Photography Asked by kmacierzanka on August 23, 2021
I have photos in Lightroom Classic on a Mac some of which I have assigned some colour label attributes.
How can I transfer these colour labels for the select photos to their location in Finder? This will then allow me to easily select photos when sharing them through something like WeTransfer or Whatsapp.
I have tried exporting these photos but that just copies them and wastes a lot of time. The one semi-solution I have is deleting (removing from disk) the selected photos from within Lightroom, assigning colour tags to them in Bin and then putting this all back into the original folder. The problem with this is that the photos are now gone from Lightroom and when I import them again, all attributes they might have had are gone. This therefore doesn’t work for larger photo selections and photos with multiple attributes (such as colour and star rating).
There are multiple ways to do this, it depends on the type of photos (JPEG or RAW) and the desire to automate.
This shareware plugin seems to do what you want. When exporting your images, it assigns Mac OSX Finder labels that match the colour tags in Lightroom.
I haven't tried this myself, but the screenshots seem promising.
An alternative workaround would be:
exiftool
and tag
If you're slightly familiar with scripts you could take the following rough steps to automate assigning Finder labels based on LR colour tags:
for f in *.jpg; do echo "Check colour tag of $f file.."; done
exiftool
check the value of the Label field of each image, e.g.: exiftool -s -s -s -Label photo.jpg
tag
.Below script carries out the automated task for all JPG files in the current directory.
Prerequisites are that you have exiftool
and tag
installed. Both can be installed via homebrew:
brew install exiftool
brew install tag
#!/bin/bash
for f in *.jpg
do
# Get the LR tag name
lrtag=$(exiftool -s -s -s -Label $f)
# This sets the tags, replacing any existing ones
tag --set $lrtag $f
# This adds tags, keeping any existing ones
# tag --add $lrtag $f
done
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Correct answer by Saaru Lindestøkke on August 23, 2021
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