Sorting and Rating
Your Photos
Keeping your photo library organised is essential and the Library
module has several tools and features that you can use to achieve
this goal; allowing you to group them by subject, time, location and
who appears in them.
1
Select Grid view by pressing G. By default, photos are
listed in the order of shooting date, with the newest at the
bottom. You can change the sorting criteria to Rating with the
Sort: pop-up menu on the toolbar at the bottom of the view
window. You can reverse the order so the highest rated are at the
top by clicking the A-Z button.3
As well as setting a star rating, you can also flag a photo
as accepted or rejected. Again, there are several ways to
accomplish this. You can do it from Grid view by clicking in the
upper left corner of the thumbnail or right-clicking to show the
Reject flag. You can click on the flag buttons in the toolbar or
you can right-click and choose Set Flag from the menu.2 The rating of an image is shown by a row of 0-5 stars
below the image in all view modes. You can change the
rating in several ways: by clicking on the row of stars below the
image and dragging to the appropriate position, by tapping the
number keys 0-5, or by right-clicking and selecting Set Rating
from the menu.4 Photos flagged as rejected will be greyed out in the Grid
view and can be easily deleted. Once you’ve flagged
a few that you don’t like, open the Photo menu in the top
bar and at the bottom of the list you’ll see Delete Rejected
Photos. A quicker alternative is to use the keyboard shortcut,
Ctrl + Backspace.46
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