Stars, colour tags but no flag?
Lightroom has three levels of tagging images when it comes to culling. You can apply a colour tag, a numeric value and a flag -not to metion the reject flag as well. C1 has only the two AFAIK -I haven't found any other method to tag images a third way.
In my workflow, I mark each portion of an entire session with a colour. I then assign a star rating for the shots in each portion. Sometimes there are refinements to the 5 star shots. So far I've ben making a user folder and moving the 5 star rejects to it so they still are a 5 star but not among the other 5 star shots. As is Lightroom, if C1 had the third layer of tagging, a flag, I could simply flag these 5 star rejects instead of moving them. There have been times where C1 will move entire selections (because the selection is made, my fault) to these reject folders which screws the whole culling process up and I've had to spend time working out which shots are supposed to go where.
I think two levels of flagging is not enough to provide a smooth and productive workflow.
Opinions?
I'm on Windows if it matters for the purpose of this post.
In my workflow, I mark each portion of an entire session with a colour. I then assign a star rating for the shots in each portion. Sometimes there are refinements to the 5 star shots. So far I've ben making a user folder and moving the 5 star rejects to it so they still are a 5 star but not among the other 5 star shots. As is Lightroom, if C1 had the third layer of tagging, a flag, I could simply flag these 5 star rejects instead of moving them. There have been times where C1 will move entire selections (because the selection is made, my fault) to these reject folders which screws the whole culling process up and I've had to spend time working out which shots are supposed to go where.
I think two levels of flagging is not enough to provide a smooth and productive workflow.
Opinions?
I'm on Windows if it matters for the purpose of this post.
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I have gone the other way.
I always used 1 to 5 stars for technical assessment rating and then colours to ID sets that I wanted to work on together for some reason.
Now I find 1 to 3 is more normal, sometimes a 4*. I don't really need 5.
If there was a flag/tag no doubt I would find an excuse to use it ... not sure why I would need it.
I would likely use a keyword as an extra flag if required. It's not visible but then that's really why there are filters to do that work for us. Or at least that's what I like to try to persuade myself.
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Hi AGLyons,
I'm not sure what you mean by "portions", but I guess that you mean a certain set of images that are more related to each other than they are to the rest of the shoot. You then use the color tags to mark these sets of images.
With that assumption, why don't you create albums for each set? You then have the color tags available for flagging (let me known when my assumption is wrong...).
If you use color tagging for marking the sets because it's easier to tag (using keyboard shortcuts), you could start by tagging first, and then let C1 create albums for you based on the color tags. Once your images are in albums you can clear the tags and use them as flags.
To make it quicker for me, I've assigned the "new album" menu to a shortcut, so creating albums is quite easy as well: select the images of a set, hit the shortcut, type a name for the album (and leave "select new album" unchecked), and repeat until done.
That way, you have your 3 independent layers: albums, ratings and color tags.
BTW: this also works in catalogs with a bigger scope than your typical session. The trick there is to use a Project to represent your 'session'.
HTH,
Peter.0
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