Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 128)

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Organizing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
Note: Slide shows can display photos with rating stars. See Display ratings in a slideshow .
❖ In the Library module, do any of the following to show ratings, flags, and labels:
• To show flags and labels in the thumbnail cells of the Grid view, choose View > View Options. Then, in the Grid
View tab of the Library View Options dialog box, select Flags and Tint Grid Cells With Label Colors. To display
rating stars, choose Rating from the Top Label or Bottom Label menu.
• To show ratings, flags, and labels in the toolbar in the Grid or Loupe view, choose one or more of the following
from the toolbar menu: Rating, Flagging, or Color Label.
Note: Ratings, flags, and labels are always available beneath photos displayed in the Compare and the Survey views.
Set rating stars
When assigning ratings to files, you can award from zero to five stars. Rating stars can be set or displayed in any view
of the Library module. Once photos are rated, you can click a rating filter button in the Filmstrip or in the Library Filter
bar to display and work on photos that you’ve rated with a specific number of stars. See
Filter photos in the Filmstrip
and Grid view and Find photos using the Attribute filters .
• With one or more photos selected in the Grid view, or with a single photo selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe,
Compare, or Survey view, choose Photo > Set Rating. Then, choose a rating from the submenu.
note: If more than one photo is selected in the Filmstrip in Loupe, Compare, or Survey view, the rating is applied only
to the active photo.
• Press a number from 1 through 5 to set the rating. Hold down Shift and press the number to set the rating to select
the next photo.
In the Compare and Survey views, you can click one of the five dots under the photos to assign rating stars. Clicking the
first dot assigns one rating star, clicking the second dot assigns two rating stars, clicking the third dot assigns three rating
stars, and so forth.
Set rating stars in thumbnails in the Grid view
1 In the Grid view, select one or more photos.
2 Click one of the five dots below the thumbnail in a cell.
Clicking the first dot assigns a one-star rating, clicking the second dot assigns two rating stars, clicking the third dot
assigns three rating stars, and so forth.
Note: To display rating stars in compact thumbnail cells, choose Bottom Label > Rating in the Library View Options.
To display rating stars in Expanded thumbnail cells, select Show Rating Footer in Library View Options. See
Set Library
view options for the Grid view .
Set rating stars using the Painter tool
1 In the Grid view, select the Painter tool in the toolbar, and then choose Rating from the Paint menu in the toolbar.
Note: If the Painter tool does not appear in the toolbar, choose Painter from the toolbar menu.
2 Specify the rating in the toolbar, and then click or drag across photos to apply the rating.
3 To disable the Painter, click the circular well in the toolbar. When disabled, the Painter icon is visible in the toolbar.