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[Lightroom for Travel Photography]
I tend to take a lot of pictures when I'm traveling,
so when I want to share some of my favorite photos with others,
it can be very helpful if I'm organized right from the start.
And so while I'm traveling, and in fact preferably at the end of each day,
I like to go through to that day's photos and identify my favorites.
Lightroom includes several options for identifying favorite images.
Those include pick flags, star ratings, and color labels.
All of these options can be found on the Photo menu.
So when you are working with your images in the Library module, for example,
you could select an image and then go to the Photo menu
and choose either Set Flag, Set Rating, or Set Color Label followed by the desired option
in order to add that attribute to the image.
You can also right click on any photo and then choose the exact same options,
from Set Flag, Set Rating, or Set Color Label.
But my preference is to utilize keyboard shortcuts.
I typically navigate through my images using the filmstrip.
You can see I've already selected the first image on the filmstrip,
and then I'll switch to the loop view so that I can see each image a little bit larger.
Let's take a look at pick flags first.
A pick flag essentially gives a yes or no decision to an image.
Is it a picked image, is it an unpicked image which implies you've simply not reviewed it yet
or is it a rejected image?
The keyboard shortcuts are P for a pick flag,
U to unpick or remove the pick flag from an image,
and X to mark an image as rejected.
This image, for example, is not anything terribly special,
but it is an interesting skyline, so perhaps I would press P to mark it as a picked image.
This image is perhaps a little bit too dark and not all that interesting,
so perhaps I might reject it by pressing the letter X to reject that image,
to add a reject flag.
And then I can continue navigating among my images
using the arrow keys on the keyboard to decide which images will be picked
and which images will be rejected.
Another option is star ratings,
and with star ratings we're essentially giving a qualitative evaluation to an image.
So is an image just okay or is it very, very good?
We can use the numbered keys on the keyboard in order to add a star rating.
A number 1 will assign a 1 star rating, 2 will assign a 2 star rating,
3 will assign 3 stars and so on, all the way up to a total of 5 stars.
If you want to remove a star rating, you can simply press the number 0 for 0 stars.
Let's assume this image might get a 2 star rating.
This one I like the framing a little bit better, so maybe I'll give it a 3 star rating and so on.
So I can continue assigning star ratings to my images,
with my very best images getting a 5 star rating
and perhaps my not-so-good images getting a 1 star rating,
with various levels in between, obviously.
We can also use color labels, and those are red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
They don't actually have any inherent meaning,
so you can actually assign your own meaning if you want to identify images in a particular way.
For example, if I capture multiple images that are intended to be part of a single image--
for example, with high dynamic range imaging or perhaps a composite panorama--
I'll assign a yellow color label to identify those images as being part of a set.
You might also assign a red color label, for example,
to images you intend to use in a particular project.
The color labels can be assigned also with numbers on the keyboard,
with 6 being the red color label, 7 being yellow,
8 being green, 9 being blue,
and purple unfortunately does not have a keyboard shortcut,
so that one you'll need to choose from the menu.
So you can see there are several options,
and you might approach your images in a variety of different ways.
If you tend to make an absolute yes or no decision about a photograph
and whether you are going to keep it or use it,
then you might want to use pick flags.
If you want to be able to sort your images so that the favorites show up on top, for example,
then you might want to use star ratings.
And if you tend to have a small number of projects going on at any time
and you can identify a color value to have a specific meaning,
then you might want to use color labels.
One other option that you might want to take advantage of
if you've decided to use just a single one of these options--
either pick flags, star ratings, or color labels--
is the Auto Advance feature.
From the menu we can choose Photo and then Auto Advance,
and now whenever I assign an attribute--
either a pick flag, a star rating, or a color label--to the current image,
Lightroom will automatically advance to the next image.
So let's assume I add a pick flag to this image.
I'll press the letter P on the keyboard.
That image gets a pick flag, and Lightroom advances to the next image.
The basic concept of pick flags, star ratings, and color labels is quite simple,
and yet these powerful little features make it very easy to identify your favorite images
so that you can share them online or through other methods with friends, family, and clients.
[Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4]
