Comments on: How to Make Your Photos Better by Deleting Them

By: Brian Hudson

Brian Hudson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:59:48 +0000

I agree with the concept of separating the chaff, but I tend to go about it a little differently.

Since the creators of Lightroom (and many other organizational programs) have gone through the trouble of building a flagging/rating tool, why not use that to our advantage? Barring storage concerns, there’s no other reason to delete files when you can simply filter them out. I go through the same routine you do, minus the deletions, and just leave my filter on ‘picks only’ at the end. The end result is the same–a clean catalog with the handful of keepers showing.

By: LaumnLomLieni

LaumnLomLieni — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:35:21 +0000

i am gonna show this to my friend, man

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:06:54 +0000

Good article, but you missed the last important step (…”You might have just 1 or 2 keepers…”). It’s easy to choose 10 of 100, but not 1 of 2(or 3)…..

By: Alexey

Alexey — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:08:17 +0000

Thanks for this interesting article.

I do delete but not enough and you have just clarified that to me.

By: Zak

Zak — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:59:24 +0000

I too am a ruthless deleter. The first thing I do with a new set of shots is go through and delete delete delete. Sometimes that’s even more fun than taking the actual photos…