Can Lightroom assign 1 star on import without overwriting in-camera ratings?
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I want Lightroom to set all newly imported photos to 1 star, but keep any star ratings already applied in-camera on my Canon 5D Mark III. Ideally this would happen during import rather than as a separate step afterward. Is there a way to do that automatically, or a workflow that avoids overwriting existing ratings?
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I don't think there is a way to do it automatically outside of writing your own plugin and I'm actually not even 100% sure that that would do it.
For partially manual options though, use the rating filter on the previous import collection, set it to less than or equal to no stars and you will only have the unrated photos listed. Then select them all and set the rating to 1 star. This way you only update the photos from the previous import that didn't have a rating already.
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Lightroom does not appear to offer a built-in way to assign a default 1-star rating during import while preserving ratings already set in-camera. Based on the available answers, there also isn’t a standard automatic workaround, aside from possibly creating a custom plugin.
A practical manual workflow is:
- Import normally so Lightroom reads any in-camera ratings.
- Open the Previous Import collection.
- Use the rating filter to show only photos with no stars (or unrated photos).
- Select those filtered images and apply a 1-star rating.
This gives you the result you want without overwriting the ratings that came from the camera. It’s not fully automatic at import, but it limits the manual step to only the unrated files from that import.
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