Using Collections in Adobe Lightroom Classic: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace

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In this episode, Mark Wallace explains how and why you should be using collections in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Mark demonstrates how to create normal collections, smart collections, and how to set your target collection. You'll learn how to use collections to publish your photos and sync them with Lightroom.
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[@GeneWaddle]

After five years I'm only now really starting to use collections and I learned some things from this that will be very helpful. Thanks, Mark. 🙂

[@chetcaruthers8612]

After years of skimming the surface of Lightroom, I appreciate your indepth videos!!

[@sagebrother]

Thanks and the Collections stuff was great but making me aware of Portfolio and Web included in my package was invaluable!!

[@blackskylensesphotography]

I had no idea about collections. Always seen it but never paid attention to it..Now I know. Thanks mate

[@brianaikens7282]

WOW....that was fabulous, and will require a few viewings to capture all the functionality you exposed. After using LR for a number of years, that was the best explanation I have had on how collections can be used. Many thanks....

[@phynx2006]

Man, you just answered so many questions, thank you Mark!

[@cbartsch]

Finally, a concise explanation on how to bridge the gap from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom online and sharing albums (sorry, collections) on Adobe Portfolio! I find explanations for one or the other but so little on how to bridge the two worlds of Lightroom Classic and the 20 GB of storage I pay for in my Adobe plan and make them play together. More on this, PLEASE!

[@GrymmsPlace]

Thank you for posting this detailed reference to Collections. Back to Basics! Collections are awesome and extraordinarily useful and an unparalleled time-saver. Well time for me to go back through to refine mine. Love the new features Adobe have added.

[@laraminassian9980]

Very clear and thorough! Thank yoU.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Thank you, Mark! I'm a Lightroom user, so I knew many of these things. Still, videos like this are super useful, reminding me of different ways to quickly organize images. (Your work is excellent and interesting, and I remain a fan of what you do!) Thanks again, and take care.

[@saulmirandaaliaga]

AWESOME!!!!! Thank you, Mark!

[@steveparkins6854]

really well explained -!

[@melvinlaycock8851]

One word Fantastic

[@hans2504]

This really helps! Was looking for more guidance on this. Thanks for this excellent tutorial.

[@avibongo]

Thank you- that was immensely useful. Great tutorial.

[@annanuss2041]

You can just create a collection for the photos you have selected upon import. I think it’s more efficient to select the photos you are about to edit off of the Sd card and before importing them on LRC you can create a collection for them too. while on the import window select the range of photos that you want in the same collection, then create a collection for them and tags and whatever else on the right hand tab. You can import and create a collection for that import all at once. One and done.

[@RichardGingrasPhotography]

You are a great instructor. Love your videos. I always learn something new. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheMoodyRed]

thank you! :D this helps a lot to better understand lightroom classic. I'm a newbie photographer and I will start taking clients for the first time this year and I want to start a better workflow from the beginning of this career. I'm trying to learn all these and especially smart set because it helps a lot with publishing. Thank you so much!!!

[@michaelthomaswhitelock7644]

A well presented video,easy to follow and GREAT help.Thanks you Mark😃

[@Rdavis6593]

Very helpful. All new to me. Thanks.

[@Ronin760]

Super helpful. Very well presented and easy to follow. Thank you!

[@renatovizzarri9093]

Great explanation, thanks.

[@michaelstern8545]

very well done Mark, the pacing and presentation is very easy to understand and follow.

[@tinctanc]

very well explained, thank you!

[@albertr915]

Awesome episode with great information.

[@fatemezahramasoumi2129]

Amazing explanation 😍

[@thealexestrada]

Thanks for the lesson, it came in handy when trying to organize my most recent vacation travel!

[@mienteroso]

That was great! Just subscribed.

[@hourglassmedia9949]

Awesome video, beautiful photography to :)

[@captainkickstand]

That was great; thanks. Very straightforward and informative.

[@leebz]

Straightened out a few things for me, thank you

[@ccbphoto]

Nifty! Thanks!

[@ShooksExpressions]

Great advice !

[@gosman949]

Virtual copies is a very powerful tool in LR. I did not know that you can easily move them into Collections with one click!

[@CowTownKings]

awesome video!

[@amanjkamal20]

thank you bro

[@marktomphotography]

Definitely learned a couple things I didn't know, so thank you for that! Had a question. You mentioned having 35K+ photos in your catalogue. Have you considered breaking your collections up? By year for example. LR seems to have gotten noticeably more sluggish for me over the past year and am wondering if that would help. What do you think Mark?

[@KeaniSoa]

Definitely informative! Thank you! I have a question. Must all the imported pictures exist in the work/catalog hard drive? I am working on my SSD that I use for editing and then I transfer all the photos onto my storage HDD. Does it work with the collections?

[@adriancaveill]

Great tutorial thank you very much. Is their a way to add your own watermark to images that are in collections?

[@desertmav8632]

That’s cool because I was wondering what the difference was between Catalogs and collections

[@michaelmcphee2930]

Thanks Mark. I have my collection sets all in Caps like COUNTRIES, PEOPLE, EVENTS etc then my collections in those like sub sets within those. I have about a dozen SETS which contain over 45000 photographs. For instance to find a person who I photographed in Brice Canyon I would open up COUNTRIES/USA/UTAH/People

[@cccreativity202]

I've been saving my images to collections, so happy to see your video! Now my folders are a hot mess, how do you clean up your folders. I understand you don't want to delete them since that is where the images are on your computers hard drive, but all of mine have the year, month or date on them. Thanks for your help!

[@dragnfly138]

Mark, Thanks so much. I wonder why none of the Lightroom classes actually start with the organization? So very important.

[@SILBERTOR]

Nice, but I don't understand, how to edit imported photo, edit them , mark with stars and than sort in collections, delete others (or not) and make selected visible in some smart or not smart collections....portfolio etc.

[@phillipcohen9454]

Hi Mark. Excellent video, as always. I can't find the "Add photo to target collection" circle that you refer to on any of my images? Best regards

[@MarkWallaceVideos]

Make sure you have "show extras" and "show badges" selected. In the library module go to the menu and select: View->Grid View Style

[@MarkWallaceVideos]

It also looks like you cannot sync smart collections.

[@billlafever6086]

Wow, this is just hat I have been looking for. However, when I tried to duplicate the "Sync to Lightroom" from my Lightroom CC collection, It was not there. I tried rebooting my computer and that did not help. I have installed both Lightroom (for the cloud) on both my PC and phone. Any suggestions? After I left the above comment, I was able to find the answer to my question after searching the internet. Here is the answer: Click the Identity Plate at the top left of Lightroom Classic to view the Activity Center. Then you can turn on/off the Sync to Lightroom. Thanks again Mark for your help.

[@MarkWallaceVideos]

Make sure you are syncing collections and not collections sets. If that's not the issue, leave a comment and we'll try to figure it out.

[@billlafever6086]

@@MarkWallaceVideos I was able to find the answer to my question online. I needed to "Click on the Identity Plate at the top of Lightroom Classic to view the Activity Center. Once there, I can turn this link off or on. Thanks for your help

[@jugodenaranja2010]

I have a real estate catalog of a duplex and I've already did the stacking with the hdr groups, but now I want to separate everything in two collections for both units of the duplex, but all the stacking work I've done doesn't pass to the collection when I drag the photos. Do you know if there is a way to do this? thanks!

[@edmundogonzales4289]

Use to organize for MdM

[@stephenmacgillivray168]

I don't get the option to Sync with Lightroom when I right click the collection. Any idea why? Thanks for the informative video. I learned a lot about collections.

[@pumpeyethetraderman8083]

I'm wondering, the images that you are sharing with lightroom web won't have had output sharpening? So if you want to add them to your website you would need to sharpen them or they wouldn't look as good or am I wrong?

[@hans2504]

Hi Mark, couldn't find the sync option on the left of a folder. Later found out you first have to enable syncing (sync with lightroom) at the top left. Maybe good to mention, or did you??. Btw having lots of fun now with playing with collection and sharing, experimenting with comments and likes. All very powerfull !

[@TommyMacTube]

do you have an updated video of collections ?

[@theEphraimLevine]

Is it possible to make sub folders within a collection? Thank you

[@MaryD247]

I am using LR Classic build 11.5 on a Mac. I use Collections but I don't see a way to share a collections by right clicking. I do not see the squiggly line box column either. Is this not an option in newer versions of LR Classic? I am trying to share collections to use in Portfolio. TIA for any help.

[@sancheskiko]

Mark, sometimes when I created a lot of SMART COLLECTIONS, Lightroom doesn’t show the quantity of photos in each collection… how to solve it??

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