Lightroom Tip - Auto Advance

When using Adobe Lightroom one of the many things you will learn to do is culling or weeding through your pictures from an event you just shot. This process of culling or refining your list of pictures down to just the best pictures can be an extremely time consuming and tedious task.

From every photo shoot you have there will be fewer keepers than the one you delete.  So anything that can help speed up this process is worth looking into, or at least considering adding it to your workflow.  The time saving feature I am talking about is the “Auto Advance” feature of Adobe Lightroom.  What this simple but useful feature will do for you is automatically advance you to the next picture in the list after you have given it a “Pick” or a star rating in Lightroom.  This sounds really simple but it will save you one step during culling and prevent you from having to hit the right arrow key to advance to the next photo.  

Enabling Auto Advance

As with many things in all Adobe software there is more than one way to enable the Auto Advance feature in Lightroom.  

1.  On the menu bar go to the “Photo” menu and towards the bottom you will be able to click the “Auto Advance” menu item.  This will turn on “Auto Advance”

2.  Or you can simply go to your keyboard and turn on caps lock.

Now with this feature turned on as you are going through the photos from your latest photo shoot Lightroom will Auto Advance to the next photo every time you rate a photo with a pick or star rating.