Go Lightroom

Here’s something that you’ll do quite often - deleting photos. At least I do it very often.

Assuming that not every photo you take is a keeper (well, may be it is just me who takes bad photos sometimes) you’ll inevitably need to delete photos.

There’s two ways in Lightroom:

1. Deleting from your catalog but leaving them on your computer.
2. Removing them from your computer all together.

First of all, if you are browsing your photos using keyword tags, you have to “Go to Folder in Library”:

To do it just right-click you photo and then click “Go to Folder in Library“.

Then, when you are in Folder you can right-click you photo again and then choose “Delete photo…”

There you will have two options:

Press Remove button to remove photos from your Lightroom Library, or Delete from Disk to move them to Recycle Bin.

The other option is to use keyboard shortcuts:

• To delete them from only your catalog but leave them on your computer just press Alt-Backspace (Mac: Option-Delete).
• If you want to delete them from your computer too just press the Delete key and then press the Delete from Disk button. That moves them to Recycle Bin.

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