How to Hide Images in Lightroom 2
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a digital photo cataloging and processing application. Lightroom features several features to let you sift, sort, filter and organize your photos. Using ratings, flags and color labels, you can make your workflow faster and more efficient by automatically filtering and selecting groups of photos based on these attributes. The most fundamental organizational attribute is the "flag," which has three possible values: picked, rejected and unflagged.
Shortcut keys, or "hotkeys," are an important feature for working with photos quickly. All commands can also be found in the menus. Each module (Library, Develop, Slideshow, etc.) has its own set of shortcuts, and each key may do something different depending on which module is active. Hit Ctrl+/ (Windows) or Command+/ (Mac) to display the active module's shortcuts. See the Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts in the References section.
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Instructions
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Open the Lightroom Library module by clicking "Library" in the upper right corner (Windows: hold "Ctrl", "Alt" and "1"; Mac: "Command," "Option", "1").
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Navigate to photos you want to work with in "Catalog," "Collection," or "Folders" on the left side of the screen (click the arrow icon on the left side of the window to display this panel if it is hidden).
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Display the "Grid" view (hit the "G" key).
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Select all the photos (Windows: "Ctrl"-"A"; Mac: "Command"-"A").
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Flag all the photos as a "picks" by hitting the "P" key. White flag icons appear in the corner of each thumbnail in the grid view.
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Deselect all the photos (Windows: "Ctrl"-"D" Mac: "Command"-"D").
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Select on the photo you want to hide. Select several photos at once by pressing the the "Ctrl" (Windows) or "Command" (Mac) key while clicking on each photo you want to unflag.
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Unflag the selected photos by hitting the "U" key. The white flag icons on the thumbnails will turn gray.
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Turn on the Library Filter bar by hitting the "\" (backslash) key.
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Click the "Attributes" tab in the Library Filter bar.
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Click the white flag icon. All the unflagged photos are hidden. Click the white flag again to turn off the filter, or click the light gray flag icon to show the unflagged photos.
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Hide additional photos while working in any module by hitting the "U" key to mark the currently selected photo(s) as unflagged.
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Tips & Warnings
Workflow is subject to personal preference, and eventually you will develop your own style. Explore using Color Labels, Ratings, Stacking, and Collections for managing your workflow. Use keywords sparingly and only when it makes sense in the context of searching for photos (particularly if you publish your photos online, where search engines allow your photos to be searched by keyword). Keywords should describe the content of the photo itself. For example, if you post a subset of your nature photos on your blog, create a Collection called "blog" instead of adding "blog" as a keyword.
You can flag a selected photo as "rejected" by hitting the "X" key. Lightroom features a command for automatically deleting all the photos flagged as rejected (Windows: "Ctrl"-"Backspace"; Mac: "Command"-"Delete"). Be careful to reject only the photos you want to delete. Review the photos flagged as rejected using the "Delete rejected photos" command.
