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Step 10:
Now, from this point on, we'll just be
working with the photos in our collection.
Out of the 298 bridal shots that were taken
that day, only 18 of them were flagged as
good shots, and that's how many wound
up in our Picks collection. But here are
some questions: Are you going to print
all 18 of these keepers? Are all 18 going in
your portfolio, or are you going to email
18 shots of this one bridal shoot to the
bride? Probably not, right? So, within our
collection of keepers, there are some shots
that really stand out—the best of the best,
the ones you actually will want to email to
the client, or print, or add to your portfolio.
So, we need to refine our sorting process
a little more to find our best shots from
this group of keepers—our “Selects.”
Step 11:
At this stage, there are three ways to go
about viewing your photos to narrow
things down. You already know the first
method, which is the whole Pick flag
thing, and you can do that same process
again here in your collection, but first
you'll need to remove the existing Pick
flags (in previous versions of Lightroom,
when you added photos to a collection,
it automatically removed the flags, but
in Lightroom 4, it remembers them). To
remove them press
Command-A (PC:
Ctrl-A)
to select all of the photos in your
collection, then press the letter
U
on your
keyboard to remove all the Pick flags, so
we can add new ones. The second view
that you might find helpful is called Survey
view, and I use this view quite a bit when
I have a number of shots that are very
similar (like a number of shots of the same
pose) and I'm trying to find the best ones
from that group. You enter this view by
first selecting the similar photos, as seen
here (click on one, then press-and-hold
the Command [PC: Ctrl] key and click
on the others).
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