Lightroom: Negative Queries

What's a negative query? A negative query is when I want to know what it's not. For example, I want to see in Lightroom all the photos that are not about Walter, a dog. When we look in the selection it says “starts with”, “ends with” or “contains”, but most of the times it does not say: “Does NOT contain”. It would be nice but Lightroom does not allow it.

But wait! Lightroom does allow for the negative queries in the Library Filter, but it doesn't say it in the selection menu. Lightroom has the “!”, without the quotes, operator which means NOT.

Here's an example of how to select all the photos that does not have the name Walter by typing !walter in the Library Filter.

Lightroom: Negative Operator, How to select the NOT

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