P: Mobile: Custom Sort Order, Ratings and Keywords

I have a huge database of transport museum/car show photographs.

 

I keyword all photos by manufacturer, model, year, etc.

 

The only way I have found to produce a slideshow that displays all of a particular model of a car by year is to maintain the Title Field with the year of manufacture and manually sort the slideshow by displaying the title in the Grid View and sliding the photos around, (which "crashes" every 40 or so shifts meaning restarting the database).

 

So when I choose something like Ford Mustang which produces 300+ Mustangs to shuffle, it takes quite some time to reorganise. I save the slide show, so when I go to the next car show and add another 20 or so Mustangs, I then at least have a head start to manually shuffling them back into the slideshow in the correct places.

 

It would be really great to have a single numerical field in the database - in my case always the title field - that I could tell the filters to sort by, which would save me hours of work

Yup, keywords would be big.

+1 for keywords

I asked for this 12 months ago but still no change.

please add keyword setting to the mobile version .

Being able to sort by rating feels necessary to me.

Keywords, please.

Anonymess,

To institute Color Labels that are compatible with Desktop Lightroom, you would need to have a two-tiered set of entries. First, you would have to activate the Label field text as a Lightroom for Mobile editable field. Second you would have to add the ability of defining a color label set against the text label fields. It is a level of complexity above the current star and pick flag system.

If for some reason your color label set on Desktop and Mobile have a mismatch (or are deliberately different) you would not see the colors you expect. Many people, me included, use multiple label sets. Which would sync with Lightroom for Mobile and how would you see not breaking the multi-color-label workflow when syncing color labels?

I was very frustrated to find that LR mobile allows me to select by star rating but does not have the colour flags - I tried to review a large job where published images were marked yellow etc, only to find that's not available.

As others have said, LR Mobile is a great tool for the first pass (flagging/rejecting) and for cleaning up images, but it also needs to be usable as a tool to help us sort through photos, order them, select which are used for what purpose, and all the other things we do with batches of photos while we are away from a desktop

Please add the ability to keyword AND search by keyword to LR Mobile.