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October 19, 2012
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  • October 19, 2012
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Lightroom: I am looking for an easy and safe way to hide sensitive / private images in the collection without depending on the existing filtering capability

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    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    May 16, 2025

    Use a separate catalog

    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
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    Lovingly Bodacious
    Participant
    May 15, 2025

    There are lots of requests for this, but is there a solution?

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 10, 2021

    There should be NSFW tags (not just as a keyword) available and ability to show/hide NSFW content. 

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      FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 3, 2021

      A possible workaround depending on developing history is to synchronize for them all the cropping adjustments to make the pictures (not for videos) just a pixel wide. I label personal photographs the same way so I can easily hide them via preset or sync. However, I cannot generate a snapshot for each of them, which would also be useful to switch from visible to hidden. 


      You also have to make sure previews are updated. 


      See also this question about automating "step back in history" by command/preset/batch method:

      https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/89980/undoing-at-lightroom-ctrlz-vs-history

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        FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
        Inspiring
        October 24, 2020

        Hi,

        I take boudoir photos from time to time and would like the ability to hide/password protect photos and albums. Is this possible? If not, can we make this happen? I can't be the only person who could benefit from this feature.

        Thanks!

          MarvinHeston
          MarvinHeston
          Inspiring
          April 30, 2020
          I too am looking for a Hidden & Password protected images feature.  This becomes more important to me as I age, and I start to think about what will happen when I die.  I have a catalog of family images going back over 50 years that includes over 73,000 images, family pictures that my kids and grandkids will want when I'm gone, however the family images also include photographs from my ongoing relationship to my lovely wife, and when I'm gone the kids and certainly the grandkid will not want to see these images of Grandpa and Grandma, even when we were in our 20s and 30s.

          I have copied all the questionable images to an external drive which I remove and keep in the safe... but lightroom still show previews of those images.
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            April 29, 2020
            Thank you for the information. I thought it could be easier. But it is ok. Thanks!
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            April 28, 2020


            In the main toolset, have a new flag called "Hidden" (in the "Picked / no flag/ rejected" section). 

            In the settings have 2 toggles: 
            - Default "Show All" view shows Hidden" photos: Yes / No 
            - Password protect "Hidden" photos: Yes / No --> If yes, record a password which will be promoted to change to option 1 above and also when wanting to show photos marked as "Hidden". 

            Very simple, this shouldn't take more than a couple of days to implement and test.
            This will add value for hundreds of photographers. 
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            April 13, 2020


            Why isn't it possible to hide folders or sensitive pictures in LR classic? It seems to be not so difficult! Set a "hiding mark" for instance "Y" and the picture looks grey or it is not visible anymore. With a special shortcut "hidden pictures" could appear again. Same with folders! Or maybe you don't want to have this item in LR because my question is ask for years already. It would be nice to get an answer. Thanks.
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            October 18, 2019
            It would be awesome to mark pictures as "sensitive" and then toggle the visibility on and off.

            Please include this feature in Lightroom Classic/Lightroom and the mobile version. 
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