Comments on: Tip – 3 Tips For Smart Collections

By: Roberta Kayne

Roberta Kayne — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:08:29 +0000

Great “vimeo” Sam. thanks for sharing those tips!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:49:52 +0000

I recently used Smart Collections to help sort and organize some 1,700 photos out of 4,000 submitted to me into 13 galleries based on keywords and star ratings. Once I set up the initial few and tested to be sure they were doing what I wanted, the rest came around quickly.

Question, is there a way to copy a smart collection so that you can then make a minor modification? Or do I need to start from scratch in making them each time?

By: TheGooch

TheGooch — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:02:16 +0000

I use Smart Collections to group photos from different sources that are for the same event. Basically I go out with friends and we all take pictures with each other, and then we all post our pictures to our favorite social networking site to share them. Keywords with the event name/date and smart collection help me keep all of these pictures together,

However, after I have all of them, is there a simple process to make the Smart Collection into a fixed, or “dumb” collection? It doesn’t make sense to have my CPU do a lot of work in order to recreate a smart collection with the same picutures every time I start up lightroom.

ps. thanks for this blog!

By: Debra

Debra — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:38:25 +0000

Matt –

You’re my online LR crush.

I know for a fact I would not live in LR as happily as I do if it weren’t for you and Killer Tips.

Thanks man.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:20:43 +0000

Dawn,

Do yourself a big favor. Download VLC player. It’s free, opensource and plays everything. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

By: Dawn D. in NJ

Dawn D. in NJ — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:02:41 +0000

Mark,

The original video you referred to was in MP4V file type, which my winxp 2003 computer won’t recognize. How do I either play this (without being forced to install itunes), or trick it by renaming it to a more acceptable file type?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:55:19 +0000

Great tips, as always from Matt.

Has anybody figured out how to make a smart collection of all the photos you’ve printed? It’s something I would find really useful. Thanks in advance.

By: Judith

Judith — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:48:34 +0000

Hi Matt,
totally different subject, but since you have a lot of experience editing photos in Photoshop as smart objects, can you please help?
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2727484#2727484
Thanks a lot!

By: Mike Nelson Pedde

Mike Nelson Pedde — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:44:58 +0000

The only think I can think of is to add keywords – 6×17,4×5, etc. to your images. If you’re working on images in a batch, you could use colour codes to separate different crop aspects, then filter by colour and paint those keywords on the selected images.

Mike.

By: Mike Nelson Pedde

Mike Nelson Pedde — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:39:36 +0000

You can use Smart Collections to separate Colour/B&W images by using Treatment = grayscale or Treatment = color

Mike.