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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]

27 replies

Inspiring
July 25, 2017


Would be great to see the possibility of appending notes to photos. I work as a fashion photographer and often two images need to be merged. Say the head from one image onto the body of another; or the hands of one, onto body of other.
Unless mistaken, there's no simple way of leaving a note for my retoucher.
Would be much more simple if, like in Photoshop, one could append a note and even link the note to another photo (for instance, when the note is opened, one would have a 400px x 400px preview of the image referred to..)
Participant
July 25, 2017


Hello,

I'd like to suggest the implementation of an ability to add NOTES to an image, like a "triggerable" layer, where you can put circles and squares (stroked in bright red, yellow etc.) over certain areas of the image to highlight observations which can be read by yourself or other co-workers.

Something as if you can put some scratch notes on some areas of the image but when exporting or printing, these notes are ignored, not showing up on the final image. It would be just for informative purposes and/or to explain and show certain specifics of that image.

Regards!
Inspiring
July 25, 2017


I have an Idea! This is something I find really hard to work without, and I'm sure many of you photographers/retouches will agree.

I would like to see a "note" section for photos whereby you can actually keep a small detail of notes regarding said pictures. I've bumped into many scenarios where this would have come handy, one of those scenarios was now. I have two family wedding photos that I will need to edit (Face swapping to correct closed eyes!) And I'm just choosing pictures to process. I'd find it so handy to be able to right click on the image/side panel or even in the film reel? part at the bottom and "add note" whereby you can write what needs to be done, or your reasoning to pick the photo etc. I have to rely on using note pad and writing in the image numbers and then adding a note. I then worry about loosing the notepad and forgetting what i am to do. I also think that handwriting support would be good for a note section, as many, well I at least use a tablet quite often, and switching between pen and keyboard can be a bit of a pain....

I do apologies if this is badly structured, I'm not the best when it comes to that, especially at 2am
dorin_nicolaescu
Inspiring
May 23, 2012
It's pretty much a sub-case of ... http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
areohbee
Legend
May 21, 2012
To enter a new-line in custom metadata (or big note field, or any other Lightroom metadata field that supports multiple lines):

Windows: Ctrl-J
Mac: Option-Return
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 20, 2012
Look up a plugin called Big Note - it's nice and simple so you can customize it yourself.
areohbee
Legend
May 20, 2012
Two ideas:
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1. Bastardize an existing IPTC field.
2. Use Custom Metadata:

http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...

Bonus Idea:
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Upgrade to Lightroom 4.