Last week, we used the first of the Loupe views – Rate & Review – to add star ratings and flags to the photos. Once you’ve chosen your best photos, you may want to add additional metadata, such as a Title or Caption. To do so, tap the pop-up at the top of the screen and select the Info view.
In Info mode, you can:
- View photos.
- Add a Title.
- Add a Caption.
- Add your Copyright. (You can also add this automatically while importing, by tapping on the LR icon in the top left corner of Organize view, then tapping on General.)
- View a range of EXIF metadata including the camera make/model, lens make/model, focal length, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, capture date/time and more.
- Zoom in to check the details. When zooming, look out for the difference between a smart preview and full resolution original. Smart previews (e.g. photos synced from the desktop) are only 2560px along their longest edge, so the zoom isn’t a true 1:1 or 100% zoom. Originals (e.g. photos added on Lightroom mobile or Lightroom Web) can do a true 1:1 zoom.
- Assign flags and star ratings using the buttons.
- Copy/move photos into other collections.
- Remove photos from the cloud (but they stay in the desktop catalog if they’ve already downloaded to the desktop).
- Share individual photos or save them to the camera roll.
Next week, we’ll start organizing the photos into collections in the Organize view.
More information
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Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I’m assuming there’s still no way to edit IPTC info on the iPad/mobile version of Lightroom, correct? All I see are keywords, title, caption and copyright. Thanks.
That is correct, yes.
Is there a way to add keywords to multiple images ie same keyword in LR (cc not classic)?
On the desktop version, yes, just select multiple photos in Grid view before adding the keyword.
Hi, how can I search in the Lightroom cloud version by IPTC caption or title? It seems that the search by metadata is restricted to things like camera type etc.
If you just type in the words, it’ll include Title and Caption in the search, but there isn’t a way to limit the search to just one or both of those fields.