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Library ratings, labels and flags
Select photos in Photo Grid or Square Grid, then use:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
0 |
Clear the star rating |
1–5 |
Set the star rating |
[ / ] |
Decrease / increase each selected photo's rating by one, within 0–5 |
6, 7, 8, 9 |
Set a red, yellow, green or blue label |
P |
Flag as a pick |
X |
Flag as rejected |
U |
Clear the flag |
Shift + 0–9, P, X or U |
Apply the action and select the next photo |
Purple and clearing a colour label are available in Photo → Set Color Label and the photo context menu. Purple has no default number key, matching Lightroom Classic. Rejection marks a photo for culling; it does not delete the original or remove it from the library. Setting a colour label shows the same brief bottom toast as a rating, using the colour or your custom label name. Clearing it shows a confirmation too, whether applied by a key, menu or swatch. Labelled thumbnails have a translucent matching colour on the square-grid surround, photo-grid footer (translucent, over the bottom of the photo) and Detail filmstrip surround. The white active-photo outline remains clear. The label confirmation uses a pale matching background with dark text; ratings and errors retain their neutral HUD styling. Custom names use the underlying label's colour.
Bracket ratings use each photo's own starting rating, and the changed photos form one Undo / Redo
step. AutoWrite uses the normal rating metadata path. In Detail, including Masking and Remove,
[ / ] keep resizing the brush and shifted brackets keep adjusting feather. Saved overrides,
remapping and disabling the default brush bindings take precedence over their grid bracket actions.
The separate Decrease Rating / Increase Rating commands can also be assigned in Help → Keyboard Shortcuts.
Grid actions apply to all selected photos and support Undo / Redo. In Compare and Survey, culling
actions apply to the active photo. Auto Advance moves forward after an action; holding Shift with
Auto Advance on still advances only once. The last photo stays selected. Text fields keep their
keyboard input, and X in the Crop panel swaps the crop aspect.
Shifted number keys also use the physical number key when the keyboard reports punctuation
(for example, Shift+1 as !). Letter shortcuts continue to follow the keyboard layout.
Shift+P picks and advances in the two library grids. In other views it retains LightCraft's
Presets-panel binding. Shift+Z remains an alternative pick-and-advance key in all views.
The macOS native menu displays plain-key bindings but leaves execution to egui; only shortcuts
AppKit delivers to the menu (Command, Control or function keys) are skipped by egui. The native
menu correction is adapted from PR #261,
commit 4e012a59a6d2442ba749f109ea27aadb5c0b11a5 by Gardy, and addresses the cause reported in
issue #283. That PR was open when checked
on 2026-10-08; this work extends its fix with library culling bindings and tests.
Public behaviour references, checked 2026-10-08:
Only public descriptions were consulted. No Adobe assets or application data are included.