Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Four:
So here's how I go about the process:
Once my photos have been imported into
Lightroom, and they appear in the Library
module's Grid view, I double-click on the
first photo to jump to Loupe view so I
can get a closer look. I look at the photo,
and if I think it's one of the better shots
from the shoot, I press the letter P to
flag it as a Pick. If it's so bad that I want
to delete it, I press the letter X instead.
If it's just okay, I don't do anything; I just
move on to the next photo by pressing
the Right Arrow key on my keyboard. If
I make a mistake and mis-flag a photo (for
example, if I accidentally mark a photo
as a Reject when I didn't mean to), I just
press the letter
U
to unflag it. That's it—
that's the process. You'll be amazed at
how quickly you can move through a few
hundred photos and mark the keepers
and rejects. But you've still got some
other things to do once you've done
this first essential part.
Step Five:
Once you've got your Picks and Rejects
flagged, let's get rid of the Rejects and
delete them from your hard drive. Go
under the Photo menu and choose
Delete Rejected Photos
. This displays
just the photos you've marked as Rejects,
and a dialog appears asking if you want
to delete them from your disk or just
remove them from Lightroom. I always
choose Delete from Disk, because if they
were bad enough for me to mark them as
Rejects, why would I want to keep them?
What could I possibly use them for? So, if
you feel the same way, click the Delete
from Disk button and it returns you to
the Grid view, and the rest of your photos.
(
Note:
Because we just imported the pho-
tos into Lightroom, and they're not in a
collection yet, it gives you the option to
delete the images from the disk. Once
they're actually in a collection, doing this
just removes the photos from the collec-
tion, and not from your hard disk.)
