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themrmr
Participant
April 4, 2023
Question

Is there a way to find image files on my hard drive that have a similar major color.

  • April 4, 2023
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I did a project over the years where I took photos of people in front of a yellow background. I wanted to know if there is a way I can search through my lightroom library and group all images with a similar color together so that I do not have to manually search through thousands of photos! Please help 😞

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johnrellis
Legend
April 5, 2023

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See the Any Vision plugin's Sort By Color command, which uses Google Cloud Vision's (undocumented) notion of "dominant colors". Here's an example of finding photos from a catalog of 30,000 photos that have a dominant color close to the orange brown of the first photo:

 

 

Here are all the photos labeled "sunset" by Any Vision, with dominant colors similar to the first photo:

 

 

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 5, 2023

Unless you applied a common keyword or some other form of metadata to each file, then LrC has no way of finding the files.