Another Lightroom advice question (Page 2): Just tried it. When you select one of the images in that smart collection in the Library mode, you can click on the keywording panel and...

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

via the lens wrote:

...To check what might have been missed being keyworded you can go to Smart Collections>Without Keywords in the left organization panel: Adobe puts this folder in automatically for you. The only problem with putting keywords in using the Smart Collection is that you can only put in one keyword, as each time you keyword the selection will be deleted from the Smart Collection.

Just tried it. When you select one of the images in that smart collection in the Library mode, you can click on the keywording panel and enter keywords. You can enter as many keywords as you want, separated by commas. When you hit enter, all those keywords are applied and the image disappears from the smart collection.

So you're not limited to one keyword at a time as long as you separate them by commas and don't hit enter until you're done.

If you move focus away from the keywording panel, it's the same as hitting enter, so if you have added keywords, the image will be moved out of the smart collection.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

DirtFarmer wrote:

Just tried it. When you select one of the images in that smart collection in the Library mode, you can click on the keywording panel and enter keywords. You can enter as many keywords as you want, separated by commas. When you hit enter, all those keywords are applied and the image disappears from the smart collection.

So you're not limited to one keyword at a time as long as you separate them by commas and don't hit enter until you're done.

Thanks for checking that, good to know. Obviously I mostly use the one keyword. Always learning something new with this very wonderful program and it is often hard to remember it all! And, as we all know, things often change, too, and that can be difficult to keep up with...I need a younger brain!! I was able to rewrite that portion of the prior comment as your comment came in while I could still edit.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

via the lens wrote:

Thanks for checking that, good to know. Obviously I mostly use the one keyword. Always learning something new with this very wonderful program and it is often hard to remember it all! And, as we all know, things often change, too, and that can be difficult to keep up with...I need a younger brain!!

I too have the problem with my meat memory dropping bits, but it's always good to be in danger of learning something new.

CamB Loc: Juneau, Alaska

chemsaf wrote:

I primarily organize using folders as you do. I use collections to organize a project which crosses many folders. For example, if I am preparing a calendar, I place the candidate images in a collection and then I work on the collection set
LR let's you define the work flow you find best.

This is what I use collections for too. Projects. Once the project is done I tend to dump the collections, I only have five or six in lightroom at a time. Dumping the collections doesn't effect the file or its location, and if I need them again I use keywords and colors to locate.
...Cam

cactuspic Loc: Dallas, TX

lsupremo wrote:

Thanks for your help. Next question, if I have the same image in both collections and folders and I work on one of them will the post processing be on the other one too? Also can I identify where one image might be in any other collection and or folder?

DirtFarmer answered the first part. The way to determine if a particular image is in multiple folders or files, go to the metadata panel, locate date time of original, and click the arrow. It will gather all copies of the image (as well as images take at near that time) that are stored in various folders. If you look at the lower right corner of the highlighted image, you will see symbols. The middle one has the symbol of a rectangle. If you see that symbol, you will know it is in a collection. Click on the icon and the names of the collections will show up.

I hope that answered your question

Irwin

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DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

cactuspic wrote:

... The way to determine if a particular image is in multiple folders or files, go to the metadata panel, locate date time of original, and click the arrow. It will gather all copies of the image (as well as images take at near that time) that are stored in various folders...

One caveat:

In Lightroom it is possible to edit the date/time in the metadata panel. I have done that many times to reflect my estimate of the actual date/time of a photo or document that I have scanned (mostly very old photos dating from 1860 onwards, but one image of a painting that I estimate was 1822).

If you have multiple copies of an image in different folders, and if you edit the date/time on one of them, your method will not group them together properly.

Admittedly, this is not something that occurs often, but it is a possibility.

cactuspic Loc: Dallas, TX

DirtFarmer wrote:

One caveat: br br In Lightroom it is possible to ... (show quote)

Agreed

rbmitch123

How do make a sub category in Collections?

cactuspic Loc: Dallas, TX

If you want to have a hierarchical set of collections start with a collection set. Depending on your structure, you can have either have another collection set or a collection underneath the initial collection set. You can access the menu under the library heading.

Irwin