Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Three:
The next section down, Cell Icons, has two
options for things that appear right over
your photo's thumbnail image, and two
that appear just in the cell. Thumbnail
badges appear in the bottom-right corner
of a thumbnail to let you see if: (a) the
photo has GPS info, (b) the photo has had
keywords added, (c) the photo has been
cropped, (d) the photo has been added to
a collection, or (e) the photo has been ed-
ited in Lightroom (color correction, sharp-
ening, etc.). These tiny badges are actually
clickable shortcuts, so for example, if you
wanted to add a keyword, you could click
the Keyword badge (whose icon looks like
a tag), and it opens the Keywording panel
and highlights the keyword field, so you
can just type in a new keyword. The other
option on the thumbnail, Quick Collection
Markers, adds a black circle (that's actually
a button) to the top-right corner of your
photo when you mouse over the cell. Click
on it to add the photo to (or remove it
from) your Quick Collection (it becomes
a gray dot).
The thumbnail badges show you
(from L to R) that the photo has GPS
info, it has been added to a collection,
a keyword has been applied, it has
been cropped, and edited
The black circle in the upper-right corner
is actually a button—click on it to add
this photo to your Quick Collection
Step Four:
The other two options don't put anything
over the thumbnails—they add icons in
the cell area itself. When you turn on the
Flags checkbox, it adds a Picks flag to the
top-left side of the cell, and you can then
click on this flag to mark this photo as
a Pick (shown here on the left). The last
checkbox in this section, Unsaved Metadata,
adds a little icon in the top-right corner of
the cell (shown here on the right), but only
if the photo's metadata has been updated
in Lightroom (since the last time the photo
was saved), and these changes haven't been
saved to the file itself yet (this sometimes
happens if you import a photo, like a JPEG,
which already has keywords, ratings, etc.,
applied to it, and then in Lightroom you
added keywords, or changed the rating).
If you see this icon, you can click on it to
bring up a dialog that asks if you want to
save the changes to the file (as shown here).
Click the flag icon to mark it as a Pick
Click the Unsaved Metadata icon
to save the changes
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