Why You Should Use SMART COLLECTIONS!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

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[@KellyPettit]

This was really informative and very useful. I'm going to start doing that once I finish typing this. Thank you, Anthony.

[@husamejle]

Thanks, Anthony ... Tip: Hold down Alt/Option key when you create the rules, it gives you a much more detailed search ability.

[@FMK-mo6ul]

Thanks Anthony for another great video. @husamejle thank you also. I knew LR smart collections could handle Boolean logic but I couldn’t find any documentation.

[@mitchbergner2795]

Thanks for the info. Seasons greetings. Hope you’re keeping warm, finished shoveling and have power.

[@ericwilcox2442]

Thanks, Anthony, for all the videos you post!!

[@keiththompson2289]

Great idea! Something I never use and you just showed me why I should be.

[@liorcaspi9]

Been using LR for years and did not know about smart collections. Thank you!

[@j.p.madsen6693]

Very good, just what I can use, thank you very much.👍👍

[@richardsmith5021]

Thanks for this, never realized this could be done, but I can see several uses I can employ. Thanks again.

[@alankefauver6187]

Never used them. Now I will. Thanks

[@MartinHarvey]

Something I haven't done but recently created a few and like 'em. E.g. by camera/lens or focal length. I especially like the latter as I can see where I typically use a zoom lens at. Thanks.

[@imaclite]

Thank you 👍​

[@bjornhamso226]

Hi Anthony, great video on Smart Collections. I see you have lots of Folders. Scott Kelby preaches one Catalog and (basically) one Folder. That makes a lot of sense to me, to avoid chaos and duplicate work. It seems that there is nothing you can do with Catalogs and Folders that you can’t do with the more flexible and “safer” Selections. Would you agree? Even for deleting, you mark those photos in Selection work and delete them in the one Folder based on that marking. Comments?

[@colinkeane6634]

With the huge changes LRC and PS have undergone, are you thinking of redoing the playlist for each and bring each module up to date?

[@wahabdilawar]

Brilliant...and I think this is the only was to find photos without keywords...🤔 Is there any other way to find all photos without keywords in a catalogue?

[@rayjermyn4541]

Smart collections are a great way to work. I use it with keywords

[@avon991]

This is very Itunes like. Used to use those for various smartlists on my Ipod

[@ashish9thakur]

Interestingly we can also import smart collection settings too

[@dannysluxurycruisevacation8812]

Does smart collections only come with Lightroom classic? I do not see it in Lightroom cc. Thank you.

[@barrycooper5989]

Do smart collections sync with the cloud version of lightroom?

[@superhero2476]

No

[@barrycooper5989]

@@superhero2476 thanks, I think there may be a somewhat complicated plug in.

[@superhero2476]

@@barrycooper5989 I don’t know if any plugins are available. Anyways regular collections will sync with Lightroom cloud. So if you need to sync a smart collection, you may have to duplicate a regular collection out of the smart collection you created manually.

[@ronbyram3880]

I have 800k pictures but do multiple smart collects slow down LRC?

[@acloud4]

Since lightroom is constantly updating smart collection does this slow down Lightroom?

[@JonBushell]

I still use Google picasa because it’s perfect for me. One of the great things is albums by keywords. Can Lightroom smart collection be from a keyword tag?

[@wahabdilawar]

YES

[@facchinophoto]

Smart Collections didn't work for me at all in Lightroom Classic CC. I tried to make a smart collection of images greater than 9.8mb and it pulled in images much smaller than that. My rule was: size - megapixels - is greater than - 9.8. Lightroom pulled 8MB images into the smart collection. Why can't Adobe just give us the option to sort by file size(MB) in the main folders? Users have been asking for this option for at least 4 years now.

[@therookiefisherman5234]

Im going crazy everytime I try to edit a photo it keeps going to collections how do I stop that?

[@ronbyram3880]

Can you sort the smart collections list?

[@tonyblake8841]

Why would you use ordinary collections? With a Smart collection adding photos automatically renders an ordinary collection option redundant. What am I missing if this is not the case. Adding photos manually to a collection would be a pain.

[@DavidMartin-iw9td]

Smart Collections are brilliant, extremely useful, and powerful. However, they slow down the startup as LR has to repopulate them each and every time the catalog loads.

[@ChristopherSchrameyer]

I wish photoshop elements would have something similar (not a saved search)

[@kurtissutley1485]

Do smart collections occupy any space on my hard drive? My guess: no.

[@superhero2476]

No. Collections both smart and regular acts like playlists in music apps.