P: Color collections and collection sets to simplify navigation & cataloging

Keywording is very detailed work requiring a lot of time and concentration. I have to do this work over a sustained period of time. I easily loose my sense of keywording completeness.

If I could tag a Folder (my imported shoots folders) with a colored label or some other visual indicator that represents the status of my keywording in that folder, I think my efficiency and thoroughness would be greatly enhanced and my confusion about how much keywording I have done would be reduced.

For example: Folder #'s 1-4 permanently display a green label indicating all keywording is complete in each folder (unless new images are imported to those folders). Folder #5 displays a yellow label indicating keywording is in progress. Folder #'s 6-10 display a red label indicating no keywording has been accomplished. Within the yellow labeled folder, attached to each of the Prime Categories in the Keyword List is another colored label (red, yellow or green) to indicate the status of keywording per Prime throughout that folder. The color status could be selected by the user to indicate the users opinion of completeness. When all Prime Categories have been turned to green the Folder label turns green. The user can now proceed to the next Folder.

I would like the ability to lock and unlock folders.

The reason is that I use a Mac Book Pro when I am out and then copy the images I have downloaded onto the laptop to the desktop back in the office, using 'Export as Catalog'.

I need to be able to identify which folders have been copied so that I am not tempted to do additional processing/captioning/keywording afterwards, which cannot be easily transferred to the desktop.

Colour coding would certainly help; a lock would be better.

I have put in a feature request for thyis in the past.

This is an excellent suggestion. I could make use of this today.

This is a fantastic idea, it would be ideal if the folders pulled their label color directly from the OS, so that a change made to folder labels in the finder was reflected in the lightroom library.

I'd love to be able to change the color of folders in the Library's Folders panel. This would allow me to prioritize photoshoot that still need to be processed, for example, and quickly find them later on (visually).

At the moment, I rely on the following naming scheme:
date-of-shoot (short description)
For example:
2009-08-27 (First Prize Center)

Whenever I want to mark a photoshoot that still needs to be processed or fine-tuned, I add "===" in front of the description, like so:
2009-03-22 === (Skateboard)
I'm usually able to quickly notice all the "===" in my folder but it would be so much more convenient if I could use colors.

Here is a quick, poorly Photoshop example. To the left, what I'm using. To the right, color folders (just the text, or even the background color too).

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Very good Idea, it is one of the many lacks of LR library

No problems about this in LR.

It would probably make sense to extend it so it sets the colour of the OS folder icons too. Perhaps that's easy enough with Mac's Finder, and for all I know maybe Adobe can change Windows folder icons and add colour. This should only be done if it can be done on both OS's.

Absolutely. I've had a number of people ask me about a similar feature.

Good idea IMHO!!

Something similar to MacOS Finder labels would be very convenient.