LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson covers how to sort through your images to separate the ones that are keepers (that you will print, share, or put in your portfolio) and ones you can discard or review later. You’ll start by going through a specific workflow for culling images using flags in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, and walk through the process of sorting those images into discrete collections. From there, you’ll learn how to set up a hierarchical structure using collection sets.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:
Employ color labels in your image.
Use a star system to rank your images.
Filter images based on flags, colors, or other metadata.
Set up smart collections for specialized tasks.
Set up a target collection for quick organization.
Share and get feedback about your published online collections.
This lesson will take about 1½ hours to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at adobepress.com/PhotoshopLightroomCIB2022. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book.
)
Preparing for this lesson
Before diving into the content of this lesson, make sure you do the following:
Follow the instructions in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book for setting up an LPCIB folder on your computer, downloading the lesson files to that folder, and creating an LPCIB catalog in Lightroom.
Download the Lesson 02 folder from your Account page at adobepress.com to username/Documents/LPCIB/Lessons.
Launch Lightroom, and open the LPCIB catalog you created by choosing File > Open Catalog and navigating to it. Alternatively, you can choose File > Open Recent > LPCIB Catalog.
Add the Lesson 2 files to the LPCIB catalog using the steps in the Lesson 1 section “Importing photos from a hard drive.” Lightroom may ask if you want to enable address lookup. You can dismiss this notification.