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August 20, 2021
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P: Enable the pick/reject flag, star rating & tag function for albums shared w collaborators

  • August 20, 2021
  • 38 replies
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Insert the possibility for collaborators to be able to use the V (selected) and X (reject) flags in the shared photos and also the star rating. Additionally, contributors can't use tags in shared albums.
It is very important that these possibilities are active because it helps to work the photographs faster between the various teams to which the photo albums have been shared.

38 replies

Nathan Barbour
Participant
March 5, 2026

This would be a much needed feature for our in-house creative team. 

LM_JustinH
Participant
March 5, 2026

How is this not a default thing int he app already?

Christorious
Participant
March 5, 2026

Please fix! How are creative teams supposed to collaborate? This is essential for our workflow. Star Rating/Color rating enabled now! please

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
February 16, 2026
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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
October 29, 2025

Many new powerful features in the recent Lightroom update, however you still cannot set a rating for a photo in shared albums.

YOU CANT EVEN SET A COLOR (new feature) IN SHARED ALBUMS. WTF?

 

You just can't make this sht up. 

Are adobe developers this stupid? Genuine questions. Cause you literally cannot make this up considering the amount of already posted posts regarding this problem.

 

Known Participant
September 5, 2025

When will this feature, that takes no more than a day of coding, be finally added?

Participant
September 3, 2025

I'm hoping this request gets more traction... Because this is the only thing keeping me from getting more licenses to expand my team to edit photos and collaborate on shared albums! We need the ability for contributors to flag/rate photos as well as the album owner! It would be a huge improvement! We're searching outside of Lightroom now for a fix for this so please, however I'd rather not have to.

tobiasphoto
Participant
July 16, 2025

Just wanting to add to the body of comments supporting this feature to be added to Lightroom. It makes no sense to me that this isn't possible and seems like a simple fix. I only realized it when the person I'm co-editing with said she couldn't flag/rate any of the photos, so we can't actually collaborate very easily!

Jim Wilde
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 27, 2025

@szymon_5776 

 

Have you considered using the Collaborative Proofing tool, which is available as a Technology Preview option in the LrWeb browser app? It would allow you to send a special link for the album to your director, who would then be able to select their preferred images (you can also optionally set a maximum number of selections that the end user can make). Once the selections are made, they appear back in the album's Collaborative Proofing view in your LrWeb app, where you can filter the selections by user and then you can make an album (for each user) of just their selections, which makes it easier to subsequently focus your work on just the selections.

 

Yes, you still can't apply ratings.....but in the specific use case that you outlined you might find the Collaborative Proofing option is even easier to use once you have familiarised yourself with the way it works.

benjaming35242555
Participating Frequently
June 27, 2025

To put this another way - if ANYONE from Adobe is listening - IF the ability to delete/rate/flag items was made available within teams and organisations, that would just about satisfy what should be the basic functionality of any current, cloud-based software, but if this functionality could be shared with clients too, then Lightroom would surely have everything the market needs without us all having to use other brands of software to complete our projects??