Lightroom: Collections Flashcards
What happens when you delete a pic from a collection?
Deleting an image from a collection just removes it from the collection rather than from the hard drive.
Collection images remain in their original ***** location; it’s just a handy way of grouping images.
explorer
Which is reference from within LR.
You can ***** pics in a folder or a collection to a new folder (on your hard drive).
export
To create a collection? (2)
- > highlight pic(s) in grid> plus sign in collections panel etc OR
- CTRL + N
What is a ‘Smart collection’?
Custom made collections based on:
1. image attributes like rating or colour label;
AND
2. based on your whole image library.
The best way to get organised is by
using ** and *** Sets.
Collections
Collection Sets
There seem to be as many
ways of using Collections as there
are photographers.
Can you create a collection under a collection into which u can put a selection of photos, or do you have to create a collection set as a parent to a collection?
You can NOT create a collection under an existing collection - you have to create a collection set under which you can put a new collection.
So you may have to create a new collection set first, which can be a child of another collection set, before you then create a new collection in the child collection set.
Good to group by either * or ** or chronology
If by chronology best to start each collection name with a number e.g. 01_before, 02_during, 03_after.
You could setup these collections groups before you even do the event.
subject or setting
How does the ‘target collection’ feature work?
It’s a quick way of adding photos to a collection that you have already created - instead of dragging.
RC the collection you want to target>’Set as target collection’.
Select one or more pics.
Then press the ‘b’ key.
Benefit? It’s a super fast way of moving thru several folders, make multiple selections and quickly adding all the pics to the targeted collection, instead of having to target the collection or drag to the collection every time.
How does LR show that one of your collections is currently set as a ‘target collection’?
There is a + sign after the name of the collection.
If you move the same pic from one collection to another, does it actually move or is it just presented in both collections?
I tried two ways to move a pic.
- I added via collections – it also remained in the source collection as well as appearing in the destination;
- I dragged from one collection – the same thing.
So it appears you can’t ‘move’ a pic between collections. You can add to another collection, keeping the pic in the source collection, or you can delete from the source collection if you no longer want it there.
If you add a particular image from one collection to another, does it remain being the same pic in both collections, so if you adjust the pic in one collection, it will adjust in the other collection?
I tested by treating a pic in one collection with b+w – and yes, the pic was also changed to b+w in the other collection.
So the pic is the same, it’s not different by adding to a different collection.
Now I understand better why we use collections. Using the standard folder structure you can’t have the same pic in multiple folders unless you duplicate the photo, which will mean: (2)
- You’ll have to process each instance of the photo separately;
- You’ll be using up a lot of hard drive space.
If we know from the start that we want to create more than one processing version of the photos, we can create virtual copies, in either of these 2 places:
- In the folder panel location.
2. Or when adding to a collection from the folder panel location.
Virtual copies, whether created in the folder panel or in the collections, will be showing alongside the master file in the folder panel.
If viewing pics in the folder panel gets confusing you can filter using the ‘**’ filter for ‘master photos, ‘virtual copies’ or ‘video’.
That’s said, once you get used to working with collections, you shouldn’t have much need to spend time in the folder’s panel. Collections are a more efficient + effect way to work with your photos.
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