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:
Adobe Lightroom gives you an ability to organize images in your Library by setting rating to your photographs. You can do it in several ways.
First and most obvious way is to set it using mouse when you are looking at your images Library Loupe view. Just click on the star and you will set corresponding rating to the image.
The other way is by using keyboard shortcuts. Select your image or look at it in Loupe view, then use 1 to 5 keys to set Rating 1 to 5 stars accordingly. After selecting use your arrow keys to move to previous/next image.
Or you can use Shift-1 – Shift 5 to set image rating 1 to 5 stars and move to next image automatically.
There is even better, undocumented way to do it. Turn your Caps Lock on and press 1 to 5 keys. You will set rating and move to next image like if you did this with Shift-1 – Shift-5.
Also you can use same key combinations for setting color labels for images using numbers 6 for red, 7 for yellow, 8 for green, 9 for blue, and 0 for purple.
Summing everything up we have following table:
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Set rating 1-5 stars | 1-5 |
| Set rating 1-5 stars and move next | Shift+(1-5) |
| Set rating 1-5 stars and move next | Caps Lock, then 1-5 |
| Set color label | 6-0 |
| Set color label and move next | Shift+(6-0) |
| Set color label and move next | Caps Lock, then 6-0 |
