Collections inside Lightroom
Jun 2, 2018 12:29:13 #
In lightroom you don't have to have all your pictures of the same kind in the same folder. I can have a collection of all of my "whale" pictures, spanning 8 years, many different shoots, and files and file folders. I can choose any number of the whale pictures, rate them as you desire, and put them in the whale collection. If you want, from there you can export them to save them in any other form, external hard disk cloud, or whatever you desire, but there is no need to move them to another place, except to satisfy an OCD compulsion. You can move them within LR, which is the only way that I would recommend moving pictures on your computer, but that is for a second post. You can retrieve any picture, regardless of where it is, if you have tagged it "whale" in seconds by putting that in the text box in library. Hope that helps.
Jun 2, 2018 14:02:04 #
I import the same way. My folder is called Downloads Two. (Don't ask why) Sorting and key wording starts here and then they are dragged to other locations as desired.
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Jun 2, 2018 16:58:40 #
AlohaBob
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
nimblenuts wrote:
I've created a collection set in my pictures folder that includes all of my photos, but now I want to create collections of folders that match my description of the photos therein. In the folders view I have selected all of the folders that I want to include in the collection, but upon right clicking the selected folders there is no option to add them to a collection. How do I do this?
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