Goals 2020: Lightroom Cleanup Notes
One of my goals for a long time has been to cleanup my photos in Lightroom. I mentioned several years ago what I am doing to keep track of progress. The method hasn't really changed that much. I don't use the colour labels at all so I went to Metadata, Color Label Sets and picked custom. Then picked one with a number short cut to rename. I renamed the green label as I couldn't bear to look at a screen with too much red or yellow. I set the name to be the actions I want to take and a reminder of how to remove the label when I'm finished. Labels are a toggle. Press 8 adds the label and pressing it a second time removes it. Then I went to All Photographs under Catalog and clicked on a photo and pressed Ctrl-A to select every photo in my catalog. Once they were all selected, I pressed the number 8 which assigned my review photo label to all my photos. If I need a reminder of what my label means, clicking on the little green icon below the photo brings