Today’s Question: I’ve tried out the Assisted Culling feature in Lightroom Classic, but don’t understand how I should then be marking photos as favorites versus outtakes based on the automatic review. Can you explain what that workflow should be?
Tim’s Quick Answer: You can assign attributes such as a star rating and reject flag to favorites and outtakes by clicking the Batch Actions button at the bottom of the Assisted Culling section in the Library module.
More Detail: When you enable the Assisted Culling feature on the right panel in the Library module in Lightroom Classic, based on the settings you use images will be marked as Selects or Rejects based on image analysis. However, this does not assign actual metadata attributes to the images for actions like filtering images by attribute or automatically deleting rejected photos.
However, you can assign attributes to images based on their status from the Assisted Culling feature by clicking the Batch Actions button at the bottom-right of the Assisted Culling section on the right panel in the Library module.
Clicking the Batch Actions button will bring up a dialog where you can choose which attributes to assign to images based on their status. Images identified as Selected are those that were determined to meet the criteria for image quality. In the Selected section of the Assisted Culling Batch Actions dialog you can turn on the checkbox for the applicable attribute, such as “Apply rating” to select a star rating you want to assign to these images. Similarly, you can turn on a checkbox in the Rejected section for the outtake images, such as “Apply flag” to select a reject flag.
Once you’ve selected the attribute (or multiple attributes) you want to assign to Selected and Rejected images, you can click the OK button to apply the change. The attributes will then be assigned, so you can then filter or otherwise work with the images based on the attributes assigned.
