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lukasziegler
lukasziegler
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May 20, 2012
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P: Add editing notes to to images

  • May 20, 2012
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It would be great to have a field for "personal notes" during the Lightroom Develop step. During my import workflow I walk through all of my picture the first time, delete bad ones and rate better ones with stars. Sometimes a good idea comes to my mind (how I could edit the picture), which I would like to fix to the photo. It would be perfect to have a comment field for personal usage, which gets saved in the Lightroom Catalogue, but not in the Metadata of the file. I thought of the implementation similar to the PDF comment feature in Mendeley. Each picture can get a note, at the end I can get an overview of all my notes, which are still to do. It would also be smart to implement the ability, to filter for photos with/without notes.A simple workaround, which is currently doable, to mark a picture with a certain color (which I associate with something), isn't enough. Similar to Mendeley.[Currently using Lightroom 3.6 / Win7 64bit]

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    hani7up
    hani7up
    Participant
    May 30, 2021

    It would be a great help if Lightroom contained a !notes" feature, based on simple text, in order to add observations and remarks concerning the edits or whatever, notes specific to each image. Just like in Photoshop, we have a Notes tool that I use to add special remarks and observations.

      jpd6666
      jpd6666
      Participant
      November 18, 2019
      To do for LR Mobile, LR desktop and LR Web.
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      Lo Fi Eye
      Participant
      November 18, 2019


      It would be perfect to have a notes field for personal usage, which gets saved in the Lightroom Catalogue, but not in the Metadata of the file. Bonus if the notes are searchable.

      Example- I shoot music photography. I'd like to put random stuff like "guitar player for Hounds, prefers blue lighting, talked about conduits and Vegas" in my personal notes, then be able to search for it later.
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        FeedbackCommunityMember
        Inspiring
        July 11, 2019
        the good thing about using it in lightrooom is that you have everything in the same place, and the metadata section doesn't have the possibility to draw on the picture to add notes, this is a good example:
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        CherishChildren
        Participating Frequently
        February 28, 2019
        Thanks for merging this topic... I didn't originally know what to look for and search it as. Glad (or maybe sad?!) to see I'm not alone in looking for this functionality. I appreciate all the workarounds suggested... but I think EASY and SUPER FAST (without having to leave LR) are imperative to resolving this issue efficiently. I love my LR, but this isn't the first time that Capture One has come up as a fast and easy workaround/ solution... Hoping Adobe is working on this and that it comes to fruition sooner than later so I don't have to go learning another program! Fingers crossed!!
        Califdan2
        Califdan2
        Inspiring
        February 28, 2019
        Here's a weird option.  Hi-jack the "Person" type keyword capability.  A regular keyword refers to the entire image but a keyword marked as a "person" type only applies to a rectangular section of an image.  So, you can use that feature to mark rectangular areas with instructions as show below



        Another option is to use screen capture software (e.g. HyperSnap) to take a screen shot of the imag and then use the drawing tools provided to mark up the image.  Save as a small JPG and just send that along to the re-toucher with the full image



        I just did this in the screen shot above in about 25 seconds
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        CherishChildren
        Participating Frequently
        February 28, 2019


        If only I could add an arrow (or circle an area in red or something of the sort) "on top" of a picture in LR and put a little note attached to this "arrow/marking" to effectively communicate with a retoucher on what I would like fixed/retouched in my file without having to open the file up in PS and add a layer (increases file size, takes too much time). The retoucher could then look at these notes, but then the notes could be "peeled" away to just work on the file... This would make my workflow (life!) SOooooo much more efficient. Pretty please!!
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          FeedbackCommunityMember
          Inspiring
          December 22, 2018


          I use Lightroom on my iPad for editing, then use PS on my Mac for all my retouching. Would be great if we could use grease pencil style annotations on the images (or as a layer?) Capture one has introduced this and it works great. Or maybe make a new app and call it Contact Sheet strictly for editing and sorting.
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            jordanrphoto
            Known Participant
            August 16, 2018
            I'd really like a 'Notes' field in the develop module too!

            Right now I'm curating a collection of images for a calendar which need a specific crop ratio. I need to make virtual copies of each image, crop and add them to a collection. Great, but in the original folder I now have two versions of the image with different crops and no explanation as to why.

            I know future me is going to forget why I have several different crops of the same image, and what my preferred crop is.

            My preference for location would just be in the RHS panel, under its own grouping similar to Meta Data in Lopue view. I don't need it to be stored in the RAW file's meta data, as long as it's visible and editable in Lr that's good enough for me.
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