In this video we move into ratings and keywords – there are notes a few more items below.

 You can download the PDF handout here. A few notes:

• Double click on an image in grid mode to view it alone.
• Use your arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate between photos.
• Hit "X" on your keyboard to reject an image.
• Hit "G" on your keyboard to return to Grid view in the Library mode.
• Hit "U" on your keyboard to remove a flag
• To compare two images, click on the first image in the grid and then CTRL/CMD Click on the second and hit "C" on your keyboard.
• Press CTRL/CMD + Delete to delete the rejected images in your folder view.  You will also need to choose "Delete from Disk" to permanently delete the images from your hard drive – no use choosing "Remove" and eventually having to find them again and sort through them.

One other note about keywords – I keyword everything now.  It is so important to me that my photos have the information in them that allows me to find what I need when I need it.  I also think it is important to tell the stories of the photos you keep.

One last item I neglected to cover in the photo is captions.  My goal in my workflow right now is that every photo that gets a star rating of 1 star or higher also gets a caption.  In my captions I include things that aren't in the metadata, keywords or EXIF.  Things like the story of the photo that you just can't say with keywords.

To add captions in the photos I just imported:

• Select Previous Import folder under Catalog.
• Select Attribute from the Filter Bar and then Filter down to images > or = to 1 star.
• Click on the first photo and then scroll down to the Metadata panel on the right.
• Click in the caption field and type your caption.
• Click on the next photo and repeat until done with all the photos in the import.

You can also catch how to add a caption in Lightroom in this video.

Enjoy!