Comments on: 5 Ways to Use Lightroom Smart Collections

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:03:50 +0000

In reply to Per. Not a fix really, as I don't think anything is broken. Save your book (click Create Saved Book), then drag the new photo to that saved book collection.

By: Per

Per — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:27:36 +0000

Hi, I have created a smart collection and based a photo book in the Book module on that collection. Fine. But if I add a new image to the smart collection the corresponding set of images in the Book module is not updated. Any fix for this?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:58:24 +0000

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By: teresa

teresa — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:30:56 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

here’s one: If you have children, more than 1, and you tag the photos with their names, this is a way to find your group shots of them or combinations with each other.

Also a way to find photos of people in a particular location.

Depending on how one uses keywords, you can really go to town with it.

using holiday, day, night, vacation locale, events.

if you shoot nature, you can really gather together a meaningful cross section of your work – landscapes vs. macros, trees, flowers, color specification, season…. the choices are limitless.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 02:21:09 +0000

I found a way to use Smart Collections the way I wanted! I needed to select all my photos that were in my master file named Nature. When I tried to create a Smart Collection it used all my photos – Nature, Personal, People, Other Artists, etc. Definitely not what I wanted. I then selected all the Nature photos and colored them Red. When I created the Smart Collection I told LR to Match All the rules – “Label Color is red” and “Develop > Has adjustments > false”. With this I was able to find just my original Nature photos that were original RAW without alteration. Worked for me.

By: BARRY

BARRY — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:27:18 +0000

HOW DO I CHANGE A SMART COLLECTION TO AN ORDINARY COLLECTION

By: Edward Hoggan

Edward Hoggan — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:44:07 +0000

I recommend checking the following post about useful smart collections:
http://www.patagoniaphotos.com/blog/2015/06/16/useful-lightroom-smart-collections/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 11 May 2015 05:27:02 +0000

In reply to Mike Nelson Pedde. This is a very interesting feature that I was unaware of Mike. Have you managed to come up with any practical applications for it? I have to admit that I can't think of any.

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:54:08 +0000

In reply to Al Hamilton.

You can delete all the rejected images, (or tiff images) in a Smart Collection, but you need to do 2 extra steps:

Step 1 – Select All in the Smart Collection (Ctrl A or CMD A, or Edit menu, Select All)

Step 2 – Navigate up to the Catalog section and click on All Photographs

This will still keep the selected images “selected” (even though you now see all images) Press the Delete key (CMD Delete on some Macs) and all the selected images will be deleted.

The advantage to doing it this way is you get to double check to see if all the images are the ones you want to delete. If you see one you want, change the flag status.

If you are culling TIFF files, there may be some you want to keep. If so, mark as rejected all the TIFF files you want to delete, then repeat the above steps.