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Favorites and proofing

Clients heart the photographs they love, in lists of their own. With proofing on, they send you a selection you can take straight into Lightroom Classic.

Turn favorites on

In a collection, open Settings › Favorite and turn on Allow visitors to favorite photos. Clients then heart photographs in the grid or the viewer; the first heart starts a list called Favorites, and New list makes more. In the viewer, a hearted photograph can carry a note to you, such as a crop or an edit.

Ask for a selection

  1. In Settings › Favorite, under Selection, turn on Ask clients to send a selection.
  2. Set Up to how many photographs, and if you like At least how many and a Price per extra photo.
  3. Choose Save selection rules.

A selection counts every photograph in all of a client’s lists, each once, so another list doesn’t get round the limit. Videos aren’t counted. When the client chooses Send selection, it is locked until you reopen it.

Use a selection

  1. On the Activity tab, under Favorite Activity, open the client’s list.
  2. Under Lightroom Classic, choose Copy filenames, Download .txt or Download CSV (with the client’s notes). Remove edit suffixes strips endings such as -Enhanced or -Edit so the names match your originals.
  3. In Lightroom Classic’s Library, open the filter bar, choose Text, then Filename and Contains, and paste.
  4. Choose Reopen selection to let the client change it, or Add extras to an invoice to start a draft invoice for photographs beyond the limit. Nothing is charged until you send that invoice.