Task tags

Your own labels for what a photo still needs, on their own shortcuts.

A star says a frame is good. A task tag says what has to happen to it next.

Making them

Tags are yours to invent. Open the tag editor, add a tag, give it a name and a colour. Typical ones are:

retouch: skin, dust, a distraction to clone out
trim: a video clip that needs its ends cut
stabilise: handheld footage
client: goes in the delivery
print: worth a look at size

Each tag gets a number from 1 to 9, and that number is its shortcut.

Applying them

Press T, then the tag’s number. The chord is a classification action, so Caps Lock advances after it like everything else.

A photo can carry as many tags as you like. Pressing the same chord again removes the tag.

Finding them again

The filter panel has a facet for tags, so you can pull up every frame marked retouch and work through them as a batch. Combine it with a star filter to get “everything four stars and up that still needs a retouch”.

Tags and sidecars

Task tags are Cullant’s own idea and live in the project database. Mapping them to and from the dc:subject keyword field of an XMP sidecar, so that Lightroom sees them as keywords, is planned but not built yet.

Ratings, flags, colour labels and orientation do go into the sidecar today. See XMP and Lightroom.