Now that we've learned a few things about the speed keys and the way that Lightroom is set up, it's time to start getting into really carrying out some of the images that you know, you're not going to want to use. And then sort of encourage you, it's a good thing just to hide these images to keep them from view. So you can go through and select number of images by clicking an image, or control click, well select more than one, or shift click will select a series of images. If you click the first one, hold the shift key and then click the last one that you want to select at all select everything in between, and then just hit the X key and that will hide those images that you've selected. So just going through and looking carefully at your images saying what sphere what you want to use what you don't want to use.

I'm saying quite a few that I know I don't want to make He's off. So I'll just hide them in they won't distract me. So none of these matter, they're great but I'll get to the series here with the cats. And I want to tag more careful look at these images, some of them sure I can see straight away I don't want to keep and so I'll hide those. And now same with the series of the guy loading up his trolley is going to be a bunch of those that I want to keep in or want to compare some of them to find the best one so we'll look at that a bit later. But just for now, concentrating on the ones that quite obviously not usable.

Series there have a little girl on the push cat and in the fish, okay, there's gonna be a lot of those that are throw out but I want to compare them to find the best ones. There's none that are obvious that I want to throw out The woman putting her tomatoes on display. Sure I'll go through this fairly quickly, I can see a bunch of them near where she's turned away from the camera, or the action is not so good. So I will hide those. And then that'll just leave the better quality shots, Thea, that way the timings been better. With the actions more interesting and serving.

We'll come back to those later. You can go back up and turn the blank flagged images on again so you can see what you've been hiding. You're not deleting them. You're just hiding them that stole earlier. And that's quite handy sometimes if you need to go back and just check what you've done. Yeah, the series here I was trying to get the interaction of the guys talking but it didn't really work.

So I'll hide all of those. not so interested or nice. This one here as well as sequence can really catch any good chance of here. So we'll just hide most of those ones. And then just keep on scrolling through and looking for the bad eggs, the ones that you want to hide. Certainly when you're shooting sequences like these, there will be most of them that you'll want to hide.

Again, if you're, if you're focusing on putting together a collection of images that a magazine editor might be interested in, you won't be wanting to keep too many of them. That's up to you, of course, how many that you keep and how many you want to work on how many you feel good about. You don't have to cut it down. You don't have to limit it to a very small number of images. But I would really encourage you from Each series that you've shot, just to find the best ones, and to hide the ones that you're not going to keep scrolling through these flower shots here, there's a bunch of them that are similar, but I want to make some comparisons, again, is a sequence here of a young lady looking at flowers. Some of them obviously didn't work, the lighting wasn't great, the background was difficult.

So I'm just going to hide those and move on. And the young man was a little dog. I'm going to want to compare those because he was moving it was a bit tricky and I'm sure some of them won't be in focus. So I'll leave those there for now and take a closer look at them later on some of these ones are harder now than others I will leave because I want to talk about different aspects of why I've shot them and why they're not good photographs, but we'll do that a little bit later. And coming down here and none of these ones really grabbed me so much. wide shot of the temple was quite nice, a little bit difficult with the lighting situations.

I'll have a look at that later. And then same with the top stocks, there's a few things I want to talk about later about the way I've shot them and how to choose different ones. But we'll look at that a bit later when we refining the process down to compare images, but just for now, guys for take out the ones that you're not going to use if you're not sure you You can use the flags at the top to turn them on again and see what you've hidden. And then once you're confident that you're not going to use them, you can select all of them Ctrl A, and then hit the delete key. And you've got the option there to remove them from the catalog, which will leave them on the hard drive or to delete them from the desk. Once you've had that button, the image is now gone, they will not show up at all.

And so going through like this and clearing them out immediately and taking out the ones that you know that you will not use. deleting them from your hard drive. This thing just frees up space on your hard drive and stops it becoming too cluttered. That's the first step of beginning to curl your images down, taking out the ones that you know that you will never use. Now a lot of people find this difficult but it really is an essential step to helping you see and choose your best images.