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Hi
I am migrating from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom, so I am OK with the develop side of things in Lightroom but I am struggling with creating a workflow structure in Lightroom. I was hoping to use collections and smart collections to organise my photos, but I cannot get it to work.
I was thinking of Collection set for each photo shoot. Then within the collection set create a collection called All for everything in the photo shoot. I add all photos to this OK.
I then would like say two smart collections that are subsets of the All collection one for called picks which is a one star rating which is my first pass at picking photos and then a second smart collection called selects which will be two stars which are selected in a second pass looking though the first set of picks.
I first tried creating a smart collection in the Collection set for one star but this shows all one star photos in the catalogue, not just limited to the Collection set.
I then tried adding a second rule to the smart collection Source > Collection > Contains > collection set name, but this retrieves zero photos.
I then tried changing second rule to Source > Collection > Contains All which works for the first Collection set. But then I cannot create the next photo shoot set as it reports All is already in use.
Hope this description makes sense, maybe this tree diagram will help explain:
Photo shoot 1
I am migrating from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom, so I am OK with the develop side of things in Lightroom but I am struggling with creating a workflow structure in Lightroom. I was hoping to use collections and smart collections to organise my photos, but I cannot get it to work.
I was thinking of Collection set for each photo shoot. Then within the collection set create a collection called All for everything in the photo shoot. I add all photos to this OK.
I then would like say two smart collections that are subsets of the All collection one for called picks which is a one star rating which is my first pass at picking photos and then a second smart collection called selects which will be two stars which are selected in a second pass looking though the first set of picks.
I first tried creating a smart collection in the Collection set for one star but this shows all one star photos in the catalogue, not just limited to the Collection set.
I then tried adding a second rule to the smart collection Source > Collection > Contains > collection set name, but this retrieves zero photos.
I then tried changing second rule to Source > Collection > Contains All which works for the first Collection set. But then I cannot create the next photo shoot set as it reports All is already in use.
Hope this description makes sense, maybe this tree diagram will help explain:
Photo shoot 1
All
Picks
Select
Photo shoot 2Picks
Select
All
Picks
Select
I am looking for a way for Picks and Select to work automatically with ratings and/or labels. I could use collections and manually add photos but I tend to change the ratings as I work often demoting or promoting photos between All, Picks and Selects so really would like a way to do this using Smart Collections.Picks
Select