Comments on: How I use Lightroom’s Collections

By: Werken met Lightroom Collections | DigitaleFotografieTips.nl

Werken met Lightroom Collections | DigitaleFotografieTips.nl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:55:29 +0000

[...] zijn ook gebruikers, zoals bijvoorbeeld Scott Kelby (Photoshop guru) hier beschrijft, die de foto’s in Collections slepen en niet gebruik maken van Smart Collections. Het [...]

By: Paydaymen

Paydaymen — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:28:09 +0000

Thank you for a good story, I really enjoyed your blog. Be sure to give a link to your friends!

By: Andrew Rodney

Andrew Rodney — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:40:27 +0000

A much smarter way of working than using “dumb collections” that can break:

http://dpexperience.com/2009/12/17/smart-use-of-lightrooms-smart-collections/

By: Jesse Starr

Jesse Starr — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:34:38 +0000

Does anyone know how to get Lightroom to reimport the edited image into the collection it was in after external editing it?
I put my photos into collections and then when I edit the “selects”, I have to manually go into the folder the original was in and move it back into the collection.

By: DanH

DanH — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:35:16 +0000

Hi, I’m looking for some collection advice here as I ran into a problem when I set my wife up with lightroom today to upload pics. Due to the nature of her pics just being snapshots taken over 6 months we set her up with collections spanning the year for different topics (e.g. daughter 09, pets 09 etc). The nature of this means we aren’t dragging a whole flash card of shots into a new collection (which is how I work and I presume most do if working on an assignment or even holiday pics etc), but into various existing collections. Anyway, the problem we hit is that it wasn’t obvious which pics had been assigned to a collection already. So if say I was looking at the previous import group and selected all the pics of my daughter and put them into Daughter 09, I wanted them to them be removed from the last import group so I could just see the ones we hadn’t already assigned to a collection. Is there a way to do this? I know we should be able to work it out, but its actually hard to keep track of and today we actually missed a couple and it was not easy working out which ones we’d missed (i.e. they were in all photos but not in any collection).

What we are looking for is a last import type view that diminishes as we assign the photos to a collection. Is there a way to do this that I’ve missed?

By: Andy Solaini

Andy Solaini — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:18:23 +0000

I was just going to post an observation identical to Neal’s above.

One other similar thing: I have a lot of images that I have edited as TIFFs in Photoshop then put back into LR. I have these stacked with the original dng. Is it possible to move a dng+TIFF stack to a new collection?

Andy S

By: Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:42:18 +0000

Ken,I am new at LR and wondered how Scott answered you re; Folders. When I first. Started LR, I followed his book suggestions but my folders seem scattered. It seemed so much simpler when I used PS CS3 when all I had to do was to go to Browse to find what Iwas looking for. I do not know if I should go back into LR and set up my folders again or not. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bob

By: Neal Lippman

Neal Lippman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:17:27 +0000

Scott:

I don’t know if you are still reviewing comments on this blog entry. Thanks for posting about how you use collections; this really helped me to revamp the way I process images in Lightroom.

One interesting thing I noted that I had not anticipated. When you move images into a collection, it appears that flags (and I assume ratings and colors, but I haven’t tried this) do NOT move with the images.

Following your approach, I went through the images in a folder following import, and Flagged the first pass selects. I then created a Collection Set, created a Collection in that set for “Picks”, filtered the folder for only flagged images, selected them all and dragged into the “Picks” selection.

I was surprised to note that when I look at the selection, none of the images in the collection are flagged – even though they are still flagged if I go back to the original folder. I can then go through the collection and re-flag images there to further winnow them down.

It appears that at least the Flagged attribute is local to the folder (and I assume to each individual collection as well). I had assumed that these attributes travelled with the images, so a flagged image was flagged regardless of how you get to it (via folder, collection, etc) but obviously that is not the case.

Do you know if this is intentional or unintentional on the part of Lightroom? I haven’t seen anything that describes this behavior previously.

Thanks, and regards.
nl

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:44:10 +0000

It’s amazing how many different ways Lightroom gives you to work. This method uses hard collections, but you could also filter for keywords (like Tuscany) or make smart collections to filter keywords for you.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:51:20 +0000

I like that workflow and I use it in a similar way. 1. I create the collection for the shooting holding all images (except those, I delete from my harddrive), than I tag those with 3 stars, which I pick and create a Smart collection for this collection and 3 stars criteria (similar to your pick folder). Then I switch to pick and flag those 5 stars, which are the best of this shooting, creating a new smart collection for 5 stars (similar to your “select” folder).

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:52:13 +0000

At first when I read this post, it didn’t make sense to me how this could be useful.
A day later I was still thinking about it and decided to give it a try. Needless to say, 5 minutes later I was hooked and started putting this months pictures into collections. All of a sudden it made sense! So I could find them by date I named the Collections Sets like so, Morning Fog 2009/11/03.

Thanks the excellent tips!

By: Jason Hight

Jason Hight — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:14 +0000

I personally have an “Export” folder into which all my exports go, organized into separate folders. Usually I will name it “Event_date” (though date first would be better)