Comments on: Video Tip – Smart Collections

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:35:13 +0000

Matt,
If I re image my MacBook are my files, presets etc. saved with in Light room 3 or are these files in separate folders that i need to save myself before re-imaging???
cheers craig

By: Dawn D. in NJ

Dawn D. in NJ — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:55:39 +0000

I know this was an old post, but since it was “resurrected”, I looked over the comments as well. This is a GREAT tip – about finding photos that do NOT have a person’s name tagged, and using that to tag those pics that ARE of that person.

Dawn D. in NJ

By: Rikk Flohr

Rikk Flohr — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:50:11 +0000

Unlike Matt, I was never clever enough to change the Photomatix default naming schema. If you have relied on Photomatix standard naming strategy, you can build a smart collection where Filename contains _1_ _2_ _3_ _4_ _5_ _6_ _7_ _8_ _9_ _0_ and it will find them all for you.

If you want to find the default Photoshop HDR merges, you can search where Filename contains HDR.

This will help you find those files which were not named for easy of finding and you can rename them enmasse.

By: Angel Gerena

Angel Gerena — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:10 +0000

hello, just wondering if it is possible to make collections private?
reason for this is because I have lightroom 2 installed on our church computers and we have several photographers that are shooting and editing. I kinda want to have my collections protected and non visible if possible when they are on there, but what keeps happening is that the overall collection of pictures being imported gets dumped into one huge pool of pictures. Even if I use keywords and smart collections.. I still have my pictures accessible to other photographers and we would like to get things in order and keep them that way if possible. thanks.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:59:25 +0000

Hi guys

I have also falling in love with this great feature: being able to catch all the photos ending on “tonemapped” into a smartcollection… BUT, please help me out!!! I have just upgraded my hardware and installed the fantastic Photomatix plugin. It seems the “tonemapped” extension is gone and now, after processing and tonemapping, the file is re-entered in LR as a 16 bit TIF without any chance of changing the naming… So now I cannot use the smartcollection…. Can any of you figure out a place I can set the namingstandard for re-entering files?

By: Dariela

Dariela — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:29:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I love smart collections! Recently I wanted to delete a picture from it but I wasn’t able to, is that possible at all? I just don’t want to go in the the main folder to delete it cause I have many pictures to go thru and decide whether I need to keep it or dump it in that same smart collection. Thanks in advance!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:19:09 +0000

Great tip, but I have one question… What exactly is the “edit date” ? I created a smart collection to draw from pictures i have recently edited in LR. Only problem is that it shows a bunch of pictures that I have not edited. I went to find the “edit date” in the Metadata, but can not find such a thing.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:57:03 +0000

Nice tips !!! thanks a lot, i never checked what was under collection, now i do! simple as that, thanks for your videos, very generous of you giving that for free! Very professionnal too.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:03:48 +0000

This is a great tip as I, like Matt, leave the “tonemapped” extension from Photomatix untouched. The other thing I do to keep my HDR’s (and panos) sorted is the following:

1) After importing I identify shots that were taken as an HDR (or panorama) set.
2) I stack those sets together, usually putting a middle shot at the top of the stack so it’s easy to identify
3) I assigned my purple label as “HDR/Pano” and flag all the images in these sets

After doing the above I can easily filter my images to just HDR/Panos, and within all are stacked together. After I process an image it becomes part of the stack and is brought to the front. Matt’s tip will help isolate just the processed images rather than the component shots.

Thanks Mr. K.

By: Michael S.

Michael S. — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:07:07 +0000

Excellent tip Matt. As a fellow proponent to all things HDR, I have recently been looking for workflow tips in Lightroom and this one is a good one! Thanks again for all of your hard work and posts. I also want to thank NAPP for recognizing my portfolio in the editors choice. That really made my week!!!

Sincerely,

Michael S.