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johnrellis
Legend
December 2, 2014
Released

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.

166 replies

johnrellis
Legend
October 29, 2024

The Any Filter plugin lets you filter, search, and sort comments and likes in LR Classic:

https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/anyfilter.htm#comments

Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
October 29, 2024

I was possible to filter for likes and comments (both of them, no distinction) in Classic but Adobe broke it.

 

Having to install CC Desktop only to have this feature is annoying.

Participant
October 29, 2024

Apparently when you reply to a comment it doesn't pair it so I'm doing this again to bump up something that took me forever to find....

To anyone maybe seeking the same feature I have been DYING to find in a service — i.e. a seamless way to get clients with several stakeholders to review huge amounts of shots, be able to leave comments and pull selects into a collection so I don't have to manually sift off a contact sheet — this solution is it. Why this isn't out of tech preview and implemented across the board is wild to me. Not perfect, people need an Adobe account to work in, but a more encompassing solution than what the alternatives have been.


h/t @Jim Wilde

Have a look at the Collaborative Proofing option in the browser-based Lightroom Web app.....it's a Technology Preview that has to be enabled, but once you've done that it allows you choose an album, then select the Proofing tab at bottom left, then click on the sharing icon, which then allows you to copy the URL for sharing with your clients and at the same time limit their selections to xx photos. At the client end the display allows them to select images up to the maximum that you've set (and yes, there's a running count for the user). When you then open the album back in your LrWeb app you can filter by client and then have an album of just that specific user's selects created automatically. 

Participant
October 29, 2024

To anyone maybe seeking the same feature I have been DYING to find in a service — i.e. a seamless way to get clients with several stakeholders to review huge amounts of shots, be able to leave comments and pull selects into a collection so I don't have to manually sift off a contact sheet — this solution is it. Why this isn't out of tech preview and implemented across the board is wild to me. Not perfect, people need an Adobe account to work in, but a more encompassing solution than what the alternatives have been.

Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
October 15, 2024

The update is that likes and comments are now entirely gone from LR Classic.

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2024

Thank you for the smarmy, not helpful reply. All LR versions should have this feature. What is the deal?

Participant
October 15, 2024

2014 was the first time this feature was requested.
That's 10 years.
A decade has passed and Adobe *still* haven't added this seemingly BASIC feature to Lightroom.


"Released for Desktop - setting status as "Started" was posted a year ago.

Is there *any* update?

Participant
July 27, 2024

@Rikk Flohr: Photography Is there an ETA on when this will be added to Lightroom Classic? What does "Released for Desktop - setting status as "Started" mean?

Participating Frequently
July 6, 2024

Yep, Lightroom 13.3 really did cause a lot of issues with sync data and likes / comments, the recent 13.4 may have solves that issue but it has caused me to lose all my work from previous years due to the online collections and my classic collections all jumble up completely.

 

Had to start from scratch a new catalog. Also i notice performance dip in the 13.3, 13.4 seem more stable but not as fast as i knew it before the updates for new catalog.

 

Overall, it's been years.....and here we are still waiting for a filter option for likes / comment. I mean.......it's a simple option / feature, but sure makes our work significantly smoother instead of manually liking the photos one by one manually . Lightroom Classic could do it by selecting "Last Comment Time" which work wonders.

 

Not sure why it is so hard for lightroom mobile.

johnrellis
Legend
July 6, 2024

"Actually I can still sort like this but that is not the same !"

 

Agreed, but it was always a better-than-nothing workaround.