After taking countless photos, I always quickly scan through them all and mark any I know I won't use with an X. This works wonderfully in Classic but seems a bit problematic in LR Cloud.
First when marking a photo as Reject, unlike in Classic it doesn't show the image as faded (when it's selected). So you don't instantly know if its Rejected or nt like in Classic. Maybe this is a bug in the latest version?
But also by default it doesn't auto advance to the next after rejecting. If one rejects a photo they would presumably want to then work on the next photo as if they wanted to keep working on an existing photo they wouldn't reject it. While LR Cloud appears to lack auto advance, a work around is clicking the filter view each time and select the Show unflagged photos option. This way when marking a photo as a reject it disappears and does auto advance in the direction the user is going. This works however unlike Classic you can't save this view so you have to keep resetting it often. But most importantly, unlike Classic where it auto advances instantly allowing you to go through photos quickly and endlessly, with LR Cloud it pops up and says Reject and about a second or so passes before it auto advances. Of course not a long time if just doing once in a while, but when this is part of your workflow and do countless times all day, it drastically slows doing the workflow. In settings you can turn off popups, tried that but it still shows the word reject and still has the delay. Another work around is to not use the filter mode and instead click X for reject and then since no auto advanced manually pressing right icon. It still does the reject popup but allows you to bypass the delay. But alas problems here as well. Where if you go to quickly it might mark the wrong one. Also if you want to undo entering the undo shortcut rather than undo the reject, you have to enter the command twice, since the first undo is just undoing the change selection (aka moving to the right), where is one would think choosing undo would skip to undoing the mark as reject.
So over all the workflow seems broken, and while there are various possible workarounds each have their own downsides, compared to Classic where each of those just works as expected.
Finally normally after marking lots as rejected you can do a single keyboard shortcut to delete all rejected in Classic. In LR Cloud, it's a multiple step manually process. Going to All Photos, selecting filter then rejected icon (or searching for rejected and selecting rejected in dropdown and pressing enter), then selecting all (with keyboard shortcut), then another keyboard shortcut to delete all, then clicking the additional confirmation that you actually want to delete, then while not neccessary if you are tight on space going to recently deleted then permently deleting there and clicking confirm. So incredible number of steps for something done very frequently. Unless perhaps the average LR Cloud user never deletes photos, but that would seem to get very expensive quickly.
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