- Dimming the Lights
- Stacking Photos
- Flagging Photos
- Using Ratings and Labels
- Using the Compare and Survey Views
- Removing or Deleting Photos
- Putting It All Together
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using the Compare and Survey Views
Despite all their viewing options, sometimes the Filmstrip and Grid views are not the best ways to review your photos. That’s when the Compare or Survey views may prove just the ticket. The Compare view lets you examine two photos side by side. The Survey view lets you look over a larger number of photos, limited only by how many you want to crowd into the main window.
To use the Compare view:
- In the Filmstrip or Grid view, select two photos you want to closely compare A.
- Press the C on your keyboard or click the Compare view (X|Y) button in the toolbar. The two photos appear side by side in the main Lightroom window with the left photo labeled Select and the right photo labeled Candidate B (The Select photo is your current best shot, and the Candidate photo is one you’re judging against it.) A thin white line marks the Select photo as active; to make the Candidate photo active instead, click it.
- To adjust your view of the photos, do one of the following:
- Click the toolbar’s
button
to switch it to the unlocked position.
Click to select the first
photo you want to adjust,
and use the Zoom slider to
adjust your view C.
If necessary, click the other
photo and use the Zoom slider
to adjust that view as well. - If you want to zoom in on
both photos by the same amount,
click the toolbar’s button
to switch it to the locked position.
Use the Zoom slider to adjust
the amount D.
- If you start with the toolbar’s button
unlocked, but when zooming
in on one photo realize you
want to zoom in by the same
amount in the other photo,
click the Sync button E.
The view of the other photo
zooms to the same magnification
as the active photo F.
- With the view now set, you can make judgments more easily about which photos should be Selects and Candidates. Use the Compare view’s tools to switch or compare them G.
- As you review photos, you also can apply the flags, ratings, and labels to further distinguish photos from each other. In the example, the right (Candidate) photo is sharper, so it’s flagged as a pick and then made the Select photo using the Compare view toolbar H.
- Once you finish comparing photos, click the toolbar’s Done button. The Compare view switches to the Loupe view.
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A In the Filmstrip or Grid view, select two photos you want to closely compare, and click the toolbar’s Compare view button.
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B The two photos appear side by side in the main Lightroom window with the left photo labeled Select and the right photo labeled Candidate. A thin white line marks the Select photo as the active photo.
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C With the toolbar’s Link Focus button unlocked, you can adjust the Zoom slider independently for each photo.
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D With the toolbar’s Link Focus button locked, any adjustments with the Zoom slider apply to both photos.
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E If when zooming in on one photo you realize you want to enlarge the other photo by the same amount, click the Sync button.
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F The view of the other photo now zooms to the same magnification as the active photo.
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G Use the Compare view’s toolbar buttons when reviewing Select and Candidate photos.
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H The right (Candidate) photo is sharper, so it’s flagged as a pick and then made the Select photo using the Compare view toolbar.
Using Compare view with the Filmstrip
When comparing similar photos not shot in a continuous sequence, the Compare view is easier to use with the Filmstrip visible I. You can, for example, choose a Select and Candidate photo in the Filmstrip and mark either as Flagged or Rejected. Rejected photos appear dimmed in the Filmstrip. Press your keyboard’s forward and back arrows to quickly compare the Select photo against another Candidate photo J.
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I When comparing similar photos not shot in a continuous sequence, the Compare view is easier to use with the Filmstrip.
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J The Filmstrip makes it easy to quickly compare the Select photo against another Candidate photo (right).
To use the Survey view:
- In the Filmstrip or Grid view, select several photos you want to review.
- Press the N on your keyboard or click the Survey view button in the toolbar K. All the selected photos appear in the main Lightroom window.
- Click to select any photo in the main window, and a large X appears in the bottom right L.
- To remove a photo from the Survey view, click the X. The photo is removed only from the Survey view, but remains part of your catalog and is not deleted.
- As you work in Survey view, you also can right-click (Control-click on single-button Macs) any photo and use the pop-up menu to apply flags, ratings, or labels.
- Continue removing photos by clicking the lower-right X until you get down to your final two choices. Click your favorite, and click the small white flag in the lower left to mark it as your top pick M. You can create a new Survey view collection by selecting other photos in the Filmstrip, or switch to another view.
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K In the Filmstrip, select several photos you want to review and click the toolbar’s Survey view button.
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L All the selected photos are grouped in the main window. Click any photo and a large X appears in the bottom right.
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M When you get down to your final two choices, click the small white flag in the lower left of the favorite to mark it as your top pick.