only) Click a color label icon below the photos.
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With one or more photos selected the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe or Survey view, click a color label in the toolbar. If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe or Survey view, the label is applied only to the active photo.
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To show or set color labels in the Library module toolbar, choose Color Label from the toolbar pop-up menu.
You can assign names to color labels in the Edit Color Label Set dialog box. The name is then added to the photo’s metadata when you apply the label.