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johnrellis
johnrellis
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December 2, 2014
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P: Filter for Likes and Comments

  • December 2, 2014
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Now that Adobe is committing to LR Mobile, it would be great if LR had better support for comments and likes:

- Ability to filter and search in smart collections for comments and likes. The Sort: Last Comment Time is helpful but not sufficient -- it only works with collections synced with LR Cloud, and you can only sort one collection at time (huh??).

- The same support for other publish services like Flickr that also sync user comments. Why did Adobe implement Last Comment Time and comment notifications just for LR Mobile? The underlying structure is already there to implement it for the other services as well. These other services have a diversity of features that many users find valuable and that are unlikely to ever appear in LR Mobile, so asking them to switch to LR Mobile just to get the trivial ability to sort by comment time is frustrating.

- SDK access to the comments and likes, so that plugins can manipulate that metadata just like they have the ability to manipulate other metadata. Just providing SDK access would let plugin developers provide the other functionality.

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    Phillip H-M
    Phillip H-M
    Known Participant
    April 3, 2019
    Hi Alexander!
    Nope you can't filter by comment. But you can 'sort' by comment.
    If you sort by 'last comment time' they will all be next to each other, then you can easily select them all and assign a colour label which you can then sort by. For example I use yellow for all photos that have a comment or like. I've attached an image too. One thing worth noting is that if you remove them from the collection they lose thier comments.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    April 3, 2019
    Philip,
    Thank you so much for your reply. Really. I just poked around LR desktop (mac) and web and cannot find any way to even filter by comments.
    Are you sure such a feature exists? If so, where?
    Much thanks,
    - Alexander
    Phillip H-M
    Phillip H-M
    Known Participant
    April 3, 2019
    I'm surprised we even need to be asking for this!!!

    The best workaround I have is to sort by most recent comments, which you can do and this at least gets them next to each other including the 'hearted' ones.  Then I add a colour attribute to the image which you can then filter by.

    But this feature has so much potential, c'mon Adobe!!!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    April 2, 2019


    Why do you make a product that allows clients to favorite photos but doesn't allow the photographer to filter by favourite?

    Image in you have 2,000 photos from a 5 day, 200 person event, and your client used the favorite feature to pick their faves but now you can't filter by faves?

    Yeah... thanks Adobe.
    johnrellis
    johnrellisAuthor
    Legend
    March 27, 2019
    See the Any Comment plugin for the ability to filter and search by comments and likes (favorites), across all publishing services (not just LR CC) and across multiple collections.  Unfortunately, it's not nearly as convenient as having that functionality built-in to LR.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2019


    I recently sent the web gallery from one of my lightroom albums directly to a client (around 500 photos). The client then marked the photos which they wanted to see edited as favorite (via the small heart button in the corner). Back in Lightroom I saw which photos had a comment or were marked favorite (genius!), but there was no way to filter those images. So I had to go through all 500 pictures, looking for the ones that got a comment and hope i did not miss one.

    I am sure this would be super easy to implement because it is only really a sort function, and it would complement this great feature of easy album sharing and make it more interesting for businesses who need to save time.
      johnrellis
      johnrellisAuthor
      Legend
      March 20, 2019
      Other services let people like and comment without being logged in -- they typically ask for a name and/or email address. I use that with Zenfolio and works fine for my needs -- my commenters enter their first name.
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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      March 20, 2019
      How would you know who made the comment if they didn't have an adobe ID?
      selondon
      Community Expert
      selondonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 8, 2018
      Filter by heart status (in Albums, All Photos... everywhere!) would be great!
        BiJeiTi_Ph
        BiJeiTi_Ph
        Known Participant
        November 8, 2018


        I suggest to add the filter by "heart" status.
        When you share a collection another user can put a like using the "heart" icon.

        Now it seems not possible to filter only by "heart" (not by comment) so I suggest an easy way to have a selection of the "hearted" photos: introduce a filter by "heart" satus: Pressed or not.

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