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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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    nathanowahl
    Participant
    March 23, 2025

    Unreal that it's been 11 years and this insanely simple function hasn't been implemented. My clients should be able to filter by what images they've liked in the shared album. 

      karelf44702677
      karelf44702677
      Participant
      February 2, 2025

      Hello how I can show liked photos in LR for ipad? My client liked few photos via online album and I dont know how to show only liked photos (on macbook is it possible via filter)

      Sameer K
      Community Manager
      Sameer KCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      February 3, 2025

      Hey, @karelf44702677.  Welcome to the Lightroom community. I'll help you figure this out. 

       

      On Lightroom Desktop, in a shared album, you can sort images based on Likes & comments from the search filter menu:

       

       

      These optional filters are currently not available for Lightroom on mobile. You can view likes on each image in the full-screen view > Activity panel. Or, in the Grid view > 3 dots > Activity shows a list of liked images. 

       

      I hope this helps. 

      Thanks!
      Sameer K

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      johnrellis
      johnrellisAuthor
      Legend
      December 13, 2024

      While waiting for Adobe to improve this, you can use the Any Filter plugin to filter for likes and comments -- see here.

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        itsmejenny2
        Participant
        December 12, 2024

        I do BULK Brand photography, and use Lightrom classic for my workflows. this needs to be a lightroom classic feature immediately.

         

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          WedRaven
          Participating Frequently
          December 4, 2024

          My reply it to Adobe Team - Benjamin Warde answer to us all. 

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          WedRaven
          Participating Frequently
          December 4, 2024

          Hi, we know, but to implement it in Lightroom mobile would have greatly made the program much faster & easier to use. Because of this feature alone is missing, we are still committed to use lightroom classic as it makes selection, filtering and comments much faster than mobile version to work with. RIGHT NOW we are doing it MANUALLY one by one, hunting the photos selected by our clients manually to flag it for them and then work can begin for editing. 

          Where else, lightroom classic just one button filters it all for us with the "last comment time" button. Though having a much complete system to filter and show commented photos would be greatly appreciated such as filtering by comment (typed) or just like, but right now are working with what we have. 

          Overall I'm surprised it is still pending (been years) for such a small but crucial part of lightroom system to work with client seamlessly .

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          johnn50423288
          Participating Frequently
          November 15, 2024

          This has been going on for 10 years

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            Community Manager
            Benjamin WardeCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            October 29, 2024

            Just to clarify some previous comments in this thread, the ability to filter based on Likes and Comments is already available in Lightroom (only in the desktop application, not on mobile yet). It is not available in Lightroom Classic.

              johnrellis
              johnrellisAuthor
              Legend
              October 29, 2024

              Fully agree -- I was the original poster here. Plugins are rarely as convenient as a built-in feature, but they help people get work done while waiting for Adobe to implement a feature (10 years and counting).

                Wurstkrapfen
                Wurstkrapfen
                Inspiring
                October 29, 2024

                Doesn't matter, basic functions should be natively available. Not by adding commercial third party plugins that have their own issues.

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