Today’s Question: With respect to the Assisted Culling, another question arises. Is there any way to change the assisted culling status of an individual image before selecting batch option? For example, if there is one image that fails a focus test, but you’re okay with that and want to work on the image anyway, can you remove it from the cull or change its status before accepting the status of the remaining photos?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Yes, you can change the status for images analyzed with Assisted Culling in Lightroom Classic by right-clicking the icon that indicates the Select versus Reject status and choosing the option to reverse the status.
More Detail: When images are analyzed by Lightroom Classic based on the settings you’ve established for Assisted Culling, an icon at the top-right of the image thumbnail in the grid view will indicate whether an image was identified as a Select (with a checkmark in a green circle) or as a Reject (with an “X” in a red circle). If you disagree with the status assigned to an image, you can right-click on that icon and choose the reverse the setting.
For example, if you have enabled the “Subject Focus” option any images with relatively narrow depth of field might be determined to be out of focus, even though the narrow depth of field was intentional. For such an image you can right-click on the icon indicating the image was identified as a Reject and choose “Mark as Select” from the popup window.
If you apply the Batch Actions feature as outlined in yesterday’s answer on a set of images where you changed the Select versus Reject status, the updated status will apply for that batch processing for adding attributes to an image such as a star rating or reject flag, for example.
