P: Enable the pick/reject flag, star rating & tag function for albums shared w collaborators

Just wanting to add to the body of comments supporting this feature to be added to Lightroom. It makes no sense to me that this isn't possible and seems like a simple fix. I only realized it when the person I'm co-editing with said she couldn't flag/rate any of the photos, so we can't actually collaborate very easily!

@szymon_5776 

Have you considered using the Collaborative Proofing tool, which is available as a Technology Preview option in the LrWeb browser app? It would allow you to send a special link for the album to your director, who would then be able to select their preferred images (you can also optionally set a maximum number of selections that the end user can make). Once the selections are made, they appear back in the album's Collaborative Proofing view in your LrWeb app, where you can filter the selections by user and then you can make an album (for each user) of just their selections, which makes it easier to subsequently focus your work on just the selections.

Yes, you still can't apply ratings.....but in the specific use case that you outlined you might find the Collaborative Proofing option is even easier to use once you have familiarised yourself with the way it works.

To put this another way - if ANYONE from Adobe is listening - IF the ability to delete/rate/flag items was made available within teams and organisations, that would just about satisfy what should be the basic functionality of any current, cloud-based software, but if this functionality could be shared with clients too, then Lightroom would surely have everything the market needs without us all having to use other brands of software to complete our projects??

As a designer and photographer at a company, I understand that we sometimes make design mistakes due to oversight. This is one of those mistakes by Adobe that I and every other designer and freelancer kindly request Adobe developers fix.

I commonly share my albums with my director, he then has to select photos for retouching and whatnot.

However, because he cannot give stars or points in shared albums, I get asked to actually not share the album, but instead send the exports. He then sends back the file names he selected, and then I have to find those photos in lighroom because he couldn't select them from the start.

It's a programing task that takes no more than a day. I kindly ask one developer to put in a few hours to improve the user friendliness of Adobe Lighroom.

Thank you.

Hi,

We're testing how to build outsourced editing workflows with Lightroom, looking at moving away from LrC + Google Drive cooperation.

We hoped to use a combination of stars and picked/rejected flags to communicate which edited images would be ready, and which would perhaps be "sent" back for re-editing. This since Lightroom lacks proper and robust tools for this process (which I find very surprising).

To my surprise the editor to whom I shared an album couldn't change the stars or picked/rejected flags.

Looking at old Google results, this feature seems to have been lacking many years ago, but is it really still lacking? Can we not have those we share images with make their own ratings and choices?

If no, what workarounds have you found that support a distributed, outsourced editing, workflow?

Rgds,

Björn

This is a very important functionality for collaborative workflows to make sense. Please implement this ASAP.

I'm working as a freelance photographer and just had a shooting für an agency. I imported the pictures into my lightroom (classic), synced up the albums with adobe cloud and then shared them from lightroom (cloud) with the adobe-id of the agency's people. In the sharing settings i selected that they can even edit the pictures, not just look at them. now it turns out - they can not rate them? they can just highlight favorites but they can not set star-ratings? so they can actually edit the pictures, do whatever they like, but the can not rate them? what is going on here?

2 ways Adobe could make life MUCH easier for Lightroom users who wish to collaborate:

1.) Ability to STAR and FLAG photos in shared Album

Currently if I share an album with someone she can't star or flag the photos. I can not comprehend the reason for that as a bulk part of the job of photographers is to select the good photos. Why can't I share an album and ask a collegue or collaborator to review and select photos?

2.) Ability to share FOLDERS and not just Albums

I dont understand why it is not possible to share an entire folder with multiple albums in it. This is also useful when you categorize a lot of photos into different albums, but you want to share the entire project with someone. 

It seems 2 very minor change on Adobe's side that would help collaboration a lot.

Truly insane. There has been no work to any of the collaborative tools in years.

Its insane this simple yet massively useful feature is not availible. 

I suggest to everyone to start using Google Drive or Dropbox, collaboration tools with adobe get a 0/10.