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Step Two:
Now that I've mentioned star ratings
and labels, I want to talk you out of using
them. Here's why: they're way too slow.
Think about it—your 5-star photos would
be your very best shots, right? The only
ones you'll show anybody. So your 4-star
ones are good, but not good enough. Your
3-star ones are just so-so (nobody will ever
see these). Your 2-star ones are bad shots—
not so bad that you'll delete them, but
bad, and your 1-star shots are out-of-focus,
blurry, totally messed up shots you're going
to delete. So what are you going to do
with your 2- and 3-star photos? Nothing.
What about your 4-star photos? Nothing.
The 5-stars you keep, the 1-stars you delete,
the rest you pretty much do nothing with,
right? So, all we really care about are the
best shots and the worst shots, right?
The rest we ignore.
Step Three:
So instead, I hope you'll try flags. You mark
the best shots as Picks and the really bad
ones (the ones to be deleted) as Rejects.
Lightroom will delete the Rejects for you
when you're ready, leaving you with just
your best shots and the ones you don't
care about, but you don't waste time
trying to decide if a particular photo you
don't care about is a 3-star or a 2-star.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen
people sitting there saying out loud,
“Now, is this a 2-star or a 3-star?” Who
cares? It's not a 5-star; move on! To
mark a photo as a Pick, just press the
letter P . To mark a photo as a Reject,
press the letter X . A little message will
appear onscreen to tell you which flag
you assigned to the photo, and a tiny flag
icon will appear in that photo's grid cell.
A white flag means it's marked as a Pick.
A black flag means it's a Reject.
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