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October 26, 2017
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P: Add Color Labels

  • October 26, 2017
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I added thousands of photos (other than those in Synced Catalogs) and now I cannot differentiate them other than by the standard filters provided because I have used color labels to identify certain criteria. Color labels are just as important as Flags, Please add them!

157 replies

EMSI68219
Inspiring
February 3, 2020
Same here. Please add Color Label support in Lightroom CC. 
Known Participant
January 29, 2020


I'd strongly suggest to add color labels and star ratings to Lightroom mobile.

For me this app is wonderful for sorting through pictures - but just using the reject/pick flag is not precise enough for my purposes.

I could imagine easy to use interfaces for this: e.g. scrolling in the left of the screen through color labels, in the center through reject/pick flag, on the right through the star ratings. Or add just one additional control to choose between the different rating/labeling systems.

Phil
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 11, 2020
> Is there some complexity with labels that doesn't exist with stars and picks?

There is one possibly complexity that springs to mind, and that's the color labels are purely text, so they can be represented by different colors. For example, your red label may mean "to do" on one computer but "to do" might be yellow on another computer. I'm sure it's not an insurmountable issue, but may be a factor in its prioritization.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Participating Frequently
January 11, 2020
Another vote for colour labels in Lightroom CC that sync back to Lightroom Classic and an easy on-screen interface mode to add/remove the colour labels. Similar to the stars but with boxes for the colours.

Curious why from a software development standpoint this wouldn't have been implemented by now (after years of people requesting it and a fairly obvious feature to have)? Is there some complexity with labels that doesn't exist with stars and picks? Is it a design philosophy of 'simplifying' the rating system?
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
Yes that’s what I wrote
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 11, 2019
> you can't eg flag in cc and then get this synced back into classic LR

Flags should sync between mobile and Classic. Color labels don't, hence this request.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
yes we are at least on CC version. Classic you have but you can't eg flag in cc and then get this synced back into classic LR. Thats a big joke. What only works is text but takes more time in case you want to flag pictures for blog and use the stars in a different way.
Inspiring
December 11, 2019
This and syncing collection sets are the two things holding me back from using CC in my workflow!
Known Participant
October 20, 2019
Hello? Are we really without color labels in this software? Just... WHY???
Inspiring
September 9, 2019


Hi, I see comments from 2017 to include that Basic function as well in Lr CC Mobile App Versions for iOS etc to sync Workflows. Or anyone having found an workflow. Would like to avoid **** as I use that for an other selection flow.