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April 4, 2011
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P: Color collections and collection sets to simplify navigation & cataloging

  • April 4, 2011
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[Update: Color labels for folders were added in LR 7.4 --John Ellis]

I find it difficult to navigate folders and collections in the LH panel. To some extent this is because I (unwisely) chose to use similar naming conventions.If it were possible to allow users to "Colour code" folders and collections it would make navigation much easier and also give me another way of "cataloging" photos.My suggestion would be a small colour indicator, rather like the online/offline indicator but round instead of oblong.

200 replies

Bill Wysong
Participating Frequently
November 10, 2016
The only person who could get Adobe to do colored folders is Scott Kelby (and maybe Terry White). I sent an email to Kelby asking him to ask Adobe to do this for both Lightroom and Photoshop. 

Deluge him with your emails.   Bill Wysong
rickberger
Participating Frequently
November 10, 2016
I called Adobe yesterday and spoke to the advisor about another LR issue.  I mentioned the whole color coding thing to him and he said he'd pass it on to his superiors.  I said that a group of us has been asking for this for about 6 years. Maybe at some point they'll listen to us.
rickberger
Participating Frequently
November 10, 2016
I called Adobe yesterday and spoke to the advisor about another LR issue.  I mentioned the whole color coding thing to him and he said he'd pass it on to his superiors.  I said that a group of us has been asking for this for about 6 years. Maybe at some point they'll listen to us.
Inspiring
November 10, 2016
Adobe truly doesn't give a flying fudge about what their customers want, or even whether their products work despite the fact that we are paying monthly to beta test for them. I suppose we should be thankful Lightroom is at least mostly functional, all the poor folk with Retina iMacs and MacBooks have had an unusable version of After Effects for TWO years now, and Adobe just can't quite seem to get around to fixing it.
Known Participant
November 9, 2016
Adobe obviously doesn't give a shit. I feel it's no longer about improving the software for professionals, but attracting new users with big, new features....
Known Participant
November 9, 2016
Adobe obviously doesn't give a shit. I feel it's no longer about improving the software for professionals, but attracting new users with big, new features....
jonus88
Participant
November 9, 2016
today we need this feature. like in PhotoMechanic.

But this post have been Posted 6 years ago. and today nothing change.

I upload a screen capture from photomechanic, have colours on folders.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2016
Absolutely true Ron, but they have lots of requests with a lot more votes and limited time to do them all. Unfortunately, the requests that seem easy to us often require a lot more work behind the scenes.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2016
Absolutely true Ron, but they have lots of requests with a lot more votes and limited time to do them all. Unfortunately, the requests that seem easy to us often require a lot more work behind the scenes.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Participating Frequently
October 18, 2016
That is a fair point, but if Steve Jobs had waited for 126 people to write that it was a good idea to ditch the floppy drive, Apple would have stayed with that concept far longer than it did. There's a difference in the quality of innovation between being driven by the number of people asking for a comment and the quality of those comments The value of color coding folders is irrefutable, and Apple itself has had color-coded folders for decades. This cannot be old technology. What possible reason can there be for not including this feature, other than a lack of folks writing in that they want it?, What great company innovates based on that metric? It's a no-brainer. Please Adobe - just do it!