From the course: Learning Lightroom Mobile

Reviewing and rating your photos - Lightroom Mobile Tutorial

From the course: Learning Lightroom Mobile

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Reviewing and rating your photos

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- [Instructor] So far in this course, we've been focusing on photo editing, but Lightroom on mobile is more than just a photo editor. It also has some great features to help you manage, organize, and find your photos. So what would you do when you come back from a shoot, you have a lot of photos you've added to Lightroom on mobile, and you want to review those and give them some kind of a rating to help you organize them? If you're on an iPad, then open the first of those photos into loupe view. On an iPad, you then want to activate the star and pick rating system by tapping the star in the task bar on the right, and this is down at the bottom right of the task bar. Now you can add flags to the photo and/or stars. I like to rate with flags because they're simpler. There are only three categories of flags, a pick flag, a reject flag, or no flag at all. So you can either apply a pick flag by tapping it at the bottom of the screen, or you can swipe up on the right side of the screen. If you swipe on the left side of the screen, that will give you stars. So I'm going to select the pick flag here, and then to get to the next photo, I'll just swipe to the left. Here's one I really don't care about either way, so I'll leave it unmarked. Swipe to the left. Here's one that I'd like to reject. So I'll swipe down on the right side of the screen and choose the reject flag. And I'll keep going this way, and you can see that it would go pretty fast. There's a pick, there's a reject, this one I'm neutral on, this one I'm neutral on, I think I can fix this in Lightroom. And here's one I really like. So I'm going to give this a pick flag, and I'm also going to give it five stars. So to do that, I could either tap five stars at the bottom of the screen, or I can swipe up on the left side of the screen like this. And here's another one to which which I'll give five stars and a pick flag. So swipe on the right side to give it a pick flag, swipe on the left to give it five stars. And you can quickly go through a lot of photos this way. Then when you're done, you can filter based on pick flags and stars. So I'm going to tap the back arrow at the top of the screen, and at the top right of the grid view, there is a filter icon, a funnel, I'll tap that, and here I can choose from any of these parameters to filter on the camera I use, the location, the media, as well as pick flags and stars. So let's say I want to see all the photos to which I've given reject flags. I'll tap the reject flag, and that shows me the two photos, and at this point I can decide what to do with them. Now one option is to select them both and delete them. So if I tap and hold on one, and then I tap on the other, they're both selected. And at the bottom of the screen, there is a trashcan icon. If I tap that, I get this warning that if I do go ahead and tap Delete, I'll be removing these from my Lightroom photos, not only here on my mobile device, but on all synced devices, as well as in shared galleries and albums in Lightroom on the web. So I'm going to hold off from deleting these, but often I will delete photos that I really don't want to keep, like the photos that I shoot with my iPhone of my foot. I'm just going to cancel this for now, and I'll cancel here too, and then I'll go back to the funnel and I'm going to tap the reject flag to undo that filter. And let's say I wanted to see all the photos to which I'd given five stars. Well then, I can swipe across the five stars, and there are my best photos. And I might go ahead and edit these, or I might make an album and put them in an album so they're all in one place, but I can always access them again, using the five star filter. And when I want to clear this filter, I'll just tap the X at the top right. So that's a simple rating system that you can use in Lightroom on mobile to keep track of your favorite and your least favorite photos.

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