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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: colourperfect on July 22, 2010, 03:32:19 pm

Title: Library File type differentiation - color labels ?
Post by: colourperfect on July 22, 2010, 03:32:19 pm

When looking at the Library (Grid view) I would like an immeadiately obvious way of differentiating the file type.
Essentialy differentiating between raw, jpg and psd.
I appreciate I can turn on the file extension indicator but would ideally like to use the colour label to say indicate psd files

TIA

Colourperfect

Title: Library File type differentiation - color labels ?
Post by: wolfnowl on July 22, 2010, 10:19:51 pm

You can certainly use the colour labels, but you'll have to do it manually - for example, filter out only PSD files, select all and then assign them a colour.  There's no way that I know of for Lightroom to do it automatically.

Mike.

Title: Library File type differentiation - color labels ?
Post by: JRSmit on July 23, 2010, 02:17:28 am

Quote from: colourperfect

When looking at the Library (Grid view) I would like an immeadiately obvious way of differentiating the file type.
Essentialy differentiating between raw, jpg and psd.
I appreciate I can turn on the file extension indicator but would ideally like to use the colour label to say indicate psd files

TIA

Colourperfect

Possible solution: Create smart collections for each filtetype, give these a name such that places them on top of the collection list.
When in grid view, hovering with your mouse over a collection in the  list of collections will hilite images that are part of that collection.
It is like a colour label but then sort of dynamic.