Today’s Question: I appreciate your helpful recommendations about using color labels to mark photos, but my issue is that I find those labels difficult to see. Is there a way to make the color labels more visible in Lightroom Classic?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Yes, you can make color labels easier to see in Lightroom Classic by adjusting the opacity setting in the View Options for the grid view.
More Detail: One of the ways you can make color labels stand out better in Lightroom Classic is to make sure you have the setting enabled to tint the frame around image thumbnails with the label color, and then to increase the opacity setting for that feature.
To get started, in the Library module go to the menu and choose View > View Options. Go to the Grid View tab and make sure the “Tint grid cells with label colors” checkbox is turned on. This will cause the frame around each thumbnail in the grid view (and on the filmstrip) to be tinted with a color based on which color label has been assigned to images.
To the right of the “Tint grid cells with label colors” checkbox is a popup with percentage options ranging from 10% to 50%. This controls the opacity of the color tint for color labels, and the default value is 20%. You can choose a higher setting to have the color label tint stand out more.
When I’m teaching on topics that include the use of color labels, I try to remember to set the popup to 50% so color labels are as clearly visible as possible. In my normal workflow I tend to prefer a setting of 30% or 40%, so the color labels are more visible than they are with the default setting, but not as glaring as they can look with a setting of 50%.
