Comments on: Friday Tip - Deleting your rejects

By: peameem

peameem — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:53:30 +0000

This is very helpful.
Thank you!

By: ANdy

ANdy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:39:35 +0000

I think I have a better way to delete unwanted photos. After the import give every keeper a star rating of 1-5. Then filter to show only photos with at least a 1 star rating. Select all. Now click the single star to remove the filter and show all the photos you just imported (make sure only the ones you just worked on are showing). Then click on “edit” and “inverse selection.” Now all the unwanted images are selected. Right click on one of them and choose “Delete photos.” I always choose “Remove from disk” (what’s the point otherwise).

By: Deena

Deena — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:44:06 +0000

Matt,

Can you cover deleting virtual copies? Does it work the same way?

And, I’d love to see more coverage of workflow related to cropping. I wonder what folks do. I usually work on my main RAW file and then make virtual copies for different effects or for different size crops. The other way to do that is to take snapshots of different crops. Either way, I can’t easily see from the Library module what crop is on a photo.

I’m wondering how people handle this and whether they are consistent.

By: June Andersen

June Andersen — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:31:49 +0000

Could you please advise what size my previews should be on import, I have three choices - minimal, standard or 1:1. I’m shooting in raw would this mean that 1:1 is the better choice.

By: Joel Christoffersson

Joel Christoffersson — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:04:48 +0000

This tip is great, but is there a command to regret the rejection? I mean, if I reject a photo, but don’t want to regret it. I can press the flag, but when I’m using the keyboard I don’t want to use the mouse

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:34:28 +0000

Hey All,
Love the LR Tip Room Matt.

So, what if I had also had LR copy a backup to an external drive at the time of import; will those backups be deleted too or do we need to dump those in some other step?

By: skedonk

skedonk — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:22:46 +0000

Thanks for the many tips, including this one.

I indeed use the X (and finish with ctrl+backspace) lots, since it is a much faster way to go through the photos.

Obviously, many photos from a shoot are in the gray area. That is, not bad enough to throw but not good enough to justify a full resolution RAW file. It would be great if Lightroom had an option to convert them to a smaller file (e.g. lower resolution RAW or JPG).

By: MFin

MFin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:12:57 +0000

Hi everyone,

Matt - sorry we are turning your website into a communication vehicle… I just wanted to respond to to Glyn who had answered my question. Thanks so much for addressing it, although I have always marked “stack with original” and LR moves the entire stack to the end of my folder…

Thanks again,
- Marina

By: miguel duarte

miguel duarte — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:59:25 +0000

Got here from Photoshop TV, and in 1/2 an hour I was converted from Bridge to Lightroom - why did it take me so long?!? Except… no CMYK? Why? Or am I doing something wrong?

Congratulations on a great site, and wonderful content,

Miguel.

By: Craig Herold

Craig Herold — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:05:53 +0000

Hi Matt,

Ok I inderstand the reject(removal) but you can set lightroom so that it automatically creates a backup when you import a group of photos. How do you set it so the photo is also removed from that drive?