Comments on: Simple, Yet Smart ‘Color Labels’ Idea From One of My Readers

By: danny

danny — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:27:09 +0000

felicidades excelente post
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By: Nicholas Pappagallo

Nicholas Pappagallo — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:03:28 +0000

its a KISS approach I have been teaching that in my lightroom workshops from the beginning – I recently added on Blue as a color outside of the traffic light as posted for sale on my website.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:40:36 +0000

I use color labels the same way Carsten does except I don’t use a green label for finished photos.

Red = Newly imported photos with not tagging/adjustments. After tagging (title, caption, keywords) the color is replaced by yellow.

Yellow = Potos are tagged but not edited yet. After editing the color yellow is removed.

I use these two colors in addition with a set of Smart Collections which show me
– Photos without copyright
– Photos withour creator
– Photos without keywords
and so on

Regards,
Michael

By: Joe S

Joe S — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:35:26 +0000

I also use color labels. I will admit not as creatively as most here do. Mine is very simple. My wife and both shoot on jobs when I import photos I assign Red to my self and Green to my wife. I told you it would not be exciting.

By: Agnes

Agnes — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 02:03:05 +0000

Same here, although I use colors all the way to blue. Red = freshly imported, Yellow = has been sorted out/tagged, Green = worth editing (big cull through the reject flag from yellow to green), Blue = edited and ready for publication. The lack of an easy keyboard shortcut for purple means I didn’t try to find a use for it. Like Carsten being able to glance at a collection and see where each picture is at is essential.

I had high hopes for Mobile (doing some of the boring sorting/tagging during dead time on my iPhone, yeah!) until I realized colors were not available. Since they are central to my workflow I will have to wait until it gets in there.

By: James Mullins

James Mullins — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:01:15 +0000

I find the color labels useful for designating photographs that are part of a focus stacking or HDR sets, and the finished products from those processes. It provides a ready, easy visual identification.

By: jack

jack — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 01:49:08 +0000

I use labels to keep track of what agencies and organizations I send photos to. I’m a photojournalist and I send photos to a couple of agencies and organizations. Each is assigned a color label and I can tell at a glance where a picture is.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:53:56 +0000

I also use the “traffic lights” for my workflow, though a bit different:
– freshly imported photos receive a red label
– once metadata (like keywords etc.) and rating (stars) are added, the label will be changed to yellow
– after they have been edited in either LR or PS they finally receive the green label

This way it’s very easy to see the status of each picture at a glance.