If you’ve ever submitted a photo to a social media platform and had it rejected, you know the pain of seeing your beautiful shot sitting there in the gallery, but with a red “rejected” flag next to it. If you’re like most people, you’ll want to delete all of those rejected photos from your Lightroom catalog so that they don’t take up space and clutter up your hard drive. Here’s how:

  1. Open Lightroom and select the photo or photos that you want to delete.
  2. On the right side of the screen, click on the “File” menu and select “Delete.”
  3. In the dialog box that pops up, make sure that “Photos” is selected as the folder where the deleted photos will be saved. Click on “OK” to delete the photo(s). ..